stocksinsmocks

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by stocksinsmocks 8mo ago
That’s the opposite of my experience. Weird. But I’m also not the kind of person who gets hung up on whether someone used a loop or recursion or if their methods are five times as long as what I would’ve done myself unless there is a perfor
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by stocksinsmocks 8mo ago
The tariffs are a bit of a new phenomenon so I think that may be motivated reasoning. Construction productivity has also been stagnant for about 60 years. I think the most important factor is that housing prices, in the United States at lea
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by stocksinsmocks 8mo ago
OK, let me fall less short. It has replaced the freelancer for me. I communicate product requirements. It builds the product immediately at trivial cost. It’s better than a human. There are jobs I would have considered hiring out that I don
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by stocksinsmocks 8mo ago
I really don’t agree with the author here. Perplexity has, for me, largely replaced Cal Newport’s job (read other journalists work and synthesize celebrity and pundit takes on topic X). I think the take that Claude isn’t literally a human s
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by stocksinsmocks 8mo ago
There is no simple explanation, but an important issue is that there is no price discovery mechanism or system pressure for efficiency. You also may not know that the US healthcare system is also an elaborate jobs program. Walk into any hos
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by stocksinsmocks 8mo ago
We almost do. Employers must provide insurance. If you’re unemployed you can probably get Medicaid. We have private entities handle the details instead of something that looks like the Post Office. There is nothing anyone in Congress can do
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by stocksinsmocks 9mo ago
Humans do not know what’s right. What’s worse is the phenomenon of people who don’t actually know but want to seem like they know so they ask the person with the question for follow up information that is meaningless and irrelevant to the q
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by stocksinsmocks 9mo ago
Can he round up the goons in the CIA and FBI while he’s at it? Is being a tributary vassal state of China materially worse than being a tributary vassal state of foreign power? I’d like sovereignty, but that’s not really an option.
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by stocksinsmocks 9mo ago
I think his removal has a lot more to do with his willingness to cooperate with the “bad guys“ in the Middle East. I think this also has a lot to do with why we suddenly care about Somali fraud rings that have been operating since the 1990s
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by stocksinsmocks 9mo ago
I think there were that many immigrants. I don’t believe they are so many living there now. Iran demonstrated pretty conclusively that mass repatriation is completely possible if you have a government that actually wishes to do so.
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by stocksinsmocks 9mo ago
I think heads of state bearing personal responsibility for misconduct is an excellent precedent that I would love to see applied much, much more widely. Preferably to the superpowers, especially if said leader were to say, for a totally-hyp
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by stocksinsmocks 9mo ago
You see, my lad… In this house we believe Love is love Black Lives Matter Science is real Feminism is for everyone No human is illegal Kindness is everything Signaling your alignment to the public-facing opinions of your social betters is t
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by stocksinsmocks 9mo ago
I wish atheist would just stop writing about Christian practices. Particularly screenwriters. It’s better that your audience assumes you are ignorant than to open your mouth and prove them right.
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by stocksinsmocks 9mo ago
Unrelated to the topic, I’m a bit at a loss as to what to make of this website. There was a link to a really cool analysis of artificial intelligence research. And I guess they are a nonprofit and are raising $2M for “infrastructure“ but I
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by stocksinsmocks 9mo ago
I don’t think self-dealing is new. Although it was eye-opening, when I learned that BlackRock, Vanguard, and Fidelity all own 5-10% of every company and competition between the companies they hold is not meaningful. Everyone just has to hav
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by stocksinsmocks 9mo ago
It was George Bush/DNT. Usually coming from out of state to Plano or downtown Dallas
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by stocksinsmocks 9mo ago
Employee headcount is not a good proxy for actually accomplishing the tasks government is expected to do. Your DOT has a huge number of employees, but I can say from first hand knowledge that none of the staff engineers actually design anyt
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by stocksinsmocks 9mo ago
I’m not very confident in the strategy of immiserating most people to drive positive change. This has been a Communist talking point for a century and a half that has yet to produce positive results, despite many attempts. I am pleased to r
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by stocksinsmocks 9mo ago
A lot of work in project controls and management are simple enough that any system that can handle data that isn’t reliably structured could do it. Read project team updates each week. Are we on time and on budget? If yes, commend the team
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by stocksinsmocks 9mo ago
Facebook was Life Log, Oracle was Project Oracle. None of the household names in tech are playing straight.
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by stocksinsmocks 9mo ago
There are a few answers to that but the most obvious reason is quality of work. You can expect a lot more out of a contractor whose billed rate is $250 an hour versus a grad student. The second point is that least in the United States, all
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by stocksinsmocks 9mo ago
I subscribe to the opinion that there are probably some good reasons why people in the US tend to spread out when they have the option. I think the problem of collective human action is complex enough that optimizing at the individual level
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by stocksinsmocks 9mo ago
It’s probably necessary long term as gasoline taxes are yielding less per mile as total fuel efficiency improves. The dedicated funding source is necessary because if DOT construction budgets (which are huge) were in the general fund, they
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by stocksinsmocks 9mo ago
Reading the title, my mind immediately drifted to the thought that there should be mental health warnings for living in a place like New York.
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by stocksinsmocks 9mo ago
Hear me out: there is no goal. Half your income is spent on supporting an elaborate jobs program of self-licking ice cream cones.
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by stocksinsmocks 9mo ago
Publishing findings that amount to an admission that you and others spent a fortune studying a dead end is career suicide and guarantees your excommunication from the realm of study and polite society. If a popular theory is wrong, some unl
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by stocksinsmocks 9mo ago
I have a lot of interest in this space for infrastructure design. Thanks for sharing.
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by stocksinsmocks 9mo ago
I see why people like it, but personally, I find their brand of longer form journalism extremely tiresome. Most often I read articles because I want to know the facts, and not just for the pleasure of reading for its own sake. Ponderous and
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by stocksinsmocks 9mo ago
I feel like this list says a lot more about what the author wants her kids to be interested in than a real survey of the whole toy market. There are a few stuffed animals that get tons of love, and the magnet blocks were a hit for a couple
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by stocksinsmocks 9mo ago
Yes, signed by “U.K.L. Lee” himself. Did you actually look at it? These FBI goombas aren’t even trying.

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