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by sigstoat 5y ago
> But if that candidate only made the blog posts and put stuff on github to help them get work, and not, say, because they were interested in the subject?... Then that becomes a reason to ignore their blog and github. they only wrote the
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> Ah, yes, purposefully waste people's time. Fuck them, right? as an interviewer, i'm far more concerned about the time spent sorting through piles of resumes from people who are just rolling the dice, and didn't read the
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> If someone lives forever, they don't evolve physically. you skipped some lessons in biology class; you're not doing any evolving over the course of _your_ life. regardless of how long or short it is.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> Instead of jumping to straight UBI we need to build an abundance of housing that is of good quality, affordable to build, is operated by the state since you're willing to take incremental steps, perhaps we could have the state sto
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> This was a heinous crime that should have been prosecuted as first degree murder. this thinking lets people escape convictions that would've been a sure thing if they were prosecuted for second degree. "first degree" doe
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> The core fallacy is to assume whatever made Earth less than ideal will not follow us to the new destination. there are plenty of existential risks which can't "follow" anything, or happen to more than one planet simultan
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> Similarly, once we get low-latency 10 GBit networking, new services will pop up that require these bandwidths. like what? this is brought up, but i'm not aware of anything waiting in the wings. is there anything in use these days
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by sigstoat 5y ago
his employer surely had workers comp insurance, and big signs about it in the breakroom, which are required by law.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
i can't be arsed to read some paywalled garbage, but i can guess what it says. are you at all familiar with missoula? i am. my wife is from there. i visit regularly. it is packed into one end of a mountain valley, surrounded by mountai
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by sigstoat 5y ago
as much as i like remote, and text interactions, i worked for a bit with some near-retirement guys who'd had health problems. they could still type to program, but the typing necessary to participate in a meeting was probably beyond th
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> All this will do is drive up the cost of housing as remote workers compete for it when you stop competing for the same strip of land, 10 miles from the pacific ocean, it turns out there's a sort of stupendous amount of land. while
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> If labor is 30% of your costs then you could pay 20% more by charging 6% more for your finished goods or services. right, businesses are all malign and evil, and they could raise their prices by 6% (without losing any business), but th
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by sigstoat 5y ago
i've never had a problem. but i'm not working for huge companies where the contract change would have to go through a legal department.
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closer to being the sort of thing that the institute for justice would take.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> That's a good question, ask them? you're making wild claims, and cannot offer a coherent theory that explains what you think is happening. not a good look. > If the borrow fee was enough to compensate the stock owners for
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by sigstoat 5y ago
did you know that the compensation for some of these index managers is tied to the returns of the fund? so if lending shares out hurt the fund, they'd make less money. what would be their motivation for harming their compensation?
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by sigstoat 5y ago
you are so beneath their notice that the idea they want to punish you is hilarious. you’re simply not their target audience. everything else is fantasy.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
contra the sibling comment, i've seen lots of home depot house sump pumps that just last a couple of years. quality, conditions, actual duty cycle vs designed, etc.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
i've heard the same complaints about people who cook with curry.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
seems like there's some consensus on two "exposures" worth of immunity being valuable. any data on second shots for folks who took the J&J?
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by sigstoat 5y ago
you should exit any trade, winning or loser, the instant you have a better plan for deploying the capital.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
seems rather expansive. as the sibling comment notes, it wasn't relevant to the states for some time. and until there was a nontrivial number of older students in state run schools, there wouldn't have even been opportunities for
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by sigstoat 5y ago
only the most psychopathic individuals say "oopsie daisy" after causing accidental death. for everyone else the result is usually a lot of sobbing. that doesn't mean they're not blase about taking risks ahead of time. bu
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by sigstoat 5y ago
https://www.aclu.org/other/tinker-v-des-moines-landmark-supr... students have had significant freedom of speech protections since 1969. not sure what time scale you had in mind.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
bogleheads has both a wiki, and a forum. r/investing has daily question threads you can hit up, where you can also get generally boglehead-themed advice.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
neither of them strike me as great but taking down the solar farm is probably cheaper and easier than rebuilding a mountain.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
pumped storage systems are so large as to be geographic features. there isn't much energy in a water tower. and that water is already doing work, pressurizing the water system.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> Maybe in the future clean power can be generated from pulling down mountains. it takes a lot of power to dismantle mountains and load them onto trains. and folks get real grumpy about mining operations leveling off mountains.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> Honestly- I don't think 99% of students will care. And those that do are largely the type that will not need this class (well off, or already would be doing this research, for example). we subject students to learning about stuff
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> It’s a bit hard to teach these concepts to somebody that has no practical knowledge of [...], etc. The ideas will seem far off and abstract. what do you think _can_ be taught to people (K-12 students) who have no practical knowledge of

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