SecondHandTofu

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by SecondHandTofu 2mo ago
This happened at my old company. My manager went away for a holiday and never came back. We never found out why, but it was a Finance company so people suddenly not coming in the next day was a thing. This completely broke the interview pip
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by SecondHandTofu 7mo ago
You can do it via /model and pressing left and right though
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by SecondHandTofu 8mo ago
Like many of London's woes, that's because of planning, councils have to approve infrastructure and block it: https://www.londoncentric.media/p/why-exactly-is-londons-pho... I'd say it's developing-
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by SecondHandTofu 8mo ago
Due to the history of the internet, anything ".com" should be assumed to be a commercial entity. If you are from the US, the only nation who doesn't frequently use a national TLD, the onus is on you to judge if a site is comm
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by SecondHandTofu 8mo ago
On the contrary, it is a helpful term. Before the term, it was common to ask "are you a manager", and then you were defined oppositionally, as not-a-manager. Whereas IC having its own identity means it has many positive connotatio
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by SecondHandTofu 8mo ago
It's extremely common, even in the USA, although in the USA it's more limited to running communities. In the UK, NZ, Australia, road running is common enough that anyone would know what you mean, but it's a bit less of a thin
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by SecondHandTofu 8mo ago
You haven't actually cited any studies, just "I haven't heard anyone say anything". We have transaction taxes in the UK, on shares (stamp duty) and on property (stamp duty land tax). They are awful. SDLT used to be lower
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by SecondHandTofu 8mo ago
It's the opposite in the UK. Most landlords are individuals, own one or maybe a couple of properties. It's awful, rogue landlords who do everything they can to not do repairs or improvements and when they do it often comes after a
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by SecondHandTofu 8mo ago
Beef, not meat. Surely you jest and you know that that's a huge amount and you're on some high-calorie gym diet?
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by SecondHandTofu 9mo ago
I'm not in favour of getting rid of the bureaucracy, some of it is necessary, but we're way past the benefit. I think most regulation is a concave quadratic function of regulations vs benefit. At zero regulation it can be very ba
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by SecondHandTofu 9mo ago
If we put a $10k tax on beards, that's $600 billion right there! What's that, people might change their behaviour in response to it, in possibly unintended and negative ways? Nah we can just hand wave that away, who needs liquidit
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by SecondHandTofu 9mo ago
Land IS somewhat expensive in LA though. Plus, you are looking at it purely from a construction cost of the building point of view. If you build more densely, you don't need as many roads and other services, which also cost money, and
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by SecondHandTofu 9mo ago
An alternate way to view the same situation is that the regulatory state being slow and bureaucratic is the cause of those ills. The more you over-regulate and make the official pathways too expensive by adding a million tiny costs, the les
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by SecondHandTofu 9mo ago
People who write books are disproportionately going to be a bit narcissistic too. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/you-dont-hate-polyamory-you...
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by SecondHandTofu 9mo ago
Has that ever worked at scale in history? This strikes me as the same as people who take a stand by not ordering from Amazon or not using whichever service, they make their life somewhat harder and the world doesn't notice. Even worse
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by SecondHandTofu 10mo ago
That is fascinating, I have seen the schizophrenia model of having "trapped priors" before. I figured that this is probably something Scott Alexander has written about, and lo and behold: https://slatestarcodex.com&#x2F
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by SecondHandTofu 10mo ago
22 behavioral measures looking for one that is <0.05? Unless they pre-registered that prediction, isn't this just the Texas Sharpshooter fallacy?
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by SecondHandTofu 11mo ago
More political arguments about the other effects of unions aside - I've never heard a good answer for why unions are good for workers in professions with wide ranges of skill and impact, such as lots of types of knowledge work. Do you
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by SecondHandTofu 11mo ago
The other reason is more mundane. There's been a lot of political incentive to reduce immigration for a long time, which means adding arbitrary friction to increase the effort of applying and decrease the number of successful applicant
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by SecondHandTofu 11mo ago
Generally, yes but I there's a surprising amount of cases when it is important, which makes it difficult to generalise e.g. Huge amounts of the financial sector cares because of market times or regulatory reasons.
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by SecondHandTofu 1y ago
What is your point, that variance exists? I'm not sure I'd play Russian roulette even with a 100 chamber cylinder. 99 people might come away with an anecdote though.