Excel_Wizard

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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
There is more money saved up than there are good productive investments available for it, in comparison to the past. This correlates with a few things: - Inflation of the value of investment assets (high P/E ratios) - Low interest rate
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
a savings glut is the thing that Krugman has suggested, and is the thing which makes sense to me. Which stinks because I hate Krugman.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
> Nevertheless, the composition of audiences can still tilt toward demographic groups such as men or younger workers, according to a study published today by researchers at Northeastern University and Upturn, a nonprofit group that focus
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
Why is education supposed to be about learning just for the sake of learning? It should be purpose-directed.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
Different strokes for different folks. Some people like living in dense cities. No reason not to build for them if they apparently enjoy it.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
Considering that the sources you cite and the source your debate openent cites disagree on the facts on the ground, y'all have some work to do if you ever want to understand eachother. The source cited by your opponent claims that 80%
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
Living in a state that respects property rights has benefits. When you know that your state respects other individuals' property rights, you know it's less likely that they will trample your rights as well. The case hinges on the
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
The chart shown at macrotrends does not show total return (dividends included and reinvested). The investor would have broken even much earlier. January 1929 to January 1960 shows ~25% real return without dividends reinvested and ~499% real
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
One other bit about the mechanics of it- If the two trailer hitches are not exactly level with eachother, whichever truck has the higher hitch has a big advantage.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
Does this viewpoint help explain anything in a useful way? I do not understand why you would think of wealth this way.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
How big of a house do you need? https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/14455-S-Muirwood-Cir-Herr...
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
Your explanation of the marshmallow test does not contradict the common interpretation of it. Your explanation proposes a mechanism for why the test subjects differ during the test. The common interpretation only explains that the tested di
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
I would have been glad to live in a boarding house earlier in my career.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
I havent dove into evidence much during this discussion, but I agree that it is a good place to argue from. (I would tend to echo a good few Jordan Peterson-style points, such as gender employment ratios in scandinavian egalitarian countrie
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
Well, to create a well-enough formalized method of control for the AI- As part of a 1,000,000 year long project, 1,000,000 groups of 1,000 human babies (with different groups having different gender ratios) are installed on remote habitable
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
It's interesting that this thread is still going today, and I'm glad that it is civil. Thought experiments are relevant because they can tease out our moral intuitions. Calling it a preposterous hypothetical is not useful. gbrown-
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
The detail "This is assuming a perfectly-trained AI judges the variable, and that it controls against the underlying variables of societal bias in order to ensure that long-term human resources are properly allocated, and that long-ter
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
It's really strange of you to admit this double-think. You are admitting to yourself that you hold two contradictory opinions simultaneously. I think the best thing to do (which you might be arguing for but cutting corners?) is to unde
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
Let's say that there is a population bell curve of the variable "propensity to enjoy being a programmer". One curve for men, and one curve for women. In some dystopian future, everyone takes a career aptitude test, and if an
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
GP may have been doing some strange one-upsmanship, but Russia sure did have a worse time than the U.S. in WWII. I also think that extant Russian culture still suffers from PTSD over the trauma of the entire 20th century. Suicide rates and
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
The shoes do not add any energy to the system. All energy is provided by the runner. I think they shouldn't be regulated.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
IQ and income are correlated fairly strongly. It's obviously not a perfect correlation. https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/02/06/correlation...
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
Write a bot that detects earthquake-related tweets, a la xkcd.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
It's ironic but it's not untrue. The connotation of alien used here is something that is foreign, unfamiliar, or culturally distinct to a person or nation. Nativeness isn't relevant.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
(correlation isn't causation, but) fathers on average have a higher income than non-fathers. I can definitely imagine the increased urgency at work when you have more mouths to feed.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
Statute of limitations should apply in situations like this. It's really weird that it doesn't.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
It's really strange to me that a trans (or whatever) person would be offended at being called a standard pronoun. Seems like an easy mistake to make. I feel like the idea of choosing your own pronoun is fine and happy within an insular
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
If it's a private company (not publicly owned) we have zero ability to know, they would not have to publish any financials. If it's a public U.S. company we can know with 100% certainty via GAAP accounting.
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
What's the company's overall margin? Everything objective you stated sounds like it could describe either a good company or a bad company, all conditional upon whether the margins are huge or fair. Any pharma company that spends o
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by Excel_Wizard 7y ago
I really appreciate the increasing levels of technical accuracy the further this thread grows. Hacker News draws in subject matter experts like moths to a flame. Reminds me of the old futurama quote- technically correct is the best kind of

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