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by dcolkitt 6y ago
This is Gell-Mann amnesia taking place before even getting to the end of the article. You just read an entire piece, where Cade Metz continuously quotes Scott Alexander out of context with a healthy does of guilt by association to create fa
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
I think both you and OP have a point. The way it ties together is that "owner-occupied housing as a retirement plan" creates the political demand for NIMBY supply restrictions. When people have 500% of their net worth tied up in a
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
Another point is that there's a sub-linear relationship between mortality rates and life expectancy. Intuitively, it seems like a 10% increase in mortality should cut your life expectancy from 81 to 73. But in fact, it only cuts life e
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
I've never used Clubhouse, but to play Devil's advocate this is what people said about Facebook in its very early days. A product that appeals to Ivy League kids goofing around on each other's walls and showing off their favo
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
It's an interesting hypothesis. But it seems contradicted by Mendelian randomization studies, which find that LDL cholesterol levels to be causally associated with heart disease. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26780009
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
Does Cloudflare have any defensible moat? If Google or Microsoft decided to muscle Cloudflare out of business tomorrow, what’s to stop them? In comparison, we already know that Google can’t take out Facebook.
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
Labor share of GDP went from 64% in 1950 to 58% today. That means wages grew slightly slower than GDP per capita, that’s certainly not enough to mean wages grew sub-exponentially. For wages to grow linearly, labor share of GDP would have to
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
> wages grow linearly at best. This isn't true at all. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/average-real-gdp-per-capi...
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
Thanks for this. I always had the impression that it was just for recruiting and transactional networking. I'm gonna give it a try.
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
I don't know how long ago this was, but in the past couple decades the likelihood of a regular Joe getting audited has plummeted. IRS enforcement has pretty much been gutted by Congress. For everyone but high earners, it all comes down
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
> And Melvin Capital lost a couple billion dollars while quite a number of Redditors got a massive payout, so a net win for society. And quite a lot of Redditors suffered massive losses. There's not shortage of WSB posts with 7 figu
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
You are correct. Thanks for pointing that out.
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought the new AMC shares came from Silverlake exercising its convertibles, not AMC itself. Of course it still benefited AMC by reducing its debt load.
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
An off-topic segue since Stephen Diehl is being linked... Does anyone know if he plans to finish his exotic programming ideas series? He was suppose to do one every week, but stopped with three left in early December. I quite enjoyed the se
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
IMO the biggest factors for the success of Go are 1) super-fast compile times, 2) easy to interpret compiler errors, and 3) dead simple shipment of high performance, native static binaries. I think Go has succeeded, despite, not because of
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
Yeah, but none of the academic research on coffee will qualify this to their survey respondents. They just ask how many cups per day, then write it down. Whereas most of the research on alcohol consumption will go in detail about drink size
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
I have no position in Bitcoin, but isn’t it possible for “BTC scrip” to be the money used day to day. With actual blockchain transactions just being used to aggregate at the institutional level? This is pretty much the way money worked in t
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
Have you tried supplementing L-theanine? A lot of research documents that it’s strong reduction of caffeine related anxiety, while preserving its cognitive and wakefulness benefits.
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
I’ve looked into this before. The answer is that, unlike alcohol, there’s no standard unit of coffee. When researchers say X cups of coffee, they’re entirely relying on their respondents’ personal reporting. So the answer is your best bet i
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
> Let the platforms be neutral, put the liability on the copyright violators and copyright holders equally, so both have a reason to act fairly. One simple solution is that every time a bad takedown notice is successfully challenged, the
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
A Reddit comment on this story made a good point. Every high school student should be given a basic understanding of how bankruptcy works. Most won't have to use it, but it would save a lot (including this young man), from making a bad
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
There are 90,000 Asian Americans in Oklahoma. There are over a million in Texas. And more than half a million in Florida. Certainly enough for a pre-mediated act of political terrorism to find a target. You're constructing a false dich
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
> Many blame the Trump administration for inciting this violence; Trump and numerous other members of his White House staff embraced racist and xenophobic anti-Asian rhetoric... > NYPD date showed that there has been a 1,900 percent i
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
I'm not necessarily saying this point is incorrect, but the structure of the argument bears a striking similarity to the same justification for laws against heresy and blasphemy in the time of Galileo.
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
The next logical step would be to train an adversarial AI against the hiring AI. You'd have the system generate your resume and application to maximize your chances. Then the hiring AI would need to be re-trained to account for this. A
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
"We're the best, because we fire the worst!"
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
> Exactly how to structure it so it can't be gamed/subverted is tricky Most companies pay a commission to the recruiter or a referral bonus. You could distribute that to those candidates who contribute to the recommendation of
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
That assumes that the demand for electricity is not price elastic.
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
What percent of the electricity used by Bitcoin miners is generated by fossil fuels? My impression is that most miners are located to take advantage of locales with very cheap hydroelectric/geothermal or take advantage of subsidized&#x
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by dcolkitt 6y ago
The UK, where the main difference is the approval of the AZ vaccine, is forecast to reach herd immunity four months before the United States.[1] America is currently averaging 3500 deaths per day.[2] That's an unecessary 127 deaths per

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