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by verteu 2y ago
I found a couple interesting papers/preprints on smartphone bans: - https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/14/8/906 - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4735240 But I wasn&
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by verteu 2y ago
I think US healthcare is an outlier in terms of its poor outcomes-per-dollar: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Life_exp...
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by verteu 2y ago
Personally I am cynical because in my experience @ FAANG, "AI safety" is mainly about mitigating PR risk for the company, rather than any actual harm.
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by verteu 2y ago
Perhaps a large fraction of art was always bad, but only the best old art is remembered today. Modern art hasn't been culled by time.
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by verteu 2y ago
(for reference: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229 )
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by verteu 2y ago
It seemed to decrease the number of exploding meth labs in the country: https://www.statista.com/statistics/942043/laboratory-incide...
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by verteu 2y ago
> [A]ccording Chris McManus, the researchers made a "very subtle error"... > Halpern and Coren took a list of the people who had recently died and contacted their families, asking whether or not their relative had been right
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by verteu 2y ago
> The UBI folks were cursed by the pandemic and inflation. You cannot deal with that confounder. The study had a control group, who also experienced pandemic & inflation.
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by verteu 2y ago
You can simply download KakaoTalk from the App Store, right?
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by verteu 2y ago
I don't follow your calculations; It appears you're doing arithmetic with CAGRs from three different date ranges (2010-2020, 2012-2019, and L10Y). An apples-to-apples comparison illustrates my point: L10Y cumulative change in: Bay
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by verteu 2y ago
You are missing that Spain's economy is not growing like the USA's. Spanish wages grew only 2.7%/yr L10Y [1], and its nominal GDP/capita looks completely flat [2]. This explains why the city is affordable for internation
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by verteu 2y ago
Nice video. To summarize the linked studies: 1) The effects of tourism on housing prices: applying a difference-indifferences methodology to the Portuguese market. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/1
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by verteu 2y ago
Just FYI, I recommend the Fed's "Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households" for metrics like this. Some stats: https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2024-economic-we... > Eighty-two p
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by verteu 2y ago
I don't doubt that some people lie at restaurants. My comment expressed skepticism that GGP has seen servers equipped with bodycams to combat this.
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by verteu 2y ago
Are you referring to this staged skit? http://youtube.com/shorts/fkrtbDJTGGs
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by verteu 2y ago
> can 24k people from 32 countries (so, 750 in each) be representative of 8 billion in 200+ countries? Yes, assuming they are sampled randomly. If they aren't, a bigger sample size won't help anyways: https://sample-
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by verteu 2y ago
> I’m consistently impressed with how seriously this stuff is taken and the amount of work that goes into making sure that things like this sharing can’t happen accidentally I believe the law is violated when it's sufficiently profi
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by verteu 2y ago
The same way problems get resolved when someone's sob story goes viral? Presumably an employee sees it and files a ticket that says "hey this stranger is having problem XYZ." Then a support person investigates and takes the a
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by verteu 2y ago
> I'm all for investigating if there were any orders of directly targeting civilians being given to the Israeli military, etc, but that's a pretty far fetched assumption in my opinion The Panel's report is not based on &qu
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by verteu 2y ago
Technically, the set of strings containing balanced parentheses is not a regular language...
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by verteu 2y ago
> It's important to dismiss "strong suspicions" from semi-anonymous sources and ask for actual evidence, circumstantial or not I see plenty of evidence, though no "smoking gun," mentioned on Wiki, including &quot
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by verteu 2y ago
So 77% of bachelor's degrees have positive ROI (considering individual salary alone)? Sounds like a very positive result, especially since public education is widely regarded as a long-term investment that benefits society as a whole.
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by verteu 2y ago
Out of curiosity, is it possible he lied on his resume about being a FAANG SWE?
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by verteu 2y ago
It's common for PE to buy many "mom n pop" practices with the goal of reducing competition (eg https://kgnu.org/investigation-finds-that-private-equity-was... ) Reducing the friction of starting new business
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by verteu 2y ago
Good question -- I believe the source is here: https://www.bruegel.org/analysis/european-unions-remarkable-... Reading between the lines, I do not think it distinguishes between full-time and part-time employment: &quo
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by verteu 2y ago
If you don't want to have a thoughtful discussion based on data, HN is not for you.
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by verteu 2y ago
It's impossible to have a serious discussion on (rent/income) trends if your only source is an ancedote about a single (unnamed) apartment's price. (And you include no data on wages at all.)
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by verteu 2y ago
> in silicon valley rent definitely raised 2-3 times in last 15 years, but blue color workers didn't receive equal raise in wages. Source? In the last 15 years, SF median rent went up 78% and SF minimum wage went up 93% [1] [2], so
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by verteu 2y ago
Why do you think rent to income increased 2x in L25y? The numbers I've seen are a small fraction of that.
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by verteu 2y ago
It does seem that US COLA-wages are growing more slowly than Europe (though better than Canada), while our stock market outperforms. So one could make a claim that more profits should go to labor, rather than capital. Some numbers (all the

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