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Elena Ferrante: A Power of Our Own(nytimes.com)
1 points by noego 7y ago|0 comments
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by noego 7y ago
I don't think the value of a theory can be evaluated in isolation. It can only be evaluated relative to its competition. During its time, Newtonian gravity, even if it didn't perfectly fit all data, was still superior to its compe
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Forget Basic Income – We Need Guaranteed Employment(outlookzen.com)
3 points by noego 7y ago|7 comments
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Revenge of the Coastal Elites(nytimes.com)
3 points by noego 7y ago|0 comments
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Harvest of pain – A pistol-packing contractor lured workers from Mexico to(expressnews.com)
1 points by noego 7y ago|0 comments
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Dangerous Ideas(outlookzen.com)
1 points by noego 7y ago|0 comments
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by noego 7y ago
It felt like the key parts of the story were being left out here. From her telling, it sounds like everything was going well for her in Poland. Then she did a very short stint in Seattle where everyone was "extremely closed minded...
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Many Americans Will Need Long-Term Care. Most Won’t Be Able to Afford It(nytimes.com)
2 points by noego 7y ago|0 comments
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by noego 7y ago
The author makes some good points, but does not propose his own criteria for what distinguishes a good theory from a bad theory, which seems like a cop-out to be frank. I imagine a big appeal of falsifiability in its early days, stemmed fro
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Income-Share-Agreements can lead to higher interest rates on loans(nytimes.com)
5 points by noego 7y ago|0 comments
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Killing the Pax Americana(nytimes.com)
2 points by noego 7y ago|1 comments
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by noego 7y ago
They did know that they could lose money. They just underestimated the amount of risk involved, as well as the level of correlation between their different trades. Fat tails, black swans, etc etc
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by noego 7y ago
Does anyone know if these tenants were covered by any rules preventing the landlord from not renewing their lease? If not, the landlord could always choose to not renew their lease the next year, install the smart locks, and then lease out
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by noego 7y ago
When my stock vests, it is treated the same as my salary, and I get hit with an immediate income tax. Capital gains tax only kicks in afterwards, if I decide to hold on to the stock.
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by noego 7y ago
Can someone explain why they are raising taxes specifically for stock-based-compensation and not for all high-income-compensation? What's so special about lawyers and bankers making hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash-compensation
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by noego 7y ago
I agree that inheritance is not necessary for this, if languages provided better built-in support for the composition pattern. I was referring to the downsides of using composition in today's "enterprise" languages like Java.
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by noego 7y ago
We're arguing over semantics. Here's the exact quote from the page you linked: > designed to provide 99.999999999% durability of objects over a given year. This durability level corresponds to an average annual expected loss o
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by noego 7y ago
I agree with "anti-inheritance" as a general guideline, but its adherents have to recognize the significant practical upsides of inheritance in many situations. Imagine you have an interface with 20+ methods, such as the List inte
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by noego 7y ago
Many times, they are indeed MBA problems. VPs micromanaging instead of delegating, not investing enough money into hiring, retaining and developing their talent, etc. Other times, it is a problem with the existing developers. Choosing not t
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by noego 7y ago
On the flip side, I've seen far too many teams move at the speed of molasses, for reasons unrelated to the intrinsic complexity of the problem. Bureaucracy, analysis paralysis, no automated testing, accidental complexity, tech debt, po
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by noego 7y ago
Your numbers are off. If both people save $50k each from their investment/wage income, then both of them will earn 10% returns on that $50k of savings. Hence why they cancel each other out. You've only given the worker 3% returns
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by noego 7y ago
I never understood comparing r and g. r represents the fixed investment income for the rentier. g represents the growth in income for the laborer. Comparing these two numbers, is like comparing velocity vs acceleration. Example: Let&#x2
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by noego 7y ago
> Programs written in dynamically typed languages don’t have far higher defect rates than programs written in languages like C++ and Java. They have done a study which found that strong/static type checks can reduce your number of
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by noego 7y ago
I have a hard time following what the author is trying to say exactly. As far as I can tell, he seems to be making 2 interwoven points, which have nothing to do with the clickbait title. 1. There are "fitness influencers" on insta
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by noego 7y ago
The problem with elite colleges like Harvard, has nothing to do with meritocracy. In fact, it's the opposite. They use opaque and subjective criteria in their admissions process, in order to favor those born into privilege. For a bette
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by noego 7y ago
Being questioned by the police without a lawyer being present, is a "human rights abuse"? I have yet to hear an explanation on why being questioned 1:1 by the police is so bad.
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by noego 7y ago
They can and should video record the entire questioning process. If the suspect is abused in any way, the video can be used to punish the culprits. If the police use any illegal tactics to coerce a confession, it can simply be ruled inadmis
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by noego 7y ago
Having a lawyer present while being questioned as an "inherent human right"? Why is that? Why not your parents, spouse, children and best friend as well? I don't recall seeing this anywhere in the Universal Declaration of Hum
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by noego 7y ago
Like I mentioned in my original post, I'm not in favor of banning "gossip". I advocated making illegal the deliberate spread of misinformation
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by noego 7y ago
> During detention, both were subject to extensive questioning by prosecutors without an attorney present. Videotapes of Ghosn’s questioning — a new feature added in the Criminal Procedure Reform law in 2016 in direct response to docume

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