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by overrun11 3y ago
Of course it's not the primary goal. The primary goal is to remove people from society so they cannot continue to inflict harm on others.
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by overrun11 3y ago
> People do things they're not proud of in desperate situations. Having to get an office temp job for minimum wage at 24 isn't ideal but it's a stretch to call it "desperate" and somehow justifying pushing opiate
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Crime will always pay better than legitimate alternatives. You can either choose to sacrifice the extra income or risk going to prison– that's kind of just how society functions. > For some high proportion of these individuals, it i
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by overrun11 3y ago
It's largely a function of the much higher rate of violent crime in the United States
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by overrun11 3y ago
I've read several of these works excited to hear intelligent challenges to my worldview but they always have the opposite effect. The arguments are _so_ bad, so fallacious and ridiculous that I can't help becoming more convinced t
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by overrun11 3y ago
He would get the benefit of the doubt if he otherwise had insightful things to say. The problem is that his entire body of work is gaffes and nonsensical statements like this. His interview with Ezra Klein is filled with him whiffing on sof
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by overrun11 3y ago
You're using a very different definition of homeless than the person you're replying to. Visibly homeless people– those who literally are living on the streets absolutely do have some sort of addiction or mental illness.
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by overrun11 3y ago
Land is unique because it's a productive asset with fixed supply. The problem with most taxes on assets is that they decrease the amount of productive assets in service by making the economics less favorable. A tax levied against land
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by overrun11 3y ago
> I would want to make say $5k for five days of work You completely ignore expected value. The most likely outcome is that you make nothing for your five days of work. A functioning market requires outsized returns to compensate for the
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by overrun11 3y ago
Organizations keep secrets all the time. A huge amount of American history is learned after the fact when documents are declassified.
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by overrun11 3y ago
> Does it occur to you that maybe people just aren't hiding their use now that it's legal? But we know for a fact this isn't true because there's data on it. This isn't something we need to speculate about.
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by overrun11 3y ago
I live in a state where sports betting was recently legalized and suddenly a lot of people are addicted to gambling who weren't before. There're also many people who got addicted to legally prescribed pain medication, it seems unl
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by overrun11 3y ago
> The real incidence rate is hard to tease out because of the presumption of criminality baked into the American system I don't think it's as hard as you make it out to be. We have multiple independent sources collecting this d
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What are they?
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by overrun11 3y ago
> The specific numbers criticized (1.3%, 7%) decided on by economists are indeed arbitrary But these numbers aren't chosen by economists or any other individual. If prices aren't arbitrary then neither are discount rates.
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by overrun11 3y ago
No one going to a mommy blog looking for baby food recipes ends up signing up or online gambling somehow. This is a story about SEO/ search engine ranking but that wouldn't get clicks. Whatever you think about online gambling, the
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by overrun11 3y ago
No this article was about layoffs. The employee-employer relationship is very different the one between competing companies. If you have created a better widget factory and need 90% less staff, I do think you have some responsibility to tho
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by overrun11 3y ago
> I don't care one iota about craftsmen who can no longer conduct their craft in the way they want because a better technology came around. You'll care when they actively subvert the rollout of the new technology. If the techno
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by overrun11 3y ago
Hiring 100 people then getting rid of 99 of them is probably worse for society then just hiring the 1
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by overrun11 3y ago
Not convinced this is because of investors. Investors want high returns on invested capital and these growth initiatives are often the opposite of that (see Meta's Metaverse play which investors hated). Executives want to empire build
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by overrun11 3y ago
$2000/m in two years is amazing. How are you marketing it? Is most of your traffic just from Google Search?
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by overrun11 3y ago
Are you suggesting that committing murder and violent crime is pervasive among tech executives?
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by overrun11 3y ago
City-wide statistics seem almost entirely meaningless in these contexts. Most violent crime is concentrated in specific parts of the city where the people who participate in these debates never go. A 10% decrease in violent crime in the mos
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by overrun11 4y ago
Don't think either of us are interested in a debate on the definition of the word "skyrocketing." I'd be interested in a survey of New Yorkers on how much they think the murder rate rose from 2019-2020. I suspect they&#x
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by overrun11 4y ago
> That is not skyrocketing, by any definition of skyrocketing Again, this doesn't somehow negate the fact that they did rise substantially. > Did you read the part of my first source that compares the rate of crime to the rate of
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by overrun11 4y ago
Your stats don't back up your claim. Crime _has_ skyrocketed since the pandemic as both of your links show. Your first links subtitle states: "Violent incidents are up since the pandemic began" and the second link shows a gra
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by overrun11 4y ago
> But as soon as there is a person or group out there secretly “meaning for” some result from the actions of tens of thousands of people, that’s by definition a conspiracy. There are many interest groups pushing to influence mass behavio
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by overrun11 4y ago
It is inarguable that there were many examples of unfair or plainly factually wrong reporting on Trump. This list was compiled just a year in: http://thefederalist.com/2017/02/06/16-fake-news-stories-rep... &
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by overrun11 4y ago
In that hypothetical I do not think they would necessarily do layoffs. The more likely scenario would be: 2019 Cost of capital: 7%, gross return 10% for 3% excess return 2022 Cost of capital: 12%, gross return 10% for -2% excess return In
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by overrun11 4y ago
Why not RSUs? You're going to find it hard to get a job making more than ~220ish in base salary but with RSUs the sky is the limit (although right now it is much harder to score one of these jobs than normal)

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