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by glenra 11y ago
> See also: driving while black "driving while black" is not a real thing. Here's the study that debunked it: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07418820500088952 The phrase/m
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by glenra 11y ago
The average CEO makes about the same amount of money as the average dentist. When you get to the big scary numbers, you're talking about the top 100 highest-paid CEOs, not CEOs in general. Out of about a quarter-million CEOS around the
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by glenra 11y ago
Much of this can be accounted for by the simple fact that the companies have gotten bigger. Top CEOs are in charge of more people than ever before. Walmart has 1.4 million employees; if their CEO makes $35 million that's $25 per empl
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by glenra 11y ago
> not a soul on HN would dream of carrying 11k in cash through an airport. I've carried over $11k through an airport dozens of times and occasionally carried $30k or more. (I used to be involved with a professional blackjack team.
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> The period of perhaps greatest economic growth in the West, the 1950s and 60s, was the period of greatest government regulation and direct involvement in economies. What calculation leads you to conclude there was more regulation in th
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> Do you think there is something inherent in the genetic makeup of white men that makes them more able to self start? "white" men are actually a bit UNDER-represented in these companies relative to the country's populat
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> Some people exercise [...] Some people reduce energy consumption [...] There are no other options. There is at least one other way besides exercise to expend energy: cold exposure. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine&
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by glenra 11y ago
Those two claims aren't incompatible. If birth control pills increased appetite, people would gain weight on them VIA an increase in daily caloric intake. (A third option is that being fatter makes people hungrier, so fatter people eat
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by glenra 11y ago
I expect them to tell people about it, continue studying the matter, and ultimately let people make their own decisions. Or as an intermediate step: require warning labels or warning signs . If we let companies sell cigarettes with warning
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I'm sensing poor reading skills. This seems to be the offending bit: "If we receive a legal claim about your RSS content, we will tell you so that you can resolve the issue, including indemnifying Apple if Apple is included in th
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by glenra 11y ago
90% of the art in the collections of most big museums will never be seen by anybody. Held "in private hands", there's arguably a better chance people will eventually get to see it than if it sits in storage indefinitely - t
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by glenra 12y ago
Did you read the article? Absent rent control, the article plausibly claims equilibrium rent would be higher than the rent controlled rent but lower than the market rent, because "market" rent reflects the rent only on a very
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by glenra 12y ago
Whether you should be scared depends crucially on whether you have (or plan to soon have) small kids and whether you intend to give them a reasonable amount of autonomy of the sort that we ourselves had when we were kids. Anyone who wants
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by glenra 12y ago
Candy Crush Saga is a vast collection of puzzles to be solved. New mechanisms are introduced regularly; solving each level involves figuring out how the new stuff works and then determining and implementing a strategy to overcome the new
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by glenra 12y ago
I think they want it to look like the Bay Area is being eaten by a giant slime mold.
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by glenra 12y ago
Sure, or office space for a bunch of different companies. Rent it out one wedge at a time.
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The usual theory I've heard isn't so much that fancy starchitect headquarters cause the companies to fail. Rather, it's more of a signaling story. To wit: new headquarters say something about the kind of company you have, a
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by glenra 12y ago
> I am a big fan of Michael Pollan, and his main argument is that even nutritionists and doctors, people who dedicate thier lives to studying nutrition, can't answer lots of the more complex questions One fantastic thing about a ver
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by glenra 12y ago
Uber is a pretty good option for people who already have a suitable car, especially people who already have one they've previously been using to run a limo service. To call ignoring the cost of the car "deceptive" seems a b
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by glenra 12y ago
Also blank in Chrome (OS X). Or in Safari (iOS). Presumably there's some browser configuration that isn't a blank page. Anybody care to let us know what it does when it's not blank?
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by glenra 12y ago
Rubies: > The price you can get for your ruby depends on its quality characteristics, but there is one thing you should remember: It is unlikely that you will be able to sell a ruby gemstone for an amount that is even close to its retai
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by glenra 12y ago
That's a tough call. Jewels generally lose at least half their value the minute you buy them. > "Because of the steep markup on diamonds, individuals who buy retail and in effect sell wholesale often suffer enormous losses. Fo
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by glenra 12y ago
Your logic doesn't work. Of those people who simply participated in the lottery, the ones who won it and went to charter school did better than the ones who weren't selected and didn't. This means the groups being compared
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by glenra 12y ago
I can't help noticing their survey didn't include the option "Poor people have hard lives because government does TOO MUCH that harms them." Licensing restrictions make it illegal for people with few resources to do many
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by glenra 12y ago
The simpler objection is that smartgun technology - being a brand new thing - is likely to be expensive and complicated, which makes the guns that use it expensive and complicated. Forcing people to install it anyway is like a tax - it make
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by glenra 12y ago
The notion of "smartguns unlocked by an owner’s thumbprint or a radio-frequency encryption" is a recipe for making guns - an inherently quite simple tool - into something vastly more complicated, expensive, and failure-prone. The
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by glenra 12y ago
Regarding specifically the male-female gap, isn't the obvious explanation simply that these jobs select for extremely high IQ? (Men have higher IQ variance, so the further out on the bell curve you go in either direction - seeking geni
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by glenra 12y ago
Your #2 point is false. Most diet/exercise programs appear to "work" in the short run, but fail in the long term. Very few people who diet haven't gained the weight back and then some within 3 years. The sad truth is tha
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by glenra 12y ago
Your body contains a feedback mechanism that is extraordinarily good at fine-tuning how much you WANT to eat and WANT to move in order to maintain its desired weight. You can fool this system in the short term, but most people can't fo
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by glenra 12y ago
> But the forcing factor in the weight system is net caloric balance, which is also the easiest to control. Are you kidding? Almost nobody who diets to lose weight manages to keep it off for 3 years. In the very short term (say, up to 6

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