pdubbs90

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by pdubbs90 9y ago
"People are jealous" seems to me like the uncharitable formulation. I'd phrase it more along the lines of: "we evolved in small tribes and are more acutely aware of relative status than absolute welfare." Most peopl
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by pdubbs90 9y ago
In their model the only benefit of talent is it makes you more likely to double your wealth given luck. This means that they assume luck is needed for advancement while talent is not. Hence they assume that luck is more important than tal
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by pdubbs90 9y ago
Their model is if you have a lucky event you have P(talent) chance of doubling your capital and if you hit an unlucky event your capital is halved. Any step in time where you neither experience luck or unluck you are left unchanged. It seem
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by pdubbs90 9y ago
Can't speak for many professions, but a long series of interviews where you do a bunch of modules and meet a large proportion of your team is pretty typical in consulting.
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by pdubbs90 9y ago
This is missing the last point of my argument though. Paid professionals like those that build Photoshop or Google are filtered by the hiring process. Steemit (and I assume Woyano in the parent) is lacking both the GIMP/Wikipedia filte
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by pdubbs90 9y ago
Maybe the distinction lies in the filtering. Stackoverflow and Wikipedia have high quality because only people that really care about a subject (and thus usually know a lot) will invest time for free. Once you start paying people, the much
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by pdubbs90 9y ago
I think the key distinction here is between “intolerance” and refusal of services. No one should be going out of their way to hear or publish the Nazi point of view, and people ought to call them disgusting and monstrous when they appear in
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by pdubbs90 9y ago
This is why I said "seem." Everything has some bias, but I think foreign publications usually have a less-relevant-to-me bias, which is about as close to unbiased as I can get.
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by pdubbs90 9y ago
I find the BBC and the Economist good for this reason. They are/seem a lot less biased than U.S. stuff through some combination of higher standards and that they'd rather manipulate the emotions of Europeans than Americans (and I
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by pdubbs90 9y ago
The map shows life expectancy at birth, so healthy people moving from rural areas to cities shouldn't effect it.
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by pdubbs90 9y ago
Do you have any examples of this? This is the first I've heard of it.
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by pdubbs90 10y ago
I feel like disappointing research is going to be a given when you have such an obvious conflict. The author has a strong motivation to make Zestimates seem bad (the less reliable the resources you have to buy/sell a home on your own a
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by pdubbs90 10y ago
Fake news is a real problem, but this seems like an unfair no-win for Facebook from major media outlets. When they had more human editors on trending topics it was "Facebook is injecting their own bias into news and manipulating the pu
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by pdubbs90 11y ago
I'm very glad that where she wrote "Multiply that 0.6 percent chance of getting any given job by the 10 or so appropriate positions in the entire world, and you have about that same 6 percent chance of “success.”" she was in