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by majos 7y ago
I thought that US produce can be organic so long as no nonorganic pesticides are used. Is there evidence that this distinction matters to bee health, which is the big evidence for the argument here?
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by majos 7y ago
“Why not” ideas seem hard to sell to governments populated by agents finding hard to allocate resources to their own preferred causes.
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by majos 7y ago
Is there a specific country that you think has the kind of culture you think the US should emulate?
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by majos 7y ago
Possibly narrow-minded reaction: this is a bad article about iffy studies. The article throws up a link to a review of two studies [1] and spends the rest of its time freely asserting that "engineers" are arrogant people who lack
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by majos 7y ago
I enjoyed Tyler Cowen’s interview with Larissa MacFarquhar: https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/tyler-cowen-lari... She writes for the New Yorker and has spent plenty of time around unusual notable people. She
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by majos 7y ago
To clarify, are you suggesting that current “low wages” or “wage inequality” are not that important because they fail to account for quality of life (food, shelter, entertainment), which is still achievable, especially by global standards,
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by majos 7y ago
Re: unsold condos, anyone want to try explaining how withholding stock makes sense? I understand flooding the market would depress prices further, but I don’t understand what market would buy up all this stock. If these units can’t sell in
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by majos 7y ago
Agreed, this is mostly unsupported conjecture, but I think people underestimate how far mitigating healthcare costs would go. Since healthcare costs can be unpredictable (a sudden severe injury, or even just the opacity of health insurance)
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by majos 7y ago
If you think the technology is there, what explains its lack of adoption? I don’t think McDonalds et al. are in the business of leaving easy optimization on the table. (My own guess is that touch screens are still more expensive and buggy t
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by majos 7y ago
I’m skeptical that America’s forefathers envisioned a future where a reasonable degree of financial security is exclusively for business-owners.
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by majos 7y ago
I’m surprised so many people are taking this at face value. It’s satire, right? This bit leans into it hard: > If it was raining, obviously, I couldn’t reasonably be expected to ride my bike. Or in the winter months when it’s a bit dark
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by majos 7y ago
Can you link to the interview?
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by majos 7y ago
> "I have no delusions that it's going to pass," [the state senator who introduced the bill] told reporter Eric Blaisdell. "I wouldn't probably vote for it myself." So it's not a serious bill. But I don
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by majos 7y ago
Thanks for the link. For people thinking about reading it, try! It’s clear and engaging, even funny.
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by majos 7y ago
I agree on all points. I want to expand on two. > On average [books] are of higher-quality, contain more research, and are better for developing your focus. So read books! Along the same lines, the time and mental investment required to
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by majos 7y ago
> key is to detect big events like this before they become undeniable common knowledge But it’s not even enough to know before it’s common knowledge, don’t you have to know before investors with big pockets know (and buy, and drive up th
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by majos 7y ago
> human behavior aggregates to nuclear anxiety (which in 9 months leads to higher demand for diapers). Is this real? Similar claims were made about a baby bump around June 2002 (9 months after 9/11), but nothing happened [1]. [1] h
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by majos 7y ago
Still confused. The argument goes: we can only assess the truth of statements through computing, computing requires control over some resources (e.g., you can’t have somebody come in and flip some bits randomly, or else your computation mig
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by majos 7y ago
I’m confused about how you can give this advice so generally. It seems like you are saying that financial success always indicates a good process and is always a good outcome for society. At the risk of looking either naive or mean: is this
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by majos 7y ago
This post sorely lacks evidence for its big first claim: > I've seen a similar pattern in many different fields: even though lots of people have worked hard in the field, only a small fraction of the space of possibilities has been
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by majos 7y ago
Somebody help me understand the appeal of the bay area. What is the relative weight of 1. proximity to other tech companies (good for employees switching jobs) 2. proximity to venture capital (good for entrepreneurs) 3. general culture of t
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by majos 7y ago
But “techies” mostly aren’t the CEO-types who try to do all this disruption. They’re mostly developers who like to get paid to do semi-interesting work. The messianic stuff is largely confined to a small, loud group, I think.
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by majos 7y ago
> There's an obscure blog by a guy who talks about the three or so stages of popular trends, and how three groups of people interact to eventually ruin any nice thing. If anyone knows that I'm talking about I'd appreciate
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by majos 7y ago
Can one of you explain why this is bad for partners? What’s wrong with saying “it’s reasonable for you to be ambitious”?
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by majos 7y ago
That surprises me, since I had heard being an oncologist is a very hard job because of all the bad news. I guess doing the research rather than the practice is a key difference?
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by majos 7y ago
The section I’m referring to is “Is there more crime in the U.S. than there was a year ago, or less?”.
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by majos 7y ago
This reminds me of a book I read about the history of extemporaneous poetry (pretty much freestyling) in Latin America and Europe, and its decline: > The verse improvisations of Cantabria are at best dormant. Women and men skilled at cre
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by majos 7y ago
I’m not arguing that a PhD is a meaningless credential, rather that the drop-off in employability (for most things that aren’t faculty jobs) from “PhD holder” to “dropped out after quals, but did some research and can code” is much smaller
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by majos 7y ago
JDs and MDs are not the same as PhDs. The first two are important credentials. A career as a doctor or lawyer is going to be hard without them. But you can certainly have a research career without a PhD, or do something research-adjacent an
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by majos 7y ago
I like learning about people, but I would only ask “how’s your relationship with your mother/father?” if I already think the person’s unusually open. It’s a pretty direct “therapy”-style question, and some people don’t like feeling ana

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