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by dwallin 4y ago
> So we're talking what, $200,000 for a house and a couple acres. You can afford that on $35-40k a year, which you can make at walmart or Amazon This is misguided. When you are making that little it is extremely difficult to save en
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by dwallin 4y ago
Agreed, there are too many correlations to make hierarchal rank a useful metric for directly comparing to income. I think the author would get more interesting results by looking at how much hierarchal rank is passed down through generation
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by dwallin 4y ago
Do you have any non-anecdotal information to support this theory? It's definitely within reason to reframe ambition as "willingness to take risks to advance oneself." In which case your theory might be suffering from survivor
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by dwallin 4y ago
It’s amazing how people could see this happening, acknowledge it is wrong and severely dysfunctional, then go around insisting we add more means testing to benefits because it would be horrible if people got help who “didn’t deserve it”. Ju
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by dwallin 4y ago
They say you can "audit" the course for free, but they employ a ton of grey patterns to get you to pay for it. I haven't been able to find out where to audit it yet. Update: You have to go into the individual courses within t
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by dwallin 4y ago
- A substantial part of your rent is property taxes. Without detailed analysis there's no way to know if this is true, or how true it is. It is entirely possible for an increase in taxes to lead to no increase in end prices or even a d
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by dwallin 4y ago
Landlords are also competing with each other and tenants have limits based on what they can actually afford to pay. At some point they can be forced to move out of the city to a lower cost of living location, dropping demand. In fact it&#x2
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by dwallin 4y ago
You can't just assume tax increases directly lead to increased 1:1 consumer prices, that's not how supply and demand works.
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by dwallin 4y ago
It's much easier to compete with Calvin Klein. People aren't buying Calvin Klein for quality, they are buying it for the brand. Fashion is a fickle beast, with constant churn and changing tastes, where a young brand with its finge
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by dwallin 4y ago
This is a great example of missing out on third order effects. What do you think happens to your existing employees if they have no avenue to advance their careers internally? They will leave for another position elsewhere leaving you with
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by dwallin 4y ago
I wonder about the effect of a strict time limit. It seems to benefit time management skills over raw intelligence. Perhaps it would be more accurate to allow the test taker to finish the entire test while tracking time spent, and then use
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by dwallin 4y ago
The use as a pathfinding technique immediately stood out to me. If I'm understanding the way it works it results in variable speed, making it less useful for some game purposes. But this is super useful for animation. If you are trying
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by dwallin 5y ago
I've always been interested in what programming might look like if it evolved from a non-linguistic base. We tend to assume that having programming using a text-representation is the obvious move but what if a different set of historic
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by dwallin 5y ago
For hue he noticed the correct trend but misattributed the reason. The reason for the color shift in sunlit shadows is that outdoors the fill light is blue-toned due to Raleigh scattering while the direct light is from the sun and is closer
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by dwallin 5y ago
A great book, but I would love to see additional studies really breaking it down. My gut feeling is that this effect curves. At a certain size of selectorate you switch from direct influence, with linear costs, to indirect methods of influe
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by dwallin 5y ago
Creating a minimum viable product at a lower price point was the the whole magic behind the first Oculus. There had been better quality virtual reality headsets before that, but bringing the price all the way into the consumer range changed
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by dwallin 6y ago
They will just detain you and bring in a dog, who will "find" probable cause.
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by dwallin 7y ago
It’s because this exists in meatspace where there is almost always a significant Proof of Work required. This helps limit/prevent the most egregious abuses.
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by dwallin 8y ago
> This is not a thing, Wealth doesn’t reduce someone’s capacity for empathy. There are actually a number of studies that indicate it might indeed be a thing. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-redu
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by dwallin 13y ago
Sure, but there's a point where the government could go too far. For example, if the government starting having random mattress inspections inside peoples homes that would be way too intrusive despite any reductions in bedbugs that mig