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by seoaeu 5y ago
I trust someone who acknowledges that statistics can be used deceptively vastly more than I trust someone who doesn't.
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by seoaeu 5y ago
That's some pretty strong spin... Unnamed forecasters thought the number of jobs added should be higher, so we're disappointed by a quarter million new jobs.
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by seoaeu 5y ago
We also destroy enormous swaths of rain forest each year to increase the amount of land for cattle...
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Though from googling it also seems that they're not substantially worse.
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by seoaeu 5y ago
There are two subtly different kinds of efficiency: 1) How little input resources are used to produce a given amount of output. Tools that let you spend one hour to do a task instead of two fall in this category. As does growing twice as mu
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by seoaeu 5y ago
I'm arguing that a 10x increase in property taxes (or whatever 100k/year works out to) would already be enough to trigger the current owner to sell. Once the property is sold, a developer will find that their profit from construct
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by seoaeu 5y ago
But those rules are specific to California? I'm confused why people seem to be suggesting that a land value tax is the only possible solution, when an alternative would be to just make taxes in that state work the same as elsewhere.
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Can you really call the results of Proposition 13 "property taxes"? If an owner is currently paying next to nothing in taxes on their O($10M) plot of land, then practically any sane tax scheme is going to be better. I'd argue
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by seoaeu 5y ago
> Land value tax doesn't punish development the way that property tax does. If you can afford to pay 100% upfront for the cost of doing an addition to your house, then you can almost surely afford the ~1% per year additional taxes.
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Why would you assume that a LVT would be lower than current property taxes? If your land is built up the same as the average density of the surrounding area, then you probably were already paying comparable taxes to all your neighbors and y
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Wouldn't a purely land value tax be even more punishing? The mere fact that you are in a desirable area and could build an expensive structure on your plot would mean that you have to pay high taxes.
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by seoaeu 6y ago
Some people it turns out, don't want "political-outlet therapy", they want to build actual political power. When you work for a company that already has that sort of power, activism like this is a natural approach. In fact, I
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by seoaeu 6y ago
It is also a dead end because corporations have most of the power in the country.
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by seoaeu 6y ago
> a desire to gain/maintain status or power What you're describing is basically a textbook definition of 'politics'. I find it funny that you call this virtue signalling when that term was literally invented to descri
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by seoaeu 6y ago
> What I think is lost in the conversation here is that people don’t really have organizations they can go to to advocate their political positions. [...] The workplace is one of the few places where they can feel like they’re having an
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by seoaeu 6y ago
> A party planning committee is not targeting the rest of the company. Sounds like a pretty lame party if they're not inviting the rest of the company. Also, that you think discussing how to make a workplace more diverse, equitable,
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by seoaeu 6y ago
An IRB and a board of directors aren't remotely similar. UMN actually does have a board of trustees but they've had literally nothing to do with this incident. The senior administration (and the CS&E department prior to the ma
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by seoaeu 6y ago
Doing that could easily add an hour (or in particularly bad cases, two hours!) each way to your commute. Some people do make that tradeoff, but it seems really unpleasant. The big issue is that transit accessibility is priced into rent, so
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by seoaeu 6y ago
The letter [0] explains it better than I could: > Crucially, an essential requirement for research to be considered as “human subjects research” (and thus within the purview of the IRB) is that it involves collecting information about h
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by seoaeu 6y ago
The file sizes quoted should be for the resolution of image actually displayed. It would be fine to say a 960x540 image is X bytes with AVIF and Y bytes with JPEG and let viewers judge for themselves whether the two look equivalent. What th
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by seoaeu 6y ago
That page is rather deceptive because the images it uses are 1920x1080, but they are displayed after downsampling them to be much smaller. This masks the substantial blurriness introduced by lower quality levels of AVIF. If you zoom into th
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by seoaeu 6y ago
In another part of the thread, a commenter linked the response from the department which pointed out that the definition of human subject research and even IRBs themselves are governed by federal statute. A bunch did go wrong in this case,
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by seoaeu 6y ago
To quote the department [0] as was linked elsewhere: > An IRB evaluates “Human Subjects Research”, which has a precise technical definition according to US federal regulations (see 45 CFR 46.102), and this technical definition may not a
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by seoaeu 6y ago
UMN has many tens of thousands of students and faculty, on a similar scale to say Mountain View. It isn't "splitting hairs" to distinguish between the actual people involved in the untrustworthy behavior and everyone else.
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by seoaeu 6y ago
If the original headline had been "graduate student submits auto-generated patches wasting several hours of kernel developer time," I sincerely doubt there would have been any outrage. Certainly no one would be calling it proporti
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by seoaeu 6y ago
Why is that a problem? Most kernel contributors aren't governed by any ethics board at all!
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by seoaeu 6y ago
> Breaking the trust model and forcing the maintainers to revert all already accepted patches on suspicion alone The kernel developers chose to do that out of a combination of spite and excessive caution. The actual malicious patches did
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by seoaeu 6y ago
The entire point of an IRB is that they have independence from the rest of the institution, so they can make decisions on ethics without coercion. You're also ignoring that the UMN IRB never said this research was ethical . All they d
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by seoaeu 6y ago
> Like it or not, masking has minimal effect on spreading aerosols [citation needed]
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by seoaeu 6y ago
I was thinking more in line with http://www.underhanded-c.org , but that was also an interesting read

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