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by elgenie 8y ago
A lot of communication is non-verbal. A person evaluating a statement in context and expecting to find some physical and culturally-instilled signs of self-doubt in their interlocutor may unconsciously be strongly pushed to conclude that th
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It's much the same. Both are exceptional and atypical (non-central) in many attributes but fit the definition. "MLK is just a criminal!" and "Jeffrey Dahmer is just a criminal!" are both non-central attempts to use
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by elgenie 8y ago
What economists say that increasing interest rates reduce either existing debt or public debt? The cost of borrowing is increased, so obviously there's less new private debt issued, but the cost of debt service for both private deb
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The short term impacts aren't that difficult to calculate because a lot of tax receipts come in throughout the year, as do reports on real wage growth, unemployment, and corporate investment activity. The federal deficit for May was $1
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by elgenie 8y ago
LessWrong calls it the "non-central fallacy". [1] "Martin Luther King Jr was a criminal! Taxation is theft! Capital punishment is murder! Abortion is murder!", etc are examples of that sort of misrepresentation. [1] htt
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by elgenie 8y ago
That's an opposing viewpoint to "If anything in your performance review is a surprise, then I have failed as a manager" if and only if managers are infallible.
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On the other hand, there seems to be no shortage of those willing to apprentice, with no guarantees, as "minor league baseball player" without a realistic fallback if they happen to not quite make it into the 750-1000 best basebal
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by elgenie 8y ago
The Roe vs Wade effect was a very good hypothesis for a while, but it doesn't explain at all the runup in crime rates before abortion was legalized, nor does it replicate in other countries that legalized abortion. For further readin
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by elgenie 8y ago
Guiliani happened to be in office when crime rates are falling drastically and uniformly nationwide, the current best explanation for which is the de-leading of gasoline. Whether anything he and Bratton did mattered to that drop is very muc
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When did such a creature exist? He's still the dude that married his cousin and, after divorcing her, left his second wife using a mayoral press conference. There's been a lot of lunacy around Giuliani for three-four decades at th
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by elgenie 8y ago
It might be more like a couple months. Amazon is a logistics company that nails delivery in volumes Blue Apron cannot even fathom and Whole Foods adds pipelines for ingredient acquisition and physical locations in exactly the places where B
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Prop 13 is the coup de grace that exacerbates all the other issues that contribute to demand outstripping supply by removing the tax pressure that should've been incenting more density and liquidity in the housing market. Seattle'
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That's more about counterbalancing Iran in the region and is an "enemy-of-my-enemy" alliance of convenience. The ability to play Iraq and Iran against each other that used to exist went by the wayside when Saddam was toppled
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by elgenie 8y ago
(as told to Julia Belluz) means that he didn't write it himself despite the use of first person.
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by elgenie 9y ago
That's how a median works, yes. I got the $14 per hour figure from the annual income reported as the median assuming 2080 work hours per year.
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by elgenie 9y ago
Amazon employs significantly more workers that are stocking warehouses and filling boxes than are writing code. So the median Amazon worker by pay is working in a warehouse, probably entry-level or thereabouts, and is making about $14 an ho
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by elgenie 9y ago
It's a very logical extension of the project that became Open Compute, which started at Facebook back in 2009 and was announced two years later [1]. Facebook has been running its own datacenters, first in colos and now fully purpose-bu
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IIRC the proper way to handle that is by anchoring the foundation of the building to the bedrock underneath the layers which can undergo liquefaction. That's done by means of drilling as deep as necessary to put the foundation and then
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by elgenie 9y ago
Salaries are paid based on what a very competitive market demands in a place with high cost of living and taxes, but they're a large amount in absolute dollars. Anyone moving to the Bay Area when young and maximizing their savings rate
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by elgenie 9y ago
Their claim is that all the sensing capability is there for the car equivalent of the proverbial sufficiently smart compiler to achieve full self-driving capability. But said sufficiently smart software running sufficiently smart algorithms
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by elgenie 9y ago
> Good programmers are good because they're creative and they can keep a lot in their head, but that makes it hard to get them to follow processes and track everything rigorously. Being creative but undisciplined makes someone medio
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by elgenie 9y ago
$FB closed at $21.50 on the day this article was posted and at $153.03 yesterday. The stock price at the time was being beaten down by concerns over whether the company would be able to adapt to a shift to mobile, and not any issues with ho
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by elgenie 9y ago
There's a non-resolving link to join.app.net in the post. It seems like it was already active or, if not, launched within a week of this post.
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States aren't a particularly meaningful counting unit: California encompasses more than 68 Wyomings by population. And the meaning of "carrying" a state by a 44.1% to 44.0% plurality is questionable. The current division in t
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by elgenie 9y ago
Well, GP did, but this shouldn't be that hard to comprehend. If for an entire year 50K users leave Facebook forever every day, the result would be FB's daily actives shrinking by eight and a half tenths of a percent … if one assum
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by elgenie 9y ago
50K * 365 = 18.25M But that's still only .00857 of 2.13 billion daily actives.
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It's actually the problem that Google would've had to grapple with in the past when facing off against AltaVista/Lycos/WebCrawler et al holding a measly 5% market share. Google traffic is way way way way more important t
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by elgenie 9y ago
The question shouldn't be "Did the evacuation raise the death toll given the mostly successful containment we now known happened"? It should instead be "Did the evacuation raise the death toll given the expected death to
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by elgenie 9y ago
> Some countries have strict laws, but little enforcement, so marginalized people can break these laws as long as they fly under the radar. Strict laws with little enforcement also means that the enforcement can be restricted squarely to
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by elgenie 9y ago
1/ Author's a dude. 2/ The singular (gender-neutral) they has existed since the 13th century in informal contexts ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they ). Just use that.

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