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by spacehome 8y ago
There are dozens of us! DOZENS!
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by spacehome 8y ago
Do the two stores have the same number of apps?
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by spacehome 8y ago
Yea, but I'm thinking of something that increases the integral of happiness over lifetime. Your solution doesn't quite get there.
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by spacehome 8y ago
Do you think you would have been any happier with your old job, kids, and spouse? Presumably if you made the choice to give those up you thought it was a good idea at the time. Did you change your mind about that?
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by spacehome 8y ago
It's possible. This advice is reserved for people who have thought it over endlessly and have reached the end of what rational decision making can do. Probably they have considered a sense of purpose and had different thoughts on the
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by spacehome 8y ago
Depends on where.
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by spacehome 8y ago
18-year-olds have legal majority, but talk to one for an hour and you'll see most are not 'adult'. 500 years ago a 16 year old could be a man, contributing as a full fledged adult to his community. Today it's 25 if you
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by spacehome 8y ago
Did I read this correctly that proposing caused an insanely strong 5 point reduction in happiness? And that having a kid was also quite negative? It sounds like the takeaway is that if you're on the fence about any of these issues,
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by spacehome 8y ago
> Everyone has a natural level of happiness that is extremely difficult to change permanently. I see this is true in today's world, but I don't think there's any evidence that this is a permanent state of affairs. I have
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by spacehome 8y ago
The flip side to notice is not notice, but severance pay. Who cares if you're not required to go into work every day but the paycheck keeps rolling in?
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by spacehome 8y ago
That doesn't make any sense. For like-properties, rent has to cover maintenance and vacancy and compensate the landlord for the risk they're putting their capital at. On the other hand, at the end of the mortgage period, the lan
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by spacehome 8y ago
I think the only similarity is that both groups get to where they are suddenly, without proving any financial acumen, which distinguishes them from the multimillionaires who become such from decades of working, frugality, and investing. How
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by spacehome 8y ago
I agree with fsloth, but if you've made it to 29 without seeing some shit, I think you're the kind of person likely to make it to 40 without seeing shit either.
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by spacehome 8y ago
Sure, but just because two things are taxed at the same rate doesn't make them the same. And I would argue that, in effect, the capital gains are taxed less because the tax is not taken out each year, and instead the capital is left to
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by spacehome 8y ago
That money comes from future earnings. Averaged over the whole economy, it doesn't have a net effect.
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by spacehome 8y ago
No it's not "often" that high. Here's the list of the top 20 highest earnings per employee per year: https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-facebook-alphabet-most... Industrial Bank is #20 at $144k. Tha
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by spacehome 8y ago
It's not capital gains, because nothing is sold, but dividend income is taxed, whether or not it's re-invested. Form 1040, line 9.
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by spacehome 8y ago
"Any sufficiently advanced sarcasm is indistinguishable from sincerity." I'm gonna have to start adding sarcasm tags.
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by spacehome 8y ago
No, of course not, to both questions. All people should be treated equitably under the law, and we decided it’s illegal to discriminate along a very small number of dimensions for the essentials of life: employment and housing. But people
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by spacehome 8y ago
I didn't really mean to use the word that way. I mean more in the sense of "serving This American Life's storytelling goals". The best of their programs are very thought-provoking, and I'll end up thinking about t
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by spacehome 8y ago
This helps how?
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by spacehome 8y ago
I question the unspoken assumption that there should be an equitable split of male and female voices on the program. An alternative hypothesis is that the most interesting people skew male, or at least the ones willing to talk into a micro
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by spacehome 8y ago
It's not really the same kind of show. Fresh Air mostly consists of Gross interviewing a single interviewee.
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by spacehome 8y ago
> To figure out how much airtime is divided between men and women, we pulled the show's transcripts and categorized the gender of every person who speaks. It sounds difficult to figure out the gender of the speakers from their voice
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by spacehome 8y ago
Now you have bragging rights for 2027.
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by spacehome 8y ago
Meh. They can do what they want, but that was the end of my donations to Firefox.
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by spacehome 8y ago
Email the authors. There's a 50-50 chance they'll just give you the paper. Though I wouldn't lead with calling BS ...
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by spacehome 8y ago
Did you read the paper? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0401-y
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by spacehome 8y ago
This is incorrect. Amplitude decays as 1/distance, but energy (and power) decays as 1/distance^2. This is the same as electromagnetic radiation.
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by spacehome 8y ago
You're wrong on this one. The comment was substantive.

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