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by tjs8rj 5y ago
Always scratching my head at the language around obesity by some, even experts, as being a disease (as mentioned in your article). Is it contracted? Do they think the cause of obesity is some genuine biological anamoly or defect or disorder
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Very neat, surprising it was somewhat effective. To make it more robust, make sure you’re capturing delisted stocks, and running multiple Monte Carlo simulations with varied parameters (like hold length, etc) helps. Watch for slippage and f
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I feel like I can be a pretty ruthless person and I only scored about the middle of the range. Pretty terrifying to imagine a good chunk of the population is allegedly even darker
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This is what a liability state looks like. Nobody gets sued for following the CDC, that same CDC that says you should never eat raw sushi or rare steak
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By this do you mean making all consumer software free and all new consumer software must be free?
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Twitter is just as dangerous as Facebook as far as I can tell. So much outrage that’s spilled into riots and bloodshed has been fomented on there in broad daylight with little repercussion. Do you judge people who work at Twitter too?
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The most we can really conclude is that they don't currently appear to be possible. We have a sample size of 1 with how many universes we've studied. As far we know, this could be a simulation, or a brief moment in time when the e
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"The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose" - J. B. S. Haldane I've seen so many documentaries and articles pessimistically concluding we'll never go to another star much less anot
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The share of gdp is relevant as a proxy for competition. A monopoly is what made the surplus charging the American dream. That America is losing that monopoly as reprented by its share of global gdp means: outsourcing, foreign investment el
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I’m convinced the American dream of the last nearly 100 years has been an aberration. Americans found themselves making up half the global economy post-WW2, the world was decimated but the population grew rapidly, demand surged for American
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I wasn't trying to make a controversial statement here. Whatever needs to be done to best prepare students for success is the goal, whether that's teaching them different things or simply changing the way we teach entirely.
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That's a fair point, and one I'm just as prepared to agree with as the one I made if it is a more viable path.
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I heard this talk at Microsoft about outlier success, and while somewhat of a throwaway comment, the speaker mentioned that the vast majority of the low American standing in those international math score comparison is due to motivation. Su
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While I agree with most of what you said, the idea that people are only against drugs because of backwardness or selfishness seems off. Is there any society that didn’t ban most drugs? My preference to ban drugs mainly comes from the harm a
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Is this all one large map? If so, since minecraft is flat, where do they cutoff the map (presumably you can’t go around the globe like in the real world)? Are they building based on the Mercator projection?
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Why all the attention on Facebook? How many people has Twitter radicalized? We had a year of riots with 10s dead and billions in damage, the actual taliban and hamas are active on Twitter, and any content you find on Facebook is just as rea
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Part of it I’m sure is: the kind of people who become executives tend to be the kind that like work. Nothing wrong with that, there’s a lot to enjoy in “being productive”, accomplishing tasks, feeling like you’re making an impact, optimizin
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Coolest one I’ve seen is VR workspaces. Buying a $5k setup per head where they can work from space or the Grand Canyon with unlimited monitors, sit/stand/lay down, software upgrades (only a few pieces of hardware to replace), virt
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Missing is a reason to return the book promptly, or to avoid getting it lost, or to avoid stealing books. Why not just cap fees are the value of the book replacement?
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I think the destruction of openness is a reflection of the user they serve. When Airbnb serves only NYC they can be idiosyncratic to the population there, and their smaller user base is a more similar type of person. Once at scale, they hav
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by tjs8rj 5y ago
You make a good point, how would we tell the difference though? If social media as it stands causes unreasonable harm to society, how would we know for sure? And how would we know we aren’t making the same mistakes made with demonizing vide
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Exactly. These are power law economics vs index funds uniform distribution of rewards - but that’s a relevant caveat! The trope of “should’ve just put your money in the index” is an implicit suggestion that index funds are the best place fo
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Wonder what this looks like per capita. Not much population growth between now and then but enough that it’d skew it. Population has grown by 10% over this period
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But it isn’t. There’s entire firms dedicated to it with internal returns far higher than the stock market. There are just shy of an infinite of investments and investing strategies that have beat the s&p in average returns for decades o
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I don’t understand this sentiment - that generally the best investing return is just index funds. Really? The dominant strategy in investing is also the easiest one by far, while also simultaneously being the definition of “average returns
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A fraction of people participate in and encourage cancel culture
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Sorry that wasn’t my intention at all, feel free to delete this
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What’s does an “actual mental health” advocate for men look like to you? Clearly men are resonating with these barbershops, clearly they find emotional and mental value in them, as far as I can tell there hasn’t been some streak of violence
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The rate of sexual abuse by priests is slightly lower than that by public school teachers. Obviously there’s a lot of factors here, but “proximity to and frequent interactions with children making sexual abuse more possible” may be the bigg
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It might be a marketing failure, or you’re just not the target customer. If they’re targeting startups with runaway spending problems, “...the only X that helps you spend less” sounds super appealing. At the end of the day, all that matters

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