duahncjak

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by duahncjak 7y ago
Wow, this is a lot more intuitive. gowld for BDFL!
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by duahncjak 7y ago
Humans make decisions based on arbitrary and capricious preferences, and are good at coming up with logical-sounding reasons to justify those decisions (eg: rejecting a candidate because she is a black woman, but saying it was because she d
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by duahncjak 7y ago
Countries have held much higher debt levels than the US currently does without being the global reserve currency.
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by duahncjak 7y ago
Another interpretation of this data would be that causality runs in the other direction. You can also make up a plausible-sounding story for the mechanism - a dopamine response to stressful situations helps people solve their problems.
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by duahncjak 7y ago
This paper estimates the cost at ~$2.25B/year, and notes that more than 50 countries have military budgets exceeding $3B: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aae98d#... They point out th
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by duahncjak 7y ago
I think solutions to climate change that require global coordination are doomed to failure. When things start getting rough it’s going to be some entity independently pursuing a geoengineering solution, with whatever risk that entails. It’s
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by duahncjak 7y ago
I’m going to take this opportunity to call out Airbnb as having the best rejection experience I’ve ever gotten as a candidate. After a day of onsites (I think 9 interviews including the lunch culture interview), the recruiter called me at 6
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by duahncjak 7y ago
Interesting, I had no idea.
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by duahncjak 7y ago
It’s common practice for the online video rentals (many different providers including Google and Amazon) to charge more for HD. In reality the marginal cost of providing digital content is almost zero, so there is never going to be “cost-pl
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by duahncjak 7y ago
I understand why Google works that way since the login is tied to gmail and chrome browser history, but I’m not sure about Spotify. They have a popular Facebook integration but I don’t know if you can get any private info out of the Spotify
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by duahncjak 7y ago
Based on this reading, “people” elect the senate. If “people” includes travelers, does that mean travelers get to vote?
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by duahncjak 7y ago
If this happens to anyone, see if you can get permission to record it.
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by duahncjak 7y ago
Business would be a bit better if there weren’t robocalls. But free-rider/coordination challenges make it difficult for the diffuse category of all businesses to group together and fight it.
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by duahncjak 7y ago
In my experience, Amazon drivers will mark packages as delivered when they haven’t gotten around to delivering yet. When I call Amazon to complain, they tell me to just wait and the package will show up later. I suspect the drivers are give
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by duahncjak 7y ago
I think this also applies to many kinds of low-grade chronic suffering. Changing your response to the sensation might be easier than stopping the sensation.
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by duahncjak 7y ago
The only externality demonstrated is catching the Golden State Killer.
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by duahncjak 7y ago
I don’t believe we should think of this person’s profession as a safety driver . We should think of them as a fall guy . It’s not reasonable for a human to sit around for hours doing absolutely nothing, then suddenly be thrust into an eme