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by karzeem 11y ago
The correlation disappears (when comparing the 50 states, or all countries, or all OECD countries) when you look at all homicides, not just homicides by shooting. In other words, there is no correlation between guns per capita and overall h
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by karzeem 11y ago
I'd actually worry more about how efficiently the money is being used after it's been disbursed, not about how much government administrative costs eat up. E.g. that chart says that ~96% of Medicare spending went to beneficiaries.
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by karzeem 11y ago
Empirically, how well do you feel the US government spends its budget currently? There's often an assumption in these discussions that if a billionaire isn't spending their money in a socially optimal way, the government will spen
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by karzeem 11y ago
The difference I'd point to is that surgery as a system generally works. Fresh med school graduates get hired, train for a few years, and mostly become competent surgeons. Incompetent ones mostly get weeded out, or boxed into careers t
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by karzeem 11y ago
There's some cognitive dissonance between how people nod sagely at this vs. how they react when FAA rules force Flytenow to shut down. Note the commenters' largely gleeful reaction to that here: https://news.ycombinator
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by karzeem 11y ago
A large portion of the costs of building last-mile infrastructure come from regulations imposed by local governments. http://www.wired.com/2013/07/we-need-to-stop-focusing-on-jus...
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by karzeem 11y ago
A well-paid lawyer makes several hundred thousand dollars more per year than the comparison group they're referring to (which as you suggest, is probably deliberately defined to be low-earning). Those are tough jobs to get, especially
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by karzeem 11y ago
Opening the link in an incognito window also works.
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by karzeem 12y ago
"In health care, changes in the way we organize our work will most likely be the key to improvement. This means training students and physicians to focus on the patient despite the demands of the computers. It means creating new ways t
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by karzeem 12y ago
Why does the article blithely take it for granted that we should treat investments by rich foreigners suspiciously while investments by rich Americans are no problem? The big problem in New York real estate is lack of supply — the vacancy r
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High-Resolution Employment Contracts(kareemshaya.com)
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by karzeem 12y ago
This may be too Talebian a reaction, but isn't the track record of "take this-doesn't-occur-in-significant-quanities-in-food chemical and your health will improve" quite poor? Non-food chemicals are often very useful for
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by karzeem 12y ago
I think they'd do better to pitch it as a replacement for car UI in general. If it's executed well, it could be a safer replacement for behaviors like looking down at the A/C or radio controls.
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by karzeem 12y ago
Do you have a timestamp?
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by karzeem 12y ago
People always talk about the money, but specifics are tough to come by. What is the typical salary for a first-year I-banker? How about the median for the ones who make it to year five and year ten?
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by karzeem 13y ago
A book called Catastrophic Care came out recently. It's written by a guy named David Goldhill, who wrote a cover story for The Atlantic in 2009 on broken incentives in the healthcare industry that tend over time to push prices up and q
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by karzeem 13y ago
The negativity in this thread is a perfect exemplar of the say-anything-critical-to-look-smart, "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.", poisonous middlebrow dismissal that pg complains about. This is an amazingly light conv
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by karzeem 13y ago
Good questions, there are disagreements on those points even among libertarians. It's tough to name a single digestible reference because this is such a broad subject. But this one is pretty comprehensive: https://en.wikiped
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by karzeem 13y ago
The other responses to this would probably be agreeable to most "techno-libertarians", but I don't think they're quite correct as to how this natural right is derived. They don't actually posit a natural right to an
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by karzeem 15y ago
If seeing an applicant's Facebook profile is important to employers, then the market wage for an applicant who says "yes" is higher than that of an applicant who says "no". Based on that, allowing people to say "yes", even when they're doin
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by karzeem 15y ago
It's supposedly regulators driving this crackdown, but almost all the quotes in the article come from competitors to high-speed trading firms claiming — surprise — that high-speed trading firms need to be regulated.
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by karzeem 15y ago
"HP have" is British, "HP has" is American.
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by karzeem 15y ago
According to the "salary buying power" section, Silicon Valley's cost of living is 23% higher than that of NYC. Having lived in both, I'd be very surprised if that's not actually the wrong way around.
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by karzeem 15y ago
Unless spending also rises by 1-2% of GDP. http://reason.com/archives/2011/02/14/the-19-percent-solutio...
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by karzeem 15y ago
I've seen the same point made elsewhere, and the point isn't really that tax revenue stays constant as a % of GDP, it's that there seems to be a ceiling around 20%. The implication being that attempts to raise tax revenue greater than 20% o
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by karzeem 15y ago
I'd file this under Hanlon's razor. It would be very odd for the FBI to conduct a raid in a way that made everything they found inadmissible in court.
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by karzeem 15y ago
The ownership percentages listed on the site only sum to 72.669%, so there's a lot of stock not accounted for. I'd imagine that there are lots of relatively low-profile employees with 7-8 figure stakes of that dark 27.331%.
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by karzeem 15y ago
Yes. They can't compel you to give them the means to open it (e.g. tell them the combination), but you can be forced to open it for them.
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by karzeem 15y ago
That would probably be the best defense. If the destruction was carried out as part of a regularly scheduled program instead of as a specific response to law enforcement's demand for the data, you might be alright. Lots of companies automat
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by karzeem 15y ago
You don't need to provide the key, just access to the contents. Or they can break the lock. But an encrypted drive is like an unbreakable lock.

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