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by leot 15y ago
Is it really so hard for you to imagine prisoners dilemmas and tragedies of the commons? I'm willing to pay $1 for a public good if everyone else pays $1. But it is utterly irrational for me to pay voluntarily for this public good, for at l
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by leot 15y ago
No, you are cherry picking by using as your example a stadium that isn't managed well. There is no moral justification for the government's charging more than the cost of duplication (which itself should only ever have to be paid once).
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by leot 15y ago
Slate's Gabfests would probably be a good model for these. They're really entertaining to listen to, and very insightful. They've never discussed it explicitly, but their "formula" seems to include: - usually at most three main topics (occa
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by leot 15y ago
I am hoping that addiction is too big and important a problem to persist much longer, at least within wealthy societies. There will, perhaps even within the next 20 years, be treatments that quickly and reliably improve executive function (
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by leot 15y ago
No, not all of them. Not all the time. Canadians entering from Canada, and usually people entering on a tourist visa, don't need to be fingerprinted.
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by leot 15y ago
It's really not that complicated, at least when going between the US and Canada. A lawyer is perhaps a good idea for getting an H1-B, but beyond that, not so much. Immigration law is more straightforward than other areas, it seems. Perhaps
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by leot 15y ago
(Relatively social) people also learn from the examples of others, which is why it can be so helpful to go to a school filled with smart high-achievers.
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by leot 15y ago
While I am, at least at this point, a big fan of B-corps, the issues of efficiency are real. Organizations will sometimes use their B-corp or not-for-profit status as an excuse to provide poor value to their customers or for overall bad man
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by leot 15y ago
Yes. There are at least two places you can just park the fighter during the boss.
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by leot 15y ago
It's the many great leaders that end up transforming lives and countries, and so the tragedy of overcompensation in the finance industry is how it has attracted-away the world's smartest and most charismatic. Now these elite college grads h
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by leot 15y ago
Censorship doesn't require a conspiracy. It doesn't even require an explicit policy. A lack of promotion here, a dinner-party snub there, and pretty soon everyone gets the message and falls in line.
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Astronomers See More Planets Than Stars in Galaxy(nytimes.com)
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Newest Kepler results: solar systems relatively common in the Milky Way(nature.com)
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by leot 15y ago
I wonder.
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It is harder for Americans to rise from the lower rungs(nytimes.com)
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by leot 15y ago
I think I misinterpreted the original parent. 'VC booster' might mean a VC who is a booster. It might also be a booster for VC money to NYC. Mine was the erroneous first interpretation.
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by leot 15y ago
It wasn't said by a VC booster though. It was said by one of betabeat's writers.
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by leot 15y ago
As someone who grew up on the east coast and migrated here for grad school, I have noticed that west-coast culture tends to be less judgmental, more free spirited, and more novelty-seeking.
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by leot 15y ago
No, the donations need not be for a particular election. They're donated to parties or individuals to use as they see fit, allowing year-on-year cumulative effects. Imagine three candidates A, B, and C. A and B are from major political part
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by leot 15y ago
I'm familiar with Duverger's law, but it's almost completely irrelevant here. "why would they get money from people who don't vote for them?" Please, think about this statement a little more deeply. Elections are, usually, winner-take-all.
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by leot 15y ago
Sometimes, just sometimes, a group of lawmakers puts together a diverse group of people who are experts, and has them undertake a good faith investigation of an issue. And sometimes, just sometimes, the lawmakers read the group's recommen
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by leot 15y ago
Note that these are not the most searched terms this year. They're the terms most-searched-for that had not previously been much-searched-for. Ultimately, there is a certain amount of arbitrariness in this ranking, since they have to trade-
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by leot 15y ago
Why would it end up going to just two political parties? Aren't 3rd parties more likely to get attention if they are gunning for money that people need to spend anyway? As for the system you're proposing, that's pretty much the one we hav
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by leot 15y ago
What about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance_reform_in_the_... It seems like a smart, simple system. ?
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by leot 15y ago
The players within a game can be acting in a way they find distasteful, but which is nonetheless required of them by the rules. Students can be compelled to cheat if they perceive that it is widespread. Professors inflate their grades so th
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Hackerly proposals for fixing U.S. politics (compiled by Lessig)(bostonreview.net)
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by leot 15y ago
The GAs bug me. I've always found it curious that a movement that aims to mitigate the undue influence of a minority has chosen to operate based on consensus decision making. If the goal is to restore the power of the majority, then just u
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by leot 15y ago
Oddly, people rarely mention Canada when comparing the U.S. performance on the PISA to that of other countries, even though Canada is by far the country most similar to that of the U.S. among those who participate in PISA. Canada was consis
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by leot 15y ago
Yes. Or some kind of haptic connection
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by leot 15y ago
Right. The point would to allow this kind of thing to happen more organically. Those with a grievance would aggregate before the legal team was chosen.

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