justaguyonline

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by justaguyonline 9y ago
Do you have any idea what the career/educational path of your editor was like? While it's not a career I've ever thought of having, I've lately realized that at even a portion of that level of skill is a powerful thing t
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by justaguyonline 9y ago
I've thought for a while now that the design of the internet may have been fundamentally sabotaged by that fact that it was primarily created by government funded academics. In that scenario, there wasn't any need to attach a pric
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by justaguyonline 9y ago
With the level of outsourcing and specialization that has gone on, most car manufacturers are evidently not really car manufacturers anymore, but actually internal combustion engine manufacturers and assembly line operators. They just pay o
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by justaguyonline 9y ago
That safety question is where my interest lies, because it seems completely at odds with the narrative the UAW is pushing. If the safety rate is truely higher in the Tesla factory and the compensation workers receive is equal to what auto w
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by justaguyonline 9y ago
Both points are actually covered in the book, if I recall correctly. Kahneman writes something along the lines of Tversky or him remarking to the other that they were "just re-discovering things that their grandmother used to tell them
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by justaguyonline 9y ago
A fascinating story that manages to make up for an abomination of a website. I found the comparisons between then the social networks of Latitude and digital social networks the most interesting. The failure of Latitude seems to be in (of c
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by justaguyonline 9y ago
It really was a great read. Most importantly to me, I got a lot of insight into American society by reading a bit about French society and politics. It's things like this that make me wish I knew another language so I could peer across
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Inside the Hotel Industry’s Plan to Combat Airbnb(nytimes.com)
3 points by justaguyonline 10y ago|0 comments
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by justaguyonline 10y ago
Seeing this written here was pretty hilarious to me, I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but one of the central parts of the TPP was exactly the point you're making: To expand tighter labor and environmental laws into place
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by justaguyonline 10y ago
"Wait it's not an Opinion piece? But it has a huge picture of the author on the front?" I had to go back and check again after my initial skim and yep, they seems to calling this "investigative journalism." British
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by justaguyonline 10y ago
Just out of curiousity, if that was basically the "initial plan" for Yucca mountain, what did the plan eventually become?
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by justaguyonline 10y ago
I understand what you're saying and agree about Fox and WSJ, but the fact is for years all major media corporations gave airtime to "opposing arguments" made by Think Tank talking heads on global warming despite the universal
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by justaguyonline 10y ago
Or maybe, "The Truth About the Media's Persistent Vulnerability to Convenient Misinformation" I mean: We're still dealing with climate change denialism after years of the media allowing false equivalence to obscure the o
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by justaguyonline 10y ago
Not really, I get a lot of my in depth SpaceX info and analysis from r/spacex (which is a pretty great little community, and one of the best places to track behind the scenes SpaceX stuff) and all I've picked up from there is &quo
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by justaguyonline 10y ago
New jobs are created when you create more demand by dropping prices, or build new markets for products that didn't have the opportunity to exist before because of cost. Capitalism isn't a zero sum game. For example, reduced launch
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by justaguyonline 10y ago
Everytime I read news like this it just furthers the impression in my mind that Congress's SLS (and that rocket program is truly owned by Congress, not NASA) is an incredible waste of money that makes your average military recruitment
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by justaguyonline 10y ago
Compared to things like lithium-ion batteries or even the lead used in lead-acid batteries, I bet it's dirt cheap. I'd say it's the manufacturing costs that will be the unanswered question.
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by justaguyonline 10y ago
I'm not sure if you're referencing the paper or not, but its conclusion lead me to a similar idea. The author points out that previously, higher education was mostly reserved for the elites of society and that its increasing preva
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by justaguyonline 10y ago
Beautiful, I loved the "value" aspect of it, but I found the simple, but good game design the best part. A lot of people know to have a chime play when you pick up an "apple" in games for pavlovian reasons, but fewer wou
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by justaguyonline 10y ago
Nope, it took me a while before I realized I wasn't just stupid and that that graphs were completely unrelated too. Here's a link to a version that seems to have the correct graphs: http://sci-hub.cc/10.1080/0
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by justaguyonline 10y ago
Found this document referenced in an article [1] I read about trust in American institutions. I usually skim these things but I was so surprised to hear that America's dropping trust in institutions is shared internationally that I end
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The Social Transformation of Trust in Government (2005) [pdf](unpan1.un.org)
36 points by justaguyonline 10y ago|12 comments
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by justaguyonline 10y ago
Oh, God. I'm pretty much dying here from reading this. Some of it feels too true, but the best is just too witty not to laugh at. I'm not sure if it's intentional, but it's raising questions once again in me about how us
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by justaguyonline 10y ago
I can emphatically say that the post in question was not deleted. I don't know why you would think that since you can visit the live post in question via the wayback machine link you posted. The mention of Eglin Air Force Base is prese
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by justaguyonline 10y ago
I feel like there's a burden of proof that you're putting on Elon Musk that you're not also putting on Morgan here. All we have is his personal testimony without any other evidence either.
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by justaguyonline 10y ago
Man, your reply is just exactly one of the reasons I almost never post online like this and just lurk. Not only did you ignore the point of the post you replied to ("lets talk about the article and criticize those ideas in context&quot