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by lr4444lr 2y ago
Sorry if this offends, but I am deeply skeptical that the effect of UBI is independent of common culturally influenced behaviors of where it might be implemented. Try it in an opioid epidemic stricken rust belt town in the American Midwest,
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by lr4444lr 2y ago
As for the roads example, which would go to my second point if I understand you correctly, I think the analogy is limited: roads aren't gate-kept by admissions committees for certain intangible criteria for who can ride on them, with a
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by lr4444lr 2y ago
There are some reasons that I think you probably know, which don't receive enough time and attention 1) Despite an appearance of being "left leaning" (according to polls of faculty political sentiment) they continue to gateke
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by lr4444lr 2y ago
Having gone both to a liberal arts institution and a large public university, it is not clear to me what the professors in the latter were actually doing vis a vis their teaching responsibilities that actually provided value. Lectures that
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by lr4444lr 2y ago
Sorry for sounding ornery, but it's plainly obvious to every parent I've interacted with that most preschool kids have well developed categorization skills for their toys, coloring objects, etc.
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by lr4444lr 2y ago
As a fairly progressive news outlet attracting staff with certain sensibilties in the NYC area and selling views to people who are the same, the NYTimes board of directors has a vested PR interest in tolerating unions with the large amounts
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by lr4444lr 2y ago
That's like saying "there are no perfect spheres in the real world, ergo Newton's Laws are bunk." I am not a simpleton. I am aware that perfectly elastic supply and demand curves pushing to static equilibrium is not how
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by lr4444lr 2y ago
Scanning the paper, I don't see an answer to the first question I have if I assume their basic premise (that house price growth correlates to income growth): is the actual profit on home construction constant (or even shrinking)? One w
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by lr4444lr 2y ago
Things like memory safe languages and JS DOM managed frameworks are limited scoped solved problems for most business computing needs outside of some very marginal edge cases. AI generated code? That seems a way off from being a generalize
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by lr4444lr 2y ago
You've never worked at a place where someone was an incompetent hanger-on who was an expert at self promotion and stealing credit? Or hired someone like that accidentally? Notwithstanding, I have long argued that a non-profit credentia
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by lr4444lr 2y ago
I agree, but I look at it like trying out for an athletic team. Once you're on the team, you are mostly practicing plays, doing clinics, and simulating competition, but to get on the team in the first place you have to prove your gener
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by lr4444lr 2y ago
I think your idea is a good faith argument, but it's a fallacy: high turnover on a job because of stiff competition for labor is not a "tech culture" issue, and it's not at all the same impact on a person as changing due
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by lr4444lr 2y ago
My sympathy for Roald Dahl can only go so far given his rabid antisemitism.
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by lr4444lr 2y ago
100% this. Also, is it data whose scale and speed is more important than its durability? I actually agree with the author that Redis was not the right solution for the situations he was presented with, but he's far from proving it is n
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by lr4444lr 2y ago
Maybe you should look into Francis Bacon a little more closely as regards general science. Concerning mathematics, the idea that numbers and proof are abstracted concepts from the physical world that we can develop didn't really exist
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by lr4444lr 2y ago
It's a far stretch to say a philosopher (JS Mill) who is widely known as one of the foremost voices on "negative liberty" is a significant influence on the notion that governments must ensure a citizen's "right to f
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by lr4444lr 2y ago
> My short term memory is falling off a cliff Are you sure? I thought this was happening to me too, and then I realized when looking back 10 years ago that I have way more responsibilities now both in and out of work: I am not only get
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by lr4444lr 2y ago
If your time is spent in higher productivity work, wouldn't that - irrespective of age - leave you feeling more exhausted?
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by lr4444lr 2y ago
What about THC (or its metabolites)?
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By rational people who can think in nuance, and aren't influenced by big campaign spending?
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by lr4444lr 2y ago
1) The USA does not have launchable nuclear weapons in neighboring countries to Taiwan that necessitate a buffer 2) Taiwan does not represent unprotected border territory. Heck, attacking it sustainedly would require significant and slow na
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by lr4444lr 2y ago
I have been remotely working since 2020. There will be no return to office. The unspoken issue here is trust. Managers and execs at these RTO mandate companies do not trust that the rank and file are working productively when not monitored
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by lr4444lr 2y ago
A Civil War in the USA? Where would the battle lines even be drawn? There is no consensus, and there are hardly even blue or red states anymore beyond 60/40 splits. Even racially we are seeing a lot less polarization.
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by lr4444lr 2y ago
Wouldn't that likely have a better prognosis than most cancers?
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by lr4444lr 2y ago
Isn't this the whole point of Rorschach tests? They are controversial, but still have professional support.
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by lr4444lr 2y ago
They don't help you with the non-productive parts, freeing up more of your time for productive work?
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by lr4444lr 2y ago
You wouldn't just screen the entire population with this test. You'd give it to the high risk factor subpopulations where the rate is way higher than 13.5 / 100K: older people, tobacco users, etc.
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by lr4444lr 2y ago
This is a beautiful comment, but take a step back here: parenting today is more child centric than it has ever been in the USA, with parents spending more raw hours with their kids (because they are spending less time independently with eac
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by lr4444lr 2y ago
Dilution does happen, but in good companies, it's not as cynically done as you're describing it. Earlier investors usually demand safeguards to prevent this.
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Equity isn't mainly based on performance. It's based on risk. If I join as the first engineer, before any paying customers, that is in fact worth exponentially more than when there is some revenue, the first cease and desist is co

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