haltingthoughts

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by haltingthoughts 8y ago
There is a good argument to be made that supporting remote work yeilds gains in processes. See e.g. remoteonly.org
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by haltingthoughts 8y ago
Immigrants have nearly identical views to other citizens: https://www.cato.org/publications/economic-development-bulle...
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by haltingthoughts 8y ago
What replaces it that is better? Inflated grades for the privledged? AP classes? Extracurriculars? Very easily biased and noisy interviews or essays? Test prep accounts for a small portion of test score differences and minorities are more l
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
There is a problem if you are the de facto intermediary and using that to squash competition in other markets.
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
>We live in an era of noise, and we are in desperate need of better filters. How do we detect an argument made in bad faith? How do we respond once we know an argument can't be won? I don't think we have good answers to either
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
Health insurance is both insurance and a discount/negotiation program. It'd be nice to disentangle the two.
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
I'm pretty sure you can convince someone in less than a day with a reasonably simplified version.
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
The stock price is the present value of the future profits. Since this shouldn't have a huge effect beyond 4 years, that's saying profits for Intel in the short term would be down by 20 percent.
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
I find it supremely hypocritical when the super poor lecture people about their tax avoidance when they pay an order of magnitude less. The tax rate is what matters there not the total tax. Similarly, look at the emissions per dollar not to
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
He monetarily donated to support a position that half of America supported. One simply can't expect demand that level of moral purity in a free society.
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
When are we going to separate prosecution so that a non-govermental agency could get access to these and perform the prosecution themselves?
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
I think most would agree FactoryFactoryFactorys are bad. But how does one fix this? What's the alternative? Maybe a post on how to disentangle one of these?
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
>Who doesn't think the US Highway System has been great for our economy? When one considers the hidden costs of increased urban sprawl, reliance on automobiles, and the associated increase in pollution, it isn't so clear. If ro
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
But do they hate it less than ads? If you pay for mobile service per GB then you already have this problem.
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
Modern aircraft undergo testing near the speed of sound to find issues as well. https://youtu.be/rpP7hsuVuoE?t=1155
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
Why do early investors agree to invest knowing that the future rounds will get preference? Tragedy of the anti-commons is a thing but you'd assume that existing investors would push back against this type of behavior.
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
I'm more concerned with the opposite problem of how we will behave in response to AI control. AI has no notion of the Lucas critique. It doesn't consider the perverse incentives it's optimized judgement scheme may create. The
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
Oil companies have been compensated for those benefits by people paying for oil. They have largely not had to pay for those harms. Allowing them to be sued brings their compensation more in line with what it should be.
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
You'd think we'd have a better QOS metric for courts than standing.
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
I very skeptical that lithium-ion batteries are the end game for huge-scale energy storage. Lithium-ion batteries are the "hot" energy storage. Efficient, powerful, and very light, but also expensive great for a laptop or a car, n
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
Higher prices encourage supplying more emergency supplies either through transporting them into the area or storing them in preparation for a disaster. Airlines are more likely to make heroic efforts to fly people out if they can charge mor
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
The author was trying to test whether a simple common test for bipolar was accurate. Presumably, the suggestion is to make the test a form filled out by each doctor for each patient. Then months or years later the author could do a chart re
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
Is that or s similar script somewhere public? I'd like to do the same.
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
You can look up DW nominate scores from since late 1800s and you'll see the rise since 1975 https://legacy.voteview.com/Political_Polarization_2014.htm
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
Saying that quantum effects are present and saying that the human brain is a quantum computer (or more?) and will get exponential speedup are two very different things.
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
what is a SAFE? How is it different from standard equity/debt?
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
Annuities do exist and you can buy them with IRA/401k savings.
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
I should have said looking at whether it is harming consumers now isn't the point. It's how it harms consumers over time. The chilling effect on innovation, the monoculture/fragility, the lock-in will hurt consumers in the lo
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
Looking at what is best for consumers is missing the point. The point is that when companies use leverage in one market to help themselves or hurt competitors unfairly in other markets it stifles competition. It's hard to be a web brow
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
Alcohol is an "organizational lubricant". It's consumption allows people to express controversial opinions that may be needed to be expressed with less potential for blowback due to the setting. This same plausible deniabilit

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