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by xyzzyz 4y ago
^ This guy gets it. The widespread idea that too little material wealth, and lousy working condition is what prevents family formation and procreation is one of those things that the people who inherit the earth from us (should there still
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
In “The Secret of Our Success”, Joseph Heinrich mentions his research on ultimatum game, where he found that this attitude of rejecting unfair splits is not culturally uniform: for example, western people are much more likely to reject it t
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> Having to spend half your available income for things that are automatically taken on your salary in Europe is _the_ major reason Americans are paid considerably more, with "US tech companies and VCs have so much money they don&#x
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I’ve known dozens of people fired by Google in a mass layoff, when they decided to close one of their offices. The process has stretched for months.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
So if you want to lay someone off in France, you have to allow them access to company facilities and systems and allow them to work? You cannot just pay them through their severance period, but tell them to stay home? If so, that’s absurd
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
They can seek asylum in or from Rwanda then, right? I mean, it’s not like they are trying to immigrate to UK, they are just running for their lives, so safety in Rwanda should be good enough, no?
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
This on its own should only create a single inflationary shock, not a spiral.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> I find it ok to see and visit coworkers now and then, but work is not meant to replace one's social life. Work has been a critical component of social life for many generations now. It is extremely strange to offhandedly dismi
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Stuff at small stores costs more money than stuff at big stores. As you point out, labor efficiency is one of the reasons, but there are others too. Regular people know this very well. The “urbanists” active in HN threads are typically well
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Have you ever asked this question anyone else in any other context, when presented with scientific evidence?
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
You can’t blame him — he seems to be from UK, they see the sun there maybe 4 times a year.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I’d rather bring under control people who are trying to prevent my children from having normal life. We all had Covid already (likely even twice). We are done with the theater. We don’t want to listen to scaremongering. We want to smile in
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> The difference is radioactive fallout that lasts a long time, Depends on the type of the bomb. For Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was mostly over in a matter of months.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
That’s not cheaper. Run the numbers and you’ll see. Solar by itself is indeed pretty cheap per kWh if you don’t care about matching supply with demand, but storage very much is not. If it was, you’d see investors build standalone storage, t
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
It’s not only about pay. The government is in fact legally prohibited from trying to get top talent, because the methods to distinguish top talent are typically found to have disparate impact on the non-top talent, and so run afoul of civil
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
There are no cheaper and fast improving alternatives to provide plentiful electricity at 9pm every single day.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Yes, I agree. My point is just that the asymmetry in market strength is not based purely on the size of the company relative to the consumer. In many competitive fields, it is the providers that are in a precarious situations instead of the
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> The rest of the wealthy western world has national health insurance and it works really well. If you talk to people who immigrate to US from those countries with national health insurance, you’ll find that what you claim above is by no
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
This is only true for a fraction of all healthcare that’s actually consumed. For my family, over past 4 years, maybe 10% of our healthcare consumption carried a significant risk of death if we elected to not consume it. As an explicit examp
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Ford can easily afford to lose me, individually, but typically things that will cause them to lose me, will also cause them to lose many other customers. In practice, there is no actual asymmetry: if I don’t like Ford, I can just go to deal
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
No, it does not involve any of that. You just assume that because it is convenient for your argument, but the truth is that there are plenty of ways to risk your own life flying with negligible risk to anyone else. Think, for example, about
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> You make sure DMVs in predominantly black neighborhoods have short hours at times most inconvenient, you make sure polling places are understaffed and overbooked, things like that. Wow, I didn’t know I live in a black neighborhood!
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
No, I’m not, any more than I am, through my driving, forcing people scared of being hit by a car to stay home.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> [you] can (…) jump off a cliff in a flight suit, This is in fact an argument against FAA: you can risk your life in many other ways in many other contexts not regulated by FAA, so why not be allowed to risk your own life in a regulat
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
If you’re given wrong wrong instruction by a public agency, it is highly likely that you have literally no recourse whatsoever, due to sovereign and qualified immunity.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
He is not, in fact, free to risk his own, that’s the entire point.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I certainly agree as far as ELisp code is concerned, but I don’t think it’s true when it comes to the C part.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Most researchers are not super smart, and so they cannot get out of the data more than is relatively obvious. If they work hard to obtain the data, but then share it freely, someone else will just steal their lunch.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
With new developments, you can use much smaller magnets.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> When new high-energy theories predict something, the hypothetical effects are either not testable in the foreseeable future, or eventually disproven by experiment. One of the reasons LHC was built in the first place was to try to detec

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