jackcosgrove

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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
I'm still waiting for the Al Franken-Jill Stein dream team to take the stage.
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An insider-outsider dynamic, with educated people in the northeastern cities usually playing the role of insiders regardless of the party system. It's not an issue, but it is an electoral dynamic that affected a lot of issues. This mi
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I think transhumanism will happen along an unanticipated path. The image of immortal humans with brain computer interfaces seems like it won't happen, to me. Rather, as we are witnessing now with advances in AI far outpacing advances i
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Also, it seems like promising (a real promise that can be backed up) researchers a comfortable upper middle class income, job security, good benefits, and light-touch supervision is a good match for the type of person who excels at basic re
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Agreed on the public-private nature of Bell Labs. I would also ask how we could recreate another exemplar in that space, DARPA. Now of course DARPA is alive and kicking, but what about another DARPA, say in Europe? The two organizations did
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As I said, it's one factor. You can search for "construction industry labor shortage" and find lots of articles. This one has an overview from an econ perspective https://www.econlib.org/archives/2017&#x2
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I find discussions of economic desert rarely get anywhere since everyone has a different idea of what is deserved. I like to talk about incentives. We have a massive under supply of housing across the developed world, in part because so muc
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I had an active manager reach out to me with exactly this strategy. I didn't look at the fees or rebalancing schedule super closely, because I didn't want to invest with the guy, but IMO his market-beating claims were due to incre
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> American economy always invents a way to grow There are various macroeconomic models which attempt to explain the factors of growth, for example the Solow growth model. In this model technological advancement is only one of three facto
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There's a curmudgeon strain in this essay that reminds me a lot of all the criticisms of television when it became popular. Oh wait :\
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Thanks for this. To my untrained eye, I had always considered Secession style to be "rectilinear art nouveau". I know there's more to it, but that paragraph in the article talking about the differences between art nouveau&#x2
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> The amount of work to be done is not finite. That's only true because expectations rise. It's the old economics problem definition of finite supply and infinite demand, which may be true for a lot of people but not all. It is
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You took a low-reward, low-risk path. There will always be a need for web application plumbers, and the work will never be glamorous. But it will be there. The flip side to a high-reward path is high risk. ML Ops is cool now, but ten years
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The FDA allows drugs declared in shortage to be mixed, with slight alterations, by compounding pharmacies. https://www.fda.gov/drugs/human-drug-compounding/drug-compou... > One of the conditions of section 503A
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And if it really is a cure for obesity and alcoholism, we'll all be better off for it.
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When there are drug shortages, you can have a compounding pharmacy mix up proprietary drugs. I'm not endorsing this in any way, that's between you and your doctor, but bringing it up in case you didn't know of it.
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> I think the way to continued prosperity are the old principles: Free Markets, Liberal governance, Property Rights, Fighting corruption, and Ensuring robust multilevel competition in the marketplace. Don't forget accepting immigran
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In the northern hemisphere the prevailing winds come from the west, which is why west coasts are more moderate than east coasts. Winds coming from the ocean are more moderate than winds coming from the interior of a continent. This is why N
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
The exterior of the Baha'i temple in Wilmette is beautiful but the interior is very plain. I'm not sure if this is intentional and reflective of some tenet of the faith.
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South Korea built a new capital but most everyone there still tries to live in Seoul. There are very affordable cities in upstate New York within a few hours of New York City that are still losing population. This concentration in winner ci
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> To raise housing affordability, we have to lower prices, or at least get price increases consistently below the rate of inflation. I'll pick door number two, Monty. Not because that's what I actually want, but because I'
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Population density is absolutely the driver of all of this. It increases competition, decreases personal space, and limits access to nature. Humans are social animals, but we aren't ants. We're not supposed to live in concrete jun
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Freedom does not necessarily mean a lack of responsibilities. For someone who starts their own company I imagine it means not having a boss.
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Infant and child mortality was very high. Empirically the high birth rate did not always lead to overpopulation - overpopulation waxed and waned despite the persistently high birth rate. The sci-fi dystopias about overpopulation never reall
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The question is if the complex society we have built actually requires growth to maintain it. In other words, our society requires 0.6 lives of work rather than 0.5. If this is the case, even a steady state would mean a lowered standard of
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The distinction between the two scenarios is the original, theoretical scenario did not foresee the negative feedback loops that actually occurred. It's a pretty glaring miss when you're trying to make predictions. This is why I w
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> ‘Inflammable’ means flammable? What a country! -Dr Nick
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Nation's Girlfriends Unveil New Economic Plan: "Let's move in together" https://youtu.be/7ADncN9HIa4
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An implicit assumption of the American political order is that a body that makes policy also has the ability to unmake that policy. I think that's good because otherwise there would be a land rush to create policies that are irreversib
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How much did a cabaret license cost?

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