mdavis6890

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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Any way that you give people more money without also increasing the supply of stuff to buy will generate inflation for those things that those people want to buy. If you target the money to certain people, then the things those people buy w
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
I’m the past I could provide whatever address I want. The bank wouldn’t care or check it, because why? The new thing is that you have to prove you actually live at the address.
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
I think Windows window management is better than Mac, and I use both (and Linux too) throughout every day.
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
I find it strange that we are okay with business requiring our physical address. Maybe with some rare exceptions, I can't think of a good reason why these businesses need to know where we live. Even banks. Usually the reason given is s
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
I find it strange that we are okay with business requiring our physical address. Maybe with some rare exceptions, I can't think of a good reason why these businesses need to know where we live. Even banks. Usually the reason given is s
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
It may have been active "cover up" - but doesn't need to be (or have been). It could be just passively ignoring and not being curious about fraud that benefits you. More (apparent) students benefits the school. Suppose I&#x27
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
There are no reasons for the college to identify fake students, or event prevent it in the future. higher (apparent) enrollment justifies larger budgets and funding. And it's not their money being given away.
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
+1 Million on this! Our efforts to avoid accidentally helping a rich person via means testing cause for more damage to our ability to help poor and middle class people. Just give everybody the same amount of cash and leave it at that! There
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Waste of time. Cookie consent is dumb. Cookies are not bad, and in fact are required for basically any website. What is the point of agreeing to them over and over again, when your only alternative is to not use the internet, or at least no
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
I find it so strange how resistant people (not you!) are to paying trivial sums of money for things that contribute so much value. It was $1. Now it’s $4! Like half a Starbucks coffee! How many people would not even see this app because it’
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Will people pay more for stability and reliability? If so, then that is what businesses will optimize for. Businesses exist to give us what we want. Those that do it well are profitable, those that don’t aren’t. Keep in mind that the effort
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
I think we should all be going in for our weekly blood filtering. Or maybe we can develop a wearable blood filter which we change periodically. Just be careful when you change it though.
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Actual finding: People are less altruistic immediately following a stressful event.
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Honestly I don't see anything really wrong here. In the long run, you'll have people that get the treatment and people who don't, and over time you can compare these groups and outcomes. People will naturally gravitate toward
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
I don't think that's fair. I can't say anything about Calculus for Artists, but Calculus for engineers won't be dumbed down. It will be focused more on the practice of using calculus to solve real-world problems, while a
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Blood letting was the scientific consensus not long ago. You would have been spreading misinformation to question it.
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by mdavis6890 5y ago
This is a great point! I still don't think this excuses it though. I think a journalist has a responsibility to at least know the limits of their understanding and not try to exceed that with numbers they don't understand. The aut
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by mdavis6890 5y ago
Flawed logic. Closing the nuclear plants has very large, real, tangible and undeniable costs. One cannot discuss the cost of opening them while ignoring the costs of closing them.
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by mdavis6890 5y ago
Keep in mind that money is not stuff. We can take all the rich peoples money and give it to poor and middle class - but this will not create one single potato. Instead we just have people spending more money on exactly the same amount of st
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by mdavis6890 5y ago
It would also be nice if we would stop voting for politicians that promise policies that limit supply - either directly and explicitly such as zoning laws, or as a consequence like rent control.
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by mdavis6890 5y ago
Chernobyl was hardly a monster. According to Wikipedia, 30 people died immediately, and probably another 30 due to the radiation aftermath. Maybe a few thousand more someday due to long term effects. Highest estimates are 60k deaths.
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by mdavis6890 5y ago
The main problem I see with anything like this are the social and legal consequences. All tests are imperfect, so you have to choose whether to be biased toward false positives or false negatives. Clearly a false negative would be a disaste
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by mdavis6890 5y ago
Lots being said about how bad the DMCA moderation process is - but really let's try to empathize with the BigCo, give them the benefit of the doubt, and think about why they might do it like this, even if they hate it too: Maybe they a
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by mdavis6890 5y ago
The point is not that banks don't suck - it's that a professional will not inject that sentiment into a post on another topic. And if a professional does mention it, they will do so in a way that doesn't sound like blanket gr
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by mdavis6890 5y ago
Does a "scam prevention expert" really need to read that fine print to know not to provide a one-time code to an inbound caller?
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by mdavis6890 5y ago
The author is simply not very good at defending against these scams. A. Fraudulent charges are YOUR BANK's problem, not yours. There is no reason to take any risk or share any information. You can agree that charges are fraudulent, but
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by mdavis6890 5y ago
There is a chapter in the excellent book "Why Flip a Coin" dedicated to exploring voting alternatives. The main point of the chapter is that given three intuitively obvious requirements (like adding a 3rd candidate should not chan
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by mdavis6890 5y ago
Someone has to take the risk that life happens. You can take that risk (non-refundable) or you can pay the airline a higher price to take that risk (refundable).
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by mdavis6890 5y ago
I think the difference in the Amazon example is that it’s about you as an individual, rather than general market circumstances. I think most of us are okay paying a surge rate to Uber when it’s raining at the ballpark (market circumstances)
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by mdavis6890 5y ago
What “lay person” is going to install a web server??? That’s insane. Maybe a lay faang-er would. Lay people work in a factory or shoe store or accounting firm. They have 1 or more kids. They hear what their friends are doing, and as long as

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