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by throwawaygh 4y ago
Citation sorely needed. What’s the name of that opportunity fund?
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
It’s about who owned the land in 2017 and who was governor. Some states were less corrupt than others, but as a general rule OZs were and are mostly political grift with a few legit trades thrown in for cover. The reason that HUGE tracts of
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
Governors. Many tracts were selected as political favors to donors to developers who already owned significant acreage in the OZ.
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
In many states OZs were selected as political handouts and were placed in areas where development was already planned. The characterization that they lifted up poor regions is pure horseshit.
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
A two earner household with a cop and a nurse benefited from SALT. The average beneficiary of opportunity zones is generationally wealthy. A pair of tech workers pulling down 7 figures a year are stupidly wealthy and still would probably no
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
It adds insult to injury that a billionaire real estate mogul made EXACTLY this argument when selling his tax policy and business conduct (I’m just being a good businessman, and I’ll fix the rigged system by getting rid of loopholes!), then
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
> Anyone can read the source code, or (more accessibly) the docs and get a pretty good understanding of how it works. I really hope this argument is made in court.
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
> it's hard to imagine most US presidents deriving joy from music They're people, not gods. People like music.
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
This was a fairer take when there weren't elected officials and sports stars hyping crypto.
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
It's not 2008 or even 2013. You can get crypto at a coin counting kiosk in any grocery store in middle America. The psychology driving crypto for the last half decade or so is the same sort of psychology that drives penny stocks and sc
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
>>> UST loses peg >> There's a certain delight [1] in watching increased market volatility exposing how understanding merkle trees and consensus protocols doesn't make you an expert on what the financial system i
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
> This seems to be mostly false, in the sense that many schools run huge class sizes for many core courses (cough couch Berkely) and in practice non-TA instruction Berkeley is not a good counter-example. There are usually several teach
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
> so yes some problems are best solved by government, but innovation isnt one of them. 1. I've worked in gov labs, industry labs, and academic labs. Mostly industry labs. People and culture are the most important thing. The variab
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
This is exactly right. In huge swaths of the US, your local county's Mosquito Control department is probably a small number of full timers (maybe one or even zero), some budget for seasonal staff, and some commercial F-150s with spraye
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
> Professors command high salaries I guess it depends on what you mean by "high". At most institutions, faculty will make $50K-$60K starting, max out at $100K, and often do not have access to a pension. In many states, you&#x
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
Have you ever managed an intern? Inexperienced labor often has negative value-add. > Make the business students hash out contracts with vendors A second semester senior without a job lined up negotiating a seven figure contract... what
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
The vast majority of Christian Church-affiliated colleges in the USA are either catholic (Jesuit in particular) or Mainline. In both of those cases, the denominational ties do not preclude attendance at the college/university by non-Ch
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
I am from Missouri and still provide a lot of advice to first gen college folks in that region. I don't know anything about Berea, but I cannot recommend College of the Ozarks. I can't be more clear: this is a submarine about a te
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
I'm a proponent of affordable open access. I think that work produced using even a penny of federal grant money should only be published in open access venues where publication fees (including eg mandatory conference attendance) are ca
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
> the privilege is being able to get a salary without caring about his activity that adds the most value for society... working most of your time documenting why you should get a promotion... But it's one of the many very real prob
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
"First, they don't" is the top-most answer. Also, the multiple is closer to 10x for strong faculty candidates if we're talking about teaching-focused roles. A lower-tier college/university (non phd granting) will of
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
> paper mill incentives In the USA, publishing a large number of low-quality papers is at best unhelpful for getting grants. It's probably (very!) harmful. > funding commitees will want some kind of metric for "non-techni
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
1. At least in CS, the role of a PhD is typically different. There are many groups in industry where entire orgs up to SVP are PhDs, and those groups are growing quickly. Hell, consider IBM Research, where thousands of folks have their enti
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
First, they don't. There's a HUGE CS faculty shortage. CS faculty positions outside of R1 are insanely hard to fill and the average quality of faculty tends to be quite low. Some lower tier colleges and universities will hire tenu
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
That's just another popularity contest with all of the exact same perverse incentives. How do you think people get on conference committees / journal boards? We should stop worrying about popularity contests (citation counts, pres
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
> Economically it is infeasible to politically play, social engineer, or bribe thousands of reviewers in a publicly inspectable web of trust. You're replacing peer review with a social media following. A large social media followi
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
> A tenured professor is still a highly respected position I don't think this is true outside of the (tiny) academic bubble. Being a tenured professor at a well-ranked R1 has some prestige within a limited community. However, mos
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
Your understanding of the mask cases is incorrect. There is no "right not to mask". A right not to mask would mean that such a law would not be enforceable. But the court found no such right. It simply found that the executive
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
>> the court believes an individual has right to decide whether they can wear a mask > They ruled that the government doesn't have the right to force people to wear masks. Both of these statements are super false. The cour
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by throwawaygh 4y ago
> I wonder if you've had an in-person conversation with someone who would identify as being a part of the AGI safety community. Yes. Many. > I've talked with several people and their arguments are a lot more sophisticated

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