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The Focus You Fear(avinashv.net)
2 points by tvchurch 8mo ago|1 comments
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by tvchurch 8mo ago
"I’ve had a running list for most of the past year—things I want to get better at, projects I want to finish, skills I want to develop. At various points there have been four or five items on it, all getting some portion of my week. I’
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by tvchurch 11mo ago
Author here. DPC is terrific if you have an option near you! Paired with catastrophic insurance, it's a great bet for relatively healthy people. The DPC Alliance map is well worth a visit: https://mapper.dpcfrontier.com&#x2F
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by tvchurch 11mo ago
Author here. I'm definitely not advocating going without health insurance. Just running simple numbers to get some perspective. I'd like to see health insurance act like insurance again though. Right now it covers absolutely every
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by tvchurch 1y ago
Congrats, man. Love this game. Now get the Word of the Day ported over too!
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by tvchurch 2y ago
This is why the internet exists. Incredible catharsis. Love it.
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by tvchurch 3y ago
Always hard to put these number in perspective. Here's the one that worries me: Interest payments on the debt are projected to grow to 6.7 percent of GDP in thirty years (right now they're 1.9 percent and Social Security outlays a
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by tvchurch 6y ago
1) The text box for answers should already be clicked and ready to type in. So when you submit your answer, you don't need to click again to get the next question. 2) To move things along, the correct / incorrect response should p
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by tvchurch 7y ago
"For such a liberal city?"
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by tvchurch 7y ago
"The Housing: San Francisco has deeply conservative tendencies for such a liberal city. Its housing supply isn't growing fast enough to keep up with rising demand." Restrictive housing is more of a liberal phenomenon than a c
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Am I a Market Fundamentalist?(medium.com)
1 points by tvchurch 7y ago|0 comments
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by tvchurch 7y ago
Here's Alex Nowrasteh on this topic: https://twitter.com/AlexNowrasteh/status/1164862732102963200 1.4% of all arrests in 2014 were federal. Most law enforcement is by local or state governments. This headline
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by tvchurch 7y ago
This makes me think of Charlie Munger's insistence on checklists: https://www.amazon.com/Poor-Charlies-Almanack-Charles-Expand...
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by tvchurch 8y ago
How much extra do NYC renters pay from not building enough new supply? Or from rent control stifling the development of new supply?
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by tvchurch 8y ago
I've got to know more about this. Who set it up? Local start up? Bored engineers?
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by tvchurch 9y ago
While the full article is gated at WSJ, John Cochrane and David Henderson write about the lack of quantifying economic costs when it comes to addressing climate change. Their last paragraph: Climate policy advocates’ apocalyptic vision dem
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by tvchurch 9y ago
Here's the other thing about administrative costs: Medicare's patients cost a lot more per person than private insurance. In other words, if it costs you $500 in administration costs and one patient has care that totals $5,000 and
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An attempt to study broadband investment in a net neutrality world(realclearpolicy.com)
2 points by tvchurch 9y ago|1 comments
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by tvchurch 10y ago
This is closer to what James was trying to get across in the article - how you do engagement means a lot. I also say this while happily wearing my Readertron t-shirt. He's right - the conversations we had on Reader were very, very good
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by tvchurch 10y ago
I strongly recommend reading about John Cochrane's notion of equity-financed banking (PDF): http://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/research/docs/geor... It functionally eliminates bank runs
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by tvchurch 10y ago
This is a collection of mental models Charlie uses to explain human behavior. It was basically behavioral psychology before the field exploded. Definitely take the time to read it. While it isn't a peer reviewed piece of work, you&#x27
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by tvchurch 10y ago
Sure. Anyone pro- or anti-wind will say whatever argument they can to try to convince people. All I'm saying is before we decide to build more wind turbines, we should have an honest accounting of all of the benefits and costs laid out
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by tvchurch 10y ago
That's what I mean. Wind might be generated "for free," but one cost is what it looks like. Another is how many birds it kills a year. ( http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-many-birds-do-w... ) Th
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by tvchurch 10y ago
Right, and making sure the base load of energy generation is stable. We'll get there. I'd just like to make sure we remember that absolutely everything has a cost. The cost of anything is the value it has in its alternative uses.
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by tvchurch 10y ago
"Admits" seems a bit harsh, like he was doing his best to hide something from the world. By all accounts, it looks like he had written out a reasonable explanation as to why he predicted solar would not become cost effective. At t
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Increasing H-1B visas leads to billions more in tax revenue and GDP.(advancingafreesociety.org)
1 points by tvchurch 13y ago|0 comments
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by tvchurch 13y ago
I've been looking everywhere for a way to save all of my tags from Google Reader. I can verify that CloudPull preserves all tagged data and the links to the websites that have been tagged. If you were worried about losing all of your bookma
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Hallelujah! CloudPull successfully scrapes "tag" data from Google Reader(goldenhillsoftware.com)
4 points by tvchurch 13y ago|3 comments
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An appeal to anyone working on Reader substitutes: Please incorporate tagging
5 points by tvchurch 14y ago|0 comments
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by tvchurch 14y ago
I'd urge everyone to give Readertron (readertron.com) a try. It was built by programmer (and good friend of mine) who was frustrated when Google nerfed the ability to share among friends within Google Reader. It's a work in progress, but at

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