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For a much more critical take on Rawls, see Michael Huemer's "John Rawls is an Awful Reasoner" [0] Huemer is definitely writing in a polemical style that might turn some folks off, but I think the basic point -- that Rawls co
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Do you find that they interact with you/recognize you?
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On the bright side, if you had gotten funding, today you'd be A) working insane hours, and B) staring down the barrel of a meltdown that could easily kill your company. But I get it. Five few years ago, a woman friend and I were seated
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There was a good thread on red flags during an interview last year https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26426602 Repeating what I wrote then: >I once got stood up for a round of interviews — I showed up, waited, emailed
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Fun fact about Berea College, researchers who studied it found that "white students who are randomly assigned black roommates have a significantly larger proportion of black friends than white students who are randomly assigned white r
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Conventionally, insurance is a financial instrument designed to hedge against unlikely events, like a house fire. In the US, it’s easy to lose sight of this because we use a product called ‘insurance’ to pay for a bunch of regularly occurri
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> An outstanding manager > Consistent profitability > Above average growth When I saw these, totally sans punctuation, I read them as some kind of e.e. cummings poem assembled from randomly sampled capitalist mumbo jumbo
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Related materials (I am starting a role at GLO on Monday): White Paper: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E09fdrvBr_TgsUqODq-MROfo... Open Roles: https://boards.greenhouse.io/globalincomecoin FW
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Smith's NYRB essay 'Generation Why?,' is essential reading IMO [0]. She nicely explains how so many bright, hardworking folks can end up optimizing on goals that made sense to, e.g., a 20 year old college dropout, but that mi
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Many Graduate-Degree Programs Have Negative ROI(nationalreview.com)
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Anecdote that Tim is asking for: I upgraded from an iPhone 2020 SE to an iPhone 12 and suddenly it was easier to use the BlueBike app in New Orleans. With just LTE or whatever it’s called, sometimes the app wouldn’t connect at all and so i
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I was formerly a PhD student at Columbia in the social sciences. The faculty I interacted with didn't seem to care a whit one way or the other about the school at large, they were just really invested in the department's competiti
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NYT coverage: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/17/us/columbia-university-ra...
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My main git case is idiosyncratic -- I use blogdown [0] to host my personal blog, which means I am first pushing the content to GitHub and then it gets built/deployed on Netlify. I typically commit once at first as a pretty complete dr
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Has the observation that moral fashions are invisible held up well? I feel like a preponderance of my Twitter feed is commentary on moral fashions — wokeness, the drive towards cancellation and deplatforming, the pernicious effects of Trump
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I am a big fan of McCarhty's and I think Blood Meridian is absolutely transcendent. The advice in this article seems apt if you are writing a 'great' paper, in the sense of 'going to be a classic in your field.' But
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Hi there, just signed up for your free service, and wow, it's creepy to see my childhood home phone number just sitting there next to my name and current address so many times. Three things: First, I'm looking at your paid plans,
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Three Thoughts about NFTs(blogs.harvard.edu)
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Looks like a nice site! One piece of UX/design feedback -- the red color on 'START WRITING" triggers an automatic response that I've done something wrong or that a site is trying to warn me about something. I don't
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non-violent communication [0] and sales culture [1] both teach us that when someone makes a request, we can either take it at face value, or try to understand the underlying need. In Rachel's case, the requests kept on being red herr
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and if I had been born into his circumstances, perhaps I might have done the same. Living in a time/place where bribery is not necessary to get ahead is a historically rare privilege.
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previous thread about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30081034
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The way that scientific publishing has evolved into a cartel-based business with insane barriers to entry has a lot of parallels to the healthcare industry in the US. The core problem with both is a disconnect between users and payers — in
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An Apple share was worth a little under $7 when PG wrote this. Today, it hovers around $170, and Apple is the largest corporation in history (which also makes it, in some sense, the largest non-governmental institution in history). What do
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I liked Marshall Rosenberg's "Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life" a lot. I think the basic idea is on the money: that to connect with other people, we first must identify our own needs, how they are or are not being
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For context, the author of this piece passed away recently: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/books/lars-eighner-dead.a...
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Yeah, so basically the joy of writing the book was imagining the cycle of tactics/counter-tactics that my stratagems would engender.
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Edited OP to include it :)
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I’m 53,000 words into a Harry Potter fanfic that fixed some issues I had with the seventh book. Basically, I object to how little the main characters ‘play to win.’ Example: Team Voldemort taboos his name, so that if you say it, his goons s
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Isaiah Andrews, 2021 John Bates Clark Medalist [pdf](pubs.aeaweb.org)
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