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by enoch_r 9y ago
I had to look this up because it was so crazy and interesting - but sadly (er, well, you know what I mean), the link between microwave radiation and cancer is questionable both biologically and historically. The historical evidence (mortali
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by enoch_r 9y ago
Out of curiosity, if his "manifesto" had talked about white privilege and how many of his white, male co-workers had, for their entire lives, been the beneficiaries of massive disparities in American society that led them to have
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by enoch_r 9y ago
US law enforcement would be horrifically, jaw-droppingly corrupt if 20% of arrests were "malicious." But even then, 80% of arrests would be non-malicious, so a very strong prior that a given arrest is malicious would be completely
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by enoch_r 9y ago
Location: Portland, OR Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: I'd love to use clj(s) at my next day job, I've used it extensively for many years on a variety of side projects and love the language and its ecosystem. I&#
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by enoch_r 9y ago
By this logic, having a sale is also a violation of fiduciary responsibility. As others have pointed out, looking only at the costs associated with a decision to "spend" assets is not what fiduciary responsibility requires.
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Can you provide a few examples of the ample historical evidence for that "inevitable result"? I'm looking for one or two cases where a private monopolist entered a competitive market, managed to shut down competitors with pre
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by enoch_r 9y ago
This reminds me of: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/13/debunked-and-well-refut... There's a complicated issue where theoretical predictions go one way and empirical evidence is mixed. Result: everyone
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Show HN: Tictag – Time tracking through random sampling(agh.io)
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On highways, the 85th-percentile rule makes some sense. The evidence seems to suggest that raising speed limits slightly increases fatality rates, but not accident rates, and doesn't have much influence on driver speed. At the other
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by enoch_r 10y ago
The P50 has an optional 4K display, it's a pretty awesome machine. Linux friendliness is another pro of the thinkpad family in general.
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Guided by the Beauty of Our Weapons(slatestarcodex.com)
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by enoch_r 10y ago
I haven't used this (pass works fine for my use case), but Gopass was on HN a bit ago: https://www.justwatch.com/blog/post/announcing-gopass/ One of the claimed features is "multiple stores: Combine
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by enoch_r 10y ago
I absolutely agree that we should strive for the elimination of poverty, and that many people can't "claw their way out of poverty." My point is just that we shouldn't start from the false premise that prosperity is th
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by enoch_r 10y ago
This may be the book's point, but I don't think it's the article's. The author's claim that "the problem is that poverty is profitable" only makes sense if one believes that those profiting from the poor (
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by enoch_r 10y ago
The assertion implicit in the headline ("poverty exists because it's profitable") is the article's assertion, not the book's. This is quite silly. Through all of human history the vast majority of people have been m
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by enoch_r 10y ago
They're not saying "reductions appeared during specific time periods, therefore they weren't real." Reductions appeared during specific years, and Utah also changed the way it measured chronic homelessness in those spe
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by enoch_r 10y ago
I guess all I can say to this is that Beeminder has been worth many, many times what I've paid them (hence the evangelism), and I've paid them quite a lot. You might worry about perverse incentives, but they're going to make
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by enoch_r 10y ago
> How much have you had to pay beeminder? about $300 or so, much of it front-loaded towards early on when I was still gaining some necessary meta-habits, like "check beeminder carefully every morning/night." > How do yo
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by enoch_r 10y ago
Yep, I pay Beeminder when I fail! As I see it, it's a mutually beneficial arrangement: Beeminder gets an incentive to keep operating, and I get an incentive to do whatever it was I just dropped the ball on. Maybe I'd feel differen
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by enoch_r 10y ago
I cannot possibly recommend Beeminder highly enough, if you happen to have the personality type that it works well with. The basic idea isn't too far off from the million other "habit" apps out there. I say I want to meditate
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by enoch_r 10y ago
I'm not sure I understand your argument. Yes, subsidies have many beneficiaries; some are direct and some are indirect. You imply that it's ridiculous to call a policy a subsidy to its indirect beneficiaries--even if the paper i
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by enoch_r 10y ago
If the government spent tens of billions of dollars annually to construct housing, and allowed people to live in it for free, I would describe that as a "housing subsidy" even if no one living in those buildings was actually recei
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by enoch_r 10y ago
> Look, if you want to wrap your life around riding your bike to work, more power to you, just don't try force your lifestyle on the entirety of the US population through punitive taxation. No one is talking about "punitive tax
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by enoch_r 10y ago
This is awesome. I seem to have run into an issue where if I keep the window open for a long time, the bar indicating "now" stops moving. My use case might not be common, but I would absolutely love it if I could zoom in and use O
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by enoch_r 10y ago
I actually came to the comments to recommend Beeminder. If you're the type of person who sets goals and then feels guilty when you remember making them 6 months (... or a week) down the road, it's a fantastic service and worth eve
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by enoch_r 10y ago
Some things make us feel much safer, but don't actually increase safety much (wide streets). Some things make us much more safe, but don't actually increase safety much (seatbelts). The latter increase safety (for drivers, at leas
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by enoch_r 10y ago
Yeah, I probably wasn't obvious enough--my point was that if your hypothesis is "big companies capture academic fields," then you would not predict a world where economics, and only economics, is captured by "big multi
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by enoch_r 10y ago
> Take the statement "Lowering income taxes causes people to work more and in the end generates more revenue for the state". That theory has been put to test in many countries (like in the US during Reagan's presidency) bu
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by enoch_r 10y ago
I would be very curious to know why this has happened to economists alone --out of all the liberal arts departments. Are sociologists, historians, and political scientists immune to these influences? Or have the multinationals just refrain
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by enoch_r 10y ago
Yep. At work we might use services like EC2 and justify it with "I don't want to pay for resources I'm not using, therefore I will use services that offer me usage-based pricing. Who wants to go back to the dark ages of being

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