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by devinhelton 11y ago
I was going beyond measuring just "extreme poverty" to measuring general economic development. In the modern world, internet is really important because you can need it to do business, order products, look up information, get read
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by devinhelton 11y ago
Well, ideally we could measure and track the stats for both. Animal protein is generally a more complete protein. If we tracked just "protein" do we count incomplete proteins? Do we count textured vegetable protein?
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by devinhelton 11y ago
Yes, exactly. The numbers I would like to see measured would be: - percent of people who can afford 2,500 calories of food and 60 grams of animal protein a day (where afford has some standard definition, such as can pay for the consumption
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by devinhelton 11y ago
There is nothing wrong that needs to be fixed. Because the dollar is a fiat currency, and the national debt is denominated fully in a currency the government controls, the “debt” is not really debt. It is really equity, shares of stock in U
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by devinhelton 11y ago
> Instead, we should earmark all the money that would've gone into reducing carbon emissions (a carbon tax could be useful for this) into developing comprehensive evacuation plans for every major city, as well as a fund for rebuildi
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by devinhelton 11y ago
Psychology is not a science in the same way that Newtonian physics is a science. The best way to understand human psychology is to have lots of life experience, to share experiences over beers with others, and to read good books that have t
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by devinhelton 11y ago
Well, I think the mind's detection that anger would be beneficial operates at lower-level, and that in a modern environment it can misfire. For instance, let us say that an employer screws you over. Your primal instinct might be to get
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How to identify and quash “offense-bullying”(devinhelton.com)
5 points by devinhelton 11y ago|1 comments
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by devinhelton 11y ago
I wrote a post about this phenomena myself - How to identify and quash 'offense-bullying' . I include some tips on how to deal with angry people - https://devinhelton.com/2015/03/23/standing-up-to-o
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by devinhelton 11y ago
Specifically, how the stock markets continue to rise despite the decline in productivity. The stock market rises in nominal dollars, which is meaningless, since that is just a result of monetary inflation. Corporate profits, and personal
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by devinhelton 11y ago
I think my explanation was better than Mr. Yglesias's, if I do say so myself: https://devinhelton.com/2013/01/20/economic-classes/ Automation has increased productivity in many areas. But there are
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by devinhelton 11y ago
Ironic is the wrong word. But the whole point of building a city on a ship was to avoid any national law. If you want to partner with a real country, then might as well build the city on sparsely populated piece of land, and save on the exp
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by devinhelton 11y ago
I came across Keen awhile ago, and actually made my own model of the price setting algorithm in python and confirmed his results. My beef is that it is an unrealistic constraint that the same price setting algorithm will be used by all comp
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by devinhelton 11y ago
From the paper: "In this paper, we assume the only information a firm has is its own cost function, the decision it made on the previous time step (increase or decrease production), and what impact this decision had on its profit leve
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by devinhelton 11y ago
If you can get into YC, or have a sellable product, or an idea you are obsessed with, or can get seed funding, then by all means, found a company. But, from my observation of friends who have gone full-time on a startup project, and who tri
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by devinhelton 11y ago
It seems like the real fix would be to have a cancellation fee. If an order is canceled within 60 seconds, penalize the trader .1% of the total amount of the order. That would make all this gamesmanship unprofitable, and the order book woul
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by devinhelton 11y ago
Hmm, on further thought, my intuition is that the severity of the crime actually depends on being caught in the act, versus caught after the prank. Situation one: Imagine the students break into the teachers house to pull some prank while t
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by devinhelton 11y ago
Not at all like breaking into a house, breaking into a house is a violation of physical safety and comfort. One's home is one's sanctuary, and an invasion is quite frightening. This is analogous to the student noticing the teacher
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by devinhelton 12y ago
It has become a lot more common for spam to arrive in the form of inside sales reps sending semi-personalized emails to a guessed email address. Even running a startup with just two people, we could get multiple emails a week from sales rep
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Why did science make little real progress in Europe in the Middle Ages?(quora.com)
2 points by devinhelton 12y ago|0 comments