NotAnEconomist

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by NotAnEconomist 6y ago
> The key phrase is: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. > we mean intellectual interest, not all kinds of interest > For example, there is social interest (the sort of thing that leads to celebrity gossip).
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by NotAnEconomist 6y ago
To concur: It's not merely predicated on a utilitarian ethical viewpoint, it assumes that we've accurately accounted for costs of the options (eg, second and third order effects) when deciding rather than merely justifying our pre
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by NotAnEconomist 6y ago
Why would they? They're not going to have to re-issue shares at a lower price; they're going to get bailed out by the taxpayers. The conditions for government money should be: 1. All current debt is converted into shares, erasing
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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
My back of the napkin math indicates that roughly 2x as many people will die in the US this year. Normal deaths are 2.8M/year. There's 330M people in the US. At 70% infection, that's 230M people. At 1% mortality, that's
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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
The RNA-world hypothesis conjectures that life started via a chemical soup developing things similar to viroids. These early RNA-based replicators would go on to become more complicated, first developing a protective barrier and then specia
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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
It absolutely is. We've seen from CNN and Google that their views don't match society at large, and they're happy to use their positions of influence to "correct" society. That's what caused CNN's ratings
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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
Setting aside the morality -- which is its own reason to treat people well -- it's damnably effective. Something I got from a book on negotiating: It doesn't matter how good of a negotiator you are, if you develop a reputation for
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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
Know where the skeletons are buried. Punch back, especially upwards. Know an analyst at the investment bank with the largest holding in your company.
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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
Only 4% of the world even plays soccer. Being in the top 10% of them puts you into global fractional percentages. If it's not soccer, having done it likely puts you in fraction-of-fraction land.
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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
Seattle used to have one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Wireless
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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
Does this mean we can have a TypeScript binding to Coq?
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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
I don't think you have a reasonable expectation of privacy when someone is speaking into a recording device, after intentionally saying a word to start recording.
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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
> “Police have a duty to pursue all reasonable lines of enquiry,” Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave, the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead for criminal justice, said in a statement. “Those now frequently extend into the devices of
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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
> Do you think the reasons most people don't express opinions like the ones notch has expressed recently is due to a fear of backlash over being considered 'un-PC' as opposed to not actually holding those opinions? Repeate
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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
> after two/three years all the juniors in the "surgery team" model start looking at position of seniority within or outside the company, causing high concentrated turnover in such built teams Is that a problem? I mean, th
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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
> Maybe part of solving that problem is making everyone part of a group where they are accountable and then making that group accountable to a larger group and so on until the largest group is accountable to society as a whole. > [..
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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
I actually am a fan of the AWS CDK for this reason, and its concept of "constructs". My big application has a dozen packages, one of which defines generic cloud constructs that host and deploy the other packages as a distributed s
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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
Having written in it for a while, JavaScript just kind of is "meh". TypeScript, for instance, is a much better development experience in terms of language constructs, but that only makes the package management situation stand out
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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
Empirically, autocratic regimes can last longer than democracies -- but there have been many more tried, so it's not clear if we're just witnessing expected outliers. But the Roman empire lasted fifteen hundred years, while the re
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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
Cops with license plate scanners that also check for warrants and cross reference your movements over time is my guess.
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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
> "Women like other things more" because fewer men are in those fields to tell them "this is a job for men." There is no overall gender-based bias towards or away from any intellectual interests. Do you have evidence
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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
> People congregate around the job markets, money pools, and nice locations. To be fair, there's a lot of nice locations outside of major cities. But I agree with you that people tend to congregate around job markets and money pools
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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
It also doesn't make sense to have everyone in the country try to live in a dozen cities. Those cities themselves are unsustainable: SF, Portland, and Seattle are all literal shitholes, due to failed civic leadership and uneconomic pol
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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
> Given economic stratification, collapse is very difficult to avoid and requires major policy changes, including major reductions in inequality and population growth rates. Even in the absence of economic stratification, collapse can st
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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
I just try to imagine it in other contexts. "Well, your construction firm is well-established and routinely delivers projects on time and under budget, but for this job, we need to know that you believe in our mission -- that deeply im
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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
> I ended up trying a case where the accused had allegedly gone to the victim's home, knocked on the door, then barged in and punched the victim a few times when he answered the door. Hospital records and photos meant no-one dispute
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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
> Just because a crime happened doesn't mean someone has to be punished for it irrespective of their actual guilt. The failure to prosecute the case of someone attacking someone else in their home merely creates an incentive for pe
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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
Men are the minority gender on US university campuses, yes. > The male-female ratio in higher education has been steadily moved in favor of the females ever since the 1970s. Total enrollment figures show that females outnumbered their ma
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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
I don't mean to imply anything about previous millennia. I'll just note that we're two decades into this one.
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by NotAnEconomist 7y ago
A $30 memory card is the entire cost of an Echo device -- that's a 100% increase in cost just to cache Wikipedia locally. That's a non-trivial modification, even before talking about the processor upgrades required to actually uti

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