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by typest 6y ago
I don’t disagree with you. I am an avid backpacker and really enjoy nature. Many studies show people have better mental attitudes when they can view trees daily, etc. I’ll just note that there are a lot of different points on the spectrum b
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by typest 6y ago
Cities are more efficient and sustainable. Most importantly, cities bring people together to enable cooperation, therefore acting as a multiplier on what is produced and generally making humanity better off. What’s needed are better run cit
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by typest 6y ago
Yes, the construction of a ballpoint pen could be made romantic. But I mean...it's pretty incredible how many humans collaborate to produce the ballpoint pen, millions of individuals cooperating in countless ways, producing an essentia
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by typest 6y ago
The idea is that it is not an empty silo. The thinking is that if your opponent wants to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against you, they'll need to target all your nuclear missiles with theirs, to prevent you from retaliation. If
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by typest 6y ago
It comes down to the difference between b2c and b2b business. In the case of b2c, you’re selling to consumers, who themselves use your UI and will leave if it’s bad. In the case of b2b, it’s more complicated. You’re selling to office admini
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Trump eyes starting own media company to rival Fox(axios.com)
19 points by typest 6y ago|28 comments
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by typest 6y ago
You can think about it this way -- approval voting allows you to vote strategically for a candidate (in case you are worried about the lesser of two evils winning), and then allows you to also vote for anyone you actually prefer, guaranteei
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by typest 6y ago
I think you have two incorrect assumptions here. You're assuming A) that parties and political ideologies exist in 1 dimension, and that B) the second party is closer to the third party than the first, such that its votes will go to th
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by typest 6y ago
Most surprising consequence is probably that IRV is unlikely to break 2 party dominance, even though it this is an often claimed advantage of IRV. The frequently imagined scenario with IRV is that, in a two party system where most people wi
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by typest 6y ago
Yes, you are right. I should have written more carefully. I am a huge fan of approval voting. Anyone reading this -- you should look more closely at approval voting, which surpasses ranked choice voting in many ways. https://elec
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by typest 6y ago
This is completely false. Pretty much all voting systems are susceptible to tactical voting, e.g. gaming the vote. This was formally proven via the Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem[1], which showed that the only way for a voting system to be u
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by typest 6y ago
Yes, in the long term, the universe will succumb to heat death and all value will go to zero. But on any time scale we might like to talk about (our lives, the life of the Earth), it seems plausible that exponential growth could continue (o
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by typest 6y ago
Examining the price of coffee I buy every day, it hasn't risen. Do you predict it will? Should this take awhile, or will it happen pretty soon?
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by typest 6y ago
Thanks, yeah, I felt a little uneasy with the comparison. I figure this means market cap should be a bounded function of GDP, yeah?
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by typest 6y ago
Are the market caps of Apple and other tech giants growing as exponents, or sigmoids? This, to me, is the big question. Can multi-trillion dollar market caps continue to grow at this rate, or will they taper off? Naively, one expects to ge
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by typest 6y ago
Even here you have many false assumptions though. For instance, the Harvard median new grad salary is 69k [1]. So you’re wrong in your assertion that compared to nearly everyone at elite universities you have failed. By your own definition
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by typest 6y ago
Serious question: How do you know you're good at behavioral interviews? Have you ever seen the feedback written on a behavioral interview? The companies you're describing don't usually give out feedback to applicants, so you
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by typest 6y ago
^^ what this guy said. You named yourself lowiqengineer because your SAT score was “only” 2200. That’s in the 98th percentile —- if it were an IQ test, it would get you into Mensa, the organization for high IQ people! You talk as if people
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by typest 6y ago
To add onto this —- living with only one kidney rather than two only barely increases your risk of dying, and many people each year die due to lack of kidneys. So, creating a market here (regulated of course) would save a lot of lives.
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by typest 6y ago
Well, this IS an urban center, so no, it’s not normal.
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by typest 6y ago
> I only graduated a couple of years ago so inflation is negligible. If only inflation were the only thing driving the price up! The whole problem with college cost is that cost is increasing faster than inflation. I went to a similar un
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by typest 6y ago
I celebrate efforts to educate and credential students that don't put them into a lifetime of debt. But, a few points of order/grains of salt: Even though going to college means you may take out more debt that you can pay off in a
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by typest 6y ago
Ranked choice voting (often implemented as instant runoff) likely won’t break the duopoly in the ways you think it will. Approval Voting is a better technique. Check out the Center for Election Science for more info.
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by typest 6y ago
Renters.
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by typest 6y ago
I totally agree with you. The general negativity towards remote work seems, to me, to reflect a lack of imagination about how our lives, and our societies, could be organized in a world with more remote work. The potential reduction in hous
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by typest 6y ago
Sorry, can you explain what you mean here? I am always trying to get better at both python and functional programming, but I don't know what you mean about lifting operations up/inlining them in this case with defaultdicts.
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by typest 7y ago
helpwithcovid.com. I believe there is quite a bit of demand on some of these projects.
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by typest 7y ago
> Amazon has detailed someone measures its taking Does techcrunch not have copy editors? Two errors in the first six words of this article. I was an editor at my high school newspaper and we would not have published this.
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by typest 7y ago
That was way, way nicer than I thought it would be.
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Remote work will let us reorganize our cities(manyfoxgiven.com)
8 points by typest 7y ago|0 comments

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