jessedhillon

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by jessedhillon 6y ago
Is it my imagination, or has people's ability to detect and understand sarcasm just fallen off a cliff over the past 1-2 years?
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Very cool! How are you acquiring users and marketing the service?
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
Certainly, a quick search can show you that the overwhelming majority of video views occur on a small number of platforms, and that you are an outlier. If I am someone who has a message to share, far and away the most effective place to sha
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
Anyone making this point needs to explain why I'm supposed to accept their de jure interpretation of the situation, when de facto , large platforms monopolize distribution. Simply saying "private company" is so lazy, it&#x
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
This the finest special pleading, and exemplifies exactly what I'm talking about. It's fine for you to insist on this very narrow and technical view of the situation, but that's absolutely not how the case was presented in th
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
If and whether anyone impeded the investigation is beyond the point -- there is nothing in the Mueller report about, - money laundering through Deutsche Bank - quid pro quo for a Moscow tower development - secret mail servers - Trump as a &
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
And yet no indictments for anything resembling collusion, i.e. coordination between the Trump campaign and foreign actors. The fact is that liberals and the media subjected us all to 2+ years of peepants reporting, telling us that all of th
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
Great story. While it lived with you, did it express any opinion about quartz sphinxs?
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
Well what they do is move people from the 96th to the 98th percentile without a meaningful increase in skill or attitude. The bigger issue is that schools have their heads up their asses when they insist on only selecting from the 99th perc
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
My claim is that "people have student debt" is not one of societies issues. That some people have debt may be, but the question there is, who these people are and whether their educations are performing for them, not simply that
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
Those people are right. The data does not support the idea that student debt should be a top priority for anyone trying to maximize the impact of raining dollars onto the public. I'm presenting data not for the purpose of showing that
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
God forbid that the rich be asked to pay anything at all for this incredible and unnecessary gift the people give them? What would make more sense would be targeted debt relief indexed on familial wealth, student earnings, and the ins
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
hyperbole notwithstanding, the greatest share of the debt is owed by the minority who has the greatest ability to pay. That's the salient point. The lower earning majority has lower debt on a per-capita and aggregated basis. This is c
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
This analysis breaks out share of debt by family income and student earning quintiles: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2019/06/28/who-owes-... Their sources are also linked from that post. G
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
That idea needs a bit more baking IMO. It seems obvious to me that the immediate consequence of this would be that we'd be rewarding trivial but widely used packages like left-pad[0], and thereby incentivizing the creation of a hundred
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
Postgres supports JOIN USING. If your keys are named the same in both tables, say `user_id` then you can simply say SELECT * FROM parent JOIN child USING (user_id) I personally think naming your primary keys with their full name
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
> Why should a man in wyoming's opinion on what federal laws I should live under count 70x as much as mine? Because ideally, that distribution will give you pause when considering vesting power into the federal government.
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
You've assumed that everyone agreed at some point on majoritarianism, which never happened.
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
Your (implied) counterproposal is not neutral either: you are suggesting that rurals and suburbans should be ruled by young type-As who are willing to pack themselves into tiny, overpriced apartments and make their careers a top priority we
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
Thanks for sharing this. What I see on page 14 is a map of the same data I shared. It shows that there's a small number of net producer states, and a larger number of net takers. If you look at page 17, you'll see that most state
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
I'm taking a look here (visualization is crummy, but there's a list below) https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/donor-state... There are only ten donor states in 2019: - Connecticut (- $4,00
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
This detail addresses none of the questions raised in the post. Either escaping these ten fetters confers a detachment from the world such that one no longer needs to change it, or one wants to share this state with the world and then has t
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
Google Assistant really wow'ed me when, to settle a dinner table debate, I asked "Ok Google, on the TV show 'Friends', what was the name of the game show Joey hosted?" Before that, I'd never engaged with this d
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
I wish they were more common here. I haven't had much problem getting the lever nuts, but the junction boxes [0] seem really hard to find. The few Amazon sellers I've ordered from all ship them from Europe. [0] https://
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
They're also using Wago 222[0] style lever nuts, which are not common in the US. In my experience, US electricians use twist-style wire caps instead to create junctions. [0] https://www.wago.com/us/wire-splicing-co
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
I think you'll find that most, if not all, human conversations are embedded in a context, which carries assumptions, so that participants can understand each other without iterating all of their definitions. That's why, for exampl
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
The argument is not "Marx therefore bad," it's that this is a useless observation. You've selected axioms that necessitate your conclusion. It's like me saying "the most moral thing anyone can do is preventing
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
So your assertion is that unless a person has all of their basic needs met, they are providing labor compulsorily? If we're just starting from Marxist axioms, whereby all relations between classes are best understood as power struggles
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
You're right, we'll make it completely voluntary for the transportation providers to participate.
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by jessedhillon 6y ago
If only there could be an efficient method for connecting those who need to travel with those who can provide them with transportation.

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