sooheon

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by sooheon 1y ago
Uncritical acceptance of the premise is a defense. The assumption is that patents "incentivize inventors". This is an empirical claim that is at odds with historical evidence: https://fee.org/articles/do-pat
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by sooheon 1y ago
There are solid economic arguments that they were never the right model, even "back in The Day": http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstfinal.ht... Patents are government granted monopolies
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by sooheon 1y ago
Driving your car incurs real externalities. Putting a price on it fixes the artificial extra incentive to drive, by making freeloaders pay up.
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by sooheon 1y ago
Taking up space, degrading public infrastructure, polluting the air, and killing pedestrians are real ongoing costs of transportation. The cost does not magically end at vehicle purchase.
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by sooheon 1y ago
Interesting read. But to me, describing attention as "a weighted mean of a continous learned k-v map lookup" is direct and descriptive, while saying "it's just kernel smoothing" is opaque and referential.
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by sooheon 1y ago
Yes threading macros are so much nicer than method chaining, because it allows general function reuse, rather than being limited to the methods that happen to be defined in your initial data object.
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by sooheon 1y ago
To clarify, dealing with spotty connection / offline mode is not possible with this kind of approach?
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by sooheon 2y ago
I agree, would just add the addendum: > the road to hell is paved with good intentions... including—or especially yours
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by sooheon 2y ago
Totally! You have clearly understood George's most important insights.
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by sooheon 2y ago
Evidence: homeowners consistently and overwhelmingly vote for NIMBY policies in every jurisdiction around the world. Counterclaim: I reject.
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by sooheon 2y ago
What you described ("minimum value that is not taxed...") is the definition of a step function. But yes, binned income brackets is also a form of means testing, and a poor way to design taxes.
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by sooheon 2y ago
> What dense city with a thriving commercial and business/industrial base is cheaper to live in than a less-developed rural small town? Wrong question; dense cities with thriving economies are more valuable, so they should be more
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by sooheon 2y ago
This is why historically land reform occurred via revolution, not policy.
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by sooheon 2y ago
This is called means testing, and it's a poor way to design policy because it creates step functions and breakpoints, distorting the market.
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by sooheon 2y ago
They get taxed less, because instead of taxing their produce and income, their land is taxed, and agro land is very cheap. On a quick google, I can find a 140 acre alfalfa farm in Idaho for $1.4MM ($100k/acre), and a 0.07 acre empty re
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by sooheon 2y ago
> Give me the private ownership of all the land, and will I move the earth? No; but I will do more. I will undertake to make slaves of all the human beings on the face of it. From "Archimedes", by Mark Twain, 1889
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by sooheon 2y ago
> On modal dialogs/sheets, press Command + the first letter of the button to press that button. ⌘. is the shortcut equivalent of the Escape key. This was my favorite, but no longer works on Sequoia or whenever was the version that c
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by sooheon 2y ago
The solution to tragedies of the commons is to internalize externalities. Tax should scale with carbon use, congestion contribution, and microplastic emission.
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by sooheon 2y ago
Money talks. No amount of outreach makes a mispriced offer attractive.
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by sooheon 2y ago
What someone from the past would have said.
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by sooheon 2y ago
I remember (apocryphal?) Microsoft's chatbot developing pidgin to communicate to other chatbots. Every layer of the NN except the first and last already "think" in latent space, is this surprising?
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by sooheon 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup Korean law specifically prohibits presidential interference with the legislative branch even under martial law, a clause written in blood. The first thing Yoon did was try to loc
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by sooheon 2y ago
Gotcha. A tax on the land itself will sort out these underutilization incentives.
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by sooheon 2y ago
Land ownership is state granted monopoly. This is antithetical to free markets.
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by sooheon 2y ago
This is a distinction without a difference if those rights constrain what can be done with the land.
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by sooheon 2y ago
> You would end up with people paying property tax for their gym memberships and apartment rentals. Economic theory on tax incidence says otherwise. Land, being inelastic, takes the tax burden. Land tax cannot be passed on to tenants or
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by sooheon 2y ago
If you want to estimate the stock market, would you rather: 1. sum 500 of the biggest companies by size (price * n shares). or 2. have WSJ editors select 30 companies by any criteria they see fit, but you don't get to see the size of t
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by sooheon 2y ago
Put another way, IYY and DIA combined hold <0.1% of NVDA's market cap.
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by sooheon 2y ago
I have the latter Gatekeeper option, and I often have to click "Allow anyway". I don't see how being forced to click an extra button in a preference pane makes things more secure.
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by sooheon 2y ago
Why is it that non app store apps refuse to run until I explicitly allow it in settings then?

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