defertoreptar

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by defertoreptar 6y ago
> Threats in public are designed to make you feel fear. Even if you know that the threat is empty, it's difficult to just put it out of your mind. Regardless of the intentions of the one making the threat, if the threatened person k
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
Part of it may be the mindset of "paying for something = negative" and "getting something = positive." Micropayments maximize the time we spend thinking about the negative part of the transaction. On the other hand, if w
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
If there are people out there making death threats against you, do you feel safer just because some moderator is deleting them?
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
This was confusing. The narrator leads by saying that cities are ponzi schemes and supports this by showing a cash flow graph, but that graph doesn't seem to be grounded with any examples. I find it surprising that long term maintenanc
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
What you're referring to as "gatekeepers," I would see as one of many sources of evidence. Others include direct experience, non-expert opinion, data from experiments/studies, and so on. Ideally we'd weigh each sour
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
Interestingly it was Mussolini who said, “Fascism should more appropriate be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." And this past election cycle and especially the past week, we've seen quite an a
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
> For example incitement to genocide must be a red line. I don't think this has to do with why Twitter banned Trump. > Iran’s leader has repeatedly shared tweets calling Israel a “deadly, cancerous growth” to be “uprooted and de
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
> So the government should be able to force your business to do something against your will? No one said that. We can criticize companies for censorship with or without wanting government intervention.
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
You're comparing banning a company from the App store with having a comment show up in a lighter color.
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
> The first period includes within it a perfectly flat period longer than shortest of the periods you chose followed by a period of equal length that is more consistently increasing than the (mostly flat) period you've held up as an
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
They are unequal periods, and that's why we annualize the growth. The periods aren't "cherry-picked." If you'd actually look at the plotted effective capital gains rate, you'd see a clear difference in tax poli
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
Here is an image that plots the effective capital gains rate from the 1950s to recent years: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax_in_the_Uni... Let's analyze three periods: 1953-1985: no significant t
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
> and despite tax cuts for the wealthy wages haven't gone up. Real median personal income went up almost 8% from the year before the tax cuts (2017) and 2019. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
The price elasticity of higher education is 0, and healthcare is also very low. We see my more inflation in things that we're not willing to go without.
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
The nice thing about the median is that it's robust against outliers like the ones you've mentioned. It's over $300k, so we're definitely not talking about some hellhole in MS.
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
Median sale price of houses sold has increased 2% from November 2019 to November 2020. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPNHSUS That's on par with historical annualized inflation rates.
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
Wages and the costs of hiring/employing are a cash outflow. Losses mean that outflow is greater than inflow, so wages can be related to losses, but they are not mutually exclusive. Cuts to jobs and reduced hours can be because of losse
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
Yes, because you're only temporarily promised to get what you want at the expense of having voting power permanently diluted.
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
In other words, "I don't mind that my vote carries less weight for as long as the decision-makers happen to share my political views."
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
> that's obviously a different order of action with explicit criterion than whether or not this deserves third-party investigation which may lead to legal action. To my saying "plausible doesn't mean actionable," you
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
If someone has a feeling that something was racially motivated but has no evidence, do believe that alone should enable actionable legal consequences?
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
Whether something is plausible doesn't make it actionable. "He said, she said" shouldn't be actionable because it lacks verifiable evidence, outside of two people's subjective experiences. Those two people are the m
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
Not ironic when you consider people don't always just vote for what will improve their present financial position. Wouldn't you agree that some vote based on their principles?
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
I picked street kid and I still was confused by why the first part of the story was even necessary. The game could have taken a lesson from Kurt Vonnegut, who said to start a story as close to the end as possible.
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
> If productivity wasn’t the only goal I think I missed where you explained how to do this.
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
Here's one possible explanation: > The vast majority of states adopted new high-stakes teacher evaluation systems between 2011 and 2016. > We find that high-stakes evaluation reforms reduced the supply of newly licensed teachers
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
I would agree that I'd enjoy my job more if I got paid more, but it sounds like you're trying to say this will result in jobs that are just over all better. Why wouldn't it mean the exact same "shitty jobs" but with
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
> So why didn't they do that before? If there is one thing I know about the rich it's that they won't pass up an oportunity to earn more. There is some number x that is the minimum net profit after tax that entrepreneurs&#
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
I'd guess that people will be the most apprehensive at the very beginning but then will be more open to it as it goes along.
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by defertoreptar 6y ago
Sounds like the matchmaking needs to factor in the standard deviation of the players' skill, like a Sharpe ratio for skill.

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