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by legitster 3mo ago
> She probably will not publish this result because she thinks it is not interesting enough. Classic file-drawer problem in academic science. It's truly insane that everyone in the academic class understands the fundamental problems
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I have a friend who works at Ubisoft. Even 10+ years ago, she clearly saw the writing on the wall - the massive developer/publisher consolidation was going terribly: - Every studio uses their own custom set of tools and development pra
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A lot of where they are getting water from right now is an ancient underground aquifer - there's not a lot of water there though, so the plan was it was a stopgap while the water recycling plan comes online. Although the aquifer water
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He quite often gets into problematic areas of many projects - see his series on Billionaires row in New York. There's just an exceeding amount of signal to noise ratio when it comes to big projects. Criticism of foreign projects comes
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I would argue a fast food kitchen (or any kitchen) is a factory. An incredibly efficient one at that. Things are made and assembled to order from intermediate components. We take it for granted the amount of labor that goes into our food.
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by legitster 4mo ago
In contrast, Nintendo's idea to sell physical games that are essentially transferrable keys seems like a much smarter compromise. Part of the appeal for the Switch and Switch 2 is the stability of their resale market. It's easier
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by legitster 4mo ago
Just to add to this, women make up 20% of the Army, but only account for 2% of ground combat units (even less during the period this data was taken). Women in the Army were disproportionately less likely to be at risk of combat. So the comp
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by legitster 4mo ago
In the long run, green energy and data centers are ultimately going to be complimentary. One of the biggest problems with investing in a renewable grid is curtailment and managing demand or production spikes. In California, they already hav
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by legitster 4mo ago
Fair, but the year over year growth of labor productivity has been really consistent, as has consumer prices: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=tjto So in terms of how much consumers are making in relation to their
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I agree with all those things, but if we start making up numbers and definitions we're at risk of undoing actual progress. Maybe it feels good to say "actually everyone is a victim of capitalism", but it muddies real necessar
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The Fed tracks this: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=tjto Unit cost on labor has increased at a more or less steady pace this whole time. Ergo, it's not so much that labor is decreasing as other things are in
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by legitster 4mo ago
"Abject poverty" is currently defined as living on less that $3 a day and dealing with things like chronic hunger and exposure. The best approximation would be the homeless population in the US (about 500k people), but even then m
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by legitster 4mo ago
People are misreading the conclusion - the Covid related drop is normal and matches previous episodes, but the massive overall drop since 2000 is not. The situation on the ground is unchanged - the amount of labor being generated per person
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The data here would already include healthcare contributions.
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by legitster 4mo ago
2 things: - this article is out of date. The market has changed a lot since the AI boom. - That's a 10%ish of all housing in the city. Right now, of available units SF has one of the smallest vacancy rates in the country right now.
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by legitster 4mo ago
It's kind of insane that you look at a city like San Francisco that's on a tiny bit of land in a desirable location and they absolutely refuse to build up. I get that their Victorian houses are pretty, but they're only about
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by legitster 4mo ago
We've seen this happen already once with the recovery of palimpsests. Outside of a few lucky discoveries, the vast majority of what monks were discarding were things that were not seen as useful - outdated (to them) legal texts, liturg
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*Some scrolls. They are in a variety of conditions - some of them people were able to "break" open and read. But the vast majority of what remains is too delicate and brittle to risk.
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Your location on the graph is a measure of the cohesiveness of your overall policy preferences, not necessarily the zealousness or character of the person who holds the position. Technically Trump is anti-gun and Sanders is pro-gun. That&#x
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Kinda, if you're the oil industry you are allowed to invest in Venezuela. But in a deep irony it seems like the oil industry is mostly uninterested. I kinda wonder if the White House has just forgotten about Venezuela - there's no
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Venezuela had one of the largest government sectors compared to their GDP. Their solution to every economic problem was create lots of government busywork jobs funded by oil exports and loans. Their crude is really only valuable to a handfu
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It's really absurd how well the Maduros kidnapping plan worked. Without even changing the party in power, Trump can pretend Venezuela is reformed and do all of the economic normalization a liberal president never would have gotten away
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Maybe if you squint a little. Once a workplace is unionized in the US, members have no real say or transparency to the union negotiation process. The union reps do not even have to work at the facility (in many larger unions, they are profe
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> The classic example is unions are going for terms that screw over junior members but there are other perverse examples.' The story I always think of is the Port of Portland shutting down was because the ILWU organized a $20 millio
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Depends on the country. In a lot of countries, it's not much different than choosing a pension fund option. You join a job, you choose which union best represents you based on your industry/title/etc (if you are not already a
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This is a good bet, particularly this: > Catch email addresses that have turned into honey pots > Make smart decisions on who you should and shouldn’t send to using our risk score Identifying honeypots is tricky business. Sending some
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Anytime this comes up, it's worth pointing out how deeply weird US unionization is compared to the broader world. There is now a union ... just for Wizards of the Coast employees. UWOTC-CWA now has a monopoly on negotiating for WotC em
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I just did a signup on a brand new email address and was not able to recreate. No random spam emails reported. Just a normal verification email. It's likely that the email the author received is pure coincidence. Especially if they are
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I think the difference is that increasing protein intake does offset other worse eating habits. So it's not that you need the protein, but there's a small probability that it replaces calories from refined carbohydrates.
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>'The Protein fad is basically an eating disorder for men' This is such a bad take. The current protein fad isn't being driven by men. Bros have been hyping protein and keto for over a decade. The current "put protein

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