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by hogFeast 5y ago
It isn't a law against journalists or against everyone. Nothing new is being introduced, all that is happening is that rules against disclosure of confidential documents are being hardened...but these rules already exist today. Also, I
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I don't believe that is what she said. You are making the point that I say should be avoided: you believe she said one thing, so that must make her an X, and Xs are dangerous...you have no idea. And if someone is discriminating against
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by hogFeast 5y ago
I am not talking about protected classes (a concept which only exists in the US, and therefore isn't useful generally). The point is about discrimination, which will occur irregardless of what laws you pass.
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Yes, that is my point. This is just another way for people to discriminate against people who aren't "on their team". It is why civil organizations, like the Freemasons, don't allow people to talk about politics or relig
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by hogFeast 5y ago
There is a lack of funding for enforcement. Where I am, the AirBnB market is huge, has led to unprecedented house price growth, and there were already rules requiring short-stay properties to be licensed...85% of properties on AirBnb aren&#
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by hogFeast 5y ago
But we aren't talking about necrophilia. It is about people who may work in an environment that is 95% Democrat being attacked as racists or whatever because they have a different political view. The issue isn't exactly about fre
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by hogFeast 5y ago
Companies are already doing this. IR consultants have, allegedly, been advising exec teams to use/not use certain words based on their impact on AI models. It is inevitable. SEC filings are somewhat more robust because they are a stand
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by hogFeast 5y ago
It depends what you mean by effective. The requirements for public transport are far larger, and the region does get ludicrously lavished with funds for public transport (the recent expansions actually cost more than supplying the whole cou
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by hogFeast 5y ago
The £ is trading at roughly the level where it was pre-Brexit.
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"crisis" in UK terms...London is moderately expensive in international terms but has come down significantly over the past ten years as price growth levelled off, Bristol is rising but still pretty cheap (and it is rising because
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by hogFeast 5y ago
Yes. Almost. But the point is explicitly not that the issue is short-termism. I am not going to go over everything again, but the issue is not solved (as everyone today thinks) by bailing people in. Look at Tesla's exec package: Elon&#
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by hogFeast 5y ago
Right, that is the confusion that I was trying to highlight (although the general point about greater efficiency is quite correct). With a product like Netflix, is that the result of greater productivity? Did Netflix invent some kind of new
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by hogFeast 5y ago
I used to work as an equity analyst, so have come at this problem from totally the other end. The number one problem, that I have seen no-one talk about, are certain incentives from the market (not short-termism, if someone says that they d
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by hogFeast 5y ago
One thing that people underestimate with Malthusian thinking is that we live in a dynamic system. The amount of oil that is "out there" is connected to the oil price. Sometimes that supply effect of higher prices is limited (we ar
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by hogFeast 5y ago
I think this article is fairly ungenerous to children (whether adult or not). When you are a child, parents look after you. But there is an obligation that goes the other way too: parents expect you to do X or Y, parents (in some cases) exp
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by hogFeast 5y ago
I wasn't convinced they could teach either. It is like being taught cycling by someone who not only hasn't cycled, they haven't even seen a bike. Being able to do, and being able to teach aren't separate. I got value bec
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by hogFeast 5y ago
Thinking critically is not an enlightening process, it is a thing that helps you make money. Being able to understand information, balance it appropriately, and then make decisions is a major shortage within most institutions. As an example
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by hogFeast 5y ago
I studied a social science (economic history) with the suspicion (I am can't recall why) that a lot of people in universities who do more vocational subjects are there because they can't actually make money using those skills (so
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by hogFeast 5y ago
Most of the ideas within Theology are ideas that went on to become known as Philosophy (for proof: Christian theology came after Philosophy but Aristotle was regarded as the authority on basically everything for pre-Reformation theologians,
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by hogFeast 5y ago
It also entrenches inequality. Design a system that assumes everyone is rich, poor people can never rise. As someone not from the US, this aspect of the US has always amazed me. There is huge regulation on business at the state-level, parti
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by hogFeast 5y ago
Your boss should have less flexibility not more. Too many people pretending to lead. Too many people in executive positions. Not enough actual leaders. If Google loses this guy, tomorrow...whatever, he is just an employee, he is a cog. If a
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by hogFeast 5y ago
The reason why it is called "cliodynamics" is because Turchin isn't the first person to have considered this topic. The term "cliodynamics" comes from "cliometrics" (after the Greek god of history, Clio),
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by hogFeast 5y ago
Yes, after their executive team left. And why did you expect to hear about it? Do you work in financial services? Most of these stories don't appear in newspapers because the public isn't that interested in the implementation of f
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by hogFeast 5y ago
Correct. And they are now lobbying aggressively for the ringfence to be removed again (their investment bank is not regarded as economically sustainable as an independent operation).
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Right, there are a few problems with this. One, banks do not have a responsibility to prevent payments going into institutions conducting unregulated activities. There are, literally, hundreds of these institutions doing business in the UK
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The same bank that told regulators to do one when the UK introduced ringfencing (splitting investment from retail banks). I remember there was a story in a paper that someone from the BoE went to talk to management, the BoE told them that P
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by hogFeast 5y ago
Either the person who bought the policy wants to sell or the insurer who wrote the policy wants to sell. The person selling wants cash today, and the person buying wants cash tomorrow. Same as anything else. EDIT: I will add, there is a lot
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by hogFeast 5y ago
No. It isn't. The reason why a lot of hedge funds are scooping these shares up is precisely because of the environmental lobby. The environmental lobby thinks purely in first order: I am a good person, I will save the environment, I a
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by hogFeast 5y ago
That hiring process, all that LeetCode, and they still couldn't work how to create a system that worked. Tragic.
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In London, they used shipping container homes to house homeless people on unused local government-owned land. Pretty much instantly stories were in the media about how the conditions were "inhuman" (bizarrely, from people who had

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