sooheon

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by sooheon 8y ago
It's drawing unnecessary attention to the sex of the human over the content of the argument. The way people casually (and self deprecatingly) throw it into conversation seems like a cheap way to win points with those who share a certai
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by sooheon 8y ago
> Outside of rent seeking, which I regard as fairly rare This is a big assumption to make. Successful rent seeking is very much a constant interest of profitable organizations--why would a business leave low risk, high margin money on th
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by sooheon 8y ago
For all we know they do that as well. This is a more general petition to the world at large not to behave like they're entitled to more just because #vanlife.
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by sooheon 8y ago
There are more variables at play than just co2, humans are not perfectly elastic spherical CO2 emitters ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Clean_Air_Study https://www.apa.org/monitor/apr01/
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by sooheon 8y ago
Curious--is this hyperventilation, a la Wim Hof?
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by sooheon 8y ago
To steel-man your point, I agree that legislature that amounts to surface level micromanagement is almost always counter productive. I like your macroeconomic approach to these issues. Still, I found your counterexamples here dismissive but
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by sooheon 8y ago
Apparently the one downside of Borg is that it has to walk the whole filesystem for backups, rather than picking up changes: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/325 According to a more up to date compar
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by sooheon 8y ago
I think you're conflating two thing: solvability and rationality. Your example shows that nothing may be completely solvable, because the cost of calculation is too high. It says nothing about the universe being fundamentally irrationa
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by sooheon 8y ago
> that there is no complete rational explanation of reality ... that fits inside a current day human's brain. I see no reason to believe this is true fundamentally.
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by sooheon 8y ago
Why not just phase out the paper tickets? They disappeared in Korea after just a couple years of the electronic cards being on market, it seems like.
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by sooheon 8y ago
Why can't it be in the process of happening? Is there a global on/off switch somewhere?
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by sooheon 8y ago
I'm struggling to think of a progressive tax scheme that calls for 99.9% tax rate even on the highest bracket. $1 vs $1000 is such a bad straw man I'm not sure why you'd weaken your argument with it. > the entire point of
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by sooheon 8y ago
You don’t solve the prisoners dilemma by saying “fuck it let’s just all stab each other’s backs”. I’m arguing humanity should cooperate to achieve the better state, and punish defectors if needed to balance the incentives. This at least sho
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by sooheon 8y ago
It means the ordering remains monotonic. It means if you’re on top of the world, you remain so with all the psychological trappings, just on a slightly lower mound. The scraps that come from slightly lowering your absolute position (but kee
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by sooheon 8y ago
I don't buy this, because we're not proposing to only tax Bezos until he has the exact same net worth as Joe Schmoe who collects POGs--this is a straw man. If we tax all the uber-rich 5% more, everyone would be in the exact same p
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by sooheon 8y ago
> I'm not saying that everyone needs to achieve these things to be happy. But I would say that I think it's easy to look up to say, 2-3x your own income and say "how could anyone ever want more than that", but then wh
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by sooheon 8y ago
Why do you equivocate progressive taxation with "truncating" income at a certain level? It's not a low-pass filter.
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by sooheon 8y ago
Regardless, the theoretical considerations are a straw man. No serious progressive tax scheme results in a hard cap of income at something as low as $10m.
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by sooheon 8y ago
Since this is a claim asserted without basis (nobody can claim to know a counterfactual, let alone someone else's mind), I can also assert the opposite: Bezos didn't get to where he was without having a hell of a drive for success
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by sooheon 8y ago
Let's assume poor and rich are equally likely to speed (except the rich who only move in limos or helis). Flat fees still hurt the poor more, because they cut into living expenses. To be truly egalitarian, these fees should be a % of i
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by sooheon 8y ago
Yes. Chance + opportunism can lead to plenty of long term gains.
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by sooheon 8y ago
Still, his point is easy to turn around on him. Why is he "just" a business coach, selling his personal labor? Why trust what he has to say if he isn't CEO of the world's largest MNC for business coaching services? It&#x
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by sooheon 8y ago
I think the comment was a dig at the stiff enunciation, not necessarily the content. Anyways, enjoyed the conversation.
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by sooheon 8y ago
Emacs + modal editing
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by sooheon 8y ago
And Barbara Kruger is getting nothing for this?
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by sooheon 8y ago
Whatever the definition of trade dress, don't you think it matters that it's likely to be stolen? I'd think that would be the first constraint.
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by sooheon 8y ago
No, because design is part of the value proposition. A brain hack that brings me happiness is... what any product is.
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by sooheon 8y ago
Awesome, love the storybook. Components>Media>Input is broken FYI.
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by sooheon 8y ago
I feel like you could be very right or very wrong, but have no way to tell because you are emphatic without being specific. What are the indicators of bad agile processes, and what would be better processes?
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by sooheon 8y ago
Design either fulfills its intended purpose or it doesn't. I don't know why you care how much the designer suffered for it.

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