tchaffee

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by tchaffee 3y ago
At 75% of the US population obese and a cost to society in the billions, that's no longer "some subset of the population". It's long past the point of "people with this issue should take responsibility". If you
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by tchaffee 3y ago
Divisive politics to the point of violence or even self destruction. Some pests you try to exterminate.
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by tchaffee 3y ago
Soaking the beans and discarding that water before cooking them greatly reduces the phytic acid. Beans are excellent for health. You just have to follow the traditional methods of prepping them.
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by tchaffee 3y ago
Or I just understand the realities of having to sort through large piles of CVs while having a time limit. And that in the real world HR will indeed use heuristics, even ones that don't appeal to our sense of fairness or effectiveness.
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by tchaffee 3y ago
> If you're letting HR who have no idea what they're doing, go from "a hundred CVs" to "two openings" you are bad at your job. What I said was different. How many CVs should we eliminate before calling peopl
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by tchaffee 3y ago
Or they are just busy. A pile of a hundred resumes and two open positions usually means you disqualify quickly. Sometimes we need to pay rent and deal with obnoxious HR departments.
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by tchaffee 3y ago
HR will definitely reject someone because of the title of a blog post. When you have a pile of a hundred CVs and two openings, you disqualify quickly. I'm basing this on real world experience.
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by tchaffee 3y ago
Fair point that you're just making a prediction about future capabilities. I'm not convinced but time will tell.
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by tchaffee 3y ago
Can you reassure me then with the data that backs up your claim? Because in my very long career I've seen a lot of people use heuristics when deciding who to follow up with. "According to a 2018 CareerBuilder survey, 70% of employ
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by tchaffee 3y ago
Get your resume. HR looks up your name. Throws out the resume. It could be fun if you can get an interview. It might hurt you though.
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by tchaffee 3y ago
Ok, so you couldn't give sources for your first claim, so now you're moving the goal posts. Let's try again. Can you give sources showing that AI effectively models the economic decisions of non-rational actors? Anyone who ca
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by tchaffee 3y ago
Waiting a few weeks for a GP appointment is normal everywhere. And it was far better in London before Brexit. The significant factor actually being the defunding of NHS that has happened over the past decade. My non-emergency care in London
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by tchaffee 3y ago
What rational actors? Could you share some sources showing that individual economic choices are mostly driven by a cost-benefit analysis to determine whether an option is right for them? As opposed to being driven by habit, emotion, and soc
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by tchaffee 3y ago
> my point is that the power of the police unions is due to the public support for the police, not simply their collective bargaining power. I would guess there are other factors. The NHS is hugely popular in the UK, and the workers unio
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by tchaffee 3y ago
> everyone wants to "support" the police no matter what. > many leftists, who are generally very supportive of labor unions, still want to "defund the police" Seems like one of these claims needs adjustment. Also n
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by tchaffee 3y ago
Hiring based on a sustainable budget makes sense. That doesn't tell us if we should hire a few people at a high salary or lots of folks at much lower salaries. I don't have an answer either. It's one of the few economics ques
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by tchaffee 3y ago
We only need to look to nature to find the immortal jellyfish. Much of medical science is "artificial" extension of life. Natural would be you dying of Smallpox at a young age. Instead you've artificially extended your life w
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by tchaffee 3y ago
And who forced you to work for that employer?
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by tchaffee 3y ago
What I'm asking is how would people employed in the public sector negotiate a fair wage if the unions didn't exist? What would the mechanism be? What's your definition of "overly generous"? Based on what criteria?
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by tchaffee 3y ago
We are already there. The FDA has approved hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. And there are over 3000 clinical trials under way. We know already that we can effectively treat some blindness. The reason I mentioned heart disease is bec
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by tchaffee 3y ago
What was the "forcibly" part?
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by tchaffee 3y ago
Public sector unions do seem problematic. How do you suggest public employees negotiate the highest possible wages for themselves?
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by tchaffee 3y ago
UPS drivers just negotiated $150k TC by the end of five years. That's for unskilled labor. Think about how much additional profit highly skilled engineers could capture from company owners if we negotiated as team against the organized
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by tchaffee 3y ago
It seems like we are so close to some huge breakthroughs in longevity. With stem cells we can do things like this. "The extent of change caused by a heart attack is too great for the heart to repair itself or to prevent further damage
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by tchaffee 3y ago
Yes, that's an assertion I would dismiss. It's easy enough to say "we don't know", and far more accurate.
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by tchaffee 3y ago
> Medical bankruptcy is indeed pretty widespread in the US, but not among people with Facebook or Google benefits. That's interesting. What's your data source showing this outcome?
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by tchaffee 3y ago
Intel is still around, still innovating, and still profitable. It has a lot more competition than in the past, but they are still a force to be reckoned with.
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by tchaffee 3y ago
I haven't seen any evidence in any of your comments. You try to persuade (which is not evidence), but I haven't been persuaded.
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by tchaffee 3y ago
> The Great Depression lasted quite a while! It wasn't caused by a big advance in technology. [1] "There is no consensus among economists and historians regarding the exact causes of the Great Depression. However, many scholars
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by tchaffee 3y ago
I would rather use TC because health plans and pensions vary from company to company. So the number I'd go with is around $150,000. Right of you to call out the rounding up though. The article was exaggerating with $170k, and to rememb

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