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by fanzhang 10y ago
I don't think that between firm inequality is the main driver of inequality within the US. (Internationally, inequality has decreased over the last 40 years). My personal belief is that the main causes are technology and globalizatio
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by fanzhang 10y ago
I think looking at CEO-only pay is a red herring. The CEO of a company like Google might be paid a lot, but if you cut that pay to zero and redistributed to the rest of the company, the impact wouldn't be massive. To wit, the CEO of
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by fanzhang 10y ago
It's often cited that in Europe the sticker prices of both healthcare and education are lower. However that's because most of it is being subsidized by the state; it would be interesting to see whether the total societal costs ar
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by fanzhang 10y ago
Having been between work and grad school and back, my personal experience is that systems are easier to maintain during work. Grad schools is automatically less structured and easier to get into a funk if you don't focus right.
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by fanzhang 10y ago
While there is some possibility (a few percent chance?), in these cases I think the majority chance is Hanlon's Razor. It's probably just a mistake on the ESA's part -- space is hard.
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by fanzhang 10y ago
Having spent my first few years in mainland China, I can say that that the very typical kindergarten I went to taught pinyin and not bopomofo. Pinyin is the standard romanization in mainland China, not Wade-Giles (which seems to be preferr
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by fanzhang 10y ago
Pure speculation, but the sales rate of the Nexus 5x and 6 could have been so low that there wasn't much inventory to dispose of when they stopped selling it. Have you considered options like eBay or Amazon? Oftentimes the secondary m
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by fanzhang 10y ago
Is it not currently the case that there are redundancy tests (i.e. overconstraint tests / unit tests) on election results already? Would a manual miscount of a vote have a near-nil chance of getting caught? If so, I totally agree we n
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by fanzhang 10y ago
Agreed. Not throwing away food presumably means needing to preserve it and donate it to a food kitchen (or similar) right? If that's the case, what are the resources required to: preserve the food before donation; deliver the food to
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by fanzhang 10y ago
The reviews on wirecutter work pretty well for me. They have a number of affiliate ads, but in the overall balance, if you want to make a decision in 1 hour or less it's a pretty good source that I use.
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by fanzhang 10y ago
More neutrally, maybe you mean "two people who disagree about the facts won't have a meaningful conversation". To that extent I wholeheartedly agree. If you can't even agree on the base data, how can you build a conclus
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by fanzhang 10y ago
I think the timing is right. After all, before the election, too much of the motivation would be to change each others' minds. It muddles the part where you're calling primarily to understand the other side. It's like askin
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by fanzhang 10y ago
Can a lot of this be distilled into differing risk aversions between the investors and the founders? Two major reasons here seem to be 1) VCs not wanting to sink time into a failing startup (force downside) and 2) markups in valuation are p
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by fanzhang 10y ago
> My semi-cynical thesis is that VCs need home-run logos on the Portfolio page of their website to keep their spot at the dealflow table. The causality probably isn't: LPs want home runs -> LPs look for home runs on VC pages -&gt
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by fanzhang 10y ago
Yes.
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by fanzhang 10y ago
How would the malware even know that the camera was connected in? Especially if you're on a home network (which is firewalled / has NAT on). I suspect that it must be the central server that this camera reports to that is infecte
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by fanzhang 10y ago
Is this just a concatenation of the top Google trends keywords?
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by fanzhang 10y ago
In a theoretical world, finding potential resources is always good. You have the option to extract from it, or ban extraction from it -- which is no worse than not finding it in the first place. Put another way, shouldn't news of any
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by fanzhang 10y ago
I don't think the pay gap will close. While surely you'll get raises in SV, you'll also get similar ratio raises in HFT. The best way to see fit is if you can talk to others who have worked in both areas -- take an internshi
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by fanzhang 10y ago
The evidence here doesn't seem that strong -- just manuals that hint that "10-foot lanes are as okay as 12-foot lanes" and the odd (non-randomized or large scale) study here and there. I'm also curious whether a good par
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by fanzhang 10y ago
I'm genuinely surprised at when this was written. Without the year in the title, I would have easy guessed 2010 or later: > 1.2X improvement doesn't even get your customer to raise his head from what he's doing. A 2-3X im
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by fanzhang 10y ago
Are you saying that more out of being upset that someone rich would dare to give average people advice about happiness? Or are you actively positively suggesting that wealth makes you happier, as in having more positive emotions, and theref
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by fanzhang 10y ago
In this era of low interest rates, you might model the above with a 7% rate instead of 10%, and then you get closer.
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by fanzhang 10y ago
I would also contend that for a large fraction of those people who have deathbed wishes, if a magic force suddenly granted that person 50 more years of healthy life, they'd go back to doing what they had "regretted". The guy
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by fanzhang 10y ago
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by fanzhang 10y ago
It seems that the fundamental issues here is direct democracy vs representative democracy. There is an age-old issue of whether each individual citizen should indeed be able to vote on each individual government decision. It hardly seems
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by fanzhang 10y ago
To add one more datapoint: my personal experience with 911 (called maybe 2-3 times for other people) has all been fast. Mostly responses within 5 minutes, and always within 10. 911 may have a local component and it could be your city being
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by fanzhang 10y ago
This article was written in 1993, a year where Japanese GDP per capita was 25%+ more than the US's. This was the peak of American fear against Japan taking over the world, economically. With the empirical foregone conclusion that Japa
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by fanzhang 10y ago
I don't think it's a commonly accepted conclusion that education increases income primarily through competitive advantage (i.e. it's a zero sum game). Take, for example, being educated on home farming methods to grow 200 cabb
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by fanzhang 10y ago
The dividend to stockholders are less than 10x what they give back to the Federal Government.

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