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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
This article feels like a big reach. Airbnb wants to keep its platform from being used for sex work (in my opinion this is understandable as once a platform begins allowing "sex stuff" it easily gets pigeonholed into being that
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
I think for a certain class of workers, their car is used exactly once to get to work and once to get back. If that were the case I could see Uber usefully taken control of the car in between. A better example would have been Waze Carpool o
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
I haven't heard of studies on this but I would say the effect is potentially huge. For instance, just going by numbers of legacy admits at Harvard: www.cnbc.com/2019/04/07/harvards-freshman-class-is-more-than-one-t
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
>The year I arrived, Hopkins had more legacy students in its freshman class (12.5 percent) than students who were eligible for Pell Grants (9 percent). Now those numbers are reversed—3.5 percent of students in this year’s freshman class
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
This sounds great. I would compare it more to airbnb - using someone's stuff that would otherwise go unused. So actually extracting lost value. Uber might one day become that (I hear the typical personal car goes unused something like
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
32 hour workweeks might work but there will always be the issue of defection . If a company allows employees to take unlimited leave, then worker A who avails him/herself of it, will be at a disadvantage to worker B who keeps working
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
There is, but his description of the research process seems accurate at least for my partner (currently also in a structural biology lab for his PhD) whom I showed the blog to. In particular this depressing paragraph: >Doing experiments
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
Thanks, I hadn't heard of the term past practices before. I guess I haven't experienced being unionized, and just take it for granted that an employer can make my life worse if it wanted to. Sort of boggles my mind that a union
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
>In negotiating the 10-hour threshold for tuition remission during contract negotiations, the union says it understood that eight-hour appointments would be used only sparingly. And they were used that way for about a decade. Since 2015,
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
>The sciences and mathematics have a historic place in the curriculum, and technology does not, for the simple reason that the latter is not inherently “about” anything. Absent human contributions on specific topics, cut off from the su
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
I don't think I've committed that fallacy because I've never called these jobs "good" even if they are, for a particular person, the best among alternatives. Whether a business deserves to survive based on how it tr
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
I love the wins-above-replacement idea. Just reading by yourself sounds like a great "control" treatment. But some subjects, like math, are too hard to learn with just eyeballs moving across a page. Perhaps a math intervention cou
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
Just to make it clear that I'm not trying to kick anyone who's down: all of these jobs sound terrible. And when all your choices for work are terrible then the word "choice" is too generous. I wouldn't wish the str
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
Agreed on the bait and switch. It is wrong. But the only reason it settles at such a low equilibrium is that people still decide that it's worth it. My unease with this focus completely on gig economy jobs is that they are all new . T
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
You're going to need to expound a lot if you're going to convince anyone that (say) Instacart shopping is worse than debt bondage. In particular how do you address the fact that the Instacart shopper can just decide not to be a
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
The concept of scooters is indeed great, but two (fixable) problems the article touched on were real: the mess it creates on sidewalks, and the charging jobs not being "good enough". The first has been addressed in other cities b
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
I've had nagging doubts about this narrative ever since the first exposés about Uber were coming out. 1) What job would the subject have been working say, 4 years ago, before instacart expanded to the entire US? Would that job have bee
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
Yes that does sound nice and I agree that the first option would feel better. However if someone offered me the choice between being able to do the first, and say, a new Macbook Pro 16", I would take the computer every time. I think
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
From his wikipedia entry: On June 13, 2014, [Sethuraman Panchanathan] was nominated by President Barack Obama as a member of the National Science Board of National Science Foundation.
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
If you only look at the material side of what people are paying for: boarding a few minutes faster, deplaning a few minutes faster, comfier seats and better food, etc, then I completely agree that it doesn't make sense to pay an extra
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
Thanks for the detailed responses. >I have a serious medical condition. As best I can tell, this is a much more common root cause of homelessness than the addiction and mental health issues that get so much more attention. I'm just
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
Great video. This is one of those phenomena, like how to fix traffic jams, that everyone has an opinion on because of firsthand experience, but few people know about the actual research on. Despite there being known fast methods, I think 2
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
It is appalling to me that anyone with the caliber of ability this person has, clear from her writing, ever became homeless in the first place (not that I'm saying anyone deserves to be homeless). I do have a few questions though: >
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
“Well” was the wrong word (unless one is thinking of the experiment as a test). I simply meant the percentage of lost wallets returned. In the study from Science that the LA Times article covers, this group of countries as a block did bette
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
I don't know about that last part. Most Eastern European countries were part of the USSR and underwent massive revolutions. I've even seen them described as low-trust societies, but they seem to do well.
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
This smells like a lot of post-hoc rationalization. Collectivism? What about China, which did terribly on this kind of test. Shintoism? Only 3-4% of the population follows that. See https://www.latimes.com/science/
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
The effects of both were greatly overhyped by books and news articles when they first came out. Replications found much smaller effects, e.g., https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/03/gr...
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
I recently wrote an accepted answer on cs.stackexchange about how to implement sorting on a stack machine: https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/117949/stack-permutat... The asker isolated the question well, so I
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
Add to that list "grit" and "fixed vs. growth mindset" -- has any solid, interesting work in sociology or behavioral science been done recently?
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
I didn't realize that particular emoji had a name. I thought it was a play on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(creature_in_Alien_franc...

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