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Show HN: Wordplayground – guess the ambiguous word-pair(wordplayground.pages.dev)
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by ytx 3y ago
I agree that there is a huge component of luck. But that does not invalidate the work, risk, and talent involved. Nobody "succeeds" (in the sense of creating a trillion dollar company) just by "working hard" or "bei
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by ytx 3y ago
Specifically meant in-person chess clubs as opposed to only playing lichess from home for hours every day. I'd probably have a less negative view of "time wasting" if video games were played more in-person too. I have fond me
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by ytx 3y ago
I wholeheartedly agree that the dark patterns around consent are atrocious. But I also think hn is probably biased in its valuation of an individual's data. If companies offered say a $50/month discount on car insurance premiums i
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by ytx 3y ago
But in terms of other benefits of that time spent, (imo) they're probably somewhat better than micro-transaction-gambling-mobile games (or just plain gambling), but likely worse than a sports league or chess club. Not sure how it'
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by ytx 3y ago
> "More specifically, automakers are selling access to the data to Lexis Nexis, which is then crafting “risk scores” insurance companies then use to adjust rates. Usually upward" In an ideal world, such data-harvesting
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by ytx 3y ago
Also there's not much practical defense to an unscrupulous extension author "exiting" with an under-the-table password transfer or "oops we got hacked" to a shady buyer. <tinfoil hat> One could imagine a nefar
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by ytx 3y ago
Especially if he wasn't rewarded commensurately for that feat.
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by ytx 3y ago
But is there any recourse to the founders telling you one thing and then raising differently later because "circumstances have changed?"
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by ytx 3y ago
Right, I suspect many people (including me) wouldn't even know what terms look up to research such things. I get a lot of my knowledge by osmosis from the hn comment section, for better or worse :P
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by ytx 3y ago
Very enlightening thanks! I wonder if there is or could be some notion of "vesting" over time of the investment such that (1) could not happen. So if the founder tried to sell tomorrow, the investor would get back 1x, but that 1x
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by ytx 3y ago
https://www.macrotrends.net/2593/nikkei-225-index-historical... I did not - adding an optimistic 2% dividend didn't change much for the S&P, but slightly reduced the underwater counts for the Nikkei (max 23, a
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by ytx 3y ago
I don't have monthly data, but as an approximation here's a rough test where you make a one time investment of $1000, either all at once, or equally spaced over 2 or 5 years. This is simulated starting at each year from 1985 to 20
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by ytx 3y ago
My knee-jerk reaction is to point out that "even if you bought the S&P at the height of the dotcom bubble, the annualized return over the past 24 years was ~5.5% (not including dividends)" And while I think this line of thinki
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by ytx 3y ago
I'm curious what would've happened had the bill been for 10k or 1k? Would it still have been reduced, would OP have paid instead of posting on reddit/hn, would it have gotten as much attention?
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by ytx 3y ago
Perhaps that's what people are actually reading the new yorker for :P
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by ytx 3y ago
Fair, by that metric it is indeed 4-5x "easier" to get into UVA/Michigan than Harvard/MIT. But it's also undeniable that former still excludes the large majority of applicants. And if everyone in America suddenly wa
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by ytx 3y ago
Every institution with a limited number of slots is exclusionary. Berkeley's admit rate is around 15%, 20% for Michigan and UVA, versus Harvard/MIT around 5%, so in terms of "excluding" the vast majority of applicants, t
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by ytx 3y ago
One relevant question is would the fired person have been better off had they not been hired or the job didn't exist in in the first place? It's far from clear to me, but admittedly doesn't soften the blow either way.
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by ytx 3y ago
We've got about ~200-2000 years of rationality and ~200k-2m years of "outgroup bad"
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by ytx 3y ago
since we're not talking causality, maybe it's students' future success that predicts parents level of educational attainment!
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by ytx 3y ago
> Security measures deter criminals, they can never stop them. Right, but in practice deterrence and incentives can be much more effective (from a cost and practical standpoint). I imagine the government would have a much harder time sto
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by ytx 3y ago
I think it's partially a size/scale problem. If 1000 people have access to flipper zeroes, the probability of an unethical actor might be low, and normative ethics may be enough. But if 1 million people have access to flipper zero
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by ytx 3y ago
Anonymity isn't the underlying cause of hostile behavior, it's the expectation that you will not interact or need help from the person with whom you are having a negative interaction. Cooperation is evolutionarily successful becau
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by ytx 3y ago
I think part of the problem is that value of their ticket is degraded because of the longer wait times. For someone unable or unwilling to pay $$$ for skip-the-line tickets, it would perhaps be preferable for all tickets to cost $$, but rem
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by ytx 3y ago
Right, we could definitely have real productivity growth without population growth - that's increased efficiency (I doubt this is possible without increasing energy expenditure though). I think the problem is still the one I pointed ou
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by ytx 3y ago
Unfortunately the assumption of real growth is very baked into things like social security, medicare, etc. There's no way to de-grow without an increased burden for those working to take care of a larger non-working aging cohort. A dee