kmkemp

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by kmkemp 8y ago
Saying that their compensation is higher than competitors in the sector says nothing about whether they will be paying out more total dollars after the changes than before.
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by kmkemp 8y ago
In fact, 55% of his shots last season were jumpshots, which he converted with a 47.2 eFG%. http://www.82games.com/1718/17CLE15.HTM
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by kmkemp 8y ago
What's interesting about this form of criticism is that his ability to do any basketball task is judged not by the ability that the median NBA player has at that task but against the bar he's set in other areas. His jumpshot isn&
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by kmkemp 8y ago
It's very common. Everyone realizes at some point in their career the simple, obvious truth: companies want to pay as little as they can to retain talent, which is obviously opposed to the employee's interest. They also don&#x27
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by kmkemp 8y ago
Well, one audience is obvious from your own sentence: people who are willing to pay to have the best performance currently possible.
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by kmkemp 8y ago
There are many issues that are in similar spots. The go to strategy to deal with those has been to either: (1) ignore it completely if it's not getting sufficient media coverage to cause outrage or (2) control the coverage by making i
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by kmkemp 8y ago
Of course, the parent could have also been very responsible. Maybe they were married with a nice income. Fast forward 10 years and their spouse has died or went to prison and they lost their nice job and now have to work multiple lower pa
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by kmkemp 8y ago
Kinda makes you wonder why they didn't build a way to detect when it had reached its target so that they could have the remnants on other machines removed.
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by kmkemp 8y ago
What? He is literally the person who appointed the guy who made this happen. While Trump is erratic, so no one can rule out a complete 180 at any moment, to say that is "to his credit" is ridiculous.
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by kmkemp 8y ago
Almost too obvious solution: do an initial phone chat to filter qualified candidates into a small pool and then pay your final round of candidates a nice rate to complete a take home project. Bonus points if you can make it something that
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by kmkemp 9y ago
Also, many cryptos' primary use case is a replacement for fiat that isn't centrally controlled. Saying that you shouldn't pay taxes on crypto to crypto is similar to saying that you shouldn't pay taxes at all.
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by kmkemp 9y ago
In the "invest in ETH" example, you're taking the appreciation of ETH into account, but in the case of mining crypto, you're ignoring it. Still, you're right in the overall point that just investing is more profita
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by kmkemp 10y ago
At what point should society decide that robots have provided sufficient work that people should have the choice to work or not? This is why Universal Basic Income needs to become a mainstream concept ASAP.
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by kmkemp 10y ago
And also, it was very easy for insurance companies to drop a few expensive procedures in the small print to maintain the same premiums. Then, when customers actually had to use their insurance, they get screwed.
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by kmkemp 10y ago
The creation of exchanges was so that insurance companies would have to compete in a market where customers had an apples to apples comparison tool. Theoretically, that should drive down rates in places where there are enough insurance com
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by kmkemp 10y ago
Well, maybe not any single person, but the chances that a community of people that share your opinion will contain at least one motivated individual willing to fork it are not too bad.
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by kmkemp 10y ago
I'd love to see what the average household pays for vehicles. If you don't think that money is high on the motivational list for people, you need only look at what happened the last time gas prices were $1/gallon higher than
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by kmkemp 10y ago
caveat: not a majority
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by kmkemp 10y ago
Seriously? He literally accused a judge of prejudice simply because of his Mexican heritage. No supporting evidence. He was not an illegal immigrant. He was born here. There is only one word for that: racism.
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by kmkemp 10y ago
UBI doesn't disincentivize work. If I told you that I would give you $10k/year unconditionally, would you quit your day job? What if you were currently unemployed, would you stop looking for a job? There is no reason to as my p
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by kmkemp 10y ago
My understanding is that externalized costs have nothing to do with a free market. Intervention is necessary in order to account for the externalized costs, which is an infringement on a free market. Are you saying that is incorrect?
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by kmkemp 10y ago
There are typically competing multi-nationals that have market share to gain by diminishing their competitors, so you can assume that there will be lobbies on both sides for legislation that interferes with the free market.
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by kmkemp 10y ago
Yes, you're right on that point. I suspect we would find that they are both large factors, though. Keep in mind that the statistics I showed actually undersell the prevalence since I compared the prison population to exonerations. Ex
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by kmkemp 10y ago
The entire point of my statistics is to show that there is judicial injustice based on race. I show the opposite of your assertion by comparing prison demographics to exoneration demographics. So either the Innocence Project is racially b
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by kmkemp 10y ago
I took at as them normalizing for a known risk factor. In other words, if white people are armed at a higher percentage than blacks, they wouldn't want that to skew the statistics.
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by kmkemp 10y ago
Thanks for the downvotes with no explanation. Did you know that blacks and hispanics make up about 59% of the prison population compared to 32% for non-hispanic whites (a ratio of 1.84), but yet the Innocence Project has exonerated (as of
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by kmkemp 10y ago
"From 1999-2011, 2,151 whites died as a result of being shot by police compared to just 1,130 blacks." That is meaningless without adjusting for population sizes. "In 2013 black criminals carried out 38% of murders, compare
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by kmkemp 10y ago
Assume that people are rational actors that will have no problem lying when their career and/or freedom are at risk. Especially if they aren't aware of any contradictory evidence.
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by kmkemp 10y ago
It's only rational if the damage to reputation and potential legal consequences are less than the savings. The more often stuff like this happens, the less clear that it becomes that using tax havens is a net positive for companies.
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by kmkemp 10y ago
Agreed. It doesn't make any sense to conclude that a good isn't overpriced when (1) the government has created ways to subsidize its cost (2) created a means by which it can be paid for with debt (3) as a society, kids have been

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