dbroockman

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Effects on Political Views in OpenResearch's Basic Income Study(twitter.com)
2 points by dbroockman 2y ago|0 comments
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Unconditional Cash Study: first findings available(openresearchlab.org)
232 points by dbroockman 2y ago|644 comments
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Antithesis – Autonomous Testing(antithesis.com)
43 points by dbroockman 3y ago|2 comments
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by dbroockman 3y ago
Another one: don’t program your own AB testing framework! Every time I’ve seen engineers try to build this on their own, it fails an AA test (where both versions are the same so there should be no difference). Common reasons are overly comp
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by dbroockman 4y ago
CA YIMBY has been making a lot of progress on this at the state level. If this stuff makes you mad it’s a good org to donate to: https://cayimby.org/
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by dbroockman 5y ago
This is a rewriting of history. Before we ever had results from the COVID vaccine trials, the FDA declared that the primary goal of the trials was to prevent any symptomatic infection in the first place. From June 2020: https://w
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by dbroockman 5y ago
And that’s 95.6% efficacy relative to two shots! Relative to no shots it must be like 97%. Wow.
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Booster dose of Pfizer vaccine shows 95.6% efficacy in Phase 3 trial(cnn.com)
2 points by dbroockman 5y ago|1 comments
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by dbroockman 5y ago
This paper is intended as a sarcastic critique of the push towards conducting randomized trials in academia/medicine, but it’s an obvious straw man. You could write this sarcastic article for any research method - “see, why do research
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Breakthrough Cases May Be a Bigger Problem Than You’ve Been Told(nymag.com)
19 points by dbroockman 5y ago|58 comments
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by dbroockman 6y ago
I was similarly addicted and quit for similar reasons. https://www.weancaffeine.com worked really well for me - I bought 3 packs and was off caffeine in a few weeks. I was slightly slower those weeks but it wasn't so painfu
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California is sitting on over 1MM unused Covid-19 vaccine doses(bloomberg.com)
5 points by dbroockman 6y ago|0 comments
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by dbroockman 7y ago
Holy shit, this quote is crazy: > While the company was dodging me, it was also monitoring me. At my request, a number of police officers had run my photo through the Clearview app. They soon received phone calls from company representat
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Cambridge University Press and UC Agree to Open Access Publishing Deal(osc.universityofcalifornia.edu)
3 points by dbroockman 7y ago|0 comments
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by dbroockman 8y ago
Here's a great paper about how rent control is counterproductive: https://web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/DMQ.pdf . > Using a 1994 law change, we exploit quasi-experimental variation in the assignment of rent control
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Measuring Consumer Sensitivity to Audio Advertising: An Experiment on Pandora(papers.ssrn.com)
1 points by dbroockman 8y ago|0 comments
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CloudDiff – Diff tool for Dropbox(github.com)
3 points by dbroockman 8y ago|0 comments
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by dbroockman 9y ago
It's hard to tell exactly what the underlying principle is from just the few questions we could get folks to answer, but the general pattern seems to be about like you describe -- on the environment, founders are pretty liberal; on iss
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by dbroockman 9y ago
Great points on both. On #2, we wanted to include those, but space constraints :/. Given the interest in this survey we'll probably do another after collecting more suggestions like these. Thanks!
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by dbroockman 9y ago
Author of the study they wrote about here. I think the NYT write up is better: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/technology/silicon-valley... . Study here: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/fa
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by dbroockman 9y ago
The same logic holds for founders in other industries but they don't seem to like taxes/redistribution much (although we need and are getting more data on that). Would have been nice to ask about taxation on capital gains, but sur
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by dbroockman 9y ago
Yep, that is exactly what the we find and argue. I think the NYT article about our work does a better job highlighting that central finding: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/technology/silicon-valley...
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by dbroockman 9y ago
Author of the study they were writing about here. That is the original expectation I had coming in, but I don't think what we find is totally consistent with that (although some is). We talk about that in the paper. Study here: https:
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Twin Peaks with ARKit and Mapbox Unity SDK(blog.mapbox.com)
5 points by dbroockman 9y ago|0 comments
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by dbroockman 9y ago
Seems like disaster was only avoided because there was good visibility. If there was fog that day, it sounds like this wouldn't have been avoided.
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by dbroockman 10y ago
These kinds of councils have nearly no influence; they're photo ops. But leaving does signal that Silicon Valley $ isn't going to play along with Trump, which Republican Members of Congress are going to care a lot about as they th
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by dbroockman 10y ago
> This is really unfortunate. If you're in the "Trump is a mad man" camp, don't you want voices of reason like Kalanack's to be in his ear? I see the point, but this business council isn't going to meaningfu
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by dbroockman 10y ago
Fun fact: in Tokyo prices are 3x lower than in the bay area, in large part because new housing is legally much easier to build. If you want to make the bay area more affordable, check out the great work these folks are doing to legalize bui
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by dbroockman 10y ago
Good thing voters are incentivized to vote correctly like they were incentivized to answer correctly in this survey. Oh, wait.
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by dbroockman 10y ago
The city doesn't have enough room to add many more jobs. This is like saying a restaurant that fills its tables every night must be in a bubble because it hasn't grown past its capacity. Right? (Not saying it shouldn't have m

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