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by ksdale 7y ago
I understand how all that works, but the reality is that the number of transactions that actually involve a company giving someone shares in exchange for cash is vanishingly small compared to the total number of stock trades that happen. So
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by ksdale 7y ago
Both of these things can be true. Every transaction certainly provides us with information, but also, if two people trade based on competing beliefs about the price, one of them is wrong. As for it being a game, well, when dollars are used
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by ksdale 7y ago
I read recently about an Aboriginal tribe in Australia that managed to weather a once in 50 years level drought because there was one man in the tribe who was old enough to remember where they got water the last time there was a drought tha
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by ksdale 7y ago
Passing on useful knowledge, for example, concerning rare but catastrophic events could be an evolutionary reason for people to live far past child bearing age.
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by ksdale 7y ago
Yeah I can definitely see that. I may just be weird. A lot of people in the comments here are talking about not subvocalizing to read faster, and I have never really worked on doing that, but according to the couple possibly unreliable read
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by ksdale 7y ago
I think this is exactly the point of people having different reading speeds, though. What is uncomfortably fast for one person is normal speed for someone else, including considering all of the implications of each sentence they're rea
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by ksdale 7y ago
Even if it’s not a profit-maker, someone has to pay, and if someone isn’t paying the appropriate premium for their level of risk, someone else in the pool is bearing the cost.
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by ksdale 7y ago
That’s interesting! I’ve often remarked that it’s a giant competitive advantage for huge companies like Comcast to be able to net however many millions of dollars from billing “mistakes” that never get contested. On the one hand, I’m willin
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by ksdale 7y ago
It sounds like you've built yourself a wonderful life. I think people really underestimate the greatness of doing seemingly mundane things consistently. All the things you mentioned seem trivial to an outsider, but over the course of a
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by ksdale 7y ago
We’ve had 4 babies in 3 different hospitals and it seems like it is really dependent on the hospital and the nursing staff. We’ve had nurses that are younger and just following the playbook all the way to nurses that are much older with sev
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by ksdale 7y ago
I think this point has merit and it’s important for us to think of ourselves as part of the environment, but also, there are lots of other animals (like most of them?) that don’t care at all about the environment and the only reason they do
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by ksdale 7y ago
Haha it is rather ridiculous, but you can formalize big company decisions in a sort of company secretary’s binder. Honestly though, keeping the finances and contracts separate will basically always be enough to avoid personal liability. Bas
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by ksdale 7y ago
Being a single person LLC absolutely does gives you the legal advantages of an LLC, provided you maintain separation of personal and business, eg keeping business bank accounts and routing all income and expenses through them, keeping prope
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by ksdale 7y ago
I assume there's a very strong element of personal taste here. I agree that Coke Zero is way, way better than Diet Coke, but it's still weird compared to regular Coke, to my taste anyway. I'd rather not drink soda than drink
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by ksdale 7y ago
I have a soda maybe once a month, but I never drink diet soda because I think it tastes very bad compared to non-diet. Every variety of Coke that is not regular Coke leaves a weird aftertaste in my mouth (you know, distinct from the weird a
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by ksdale 7y ago
I think two issues are being mixed up here. I think you're completely right that we do have to spend time with people not of our choosing, and further, I think that it's a very valuable skill to be comfortable around basically eve
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by ksdale 7y ago
We had a very similar experience! My grandfather and his lady-friend came over to see our new house, remarked on how much space there was, and proceeded to spend the rest of the visit making little remarks about how to better separate the p
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by ksdale 7y ago
We just bought a house, it was recently renovated and basically all of the walls in the kitchen/dining/living rooms were removed, and it sat on the market for a long time compared to similarly priced houses in the area. Based on l
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by ksdale 7y ago
Good point!
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by ksdale 7y ago
Those were quite entertaining to read through! It really made me think that not all product placement is created equal. Sometimes there are products that don't serve a purpose just sitting somewhere really conspicuously, but something
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by ksdale 7y ago
I mean, should they? It seems like you're asking rhetorically, but in a world where society bears the cost of firefighting, it doesn't seem unreasonable to outlaw Christmas trees on pain of not fighting Christmas tree fires. Once
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by ksdale 7y ago
I think you're right that people aren't very good at weighing the risks, and that's a good argument for forcing people to pay into a healthcare system. I also just think it's important to acknowledge that we're expl
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by ksdale 7y ago
But even then, it's not immoral to talk about the very real tradeoffs involving the search and rescue personnel and resources that could be devoted to doing other things, and this indeed comes up when someone is doing something particu
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by ksdale 7y ago
I feel like these are two vastly different questions though, whether, on the one hand, society should let people who cannot afford healthcare die, and on the other hand, whether society should allow people to choose how their dollars are sp
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by ksdale 8y ago
I think that's very likely!
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by ksdale 8y ago
I played running back on my high school football team and based on my personal experience, I would say that on really good nights, when I achieved something that I would consider "flow state," it was closer to the information I ne
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by ksdale 8y ago
The admittedly rather silly way I've framed this in my own mind is to ask if it was ok for, say, people living in Rome during the fall of the Roman Empire to have kids, living as they were through the total collapse of their civilizati
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by ksdale 8y ago
I just spent the last month caring for my dying father. It was obvious from interactions with everyone, from friends and acquaintances to medical professionals, that people in the US are incredibly uncomfortable with the topic of death. Gra
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by ksdale 8y ago
Most death happens in hospitals and nursing homes, whereas it used to happen at home. Young people die far more rarely than they used to, and when they do, it’s usually in the hospital. And this doesn’t even consider that people in the past
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by ksdale 8y ago
Something that stuck with me from law school was that frequently when students raised the point that a law could be written far more simply, the professor would walk through the language they suggested and basically always the simplest form

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