haltingthoughts

There is a good argument to be made that supporting remote work yeilds gains in processes. See e.g. remoteonly.org

Immigrants have nearly identical views to other citizens:

https://www.cato.org/publications/economic-development-bulle...

What replaces it that is better? Inflated grades for the privledged? AP classes? Extracurriculars? Very easily biased and noisy interviews or essays?

Test prep accounts for a small portion of test score differences and minorities are more likely to use test prep.

There is a problem if you are the de facto intermediary and using that to squash competition in other markets.

We live in an era of noise, and we are in desperate need of better filters. How do we detect an argument made in bad faith? How do we respond once we know an argument can't be won? I don't think we have good answers to either question.

We place faith in effective political and social institutions and aggressively defend them from those that attack them or bypass them.

Health insurance is both insurance and a discount/negotiation program. It'd be nice to disentangle the two.

I'm pretty sure you can convince someone in less than a day with a reasonably simplified version.

The stock price is the present value of the future profits. Since this shouldn't have a huge effect beyond 4 years, that's saying profits for Intel in the short term would be down by 20 percent.

I find it supremely hypocritical when the super poor lecture people about their tax avoidance when they pay an order of magnitude less.

The tax rate is what matters there not the total tax. Similarly, look at the emissions per dollar not total emissions. If you care about monetary inequality, complain about that directly, don't drag global warming in.

He monetarily donated to support a position that half of America supported. One simply can't expect demand that level of moral purity in a free society.

When are we going to separate prosecution so that a non-govermental agency could get access to these and perform the prosecution themselves?

I think most would agree FactoryFactoryFactorys are bad. But how does one fix this? What's the alternative? Maybe a post on how to disentangle one of these?

Who doesn't think the US Highway System has been great for our economy?

When one considers the hidden costs of increased urban sprawl, reliance on automobiles, and the associated increase in pollution, it isn't so clear. If roads were privatized then the true costs would be more clear.

But do they hate it less than ads?

If you pay for mobile service per GB then you already have this problem.

Modern aircraft undergo testing near the speed of sound to find issues as well. https://youtu.be/rpP7hsuVuoE?t=1155

Why do early investors agree to invest knowing that the future rounds will get preference? Tragedy of the anti-commons is a thing but you'd assume that existing investors would push back against this type of behavior.

I'm more concerned with the opposite problem of how we will behave in response to AI control.

AI has no notion of the Lucas critique. It doesn't consider the perverse incentives it's optimized judgement scheme may create. The costs of looking good to proprietary algorithms are only going to grow.

Oil companies have been compensated for those benefits by people paying for oil. They have largely not had to pay for those harms. Allowing them to be sued brings their compensation more in line with what it should be.

You'd think we'd have a better QOS metric for courts than standing.

I very skeptical that lithium-ion batteries are the end game for huge-scale energy storage.

Lithium-ion batteries are the "hot" energy storage. Efficient, powerful, and very light, but also expensive great for a laptop or a car, not so great for massive-scale "cold" storage.

Simpler things like flywheels, compressed air, reverse hydro, other cheaper battery types all seem like more plausible options.

Higher prices encourage supplying more emergency supplies either through transporting them into the area or storing them in preparation for a disaster. Airlines are more likely to make heroic efforts to fly people out if they can charge more for it.

The author was trying to test whether a simple common test for bipolar was accurate. Presumably, the suggestion is to make the test a form filled out by each doctor for each patient. Then months or years later the author could do a chart review and see whether the test results were accurate.

Is that or s similar script somewhere public? I'd like to do the same.

You can look up DW nominate scores from since late 1800s and you'll see the rise since 1975

https://legacy.voteview.com/Political_Polarization_2014.htm

Saying that quantum effects are present and saying that the human brain is a quantum computer (or more?) and will get exponential speedup are two very different things.

what is a SAFE? How is it different from standard equity/debt?

Annuities do exist and you can buy them with IRA/401k savings.

I should have said looking at whether it is harming consumers now isn't the point. It's how it harms consumers over time. The chilling effect on innovation, the monoculture/fragility, the lock-in will hurt consumers in the long run.

Looking at what is best for consumers is missing the point. The point is that when companies use leverage in one market to help themselves or hurt competitors unfairly in other markets it stifles competition.

It's hard to be a web browser company when it comes bundled with the OS. Do you really want a world where you choose Apple, Google, or Amazon once for everything everywhere and that is the only choice you get? Or do you want Unix philosophy for businesses and mix and match however you feel?

Alcohol is an "organizational lubricant". It's consumption allows people to express controversial opinions that may be needed to be expressed with less potential for blowback due to the setting.

This same plausible deniability also can enable people to be creeps.