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This happened at my old company. My manager went away for a holiday and never came back. We never found out why, but it was a Finance company so people suddenly not coming in the n…

You can do it via /model and pressing left and right though

Like many of London's woes, that's because of planning, councils have to approve infrastructure and block it: https://www.londoncentric.media/p/why-exactly-is-londons-pho... I'd sa…

Due to the history of the internet, anything ".com" should be assumed to be a commercial entity. If you are from the US, the only nation who doesn't frequently use a national TLD, …

On the contrary, it is a helpful term. Before the term, it was common to ask "are you a manager", and then you were defined oppositionally, as not-a-manager. Whereas IC having its …

It's extremely common, even in the USA, although in the USA it's more limited to running communities. In the UK, NZ, Australia, road running is common enough that anyone would know…

You haven't actually cited any studies, just "I haven't heard anyone say anything". We have transaction taxes in the UK, on shares (stamp duty) and on property (stamp duty land tax…

It's the opposite in the UK. Most landlords are individuals, own one or maybe a couple of properties. It's awful, rogue landlords who do everything they can to not do repairs or im…

Beef, not meat. Surely you jest and you know that that's a huge amount and you're on some high-calorie gym diet?

I'm not in favour of getting rid of the bureaucracy, some of it is necessary, but we're way past the benefit. I think most regulation is a concave quadratic function of regulations…

If we put a $10k tax on beards, that's $600 billion right there! What's that, people might change their behaviour in response to it, in possibly unintended and negative ways? Nah w…

Land IS somewhat expensive in LA though. Plus, you are looking at it purely from a construction cost of the building point of view. If you build more densely, you don't need as man…

An alternate way to view the same situation is that the regulatory state being slow and bureaucratic is the cause of those ills. The more you over-regulate and make the official pa…

People who write books are disproportionately going to be a bit narcissistic too. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/you-dont-hate-polyamory-you...

Has that ever worked at scale in history? This strikes me as the same as people who take a stand by not ordering from Amazon or not using whichever service, they make their life so…

That is fascinating, I have seen the schizophrenia model of having "trapped priors" before. I figured that this is probably something Scott Alexander has written about, and lo and …

22 behavioral measures looking for one that is Unless they pre-registered that prediction, isn't this just the Texas Sharpshooter fallacy?

More political arguments about the other effects of unions aside - I've never heard a good answer for why unions are good for workers in professions with wide ranges of skill and i…

The other reason is more mundane. There's been a lot of political incentive to reduce immigration for a long time, which means adding arbitrary friction to increase the effort of a…

Generally, yes but I there's a surprising amount of cases when it is important, which makes it difficult to generalise e.g. Huge amounts of the financial sector cares because of ma…

What is your point, that variance exists? I'm not sure I'd play Russian roulette even with a 100 chamber cylinder. 99 people might come away with an anecdote though.