gwbrooks

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by gwbrooks 16d ago
Debt is a tool, not a convenience. It's a lot harder to shoot yourself in the foot with that attitude.
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by gwbrooks 20d ago
Marginal tax rates are meaningless because, even in the 1950s, the system was complex and can be gamed. If you want to judge the net effect of tax policy over time, look at the percentage of GDP captured by federal receipts (the vast majori
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by gwbrooks 2mo ago
I disagree with some of the framing, but that's what good discussion is about -- figuring out where we agree and disagree. But consumer uptake strikes me as the worst way to judge whether the big AI shops will make it. That's not
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by gwbrooks 2mo ago
Not sure pricing to recoup costs is artificial.
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by gwbrooks 3mo ago
<<and if you are calling yourself a philosopher CEO you are a blowhard.>> Yep. Wholly apart from the value or lack of it in his points, I'm not taking that personal brand seriously.
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by gwbrooks 3mo ago
Rubbish. Artists/creators/tortured souls with berets and clove cigarettes don't get to define what art is or isn't. Art is that which moves us, and "us" isn't a committee of gatekeepers; it's fractal
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by gwbrooks 7mo ago
Lived in California for 30 years -- it's an amazing place. But it's hubris to assume your definition of quality of life is objective or universal. California has seen negative net domestic migration for over 20 years. So multiple
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by gwbrooks 8mo ago
Tech and Research roles | Remote (US) or on-site in Albuquerque America First Policy Institute's Office for Fiscal and Regulatory Analysis is looking for coders, policy researchers (or the rare dual-skilled unicorns!) for several role
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by gwbrooks 8mo ago
I can't think of a single time in history that humanity responded to a threat in a fully coordinated manner. Maybe this is the first time, but the incentive stack from the individual voter all the way up to geopolitical grand strategy
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by gwbrooks 9mo ago
The biggest impact of something like this -- thoughtful, nuanced and multidisciplinary -- is that it makes you remember just how bad the ocean of hot AI takes really is.
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by gwbrooks 10mo ago
It's voluntary. There are jobs with less flexibility and lower pay. There are competitors in the market if you really have your heart set on a career in ridesharing. None of that sounds exploitive.
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by gwbrooks 1y ago
It was more than interesting 100+ years ago -- it was the subject of wildly inconsistent, often fear-based (or incumbent-industry-based) regulation. A vetoed 1896 Pennsylvania law would have required drivers who encountered livestock to &qu
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by gwbrooks 1y ago
There's no standard definition of what constitutes the press. Now, if the question is some flavor of: Do Hacker News posts and comments enjoy First Amendment protections generally described as "freedom of the press?" Absolute
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by gwbrooks 1y ago
In most markets with state lotteries, it's easier to pass a lottery than a tax increase; they're typically sold as a way to fund schools or some other public good. It's an inefficient revenue capture in the sense that there a
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by gwbrooks 1y ago
America First Policy Institute - Office for Fiscal and Regulatory Analysis | ONSITE (US) | Full-time | https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/ The America First Policy Institute (AFPI), a 501(c)(3) non-profit non-partisan resea
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by gwbrooks 1y ago
Using Google's GDELT to analyze velocity and sentiment around public-policy/political news. Objectives: develop a taxonomy of news-event types and their behavior; use that taxonomy to test faster/better time to market with re
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by gwbrooks 1y ago
1. Foreign entities are also investing in land that is strategically or tactically important -- agricultural land is a good example of the former; land near military bases an example of the latter. China has demonstrated a willingness to do
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by gwbrooks 1y ago
I've run my own consulting agency for 20+ years and this tracks. It's more organized and incremental-product-improvement oriented than what I do, but there's a lot of wisdom here. Well done!
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by gwbrooks 2y ago
People seem to handle it very differently, according to my doc. I never had issues while taking Mounjaro or Synjardy (a prescription pill for diabetes management with similar side effects) alone, but the two together meant I could count on
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by gwbrooks 2y ago
If you view the products as prayer, worship and reflection... yeah, probably ridiculously productive.
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by gwbrooks 2y ago
Nature is healing.
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by gwbrooks 2y ago
With the exception of things that can be done within the Executive Branch by EO (which isn't much and isn't lasting), the president-elect's rhetoric is communicative and not prescriptive. He's trying to set an agenda but
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by gwbrooks 2y ago
Policy guy here. Big, broad brushstrokes: * You can go bottom-up or top-down. Some theories of change and some movements focus on developing a critical mass of grassroots/voter/public support to make change happen; others focus on
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by gwbrooks 2y ago
I'm not in your space, but this advice was damn solid. Well done!
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by gwbrooks 2y ago
COBOL
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by gwbrooks 2y ago
Single-line (that is, five dealt cards) video poker can be played with 1-5 coins. However, there is a disproportionate payout for a royal flush (A-K-Q-J-10, all suited) with five coins played. There are no video poker games you can play wit
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by gwbrooks 2y ago
A million years ago, when you could still find video poker games with 100%+ theoretical return or poorly thought-out promotions offering enough cash-back to get you over 100%, we'd calculate the Kelly number for a given opportunity --
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by gwbrooks 2y ago
Location: Northern Nevada, but willing to travel up to 100%.Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, but can long-distance commute up to 100%. Technologies: persuasion, policy and reputational capital -- more than 20 years of it. I'm the g
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by gwbrooks 2y ago
There's a huge need for a product like this in the small and mid-sized PR/marketing agency space. Announce to those folks -- PR and marketing subreddits might be a good place to start, subject to their product-announcement posting
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by gwbrooks 2y ago
The future is getting better, broadly and on net, judged by human-centric measures. Because the data is choppy and fractal as you look from x billion people to one individual, it's easy to say things suck and are getting suckier. But o

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