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by snarf21 3y ago
Upton Sinclair — 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'
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by snarf21 3y ago
I dumped it even pre Amazon purchase .. The killer feature I still want is to see highly rated books I haven't read from people who highly rate books I rate also rate high .. Recommendations are far too often it is always just genre&
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by snarf21 3y ago
First, we need major educational reform in this country. That said, the problem is that school must (in order to scale) by definition teach at the middle kid of any and all classrooms. This means some are always lagging behind and some are
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by snarf21 3y ago
I think KPIs are (one of) the issue(s) .. They will always fail because of Goodhart's Law .. Measurements are fine, but good luck finding any leadership that won't turn them into targets
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by snarf21 3y ago
Goodhart's Law says this will never work. That is the problem. Upton Sinclair — 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'
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by snarf21 3y ago
This is the thing I wish people would admit: it is all a preference. It's fine if some people want to WFH. It should also be fine if some people don't. Let employers fight to get their employees what their employees want or lose t
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by snarf21 3y ago
Like contract Bridge, there is always a Dummy which adds a lot of strategic depth. The Dummy is played via a very simple automata that players can leverage against the other players. This game is not teams, but is basically everyone against
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by snarf21 3y ago
I've put my contact info in my profile temporarily .. Email me and we can set something up!
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It is an amazing game but it is very hard to find young people willing to devote 40 hours to become even slightly proficient at the bidding systems. I've currently designed a card game that aims to have "a lot" of the complex
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I feel it is pretty straight forward. We are just the greediest species on the planet. Greed begets power and power begets more greed. But part of the problem is that by and our large our quality of life is ever increasing. No one wants to
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by snarf21 3y ago
It is just lobbying preventing good policy. If we moved to chip + pin, we'd get rid of almost 100% of CC fraud. But retailers don't want the friction so instead the consumer pays for the fraud instead.
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Agreed .. A lot of people will die as places become uninhabitable for a very very long time .. Access to clean water will become a major issue and the poor will lose (even more than they already are) .. Humans are a greedy species and this
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But lobbying has such better ROI!! .. We also need lawys from the federal level that all these "known" things must be pushed to the IRS and the state and local use that as their source of information .. Then this software just nee
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by snarf21 3y ago
I understand why you would want the choice but I think history has already shown that vouchers don't work. You have to remember that the thing vouchers do is take money out of the school you are leaving. (A better approach would be f
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by snarf21 3y ago
And some people not in the US forget sometimes how BIG the US is. Additionally, a lot of our holidays have tradition and ritual associated with them. My favorite day of the year is a family event the 3rd Saturday of December (just pre xma
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by snarf21 3y ago
Well said. That is the thing with all of these other on chain schemes for everything from real estate to food tracking to voting. It doesn't even matter how secure the voting/tracking part is, the chain can't actually provabl
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Especially at a younger age, you have to focus on some concrete "thing" with constant little minor improvements. I think most high school kids would be best served building out something like Battleship or Yahtzee (e.g.) in Javasc
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by snarf21 3y ago
While true, I think you are missing the time commitment and the relationships. Once the kids get home and you have dinner and soccer and karate and chores, a lot of people don't have time to squeeze in "find friends" time. Ad
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by snarf21 3y ago
I'm glad to see more discussion around remote/in-office work being a preference . I hate wfh and feeling stuck in the house all the time. However, I don't expect that everyone else must match me. I think it is good that some
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by snarf21 3y ago
> The founders of the constitution hated parties but ended up with the game that leaves only a two party competition. That's hardly a choice, it's a single bit. I've come to believe that the only thing we need to change to
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by snarf21 3y ago
While listening to a recent NPR podcast about green energy, the claimed that there were projects proposed for green energy that in sum would be larger than todays complete US generation from all sources. The main problems are around interco
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by snarf21 3y ago
Not my line but will share here: This is the perfect opportunity to be sure that moving forward we refer to any lazy susan as a tina turner .
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How would it do that? It is just a coin held at the Federal Reserve to make the debt not go over the "limit". It is just a magic trick on the ledger. It doesn't change the amount of money in circulation as the coin is never s
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We are less developed because no other country in the world has this debt ceiling structure (Denmark's is way different and no other country even has one). It is sad that it is used to simply as a tool to cut programs for poor people t
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This is not a solution in a system where your position can be cut after you've sold your house but before you start your first day. What you describe is that a main way to get a promotion used to be to move. I doubt that is really the
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by snarf21 3y ago
I think the contrast is supposed to be the difference between always monitoring people who post about protesting FOR X and/or protesting AGAINST X versus searching for posts of people who were near some incident related to some protest
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Would you rather them go out of business? Or downsize to only be available in high density, high income areas? I honestly don't see an end game, do you? The hope was that self driving was close and they just needed to capture market un
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by snarf21 3y ago
Agreed you have to go big or go retail. There is no other option. However, at some point 1K or 2K dairy cows hardly feels much like a "family farm" anymore.
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Sure but it is also about storage and density. Oranges have peels and don't stack that well and can be damaged. Extracting the value into a mostly rectangular container allows for the same product in an easier to distribute form factor
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A lot of these states have big problems with gerry-mandering and there tends to be huge wealth disparity between the few small wealth centers in the state and the rest of the state is extremely poor. The money just isn't being distribu

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