heylook

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by heylook 5y ago
> - Large unicorn startups that are perpetual money losers continue to operate only because they are effectively subsidized by regular capital raises. Look no further than all the Silicon Valley darlings such as Uber, Netflix, AirBnb, Te
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by heylook 6y ago
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-trump-capitol-arrests...
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by heylook 6y ago
Yes. "An externality is a cost or benefit caused by a producer that is not financially incurred or received by that producer." [0] Dominating a market so thoroughly that your competitors go out of business and must find another li
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by heylook 6y ago
Political change of this magnitude happens because different people are voting, not because the same person changed their mind. Literally it’s because the old people died before they could pass 100% of their bigotry to the next generation.
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by heylook 6y ago
I'm a little thick. What are you implying here?
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by heylook 6y ago
Because you exist within a system whether you like it or not, so the optimal/correct solution must account for those variables, including your ability to entice cooperation. So yes, you would still be wrong, just not for the narrow way
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by heylook 6y ago
> The exception is with unusual unit compositions Could be wrong, but I believe this is actually a case-in-point moment for the other side. AI as it exists now is flummoxed by unfamiliar input, whereas a human expert is more likely to be
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by heylook 6y ago
> Never. And I'm serious about this. You know that we have search engines, right? https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hpb20180622.107025/... https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pape
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by heylook 6y ago
Do you have any data to back up this claim? Parent comment provided links. It seems fair to me that a rebuttal should as well.
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by heylook 6y ago
Bad faith actors can fabricate "evidence". Therefore all evidence is useless?
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by heylook 6y ago
> it highlights a very basic problem with taxing an asset again and again, especially on unrealized gains. Why is it so hard to understand the concept of a floor? If we only tax wealth above $10m or $100m, it will literally never result
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by heylook 6y ago
I would happily trade away: - 1 whole semester of in-person instruction for all 56 million school-aged kids in the US In exchange for: - The cumulative remaining years of the 50k(?), 100k(?), possibly even more that will die directly from t
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by heylook 6y ago
> There is no right or wrong when it comes to reopening, only unpopular and even more unpopular and it all comes down to who you're trying to please. Which path forward "pleases" you the most? I can't believe this nee
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by heylook 6y ago
> These vapid online brawls have engaged millions more people to vote who never would have voted in the past. Voter turnout in presidential elections is the same as it has been for 50 years at least. Voter turnout in the most recent midt
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by heylook 7y ago
Looking at the menus, it seems like they're generally serving quite low-cost meals. I'm curious what the parameters of the cost-benefit would need to be for it to make economic sense. How many people would need to "cheat&quot
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by heylook 7y ago
No, you are making the straw man argument. The argument is not that the exact same people have been holding the exact same jobs with exactly the same pay the whole time. There's a reason you found it so simple to lampoon. That reason i
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by heylook 7y ago
That's like saying that we all need to accept that any and all whales will be harvested for whale oil to keep our lamps burning
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by heylook 7y ago
IMO the difference is a combination of two things: * the unprecedented targeting ability of social media ads vs traditional broadcast/print * the unprecedented amount of disinformation (especially from foreign governments) vs tradition
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by heylook 7y ago
Add me to the long, long, long, long list of people living a better life because of your tutorials. Thanks.
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by heylook 7y ago
Who cares? GP didn't say anything about "market" or "not-market". It's dumb that we're here. Full stop.
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by heylook 7y ago
What other species nurtures hordes of other brainless species to harvest for the antecedents of artificial pants?
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by heylook 8y ago
What?
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by heylook 9y ago
> it's hard to automate with AI I disagree. At least it shouldn't be that hard for a company with Twitter's level of engineering and data science sophistication, and yes, I do realize that most of their best technical tale
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by heylook 9y ago
> But no matter how wealthy someone is, they can always point to the more-rich and say those people are the problem and should be taxed, not themselves. This is obviously untrue. There isn't an infinite number of people wealthier th
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by heylook 9y ago
> We should tax money that sits idle and provide tax benefits to money invested >> You would force people to consume? That's a complete misreading of the comment
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by heylook 9y ago
Not to be a dick, but the above cited sources and you made assertions without anything pointing to anything to back them up. What reason do any of us have to put any stock in what you've written?
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by heylook 9y ago
> Bill Gates rented a yacht for $5M/week. How is this not a clear waste? Those $5M don't just get lit on fire. They transfer to some other set of people who can then decide what to do with it, and then onto some other set of pe
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by heylook 9y ago
What are some examples of such parameters?
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by heylook 9y ago
Are you arguing that individual SSNs are the primary driving force of the economic development of the last 200 years?
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by heylook 9y ago
Would you mind sharing your tips for setting this up? I've been considering doing something similar for a little while now but am unsure how to get started.

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