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by wskinner 4y ago
Matt Levine has been talking about this in most of his recent newsletters. Today's includes a play by play overview of the recent moves by Musk and the board along with explanation of why these steps happen the way they do: https:&#x2
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> The problem is that many US universities are private. This is false. The cost of tuition at public universities has grown faster over the last 20 years than at private universities, for both in-state and out-of-state students. The aver
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by wskinner 5y ago
The purpose of such exchanges is not to communicate information to the other participant. It is to signal allegiance to one’s own side. This dynamic tends to drive people who already disagree further apart, and those who already agree, clos
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by wskinner 5y ago
> a country that is in the process of reversing much of the last half-century's progress on women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and disability rights If this is intended to refer to the United States, it is highly exaggerated. I dou
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by wskinner 5y ago
The quantity of the printing was far lower during the Obama presidency.
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Honest question: what is the expected impact of this intervention compared to an alternate world where the intervention is not performed?
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The Bangladesh study failed to produce a significant result when simpler nonparametric statistics were used to analyze the data. There were also significant discrepancies in the follow up rate between the control and treatment groups. And e
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by wskinner 5y ago
False. Section 230 says: > No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of— (A) any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or
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by wskinner 5y ago
Without getting into the specifics of any individual instance of fact checking, it is not at all clear that the presence of third party “fact checks” advances towards a shared understanding of “the facts”. It may be better for the state of
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by wskinner 5y ago
Ripcord | REMOTE, SF Bay Area, Seattle | https://www.ripcord.com/careers/ My team is hiring ML and ML infrastructure engineers, but we also have many other roles available. We are building ML systems to process and und
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by wskinner 5y ago
On recent iPhones, the way to disable biometrics is to hold the side button and either volume button until a prompt appears, then tap cancel. Mashing the side button 5 times does not work.
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Decreasing aggressive socialization as society becomes more egalitarian would seem to be evidence for the _opposite_ of "aggressive male socialization". And that points to the baseline level of male aggression being higher than it
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> [...] a fully committed PIPE in excess of $100 million, direct investment, and $345 million of cash held in the trust account of Supernova II, assuming no redemptions. This is an odd assumption - the median redemption rate is 73%[1]. S
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Because corporations are generally subject to competitive pressure, those that get so large they can no longer effectively function will go out of business. Government entities are in most cases legal monopolies and can continue to exist lo
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by wskinner 5y ago
Most of the world does not have access to cheap and easy dollar-denominated payments. Using Bitcoin for this simplifies the implementation for Twitter, and reduces fees.
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https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...
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I believe they are the percentage of moves originating in the state where the destination is in the same state or in a different state.
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Many exchanges pay interest on stablecoin deposits.
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Yes. This information is in the article.
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You can use the “favorite” button on comments to save them to your profile.
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This piece tells a compelling story. But it throws around enough casual assertions unsupported by evidence that I’m unsure what, if anything to conclude. For example: > “The Wall Street banks kept more teams in the office, so they seem t
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by wskinner 5y ago
New money does not reach all people at the same time. Those who get it first benefit more. This is known as the Cantillon Effect. https://fee.org/articles/the-cantillon-effect-because-of-inf...
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by wskinner 5y ago
This is not really true, for several reasons. One simple reason is that a bitcoin transaction can have multiple outputs, while your analysis assumes each transaction is between two people.
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River plastic emissions to the world’s oceans(theoceancleanup.com)
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For me, the blank space around this kind of article is the most interesting part. When you profile a handful of people, the defining feature of the piece is journalistic discretion. Which of the several million Bay Area residents do they ch
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by wskinner 5y ago
If the acquisition is mainly about talent, and in many cases, even if it's not, FAANG will expect you to interview like everyone else. Source: founder of a company which was acquired by a non-FAANG company, but talked to a few FAANGs a
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Reading between the lines of the article, I suspect most of these things will never be put into serious use at google, nor does anyone there expect them to. These are solutions looking for problems. My money is on office work looking much a
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Your census data is 7 years out of date. Has anything changed since then?
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It may be the case that 1) the majority of Basecamp employees don’t want this level of political discussion at work and 2) the majority of Basecamp employees on Twitter do want it. Twitter skews young, Democratic, and more interested in pol
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by wskinner 5y ago
Regardless of one's personal opinion in this instance, the trend (if it is that) of companies explicitly stating their internal policies on politics in the workplace strikes me as a positive one. Clearly, some people want their work to

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