ghgdynb1

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by ghgdynb1 2mo ago
Ultimately to the end of allowing Pittsburgh and the surrounding area to be a place with agglomeration effects, growth, and opportunities enough to allow smart and ambitious young people to remain in the area as opposed to brain draining in
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by ghgdynb1 3y ago
you may mean exacerbate
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by ghgdynb1 4y ago
BLM means Bureau of Land Management
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by ghgdynb1 4y ago
Yes! Applications are open for YC Winter 2023! Started out /s, but upon consideration I imagine YC really is the closest you could get to the spirit of HN in an in-person meetup.
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by ghgdynb1 5y ago
That's true, but I have a thesis for why this might be good for the biotech ecosystem. A lot of people will dismiss phage therapy on economic grounds, suggesting that you'd need to essentially design a new phage therapy for each i
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by ghgdynb1 5y ago
This site is actually doing something interesting through its curation, and I would be pretty impressed if that was how it was pitched to me. But I have to agree, expecting a bookstore and then getting something totally other is too much of
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by ghgdynb1 5y ago
I think the concern is that you could still be getting pharmacodynamic effects at 1mg, so the control wouldn’t really be a control. It’s entirely feasible that you could get good results and limited side effects at dose x, and poor results
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by ghgdynb1 5y ago
I remember exactly where I was, about a year ago today, when I realized Deep Thought was an existentialist. B2 Data Structures lab in a building called Fitz. I knew I couldn’t have been the first to realize this, but I couldn’t bear to look
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by ghgdynb1 5y ago
Here’s how this gets broken: The more countries faithfully adhere to the global corporate minimum, the stronger the incentive becomes for a “cheating” country to lower its rate. The tax haven could even get around an “enforcer” or governing
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by ghgdynb1 5y ago
Happy you found it helpful! The final section (imposters) of this [1] simplified exploration of “green beard altruism” might be of interest to you if you want to explore this further. If you’re interested in thinking about things like this
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by ghgdynb1 5y ago
The point is that effective tax rates can be really subtle. For instance, you could have a country change what it considers to be “profit” so that you’re paying $2 on $100 of revenue, whereas in the neighboring country you’d be paying $6. S
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by ghgdynb1 5y ago
Whether or not we see such a harmonized tax rate emerge and even if we could find a way to have some governing body “enforce” it, you’d still see countries lowering their effective tax rates to lure firms or bolster growth. I bet there’s a
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by ghgdynb1 5y ago
Careful, there are a lot of people who wish IQ tests didn’t have anything useful to say about intelligence. Implying that IQ tests can be useful tools and that their results might bear some relation to intelligence usually brings them out o
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by ghgdynb1 5y ago
People have definitely gotten smarter. Here’s a small case which might help illustrate how this happens in general: We know infection with hookworms and other soil-transmitted helminths will do nasty things to the intelligence of the patien
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by ghgdynb1 5y ago
This just sounds like a really clever mechanism for solving the cold-start problem for the protocol. You generate a bit of initial demand to pull in some initial supply, which in turn generates its own demand, which pulls in more profit-ch
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by ghgdynb1 5y ago
At the beginning of the pandemic the world health organization was saying that there was no evidence of human to human transmission, when there was. The surgeon general of the United States was saying that masks don’t work. Right now a lot
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by ghgdynb1 5y ago
Here’s the thing to understand: the “economists” you’re watching on TV are not representative of the field, and TV economics is hardly a better source of information on economics than Facebook is on immunology. Confusing the cargo-cult for
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by ghgdynb1 5y ago
Watching a tech company break free of legacy media and seize control of its narrative and position in the culture is awe-inspiring. Stripe is all the more impressive because their business wasn’t media-adjacent like Netflix’s. I’m seeing a
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by ghgdynb1 5y ago
I get it, and I actually agree that the culture you describe isn't a good look. What I'm going for is more the idea that if you consider the best alternative I can think of to the "holistic" approach, you get selecting a
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by ghgdynb1 5y ago
I used to think that the “holistic” criteria elite US colleges use to select students was a failure of meritocracy. My view was that the non-objective metrics were excuses for colleges to let in students who wouldn’t grind but wanted presti
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by ghgdynb1 5y ago
The idea is that you want a trusted third party because either of the two adversarial parties could screw the other over. The company could say: we’re going to pay you 125 and you could sue us and spend 60k and two years or just settle for
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by ghgdynb1 5y ago
I don’t think it’s accurate to say Tesla is developing an AGI. I mean, the point of the project is to get a computer to drive a vehicle, not interpret French literature, which means the “AI” will be pretty “specialized,” which is kind of co
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by ghgdynb1 5y ago
I mean he was promising to land rockets and put men in space and launch a mass market electric vehicle for quite a bit before he did any of those. Loads of people called Elon a charlatan, but for them criticism came at virtually no cost, un
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by ghgdynb1 6y ago
1: Agreed. 2: One of the problems a lot of people see barring the use of bacteriophage therapy for combating bacterial infection in the clinic is the really fine specificity of most phages to their hosts. The skeptics will suggest that you&
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by ghgdynb1 6y ago
On top of that 1Password is quite pricey, albeit fully featured. I probably wouldn't use it if not for my family's plan.
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by ghgdynb1 6y ago
I use 1Password for my mfa; I can access my one time passcodes from any device I’m signed in on, and my passwords and secondary authentication are conveniently managed together. If issues like water damage or losing your device are concerns
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by ghgdynb1 6y ago
I legitimately wanted to evaluate the argument here but there’s so much backstory and political contextualization I gave up reading this without ever having found out what the Viennese did.
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by ghgdynb1 6y ago
I used HN to quit Reddit and I must say it’s been a change for the better.
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by ghgdynb1 6y ago
I think it’s fine as long as people know what they’re getting themselves into. I’m sure I would’ve found whatever was happening on Parler abhorrent, but in the same way Merkel and Macron were concerned by the tech deplatforming that followe
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by ghgdynb1 6y ago
I'm not sure, I'm not an expert in this and I've never been in the military. However, I bet there's little to nothing uniquely good about OODA over the alternatives you mention. My guess is that having a standardized rap

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