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by enoch_r 11y ago
EDIT: I can't reply to ori_b below yet, but: he's completely right, I interpreted the parent comment as saying something it was not. I'm not sure "free market" vs. "monopolist" is the best way to name the
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by enoch_r 11y ago
> The fact that I have to buy software to get proper window management and a good window switcher makes me furious. Off-topic, but what window management software did you buy? I use Spectacle ( http://spectacleapp.com ) which i
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by enoch_r 11y ago
Sharrows are misused almost everywhere, and until I moved to Portland I would've agreed that they were a stupid idea. Here, there's been a lot of thought put into their use, and it shows. Specifically, they're not just thrown
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by enoch_r 12y ago
No problems with overheating, so far it's never even gotten uncomfortably warm. Battery life is good enough relative to my old laptop that I haven't bothered checking power usage carefully yet, but here's powertop's outp
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by enoch_r 12y ago
Sure! On install, a few things didn't work: trackpad, keyboard backlight, touchscreen, and I think screen brightness. However, https://github.com/tsowell/linux-samus solved all these problems. There are a few deta
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by enoch_r 12y ago
I started with Arch too, and am still with it several years later (typing this comment on a Pixel 2 running Arch). I agree that Arch isn't for everyone, but I think a sufficiently curious and motivated beginner will be fine. Mostly bec
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by enoch_r 12y ago
Every time someone says "X people have a higher net worth than Y% of people COMBINED" I get very, very skeptical. Some net worths are negative. Some net worths are significantly negative. A homeless man has a much higher net worth
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by enoch_r 12y ago
> the ability to share logins with people/groups without actually exposing the password is wonderful in the corporate setting I haven't tried this for a long time, but the last time someone shared a password with me through Las
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by enoch_r 12y ago
I use pass: http://www.passwordstore.org/ It's fantastic, free, simple and works across multiple platforms. I also set up a simple web front-end for it, so I can use it from my phone: https://pw.mkn.io/
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by enoch_r 12y ago
> using AI the same way we use all tools -- for our benefit Musk and others are concerned about very different things than "we'll accidentally use AI wrong." And they're not concerned about the AI we already have, a
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by enoch_r 12y ago
Hm, I've been riding bikes as my main transportation for a while; so far none have been stolen (the most expensive bike I'm willing to lock up where I can't see it was about $700 new). I lock it up at restaurants, symphonies,
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by enoch_r 12y ago
> One must of course speak in generalities but it seems obvious they have at least one goal in common: to remain wealthy & empowered, come what may. Which of course has implications for which public policies succeed and which fail. T
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by enoch_r 12y ago
Even if people got more and better work done in private offices, maybe the increased communication in open offices is causing people to work on more important things, which could be worth the tradeoff. (I don't think it is, but such an
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by enoch_r 12y ago
> It requires passengers to run a nonfree program (an app). As always, a nonfree program tramples its users' freedom. > Uber plans to do away with human cab drivers. > It would be easy for a non-plutocratic government to prohi
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by enoch_r 12y ago
Imagine I argue that, to sort an array of n integers, I must ask myself "is this permutation the sorted array?" for every n! permutations of the integers. Thus it is obvious that humans cannot correctly sort a list of 100 numbers,
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by enoch_r 12y ago
You're responding to the claim that "classical economics does not actually assert that individual humans behave in a purely rational and fully-informed manner" with an argument that it is impossible for individual humans to b
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by enoch_r 12y ago
Ex ante returns are not the same as ex post returns. Borrowing cheap money to buy an S&P500 ETF would have paid off handsomely since 2008, because the market's gone up. If the market had crashed, you'd be in trouble. Similarly
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by enoch_r 12y ago
I love this joke, because on the surface it's making fun of economists whose theories blind them to an obvious reality. But how often does anyone actually find a $100 bill on the ground?
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by enoch_r 12y ago
I was pleasantly surprised to read[0] that Minerva is doing quite a bit more than just taking the MOOC concept and charging for it, e.g.: "He split us into groups to defend opposite propositions—that the cod had disappeared because of
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by enoch_r 12y ago
> Well, drug consumers can stop purchasing drugs that you know that involve the cartels. But most people that talk about the "War on Drugs" would rather blame the US drug policies instead, rather than the own up to the fact tha
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by enoch_r 12y ago
Thanks for responding, I appreciate the interesting discussion. :) You began this sub-thread by making the following claim: > It's only at the risk-free rate of return that the two products you describe are of equal value. In order
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by enoch_r 12y ago
> In order to realize returns higher than the risk-free rate, investors must do work. 1. Are you claiming that taking risk is a form of work? Because the correlation between risk and expected return holds up very well empirically, and it
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by enoch_r 12y ago
Imagine there are two products on the market: "the promise of $130 in 5 years" and "$100 today." The fact that people choose to exchange one product for the other every day suggests that the two products have equal value
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by enoch_r 12y ago
Heh--I just spent the last few days going the opposite way, building a web interface for Pass for fun. Demo is up here: http://example.pw.less.sexy/ (the service and master password are both "pass") and source is
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by enoch_r 12y ago
Are you sure? On my machine, fullscreening, e.g., YouTube will: - in FF, launch a new window, showing a fraction of the frame. - in Chrome, replace the current window, showing a fraction of the frame. In both cases, if I want to see the unc
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by enoch_r 12y ago
> I gotta ask the people who say that women are different from men: [...] You do know that women are people, right? Like, half the people, 3.5 billion women. Let's examine two claims: 1. "Group A is genetically predisposed to d
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by enoch_r 12y ago
Are you sure you have to open the site through a link from a search? In my experience, just opening the link directly in a private browsing window is enough to give me access.
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by enoch_r 12y ago
It may be irrelevant to your analogy (it'd be more difficult to identify "personal bias" in reviews of people, after all), but the "20% of Yelp reviews are fake" meme is highly misleading. The study in question look
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by enoch_r 12y ago
It's remarkable how many people in the NYT comments dismiss this as a distraction from the more important issue of within-country inequality. I guess it's more important to help out someone earning $15,000 a year who looks like us
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by enoch_r 12y ago
Inequality actually isn't falling in China or India, though it might be falling slightly in Brazil[1][2][3]. Global income inequality is decreasing because the poor countries are developing, and those countries from a position so far b

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