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by padastra 5y ago
It’s not a technology limitation, it’s a “get people to agree to do it in a transparent way” limitation which crypto doesn’t address.
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by padastra 5y ago
It’s arguably more harmful to give a poor person $120K in debt to study something that almost certainly returns little, especially as those same people (statistically) may not know that some college degrees are worth significantly less than
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by padastra 5y ago
Strongly disagree. Whether you give me capital at a 1% interest rate of a 50% interest rate; whether you buy 1% of my company for $1,000 or 1% of my company for $100,000,000; are independently determined by each provider of capital. Collus
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by padastra 5y ago
I think we're roughly in agreement. Businesses are composed of the capital providers, the organizers (who decide how to deploy the capital), and the workers. Capital providers colluding to set a loan rate is illegal. We shouldn'
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by padastra 5y ago
Businesses create value. That's not universal -- there's regulatory capture, monopolies, tragedy of the commons, etc. -- but it is fundamentally why capitalist economies have raised billions of people out of poverty. Unions funda
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by padastra 5y ago
Yes, perhaps all those scientists are idiots and you're the only smart person, even though you're too lazy to Google it before making a snarky comment.
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by padastra 5y ago
Hi! I used Wanderlog to plan a recent month-long group trip, which was definitely the most complex vacation I've had to plan. For context I am very active when traveling (e.g. multiple activities each day); so not sure how my experien
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by padastra 5y ago
Ah, for what it’s worth I looked for a while and didn’t see the download icon until you told me it was there, and I consider myself pretty good at picking up new user interfaces relative to your average user (e.g. became competent at Photos
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by padastra 5y ago
This is neat! Who's the target user? For this to be usable to me (level of knowledge: I can do all of what's done on this page in Python / R, but don't have a PhD in stats or anything), I would need: - Some sense of how
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by padastra 5y ago
I am not aware of any data that colleges--liberal arts or otherwise--teach much in terms of critical thinking. Rather their value seems to derive primarily from their ability to select talented students and provide them with a network of si
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by padastra 5y ago
CEOs are generally not going to take on any risk to the company -- especially one that exists in a highly regulated segment of the market -- for the purpose of an interesting interview. I would be surprised if the author genuinely expected
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by padastra 5y ago
Unfortunately, there's many corporate environments where technical staff are managed by non-technical staff. This comment isn't debating the merits of that, but when the manager (or especially their manager) doesn't really i
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by padastra 5y ago
Agree 100%. Many riots / burning of buildings / lootings were allowed while media spurred them on and called them peaceful protests. Police in many cities gave up on enforcement. In those scenarios the state no longer has a monopo
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by padastra 5y ago
Like most readers of this forum, I advocate supplying free drugs and free housing in some of the most expensive real-estate in the world, no strings attached, to people suffering mental health and addiction issues that destroy their insight
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by padastra 5y ago
When you consider incentives, you have to think about more than just what one average person would do. There are 300M Americans. If 999/1,000 people say "hey, free housing is great, but I'm going to keep working" and 1&#
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by padastra 5y ago
If you take the premise that there is a set amount of wealth, and that it changes hands from one person to another, then that is fair. However that's a false premise. The act of labor (including the act of organizing the labor of mil
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by padastra 5y ago
I'm not sure that's counter evidence (i.e. it doesn't lend proof to the OP's position either, it just decreases the certainty of both positions). The only source I could find with respect to your question is that "S
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by padastra 5y ago
I think (5) is the weakest point, and also the major reason for getting an MBA. With respect to the other points: (1) Most '20 year old aspiring tech founders' can hardly be thought of as either a specialist nor experienced, but t
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by padastra 5y ago
There's some conclusions that I disagree with here assuming the same starting facts. Also, I think calling things "racist" or "segregated" usually ends critical thinking because they have the same emotional label a
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by padastra 5y ago
There are numerous sources in this thread that show that the Asian group, highly selected for here, are predominantly poor. Just parroting a talking point without looking at the data is as idiotic as what we all accuse Trump supporters of.
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by padastra 5y ago
If I were writing a movie script, and said this was in reaction to a disease that had a 0.2% mortality rate (or 0.02% after vaccination), everyone who read it would laugh at the ridiculousness.
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by padastra 5y ago
Tigers are real. Lions are real. The fact that Ligers exist doesn’t mean they’re not two different populations. The point is that just because two categories can mix doesn’t automatically mean that those categories don’t meaningfully exist.
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by padastra 5y ago
There’s a difference between “appeals to their masculine tendencies”, which suggests they’re baseline masculine and owning a gun matches it; versus “makes them feel masculine”, which suggests they are baseline not masculine and are buying i
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by padastra 5y ago
Blue is a color. Yellow is a color. The fact that green exists doesn’t mean those colors aren't real.
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by padastra 5y ago
Tobacco was a net negative and, without regulation, would have remained super sticky. Exercise is a net positive and, for many, is horribly unstick you. How sticky something is correlated better with how well it hits up those short term dop
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by padastra 5y ago
We should apply a high degree of emotional moderation, if not actual moderation, to outrage-generating anecdata. Sometimes it gives insights into society in a way that data does not capture or for which data is not available (e.g. organize
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by padastra 5y ago
Unfortunately, I see this same trend happening on HN too. Every post about an accomplishment, a novel business, a new approach, is filled with comments on the inadequacies of social justice and woe-is-mes.
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by padastra 5y ago
What you're seeing in this thread about how is a person by themselves supposed to be clean for an interview, have an address for a check, get housing on minimum wage in San Francisco, etc. is missing the point. 70%+ of people who are
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by padastra 5y ago
There was a point in which the possibility of lab origin was “misinformation” or where accelerating the vaccine timeline to one year was “misinformation” or where face masks being helpful was “misinformation”. And at each stage people look
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by padastra 5y ago
Yes, you’re right. I’m sure the archeologists have very high confidence about how life 30k was years ago, when disability, a dry summer or a shitty winter, childbirth gone anything other than perfectly well, or a bad encounter with a predat

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