underwoodley

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by underwoodley 9y ago
The furniture you make yourself is a) unique and b) not artificially scarce.
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by underwoodley 9y ago
Isn't it more likely that you don't know your employer as well as market analysts, but that you do have much more severe cognitive biases?
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by underwoodley 9y ago
It's possible that a) diet isn't that hard to figure out and b) gamifying, quantifying, testing, and over-extrapolation from isolated scientific results make people confused and much less effective at making the right decisions co
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by underwoodley 9y ago
The welfare state (in the UK) has existed since people who are now 87 were entering the workforce. It used to be a lot more generous. There is no test for having worked your whole life needed to get an old age pension. Unemployment benefit
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by underwoodley 9y ago
The Quora discussion doesn't seem to add much. Just a guy saying 'FreeBSD is rock-solid' and '[for] raw performance, .. nothing beats FreeBSD', without giving any technical details.
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by underwoodley 9y ago
Based on Neil Gorsuch having worked for him, the secretive billionaire seems to be Philip Anschutz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Anschutz New Yorker article about 'a secretive mogul's entertainment ki
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by underwoodley 9y ago
You should be aware that this is a very questionable documentary and the makers of the documentary who are now the presenters of the TV show have been credibly accused of faking footage and exploiting the subject. > Some journalists and
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by underwoodley 9y ago
Is it possible that Boulder and San Francisco are actually quite different places?
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by underwoodley 9y ago
Funny, I've often heard X programming described as 'not trivially easy'.
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by underwoodley 9y ago
I don't see these programs as fundamentally different. The only material different is that one uses a GOTO and the other uses a while loop. But I don't think either of these is more intuitive. When you learnt how a GOTO works, you
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by underwoodley 9y ago
I stand corrected. I wrongly believed that many of these including Fejer and von Neumann were not Jewish. I think the comparison with other populations such as Poland still seems to point out that something about Hungary in the 20th century
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by underwoodley 9y ago
You don't have to be curious for more than five minutes. Several of those mentioned are Jewish, but most of them are not. There are not disproportionately more Jewish Hungarian mathematicians, compared to the proportion of say, Jewish
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by underwoodley 9y ago
Also Fejér, Turán, Rényi, F. Riesz and M. Riesz, Bollobás
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by underwoodley 9y ago
It's difficult to generalize, but by pretty much any metric you choose Hungary produced a massively disproportionate share of the outstanding mathematicians of the twentieth century.
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by underwoodley 9y ago
I honestly don't understand the point you're trying to make.
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by underwoodley 9y ago
Yes, that's the word "should", which I used.
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by underwoodley 9y ago
This entire article is an idea Joel Spolsky wrote about five years ago: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2012/07/09/software-inventory...
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by underwoodley 9y ago
> That sounds like in the world of stocks, a competitor could come along and decide to split the stocks of MY company from the outside That's not really a good analogy. Suppose someone decided to offer one of their securities (or pa
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by underwoodley 9y ago
if 'cashless payment via touching a card' is what I think it is, it is completely widespread in London, in all shops/restaurants, and also on public transport.
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by underwoodley 9y ago
It is more real because she believes that the father spends time with her each week because he loves her and wants to look after her. In every social interaction we can never really be certain of the other person's motivations or feeli
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by underwoodley 9y ago
This is a pretty standard way of doing mental multiplication. The interesting thing about the method in the article is that it involves binary not base 10.
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by underwoodley 9y ago
That's not a selection bias. It's (if true) an actual part of the cause of Netflix engineers being happy with their job. If the headline 'People who have worked at Netflix at some time in the past are happier' then yes,
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by underwoodley 9y ago
From an economic point of view, wasting people's time in exchange for a free service is worse than either charging them what the market can bear, or providing a free service. If you charged them, you would benefit. If you didn't c
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by underwoodley 9y ago
What is the strong evidence in support of the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon?
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by underwoodley 9y ago
The GP (in both senses) means this: they want it to be simple. So simple they are not aware of how it works. If they have to know about 'the cloud', 'sharing', 'syncing', where the photos are stored, etc., then
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by underwoodley 9y ago
I take it your tax money has never been used to repair the widespread damage to society caused by a too lightly regulated industry. It blows.
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by underwoodley 9y ago
The problems with this 'psychological explanation' 1. It is just as unscientific as saying that Facebook MUST be listening, without finding any evidence in the workings of phones, app source code, etc. Almost by definition, there
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by underwoodley 9y ago
Also, Googling something on your phone is so common and easy nowadays that people just forget that they did it. It's literally become an integral part of the thinking process.
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by underwoodley 9y ago
I'm pretty sure you can clear your cookies on a normal browser and reset the number of remaining articles for the month.
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by underwoodley 9y ago
You didn't challenge the statement to GP made, but one he didn't make. He didn't say that landlords are vastly richer than workers. He said that landlords make little or no contribution to the general welfare. Your own commen

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