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by mbostleman 4y ago
This study, by it's own admission in the summary, does not have a cause for the 23% net difference in house values (55% gross, 23% remaining after adjusting for home quality, maintenance, and other market characteristics). Specifically
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by mbostleman 4y ago
<<And... unless you're in a marginalized minority group, you really aren't in a position to know how racist people are.>> Does this mean that it is not empirically measurable then? That would explain a lot because actu
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Orthogonal and bickering, but I find it interesting. I can keep two thoughts going at once. Sort of.
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by mbostleman 4y ago
It's not obvious to me how "I don't really see any feasible way to solve this besides legislation." is any more or less of an adult conversation. The models involved - economic, societal, climate, etc. - are very large a
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by mbostleman 4y ago
>>While current manufacturing is indeed dominated by East Asian countries, the vast majority of research still happens in US universities. This legislation allocates more funding for that research…>> I suspect there’s more to it
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by mbostleman 4y ago
Agreed, I also live in a location with effectively no drivers and I have the same experience. I'd say based on that, the claim that it is specific to WAV is not the case.
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by mbostleman 4y ago
COVID must be an exception then as 1000s died in different places but the public was obsessed. Or the media was at least.
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by mbostleman 4y ago
Confidence in media being low is only a bad thing if, for some reason, it should have ever have been high. The general realization that I've come to in the last decade is not so much that media has gone from good to bad but that a vene
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by mbostleman 4y ago
The author and CEO appears to be a she, preferred pronouns notwithstanding.
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To me, DRY, like Single Responsibility, is practical to a point, after which it doesn't support its weight. It strikes me as being similar to normalization in relational databases and summed up by "Normalize till it hurts, denorma
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by mbostleman 4y ago
I live in Teton Valley, Idaho (6,500 feet above sea level) and I see the Grand Teton (13,775 feet) everyday (looking at it now actually). That's a prominence of 7,275 feet. I have also been to the base camp (13,550 feet) of Annapurna (
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by mbostleman 4y ago
Exactly. The objection to and the definition of unfairness is the same. What differs is the facts which allow us to agree on who is being unfair to who. To me, the former is values, the latter is not.
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by mbostleman 4y ago
Maybe we're working off of different overloads for the word "values". While there is no doubt a great diversity of experience per all the things you mentioned, to me "values" is a very small set of first principles
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by mbostleman 4y ago
I don't entirely disagree, but I have to keep in mind that this is an ad hominem argument. It's also an argument that would be used to eliminate or discredit academia and the vast majority of those in public service - both of whic
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by mbostleman 4y ago
>>We’re one country but we don’t share a single set of values.>> This is a popular sentiment, but I don't think it's true - I think it's manufactured (I assume due to all mass communication being a large ad server
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by mbostleman 4y ago
And also, keeping a SaaS online isn't the only effort involved in keeping it stable, useful, and relevant.
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by mbostleman 4y ago
>>but it is not ok that a company can pay employees low because the government will pick up the other half>> I don't think this is a situation that applies to the idea of self-regulation. In this case, a distortion of the m
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by mbostleman 4y ago
>>The purpose of minimum wage is a floor>> There's the purpose and then there's the outcome. I have always found it useful to also keep in mind the perspective on minimum wage that recognizes that from a practical pers
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by mbostleman 4y ago
Around 2006 - 2008 I was playing around with SecondLife and found the only thing that interested me there was coding objects with their LSL scripting language. I happened to fall in with a content creator (eg. a really good artist that coul
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by mbostleman 4y ago
>>[Scalpers] are effectively rent seeking parasites that distort the market and make things worst for regular people.>> I'm trying to understand this sentiment from a totally unsentimental, mechanical view of economics. I&#
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by mbostleman 4y ago
Doubling the cost consequence of regulations, regulations changing causing in-progress projects to go back and remove and re-do work, negative learning - all of these things are a result of our society not gathering around the mission. If w
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by mbostleman 4y ago
Same experience here. I've had the lingering suspicion that live audio is too real and that it makes the lack of authenticity and narcissism of social media influencing too obvious. Maybe someone should try 15 second sound bites that a
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A Message from Replicated’s CEO(replicated.com)
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by mbostleman 4y ago
Ah the ever elusive causation shell game.
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This post is getting downvoted, but it does bring up an interesting point. The idea of judging a book by it's cover seems to be universally criticized. But especially with movie trailers, it can be unambiguously clear how the movie is
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by mbostleman 4y ago
I don't think that offending people is truly the first principle. If that were the case there would be zero content. The attempt is to not be offensive to the specific sensitivities a specific group that is vocal in popular culture and
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How did you know that?
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Related: The change is fine, it's only one line.
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I think that there is a feeling that the other side is attempting to move policy forward that is not supported by a majority of constituents but is rather leveraging an artificial amplification on media (social and otherwise) to make it app
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by mbostleman 4y ago
I'm not sure how to resolve the absurdity level between the left's initial action and the right's reaction. They both seem equally absurd to me. But maybe that's where subjectivity comes in.

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