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by wmorgan 3y ago
This is the St. Petersburg paradox with an extra variable. In SPP, EV approaches infinity as the bank's resources approach infinity. Put bounds on the bank's resources, and you find that even with trillions of dollars your EV is l
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by wmorgan 4y ago
I don’t know about Airbnb. But you realize that before Uber existed, people ran businesses which were entirely, “you call us up, we’ll send you a car and take you where you want to go,” (And that driver was an independent contractor) I real
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by wmorgan 4y ago
Whooping cough is a funny example, since most adults are in fact not vaccinated for it -- in the US anyway, the vaccination rate for pertussis is under 30%. The reason newborns aren't dying from whooping cough is not that we vaccinate
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by wmorgan 4y ago
The term of art is "capitalized labor." For example, this is from Microsoft's accounting policies: > Costs incurred internally in researching and developing a computer software product are charged to expense until technolo
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by wmorgan 4y ago
Sure, it’s just a different frame: “you developed doing this thing. Now you’re saying we can’t do that same thing.” Why should The West “get credit” for the ocean’s CO2 dissolution capacity just because they industrialized earlier? Either w
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by wmorgan 4y ago
The GP said CO2 “in the atmosphere” meaning that if you count all the industrialization in the 1800s and 1900s then China doesn’t look so bad.
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by wmorgan 7y ago
Why not? Lots of ordinary people were watching it in 1980's, when it actually was in the public domain. I don't think they realize it gets the same level of legal protection as new releases. My point is there's plenty of good
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by wmorgan 7y ago
That's a timely question with the holidays coming up. A lot of people will be wanting to watch movies from the 1940's and 50's. Many of them don't realize those works are still under copyright. It's not just hypothe
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by wmorgan 15y ago
I didn't even realize you could do this. Won't the swarm stop talking to you if you don't share?
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by wmorgan 16y ago
Disagree. We humans are emphatically not optimized for the world we live in today. We're adaptation executors, not fitness maximizers. http://lesswrong.com/lw/l0/adaptationexecuters_not_fitnessma...
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by wmorgan 17y ago
Why is this story so polarizing? Here's a theory, inspired by a Less Wrong post [1]: some people, thinking back to their time in class, remember how distracting it was for a student to come to class in the middle of a lecture. Others, like