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by erentz 8y ago
Personally I think it’s still worth it at that price, even if the project would’ve been better done in the way I described. It’s better than the alternative. If we don’t spend $77b on rail we’ll still have to spend it expanding freeways and
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by erentz 8y ago
I’m aware. It still hasn’t been electrified a decade later. But hey they have built a viaduct in the middle of the Central Valley!
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by erentz 8y ago
$77B is outrageous. We have to fix infrastructure costs in this country. California would be better establishing an agency that progressively acquires, upgrades, and runs rail throughout the state as a single integrated system. We've b
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by erentz 8y ago
How can there both be a shortage and low pay? Shouldn't the need for pilots drive up pay as demand for air travel itself isn't going down.
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by erentz 8y ago
Unfortunately the Principal title has been abused and cheapened by some orgs. In some ways necessarily, as comps in tech have grown it’s become necessary to hire people at a Principal level in order to get the necessary comp. In other orgs
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by erentz 8y ago
Plugged it in a previous thread but will plug it as relevant again, since I see debate in this thread about Japanese surrender and wheather the Germans were really developing the bomb. Have a read of Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg, he
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by erentz 8y ago
I don’t think people are making a value judgement that parents shouldn’t have the ability to spend more time with their children, just that for the USA (and for that matter most western countries to boot), this is still a very generous offe
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by erentz 8y ago
To be somewhat fair this is still an amazing benefit: “It’s now capping parental leaves at six months and giving parents a taxable $20,000 stipend to defray the costs of childcare.” In the context that they are doing this while few other
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by erentz 8y ago
> Acquisition by Google is the only reason YouTube exists. If they had to pay for their networking they could not have survived (Google owns its own fiber and doesn't pay anyone for transit). By this logic Netflix shouldn’t exist be
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by erentz 8y ago
Slightly OT: this seems like a good way to learn to program. My wife has been trying to learn to program with python but all the tutorials even programming 101 tutorials these days actually seem more advanced than I would expect. For exampl
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by erentz 8y ago
Highly recommend the book Doomsday Machine by Ellsberg for those interested in this kind of thing.
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by erentz 8y ago
> You might be able to say something similar about health insurance and sedentary smokers vs. runners. If an extra hour of work is less economically valuable than a gym visit, the incentive structure should reflect that. If someone gets
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by erentz 8y ago
You seem to be thinking about something different wrt cost sharing and public healthcare. Cost sharing structure is a separate matter to risk pooling. Taken to its conclusion we should all be in risk pools of 1.
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by erentz 8y ago
I would like to see the increasing granulization of insurance put to an end, because otherwise it won’t stop. There should be one pool, everyone’s in it, we spread risk, and the whole damn thing is simpler and easier to regulate. Sure, Mr B
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by erentz 8y ago
It’s not as unusual as you might think. Random failures can cluster. It’s why two paths is never enough if redundancy matters.
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by erentz 8y ago
Very good point. Added requirement: Make sure all your ancestors and extended family are dead and did not do 23andme before their passing.
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by erentz 8y ago
Anonymous submissions are in theory somewhat feasible, albeit cumbersome. You can by the 23andme kits with the full fee paid from certain pharmacies (I think Target had them) using cash. This means you don't have to put down a credit c
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Why Carmaggedon never comes – Seattle edition(cityobservatory.org)
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by erentz 8y ago
Not certain but there are two advantages of using a trie in this case, 1) you don’t have to hash the IP address (that takes time too, and is for every packet remember), and 2) you can easily represent whole IP subnets in a trie as one node
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by erentz 8y ago
Better to say the fair price is 10-50% of the chargemaster. But if you’re not an insurance company and the hospital refuses to negotiate it down then that is the price you face. (Source: we were billed $16,666.30 for 30g of IVIG after bei
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by erentz 8y ago
Doesn’t your argument also suggest using a 1-strike rule? I think it also calls for looking at why recidivism rates are so high, and what can be done to lower them. If we can lower recidivism rates after the first crime then the benefits wo
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by erentz 8y ago
"The Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary Government Data Act (AKA the OPEN Government Data Act)" Please, could we end this obsession with backronyms in congress. Perhaps some congressperson could create a suitably titled backr
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by erentz 8y ago
My own experience with hospital billing: Had to go to ER in November, and I was admitted upstairs for a “rescue dose” of IVIG for neurological condition (similar to CIDP/GBS). We were told by the admitting doctor it should probably be
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by erentz 8y ago
We really needed a Marshall plan-like response to the collapse of the USSR. Something to instil democratic values and ensure enough propserity and participation. Instead we sent over academic economists who advised to dismantle everything o
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by erentz 8y ago
Having dealt with stolen property I know this pain. Certainly if Bird can change the incentives so this behavior isn’t rewarded (which seems feasible, see my other reply) then all the better. But if people are taking 20+ scooters off the st
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by erentz 8y ago
Perhaps if the problem is hoarders taking scooters without checking them out first, I think freezing the charger reward price when a scooter is moved is probably the best technical solution. They’ll no longer have an incentive to take them
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by erentz 8y ago
It was my understanding from the article and other commenters that these hoarders were taking the scooters without checking them out on the app, waiting for their charge reward to rise, then checking them out to charge at that point. If s
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by erentz 8y ago
If your bike or car gets stolen I hope you don’t involve the police in your “petty civil matter”.
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by erentz 8y ago
Make it simpler. First this is theft, they should assign some folks to track and report this to police. Let that be known and people might start being more honest. Second you could just add something to the terms and conditions which allows
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by erentz 8y ago
> “Everyone knew it was fake, but because no one had any alternative vision for a different kind of society, they just accepted this sense of total fakeness as normal.” I don’t think there is a lack of vision out there, see the book Four

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