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by yxwvut 5y ago
This kind of perspective where any intervention-free (often equated with 'free market') outcome is ipso facto a socially good outcome is so frustrating because it transcends policy discussions into morality/dogma. Are you opp
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by yxwvut 5y ago
Is there anything more insufferable than the smugness of appeals to rationality? This style of declaring your protagonist 'rational' and 'brilliant' and peppering in emotional-sounding negative reactions from mainstream
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by yxwvut 5y ago
Unions have an incumbency problem in which, yes, they're concerned with the effects of pushing too hard, but only insofar as it affects their existing members. See also: significantly tenure-based pay scales for unskilled labor.
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by yxwvut 5y ago
I think the thinly-vailed condescension over people who use a dishwasher is what rubs me the wrong way, as though using a more energy and time-efficient method to avoid a monotonous unnecessary task is a vice, or that hand-washing dishes is
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by yxwvut 5y ago
I think the intended list of 'who would be making those millions' is limited to maybe 5 people (eg: Alex Honnold or Adam Ondra), not the hundreds who call themselves 'pro climbers' (ranging from the top echelon of rock a
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by yxwvut 5y ago
I know this is mostly a joke, but what you really want is Benjamini–Hochberg correction, unless you want to prevent even a single false discovery in all of science. FDR vs FWER
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by yxwvut 5y ago
Rephrased: “Why burn VC cash with a never-profitable business model if you can’t become a money-losing growth engine for a tech giant to leverage to more effectively sling ads?”
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by yxwvut 5y ago
This extortion strategy worked pretty well for Getty a few years back (not sure if they've since changed the practice). Probably a bit easier for a big firm with a bevy of lawyers than a lone artist, as you note.
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by yxwvut 5y ago
Why not, assuming the company is public? If you can convert to cash as soon as your shares vest (which occurs monthly in most instances) it's as good as cash (with some discounting factor for the uncertainty of the first year pre-vesti
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by yxwvut 6y ago
This is the fundamental problem, though. There's an internal consistency so long as all evidentiary evaluation is predicated on the underlying assumption that the attestations are true. Confirmation bias does not make a firm foundation
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by yxwvut 6y ago
I'll take FOIA and a bureaucracy with official avenues of redress over a company that likely views my ability to see and rectify their data on me as anything from undesirable to an existential threat.
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by yxwvut 6y ago
The biggest failure in graduate preparedness I found was that you learn the 'how' (eg: how to calculate a derivative or integral by hand or how to compute a determinant) without a deep understanding of the 'why', which m
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by yxwvut 6y ago
The section on being ill-prepared and out of his depth compared to fellow (mostly international) grad students with stronger math backgrounds stretching back to elementary school was almost identical to my experience in a top 5 operations r
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by yxwvut 6y ago
You're conflating domestically produced GHG emissions with domestically consumed products' emissions. As a toy example, suppose we grew no animal products in the US and imported all our meat. Your method would conclude that switch
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by yxwvut 6y ago
Repeated exposure to things you know to be false or to bad arguments has been shown many times to shift your beliefs towards those false beliefs. It effectively wears your mind's defenses down. This 'repeat a lie enough and it bec
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by yxwvut 6y ago
About as many as were trying to violently break into an in-session senate floor accompanied by an angry, armed mob intent on overthrowing the government.
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by yxwvut 6y ago
Are you genuinely arguing that the show of force displayed here was greater or more disproportionate than that displayed last summer?
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by yxwvut 6y ago
'Objectively pretty tame'? That's a pretty rich. It's only 'tame' because of the police treated these (mostly white) protestors with kid gloves, and because the barricaded doors allowed a safe retreat of the co
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by yxwvut 6y ago
Agreed on all fronts. More of a 'woulda-coulda-shoulda' than anything.
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by yxwvut 6y ago
Perhaps the private beneficiaries of those subsidies should bear some responsibility for covering the costs?
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by yxwvut 10y ago
It's not fair to say that it's theoretical macro that has the major impact on policymakers. Look at the most influential (in a political sense) economists/social scientists these days, and they're advising policymakers a
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by yxwvut 10y ago
Reading the replies you're getting, it seems the average HN commenter: A. Has never read an economics research paper B. Only know economics as monetary policy (or macro more broadly), and as a libertarian is inherently skeptical. Curre