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by savanaly 9y ago
When you flip burgers you have to show up at predetermined times, no matter if you're having a bad day or something inconvenient comes up, have to wear a cheesy uniform and put on a smile, tolerate whatever coworkers you get thrown in
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by savanaly 9y ago
Yeah I don't think I emphasized quite enough that my post was against Shkreli-bashing, not objecting to him going to jail for fraud.
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by savanaly 9y ago
These subsequent actions he took are harassment, I agree.
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by savanaly 9y ago
Time to attempt to defend Shkreli again because while I find him to definitely be of questionable moral character, I get even more sore at the unhinged Shkreli-bashing by everyone I know which seems to be based almost entirely on mood affil
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by savanaly 9y ago
It's not like hospitals are wildly profitable to run though? I think the inflated costs are due to the little understood phenomenon of "cost disease" rather than owners of hospitals extracting outrageous rent for themselves a
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by savanaly 9y ago
Yep, this has happened to me. DDG simply doesn't give me the results I want and expect I would get on Google, I can only stand a few days of using it before I go back. I'm guessing it has to be the (what I once thought was subtle,
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by savanaly 9y ago
The analogy between music and programming holds at this stage. I can guarantee you all the musicians in this band [0] had their own distinctive style to some degree or another and would have even loved to have been paid to perform it but th
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by savanaly 9y ago
Do comments like this help the situation in any meaningful way either, though?
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by savanaly 9y ago
Huh? You could still have all those benefits if you took the lump sum. Just put it in index funds and extract as needed. Stocks deemed too risky? Put it in bonds. It will still be better than the pathetic interest rate offered by the lotter
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by savanaly 9y ago
The situation sounds much more like The Shield. The Wire was focused on institutional problems. It was more interested in the tragedy that incentives in the police force and city government were such that barely an iota of thought was ever
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by savanaly 9y ago
If that's the case, how is the virus going to infect my computer unless I run untrusted code I downloaded on purpose? And if I'm doing that then I am accepting I'm likely going to get hacked, before and after Spectre/Mel
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by savanaly 9y ago
>customers have relatively little ability to choose providers or price shop, and they often don't really understand what they're being asked to buy. I don't agree that these are good reasons to make healthcare not a market
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by savanaly 9y ago
I found this post (not by an economist, mind you, but by a psychiatrist who also writes about economics and politics a lot) helpful in thinking about this "cost disease" that afflicts healthcare and many other industries. http:&#
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by savanaly 9y ago
>Sometimes I wonder if I’m just going to be holding my AMZN stock until I retire. An HN comments section is hardly the place to go into this, but I just can't let a comment like that pass unchecked, so forgive me! But a company&#x2
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by savanaly 9y ago
My strategy is to look at the type of games already made that are of the type I want to make (whether it be Minecraft, Flappy Bird, or Diablo) and look at what game engine/program the developers of that used. Then I know it is possible
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by savanaly 9y ago
Let's say that winning ALL slots on a market dominant platform does have a value unto itself, and the total value is V. Then Google can consume the spots itself, but it is giving up the ability to sell the package of all slots to someo
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by savanaly 9y ago
>In this setup, the business that owns the advertising platform has an advantage over all other businesses in industry X, because it pays itself advertising revenue, where the other companies have to pay their competitor. So money is alw
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by savanaly 9y ago
Obviously it is implied that this article is giving advice for people who set their own schedule and are wondering about how to move time around to feel more productive. Not for people who have their schedule strictly set for them by their
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by savanaly 9y ago
I've heard a theory for explaining that that goes like this: 1. choosing a career path you're not interested in can be considered a luxury 2. women tend to be less interested in computer science 3. people in the "first world&
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by savanaly 9y ago
In everyday life I've never found it to be too inconvenient to be as accommodating as possible to others and communicate with them on their own terms, whether that means remembering to use the pronouns they want or using alternative te
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by savanaly 9y ago
When you spend X dollars on a goverment project, materials and labor worth approximately X dollars are eliminated from the face of the earth. When you give a tax break of X dollars nothing is removed from the face of the earth, the X dollar
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by savanaly 9y ago
Is this the advice that nascent Google took? Considering they are infamous for not responding to support requests at all now that they're big, it appears they did put in place a support system that didn't scale.
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by savanaly 9y ago
These [0] are examples of chord progressions. In other words, progression means nothing more than a series of chords. A "harmonically unexpected chord" would be if the chord progression was playing out and a chord you wouldn'
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by savanaly 9y ago
I'm confused what a "sample" group means in this context. Take people who have one and only one sibling: For the studied population (people who chose to take the SSC survey) the % of people who were the older sibling was some
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by savanaly 9y ago
Thanks for the detailed history lesson, I enjoyed reading it.
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by savanaly 9y ago
Good intentions obviate the need for evidence based policy making?
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by savanaly 9y ago
>Instead, perhaps we can focus on how we can fix this sharing economy, so that we can all benefit; not just the ones who happened to raise the most money from shareholders. I already benefit from it massively. Before my roommate got me i
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by savanaly 9y ago
I have a longtime bookmark which I frequently return to and reread which is about Ricardo, comparative advantage and its legacy. An essay by Paul Krugman called Ricardo's Difficult Idea. [0] I think it might make for a good companion r
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by savanaly 9y ago
>The impossibility is not due to methodological defects in the current state of scientific practice. It's intrinsic to the world. If you cheat only a bit, and only rarely, it might be impossible to detect it statistically. I don&#x2
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by savanaly 9y ago
There's not any point in debating it in the comments right here and right now. Time will tell if my enjoyment of the internet is severely degraded to the degree predicted by the most upvoted comments on Reddit/HN. I was simply exp

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