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by jgeada 3y ago
Skepticism by the unqualified is just denial of expertise. Whatever Mr Silver's qualification on statistics, it does not render him any sort of expert on contagious pathology nor on coronaviruses in general. Skepticism is warranted whe
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by jgeada 3y ago
Expelling difficult kids has the nice property of aligning those parent's interests with everyone else's. If you have a difficult kid, right now if you don't handle the problem it becomes everyone else's problem but you&
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by jgeada 3y ago
But it is much more everyone else's than theirs. Everyone, individuals and businesses, pays into the pot, whether they have kids in the school or not. Individual parent's taxes are a minority fraction of the actual cost of running
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by jgeada 3y ago
It isn't the parent's money! Everyone in my area pays local taxes, whether they are parents or not, including businesses; the bulk of these local taxes are allocated to fund schools. Most of us don't want our taxes going to c
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by jgeada 3y ago
Tragedy of the commons. There is no stigma to being a parasite so that’s what people do, with justifications as above. Just because it isn’t legally required doesn’t mean it is ethical to not do it.
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by jgeada 3y ago
Shouldn’t that imply that if your project can have such accidents then it shouldn’t be built? Why are we allowing some entity to profit from the upside and lumber us all with the downside costs?
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by jgeada 3y ago
Seriously, a loglog plot? Even in that, there is a seriously wide dispersion to your correlation. And then look at the same data on a linear plot.
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by jgeada 3y ago
Every flat map projection distorts something, so every projection has to optimize some parameter and trade off other utility. I'm constantly amazed at how hung up people are on apparent size of countries. If size is your thing, use som
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by jgeada 3y ago
Given that my employer makes more money from me than they pay me in salary, that carrot is for them, not me.
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by jgeada 3y ago
Odd, if a worker had stolen that much money from the business they’d likely be looking at jail time, not just being asked to pay it back.
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by jgeada 3y ago
That's facile and ignores that VC is supposed to be a vetting gatekeeper: the reason they keep a fraction of all the money going through their accounts is because they're supposedly vetting the investment opportunities and have mo
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by jgeada 3y ago
But there is so much money to be made on the heroic measures front! Estimates range from 12% to 25% of lifetime healthcare expenses are accrued on the last year of life [eg https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Sy
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by jgeada 3y ago
I know it is the standard nomenclature, but I object to it being called string theory , as it is at best a hypothesis, if not even just philosophical speculation with more math. It can make no predictions, it is not falsifiable, it meets n
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by jgeada 3y ago
I think if we forced companies to count commuting time as work time, up to say 1hr each way, the problem would soon resolve itself. Right now there is no alignment of interests to ensure commutes are easier and faster for everyone, it is al
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by jgeada 3y ago
Estimating a project that doesn't have detailed scope and specifications is a bit like asking "how long is a piece of string". Asking for an estimate before knowing what it is you are building is canonical MBA widget producti
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by jgeada 3y ago
Basically rent seeking behavior, expecting perpetual payment for work completed in the past (aka passive income) Why stop at paintings, what renders a painting more deserving of payments in perpetuity for the author over, say a chair or som
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by jgeada 3y ago
Haven't you also just described Economics? (I frequently describe economics as soothsayers for the rich, telling them what they want to hear, but dressed up in technicallese and mathematics to make it appear as hard science, when it is
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by jgeada 3y ago
You can't make it costly enough to the corporation without incurring undue collateral damage to a whole lot of people that had nothing to do with it. The point of is to focus the cost onto the actual decision makers responsible for the
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by jgeada 3y ago
NOTE: you missed the qualifying word "illegal" in my proposal. You can continue to take all legal risks just the same as before, but all shielding disappears if/when you commit to doing illegal activities. Hold CEOs and board
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by jgeada 3y ago
Government, in a democracy, is supposed to represent the choices of the people. They serve us. If they're not serving you, you are voting wrong. If you vote for corrupt imbeciles because their sound bites align with some of your narrow
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by jgeada 3y ago
The idea would be not to punish the corporation itself (a nebulous concept in any case), but to punish the decision makers that made the decision to pursue illegal profits. Fire the executives and the board, as they're the ultimate dec
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by jgeada 3y ago
Shouldn't the same logic then apply to people? Yeah, figured as much. If you can ruin a person's entire life over a "mistake", you can definitely do the same to a company, or even better, to the decision makers at that c
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by jgeada 4y ago
Yes, this! What would be helpful is if formal methods were powerful enough to be able to prove contracts and assertions about expectations and invariants; however, all formal systems I've experienced are not powerful enough to do this
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by jgeada 4y ago
If I had complete enough specifications for any interesting program that formal methods would be interesting, I think I would just be easier to hit compile on that spec. Yes, there are a subset of interesting bugs related to edge cases, but
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by jgeada 4y ago
There is a reason university administrative overhead has exploded over the past few decades: MBAs have found yet another vein of money to parasite themselves onto. I think this country will only start to get better when 90% of this manageme
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by jgeada 4y ago
Unfortunate that the man in this analogy is Hannibal Lecter (Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal is a violent psychopathic cannibal in that movie), and should be stopped from getting his meal. Insurance companies are a problem, and they've
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by jgeada 4y ago
And then paid himself handsomely by golfing every possible opportunity at his own resorts. Save me the theatrics on salary.
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by jgeada 4y ago
With the amount of absolute financial power they wield and the privileged access to levers of government that they do have, I remain skeptical that they'd be unable to cause taxes to be raised if that's what they really wanted. Bu
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by jgeada 4y ago
Make it N logicians, have the same structure: (N-1) x I don't know, one Yes!! And pick N so it is not 3 (which is the common version on the internets). If it can explain that version, then it is going somewhere. I tried it with 5 and t
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by jgeada 4y ago
Bring back Glass Steagall and stop all this madness. Regular banking should be boring, not all that profitable and separated from speculation.

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