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by mjhay 4y ago
Selecting for lacrosse players (which as you say, has no causal relationship to job performance) necessarily selects against non-lacrosse players. Lacrosse players tend to be white and male, Amazon should care, due not only to obvious legal
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by mjhay 4y ago
Amazon started using such a system a while back trained on their hiring data, and it started very heavily selecting against applications with female-indicating proxies, and was abandoned. In another case, After an audit of the algorithm, t
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by mjhay 4y ago
Wrong again. I was classed as ordinary employee and had SS deductions just like any other job I've had.
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by mjhay 4y ago
Plastic recycling works poorly when all conditions are met. Even ideally, most "recycled" plastic doesn't get recycled. What does is of much lower grade and unsuitable for many applications - and can't really be recycled
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by mjhay 4y ago
Yes you do (by default), same as any other worker. At least that's what it said on my tax forms and pay stubs.
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by mjhay 4y ago
But that's a "cost center" according to what the execs learned in business school.
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by mjhay 4y ago
University administration is destroying higher education. So much graft and waste - rather than cutting down on administrative bloat, the solution is always to cut resources from those doing useful productive work.
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by mjhay 4y ago
That's definitely the idea with a lot of these classes, but I think it filters out a lot of people who'd be great in chemistry or other STEM fields, but can't deal with lots of rote memorization and such. One of the best prog
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by mjhay 4y ago
That sounds fine. Obviously some memorization is avoidable, but it seems like many classes just do memorization for its own sake - either to give the professors an unwarranted sense of superiority or just laziness.
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I've never taken any chemistry, but everyone seems to have horror stories. It seems like chemistry is uniquely obsessed with memorization. I can't fathom the purpose of memorizing the periodic table - who cares? Why not focus on w
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by mjhay 4y ago
That sounds like American government IT as well.
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It's typically a civil matter, not a criminal one.
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That's not such an easy thing to do, you know.
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It is possible to get groceries without a car in New York. You are really ignoring the huge opportunity cost of land that is widespread personal car use in NYC - people just tend to ignore how much land that really is because they are so us
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by mjhay 4y ago
replying to californical: "Sufficient" is the operative word here. There's a tremendous amount of non-productive rent-seeking, such as literal rents. These are a massive drag on our economy, because they shift investments tow
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Supply and demand works great in Econ 101 though.
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Weird how government agencies that fall to regulatory capture all keep advocating for things beneficial to the industries they oversee. Sufficient tax increases for the well-off would have the same effect as punishing the working class, but
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by mjhay 4y ago
Wage growth has not been keeping up with inflation, and may even be damping it. The steady chorus of claims that wages are too high strikes me as consent-manufacturing by capital. https://www.epi.org/blog/wage-growth-ha
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by mjhay 4y ago
> Point is, there isn't something fundamentally currency-like about one versus the other other than state backing. I'd say that's as fundamental as you can get. One is backed up by guns, the other is backed up by literally
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by mjhay 4y ago
Peat is only arguably renewable though - it grows at something like half a mm a year in thickness. Vegetation takes a long time to come back in those environments, and there's also so many more high-value things the peat could be used
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by mjhay 4y ago
> This kind of worse-than-brain-dead sh*t-show is why so many people emotionally identify with "the government is the problem", "de-fund the police", and similar slogans. Those people are right. That is not just emoti
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by mjhay 4y ago
There has been a examples of this happening in the US, yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/20/us/protests-policing-geor... https:/
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by mjhay 4y ago
And ITER's design is already wildly outmoded now that high-temp superconductors exist (which they have for quite some time). Just a multinational pork project.
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by mjhay 4y ago
Fission fragment rockets could actually compete with fusion here. The reaction mass is the fission fragments themselves, which could get a specific impulse of around 10^6 s. The technology to do this is within relatively easy reach, at leas
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by mjhay 4y ago
Oh, just ecological destruction, millions of deaths from air pollution, climate change, that kind of thing.
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by mjhay 4y ago
Hydrogen infrastructure/cars/etc is unworkable for a lot of reasons, but safety-wise its no more dangerous than natural gas or propane - the later of which tons of gas stations sell.
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by mjhay 4y ago
There's plenty of fossil fuels, even if marginal extraction costs are higher than they once were. If anything, the price is far too cheap for the negative externalities it causes.
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by mjhay 4y ago
I have had similar experiences cycling a number of times. It's really more of a mental block. They aren't expecting to see a cyclist so they don't see one.
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by mjhay 4y ago
Current industrial agriculture isn't physically sustainable in the long run for many reasons (soil loss, depleted aquifers, salinity), so the status-quo isn't a long-term option. Either we figure out how to feed billions of people
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If we're willing to accept higher labor intensiveness, there's plenty of very realistic farming techniques that could be reintroduced. For example: - Off-season cover crops like legumes, etc both can fix nitrogen and out-compete w

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