acslater00

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by acslater00 3y ago
Fake news. This is a measure of where inflation "goes", not what fuels inflation. The narrative that profits are "fueling" inflation is completely made up and the people pushing it are lying to everyone for political rea
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by acslater00 3y ago
Lyft contributed essentially everything back to OSM
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by acslater00 3y ago
Yes - Lyft contributed the overwhelming majority of the new data back into OSM. The only exceptions were layers that didn't meet OSM community standards for various technical reasons. Source - I led this team
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by acslater00 5y ago
might buy an Oculus just for this
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by acslater00 5y ago
Article is half correct. It’s true that major consumption purchases (nice house, nice car) are better thought of as liabilities not assets. But the investment story here suffers from what I’ve heard someone call the “my portfolio is 3 car w
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by acslater00 6y ago
I can't speak for COPD but I'm very familiar with a different chronic pulmonary disease (Cystic Fibrosis), and it seems to _strangely_ not be a huge risk factor for poor COVID outcomes. https://www.sciencedirect.com&#x2
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by acslater00 6y ago
It's amazing and wonderful how much environmental damage seems to be recovering. Air pollution is down, carbon emissions are down as much as 17%, fish and sharks are repopulating shorelines and beaches - and to think, all it took was t
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by acslater00 7y ago
Correct, the author is describing the effect of a competitive, liquid talent market. The other dynamic he correctly identified was asymmetry in switching costs (cheap for me to quit my job and go work at Google, expensive for Google if I qu
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by acslater00 7y ago
> and single story ranch homes with sad little yards This is so spot-on it literally pains me
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by acslater00 7y ago
It doesn’t matter if corporations pay taxes because the money just flows to people who own equity in or work for those corporations, and they pay taxes.
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by acslater00 7y ago
Only surprised it took this long. One of the below-the-surface purposes of regulation is to provide a mechanism for private players to shed liability (and public accountability) for things that go wrong in their businesses. A builder can ma
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by acslater00 8y ago
I ask most candidates to write code on a whiteboard in front of me and I’m not apologizing for it! The problem is usually fairly easy and if the candidate cannot get to a “describe solution in words” milestone then I will guide them to one.
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by acslater00 8y ago
Surprising that paying people to not work didn't lead to more people working!
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by acslater00 8y ago
This is ridiculous. "Greed" didn't kill newspapers. You think the classified business would be any better today off if newspapers had artificially held ad. and sub. prices down in the 80s and 90s? $0 is $0, and that's wh
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by acslater00 8y ago
https://www.supermacs.ie/menuproduct/mighty-mac/ I can't possibly imagine why McDonalds would be litigating against this chain!
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by acslater00 8y ago
The math here is based on the idea that MFA would reduce the per-person expenditures by 19% (19.2% actually) (1) 5.9% by unilaterally reducing drug prices by 40% (2) 2.8% by unilaterally reducing medical service prices by 20% (3) 1.5% throu
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by acslater00 9y ago
Yeah - sure I'm not literally saying that all clubs are full of people with identical politics. I'm just pointing out that most communities in America are actually not that diverse or polarized.
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by acslater00 9y ago
The proposed link between civic participation ("cooperation") and both inequality and political polarization is a strange one to me, since civic participation seems like it would be a local phenomenon, and both inequality and poli
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by acslater00 9y ago
Yeah. My personal opinion is that it's because insurance leads to, basically, 1/2 of a market. We allow suppliers to set prices however they want, but we mandate that insurance buy the thing, which essentially gives them no negoti
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by acslater00 9y ago
This is definitely true, so far as it goes. For many types of medical care it is unreasonable to expect a patient to act in a price setting capacity on the demand side. However there are many types of medical care where that is very reasona
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by acslater00 9y ago
Ok Jun 2016: US spends $100 on health care ($7 on administration) Dec 2016: US spends $103 on health care ($7.21 on administration) Jun 2017: US spends $106 on health care ($7.42 on administration) --> US administration costs drops from
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by acslater00 9y ago
Oh look, another attempt to argue that market forces somehow don't apply to medical care. In this one, the author makes the argument that "competition" leads to a proliferation of firms, a proliferation of firms leads to admi
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by acslater00 9y ago
One of the things I learned in college is that when someone says "I have thought about this social problem and understand both the cause and solution, please join me as I attempt to radically address it via state action" you sho
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by acslater00 10y ago
This rings pretty true to me. I live in Manhattan, and my wife is a personal chef, so she has to be one of the world's foremost collectors of anecdotal grocery price data you'll ever meet. She's noticed a lot of weird dissona
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by acslater00 10y ago
No one is going to 2.5x their 4 year early grant and vest it over 10.
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by acslater00 10y ago
Because the 10-year employee will be granted additional shares after her initial option grant is fully vested. And in a world where both have the option of leaving and preserving their option value, the follow-up grant will likely be larger
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by acslater00 10y ago
This is an absolutely embarrassing argument on the part of A16Z and it should be taken down. Options have present value prior to exercise. You can compute that value using common financial models. Renouncing vested options by not exercising
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by acslater00 11y ago
$29b in cash and stock?? Man, I'm really looking forward to the 150% run up in TWTR before Alphabet makes that $43 tender offer. brb calling my broker
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by acslater00 11y ago
If anything FAA regulations for recreational pilots can be absurdly lax. You can get a private pilot certificate with iirc 25 hours of flight if you go to a flight school in the middle of nowhere, and as far as the FAA is concerned as soon
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by acslater00 11y ago
FWIW none of these things are actual commercial flight regulations. In particular, it's quite possible (though I'm guessing uncommon) to get a commercial license without an IFR, and it's definitely very common to run single-e

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