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Try Hard, but Not That Hard. 85% Is the Magic Number for Productivity(wsj.com)
1 points by erehweb 3y ago|1 comments
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by erehweb 3y ago
Shogi also has the advantage that handicaps are easier, meaning people of different skill levels can play against each other easily.
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Stop Chasing High-Tech Cheaters (2006)(insidehighered.com)
1 points by erehweb 3y ago|1 comments
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by erehweb 3y ago
As an attempt - it's a simple definition, easy to check for small numbers, but leads to some difficult questions - are there infinitely many of them? (found yes by Erdos) How dense are they in the number line? Are there any odd ones &g
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The latest job-hunting tool: dating apps(wsj.com)
3 points by erehweb 3y ago|2 comments
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What coal and Jevons’ paradox tell us about AI and data(hex.tech)
71 points by erehweb 3y ago|72 comments
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by erehweb 3y ago
If you are interested in the Roman Republic and board games, you should check out Republic of Rome, which has the interesting feature that without some cooperation among the players, the Republic will fall to barbarians or the mob and every
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by erehweb 3y ago
The I Ching is very ambiguous and open to interpretation, as Philip K Dock shows in The Man in The High Castle, or you can try for yourself. Whatever else it's doing, it is not providing certainty.
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by erehweb 3y ago
USDOT has some rules re tarmac delays "For flights departing from a U.S. airport, airlines are required to begin to move the airplane to a location where passengers can safely get off before 3 hours for domestic flights and 4 hours for
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by erehweb 3y ago
To make this more explicit, the argument is that removing copyright hurts authors, meaning that fewer people become authors in the future, meaning that the progress of the useful arts is hurt.
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by erehweb 3y ago
Second-order effects are real - removing copyright would hurt authors. (See cstross comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35761641 e.g.)
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by erehweb 3y ago
We can argue about whether data-driven ads work for the OP or for buying an extra mattress, but in aggregate they absolutely work. Contra OP's anecdote, if FB ad targeting stopped working, then FB would notice the difference in engagem
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by erehweb 3y ago
One extremely common bug even among good writers - saying "Jack was in his 30th year" to mean "Jack was 30" (and so should be in his 31st year). At least, I think of this as a bug, but perhaps it is accepted by general c
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by erehweb 3y ago
Sure, if you don't say anything, then you won't say anything wrong. I'd like an article to give me a bit more to think about, even (or especially?) if I don't agree with their point of view.
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by erehweb 3y ago
You certainly can, but if you're going to be published in The Atlantic, I'd like to see more. This could be personal (should partisans become less selective?) or societal (how could we reduce partisanship?). Even just asserting wi
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by erehweb 3y ago
The article points out that there are a lot of "surplus" liberal women and conservative men, but I'm not sure what the author wants to happen. Should people be settling for subpar marriages with a spouse who doesn't shar
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Boomers got hooked on stocks. Now they can't let go(wsj.com)
2 points by erehweb 3y ago|3 comments
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by erehweb 3y ago
Note though that the marginal value of an employee is typically < the average value, and that managers may value control more than profits.
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Russian soldier surrendered to a Ukrainian drone(wsj.com)
3 points by erehweb 3y ago|1 comments
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by erehweb 3y ago
Seems like a lot of work for a speculative theory, given all the stuff government has to do.
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Toyota EV mimics manual transmission with feel of gear sticks, roaring engine(wsj.com)
1 points by erehweb 3y ago|4 comments
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by erehweb 3y ago
Seems like it should be completely obvious, but when I worked at $SOCIAL_MEDIA_CO there were several Engineers who refused to use the product but claimed this had no effect on their work.
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by erehweb 3y ago
They don't have to do that, though - founders still retain control so could ignore shareholders.
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by erehweb 3y ago
It sounds like you're asking for a whole book. That's valuable, but not every newspaper story can be that in-depth.
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ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners(washingtonpost.com)
59 points by erehweb 3y ago|114 comments
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Carmel addresses its address controversy(kazu.org)
2 points by erehweb 3y ago|0 comments
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by erehweb 3y ago
It's hard to get people to make friends when many companies have a culture of fear that you won't make it past the next layoff.
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The push to make everyone friends at work(wsj.com)
3 points by erehweb 3y ago|2 comments
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by erehweb 3y ago
The study https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w26719/w267...
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by erehweb 3y ago
A feeling can certainly be represented as information, but it's a leap to say it is information.

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