kansface

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by kansface 8y ago
> Is there a shortcut? A much, much deeper understanding of how humans work.
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by kansface 8y ago
Perhaps 75% of Americans do believe the wealthy should pay more taxes (why not!), but what if we instead asked exactly how much the highest marginal rate should be? I'd guess 30-50% of answers would actually be below the current rate
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by kansface 8y ago
> They probably don't have the concept of unicorns. What would happen to your epistemology if every alien civilization has unicorns but some lack π?
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by kansface 8y ago
This is not a zero sum game.
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by kansface 8y ago
The problem with building anything in California is that literally anyone can indefinitely stop any construction for practically nothing. There are probably housing construction projects in SF old enough to vote. We can't build hous
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by kansface 8y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I read some time ago that there is no plausible path to send a rail into SF.
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by kansface 8y ago
Not in California, which at least partially explains why SV is not somewhere else.
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by kansface 8y ago
> This helped me understand that genuine empathy is irrelevant. All that matters to convincing people is that they feel empathized with. You have proposed an Emotional Turing Test! The price for failure looks high!
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by kansface 8y ago
> seeing the dissolving of myths across the board I believe you are incorrect - we are replacing the old with the new.
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by kansface 8y ago
> Is it inevitable? How would you change the incentives? The incentive for a restaurant to leave a fake review is much higher than the incentive for a customer to leave any review. For crowd sourced reviews, introducing a trust model o
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by kansface 8y ago
The capture of rating agencies by the entities they would rate seems to be common if not inevitable given the incentives - the companies being rated have a strong financial incentive to fix their ratings while at the same time, the consumer
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by kansface 8y ago
Just like science - run the experiment until you get the right results to publish!
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by kansface 8y ago
Hooks are an attempt to reuse stateful logic . This is a problem that React never solved well moving from mixins, to higher order components, to children as render functions, and finally to hooks (maybe!). Ideally, hooks would also fully
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by kansface 8y ago
Sure, but they are not imminent (what is the pearl harbor of climate change?). Further, climate change is highly politicized whereas WWII mobilized the entire country in purpose.
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by kansface 8y ago
> income tax rates under Eisenhower were as high as 90 percent. Climate change is not WWII.
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by kansface 8y ago
> What would you say of a hypothetical claim that was ideally translated to all languages that everyone, when asked, unforced, agreed that it was an accurate description of their subjective experience? We don't actually learn anythi
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by kansface 8y ago
> When it’s not gamed, do other HNers also feel that a high comment:code ratio probably indicates quality? Just the opposite. It typically indicates a history of rigorously documenting terrible code. Sometimes, comments come from compl
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by kansface 8y ago
Much of the existing bureaucracy in SF is purposefully byzantine in response to the urban renewal of the 50s and 60s which saw the "redevelopment" of the Western Addition, Fillmore, Japan Town, and the construction of the intersta
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by kansface 8y ago
> I think this is why we need to legalize drugs Drugs are already completely legal for the underclass - basically, any and all petty crimes are. Our judges dismiss the citations (~65K in one case!), our juries acquit them, our DA refuse
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by kansface 8y ago
> I think it's funny that you mention $50/hr for delivering papers as if we should be aghast at the mere thought. $50/hr for delivering papers would most likely cause the prompt and total collapse of the local economy. If
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by kansface 8y ago
> In western societies, no job should pay less than a living wage... Pay is determined chiefly by supply and demand in the labor market. Jobs that are more fun pay less because the supply of workers is higher. Fairness is literally
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by kansface 8y ago
They could charge $1, no?
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by kansface 8y ago
The title is useful job hunting.
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by kansface 8y ago
The government doesn't give every 18-year-old an unlimited line of credit to buy hamburgers, either :P
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by kansface 8y ago
> The free market does not work in all situations. Sure, but you did not enumerate a single free market. I'd wager the US healthcare industry is far and away the most regulated market in the entire world. We know that regulation p
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by kansface 8y ago
> It would spit out react code that you'd otherwise have to write -- or that you'd have to write a metacomponent for. Do you know if anyone is actually doing this? edit: As it turns out, https://github.com/faceb
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by kansface 8y ago
Sure, but only one of the two options is available to the people who are actually making the decision.
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by kansface 8y ago
I'd guess this is probably only possible at a cash flush company where the devs personally use the product and fully understand the cost/benefit trade offs. Also, those sorts of meetings aren't for the sole benefit of the en
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by kansface 8y ago
> But at the same time shutting out the poor from college unless they're also straight-A students and somehow magically come from an area with good schools despite being poor... Is this better or worse than the credential treadmill
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by kansface 8y ago
Women may get pregnant more, but iirc men have higher mortality rates at all stages of life - I'd also guess way more accidents from risky behavior work related or otherwise. Women also earn less money, and most consumer price discrim

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