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by probablynish 3y ago
Actually median (and poorer) households did well between 2019 - 2022. See https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/scf23.pdf or the related blog post https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/gre
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by probablynish 3y ago
The personal savings rate has a big spike over the pandemic, and household net wealth increased a lot between 2019 - 2022 ( https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/scf23.pdf )* which is maybe what that saf
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by probablynish 3y ago
I wonder if 'net saving' here includes businesses/government or just households. Noah Smith wrote a nice piece here https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/great-news-about-american-weal... breaking down Federal R
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by probablynish 3y ago
I played this game growing up (we called it Bao) - now I know what my next party trick is going to be
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by probablynish 3y ago
Oh that makes sense. I thought the suggestion was referring to individuals and not corporations - eg "individuals should buy a license if they earn more than $80k/year" or something. That seems tougher to enforce.
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by probablynish 3y ago
I grew up in Tanzania (Dar) too. Do we know each other? :)
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by probablynish 3y ago
> if you used the product and your income is bigger than $x per year, you owe $1000 to the project per year How would you enforce this?
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by probablynish 3y ago
Steel manning here, the outcome is unfortunate because presumably these projects have positive externalities (benefits accruing to people other than other than whoever is paying, if anyone) and so the optimal funding for them from a social&
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by probablynish 3y ago
Off topic: I noticed that the points count got reset with the URL was changed to businessinsider. Is this normally what happens?
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by probablynish 3y ago
This is the first time I realized that Ubuntu version numbers were linked to dates. Mind blown.
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by probablynish 3y ago
I know that this article is probably 'objectively good design' in some way, seeing as its written by front-end experts of some sort, but I found the content much tougher to read and digest than a much plainer format. All the diffe
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by probablynish 3y ago
> I am asking about Instagram / Facebook / Twitter. I find Instagram pretty valuable, and I've tried to create a habit of going on it every day or two for 15-20 minutes (I have to exert effort to do this). I have close fri
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by probablynish 3y ago
Seems like it might now become much easier to post a clip on YouTube that looks like an authentic BBC clip, logo and all. If generative AI gets that good, how will you be able to tell whether a particular piece of media comes from a trusted
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by probablynish 3y ago
I think there's a big difference between a walking commute and a driving commute. I'd welcome a 15 minute walking commute each day - even while WFH I like to take a 15 minute walk up and down my road before starting my day because
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by probablynish 3y ago
I'm curious - where have you been finding these thriving communities? Every year or so I try looking for something that feels like the web of the IRC / indie internet forums era, but never have any luck
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by probablynish 3y ago
Have you heard of Obsidian? It's a note-taking app build on locally stored markdown files with bidirectional linking and a great ecosystem of third party plugins. One of the most popular plugins is https://github.com/bl
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by probablynish 3y ago
Out of curiosity, what are your outside of work activities?
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by probablynish 3y ago
I think this is country specific. F1's service in the US is great, but the NFL international game pass isn't available to people who live in the US, it's not as easy to watch domestically.
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by probablynish 3y ago
Tennis is better than most sports with the glaring exception of watching the grand slams (which are the 4 biggest tournaments!). Otherwise TennisTV does a pretty good job of letting you watch all other tournaments live/on-demand. So, n
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by probablynish 3y ago
You're right, and the wider point is that one should always maximize their own utility/happiness function. So also, if smoking cigarettes and eating ice cream makes you so happy that it compensates for poorer health and shorter li
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by probablynish 3y ago
Other than no smoke, alcohol, the basics to aim for would be: good quality 8 hours sleep every day, a few hours exercise a week (mix of strength and cardio), healthy-ish diet (minimize sugar and processed foods), look after your mental heal
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by probablynish 4y ago
I thought the title was worded poorly (shouldn't it be "US and China wage war over internet cables beneath the waves"?) so I clicked through - that missing hyphen really does make a difference. "US and Chine wage war ben
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by probablynish 4y ago
The *.cpp adaptations of popular models appear to have optimized them for the CPU, for example llama.cpp and alpaca.cpp let me generate several tokens in a matter of seconds.
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by probablynish 4y ago
Bitwarden lets you do this with an 'Organization'. Free to share things between two accounts, looks like $40/yr to share between up to 6 users.
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by probablynish 4y ago
This really depends on the cost/benefit tradeoff for the entity in question. If using ChatGPT makes you X% more productive (shipping faster / lowers labor costs / etc), but comes with Y% risk of data leakage, is that worth it
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by probablynish 4y ago
"In a normal tech company, software developers would be organized into an established hierarchy, with managers, job descriptions and performance reviews. If it were publicly traded, investors would receive standardized disclosures abou
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by probablynish 4y ago
> Does performance matter more when the decision maker is also using the software? If any econ grad students are reading this, that’d be a good thesis topic. As a former Econ grad student, this is a case of what's called the princip
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by probablynish 4y ago
I thought this was real up until I got to the part about splitting a share with another family..
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by probablynish 4y ago
I went to www.localharvest.org and checked out the top three results for my location. They all seemed like a much worse option than my current supermarket (right now I do all my groceries at a supermarket that's 5 minutes walk from my
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by probablynish 4y ago
> So what? You don't understand why the things I listed are relevant to where people choose to shop?

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