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by pmichaud 5y ago
Yes but not continuously, they have a bunch of fixed costs and they can’t fire 1/30th of a teacher for every student who doesn’t enroll. At some level of shrinkage the overall costs go down, but it’s not easy with a slow slide downward
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by pmichaud 5y ago
Yeah I'm not them, but I think that's close. What I would say is that our sensory data + mental models of that data are abstractions over whatever reality actually is, which I am guessing you agree with. On top of that I think som
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by pmichaud 5y ago
Suppose for a moment that you and the people talking to you in this thread are talking past each other. What do you imagine the other people are trying to communicate to you, in their own terms?
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by pmichaud 5y ago
I think what you wrote here is just straightforwardly not correct, eg. you can absolutely set a variable and multiply arbitrary numbers in addition to working with vertex data. There are also a lot of other ways to store and interact with d
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by pmichaud 5y ago
Missing one of my absolute favorites: Kenshi.
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by pmichaud 5y ago
I think some missing context here is that the "observation" phase of an NVC communication: 1. Is in large part for you, the speaker. It forces you to get clear about what you really know to be true. I'm surprised at how often
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by pmichaud 5y ago
It's not a stupid question. One thing to say here is that empathy is basically putting yourself in another person's shoes. Often when you do that you also find room in your heart to forgive them, ie. when you see the way their beh
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by pmichaud 5y ago
Assuming the big polluters are real instead of being the most honest. If they are just more honest instead of being more polluting, worse is worse.
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by pmichaud 5y ago
You're absolutely right, but it's also true that the phrase "never been shown to" most often functions in a sentence more like "doesn't/can't happen" than "we have no idea."
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by pmichaud 5y ago
Is it "usually women" who do the unglamorous jobs that no one else wants to do? This doesn't really seem true, but maybe you have a source that shows it?
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by pmichaud 5y ago
I find this attitude a bit sad :( I think there's at least one place we agree which is that it's annoying when people do shiny yet perfunctory things as basically a gimmick or trick to convey the impression of depth that just isn&
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by pmichaud 5y ago
Yeah I mean, this is the claim / supposition: this isn't new, it's just not hidden anymore. But I think it's worth questioning whether the supposition is true or not, and not in the sense of "can I think of any exam
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by pmichaud 5y ago
My mind boggles when I think about this question. Here's a list of tech that we got either directly or indirectly from space related R&D: Cell phone cameras, the computer program that allowed the development of a bunch of consumer
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by pmichaud 5y ago
There's a saying in my neck of the woods that captures this: If you can't optimize, pessimize!
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by pmichaud 5y ago
Climate is a complex system of feedback loops, you shouldn't expect to see arbitrary, linear increases in temperature.
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by pmichaud 5y ago
Also worth noting that it's 11.7% of about 14% vs 7.5% of about 76%, so in absolute terms there are way more white diabetics than black diabetics.
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by pmichaud 5y ago
This is terrifying. How representative is this actually?
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by pmichaud 5y ago
I doubt this is right. Scott doesn't do stuff like podcasts or panels generally. He likes to write, and avoids real time stuff. Can you provide a link or something?
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by pmichaud 5y ago
Do you remember the name of the psychologist or any info I might use to look him up?
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by pmichaud 5y ago
My interpretation of the post you're responding to wasn't that the experiences were similar, but that the work culture responses and company infrastructure for handling extended absences worked the same way for him as they did for
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by pmichaud 5y ago
All those are great examples of things on different abstraction layers. I agree with you insofar as you can't know what you're building ahead of time so writing software is continuous process of revision, but it's still the c
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by pmichaud 5y ago
A lot of them are quite small, like to control the flow of a relatively small stream. They’ll still drown you all the same.
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by pmichaud 5y ago
One practical lesson I’ve learned about how to keep code simple is that possibly the most important factor to simplicity is staying on the same abstraction layer, ie. not accidentally slipping up or down the layers within the same code “sta
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by pmichaud 5y ago
What's stopping someone from building ebay for India? Why hasn't ebay done that?
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by pmichaud 5y ago
I think there's an extremely subtle difference in length, plus in American english you might pronounce "writing" with either /d/ or /t/ (probably /d/ in casual speech). I think if you said "
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by pmichaud 5y ago
I think this is a bit misleading. It's true that the average density of oceanic crust is greater than that of continental crust, making it less buoyant, but also continental crust is way thicker and overall more massive, which is a hug
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by pmichaud 5y ago
For me it's the GIANT, NEARLY BLACK TREE SLASHED DIRECTLY THROUGH THE FOREGROUND AND MOST OF THE SKY that he adds right at the end. It's actually kind of funny to watch in the spirit of a cartoon where our plucky protagonist alway
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by pmichaud 5y ago
I think your point is that not everyone who gets paid a lot deserves it on merits? I agree with that. Still, do you think that compensation and merit are correlated? I do.
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by pmichaud 5y ago
I think that if you took the US exactly as it is, then make tax records public, after the initial explosion of interest, nothing particularly would change. The reason is that although the records would be available, only a tiny fraction of
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by pmichaud 5y ago
Yes, the solution in different regimes is to homogenize compensation, as government jobs do. And my point is that doing so is worse for top performers who would tend to be paid more than the homogeneous compensation would give them.

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