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by papeda 7y ago
Is this reasonable to expect from a business where 6 months of cash reserves are not legally required? Can't the restaurant that saves 1 month of reserves instead of 6 months charge lower prices and still turn a profit, thus outcompeti
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by papeda 7y ago
Curious, how does a small commercial janitorial business survive for so long? My naive understanding as a non-business-owner is that small entities can survive or even do well if they offer a product that's hard or not worth it for big
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by papeda 7y ago
I find this question hard to think about. Who exactly should be pricing in the risk of something like this happening? On both sides there are agents who have taken on risk. Some of the agents paying rent overextended themselves even befor
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by papeda 7y ago
If his objective is to "keep this knowledge in Japan", circulating the preprint and then publishing it in the journal he edits is a weird strategy.
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by papeda 7y ago
Not a mathematician, but I've kept up with this story as a non-mathematician. > For instance, imagine the proof is made of 50 lemmas. One could check the main theorem derives from the 50 lemmas. And checking each individual lemma co
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by papeda 7y ago
re: "designed specifically", I can see how suburban living might be an obstacle to labor organization, but who is doing the designing here?
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by papeda 7y ago
It's interesting to take the featured article's bit about the Bill of Rights and think of the procedural emphasis of the USA criminal justice system as a flawed attempt at reconciling the USA's many different constituent cult
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by papeda 7y ago
Wikipedia [1] has a more sober figure than the $15 billion claimed from the featured article, which is far below the wealth of modern athletes: > In equivalent basic good purchasing power, Diocles' wealth would be between approximat
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by papeda 7y ago
At least in Grothendieck's case, the boundary between "visionary" and "madman" is not so clear. This is a guy who spent decades pursuing targets nobody else could see, and convincing other people to join him, and th
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by papeda 7y ago
I read a few articles about Grothendieck when he died, but I still learned a lot from this one. Those articles usually skipped over his early years as some version of anarchy. This one better fills in those gaps. For example, I didn't
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by papeda 7y ago
The title is somewhat misleading (and different from the one in the article). They are now allowing opposition politicians to buy ads related to Covid, just as the administration can.
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by papeda 7y ago
Geez, I thought this might be an overblown piece about algorithms unwittingly optimizing for the wrong things, but the headline is pretty accurate. Discussing how moderators choose content to recommend to people in the “For You” section (no
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by papeda 7y ago
There are about 1800 UCSC graduate students [1]. From this 2014-15 UCSC budget report [2] there is a very near 2:1 masters:phd graduation ratio. Assuming there are 2 years of masters students and 6 of PhD at any one time, that makes PhD stu
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by papeda 7y ago
Just last week Terry Jones' obituary received hundreds of upvotes here and in many other places. I guess users are flagging Kobe but not Terry Jones because they like Jones more. But this is explicitly what flagging is not supposed t
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by papeda 7y ago
Just last week a Terry Jones obituary received hundreds of upvotes, and I'm not aware of any contributions he made to "computing, science, business, startups, etc.". I'm not saying Terry Jones obituaries should have been
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by papeda 7y ago
Not parent, but I still think their point is valid: it’s hard to be a careful, ethical journalist and make decent money. That’s not an argument for abandoning journalistic ethics, but it does illustrate why Lehrer’s rules are not the curren
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by papeda 7y ago
Can someone point me to statistics about this phenomenon? It sounds true that foreign investors use US housing as an investment and inflate prices, but I have no idea how large this effect is.
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by papeda 7y ago
It bugs me that so much more public and media ire is directed toward tech companies than defense contractors when the latter industry is of comparable size, way more opaque, and dominated by very very old companies [1] with excellent lobbyi
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by papeda 7y ago
Yes, but this is fear of crime . Over the past few decades, in general more Americans have believed crime is increasing than decreasing [1]. [1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/1603/crime.aspx
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by papeda 7y ago
Or the people lonely enough to jump at any possibility of human contact. It’s unclear.
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by papeda 7y ago
As for many things, there's a nice Knausgaard quote about this: > That’s what distance does; when the time between conversations gets longer, intimacy diminishes, the little things connected to one’s daily life lose their place, it
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by papeda 7y ago
The rewards are different, too. There is no level of mathematical achievement that will get the kind of broad (but typically local) social status and public approval of being a starting high school quarterback. Math just doesn't tap in
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by papeda 8y ago
Seems like some people are really into power, to the extent that they'll forswear most of the things people generally use power to obtain (money, material possessions, sex, etc) and just focus on the power itself as an end.
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by papeda 8y ago
It's plenty reasonable to be skeptical of the public utterances of CEOs, but it's not necessarily true that his words are hollow because his company is not currently compliant with the law he's proposing. As long as competi