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In the US market, where union participation is also very low, it's weird to me that this is an important reason people stay in their jobs, may influence what kind of jobs you take …

In the early 2000s I saw a gubernatorial candidate talking to an audience of over achieving high school students and when asked about what he would do to make college more affordab…

Before the IPO there was much concern that the changes in rules to allow fast inclusion in indices like Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 would mean that there would be an artificially e…

Or if it had any kind of measurement across a range of tasks

I think this is silly. This is a product designed to deliver nicotine, and that's going to continue to be the important part for health considerations. Had the FDA become concerned…

... would there really not be regulations on giant unmanned ships? That seems concerning, though I could certainly understand international / maritime law having a gap.

Aside from the funding mechanism being a premium that everyone pays, the other part of the motivating story here that seems downright silly is: - the patient was _forced_ to take a…

I mean, I don't want to eat it either. But the point of generalizing the optimization framework is that it applies to other situations with the same shape. Maybe related questions:…

I think there is an optimization question buried here. In tech lots of people have experience with A/B tests, which function on the assumption that you have a stream of fresh sessi…

I did grep through the paper, and ... no not really. "Urban" and "rural" never appear. Among uses of "control", for their own work they have controlled for sex and race. Their Tabl…

I didn't read the full paper only the abstract, but bc the political spectrum is correlated with education level or urban vs rural or multiple other factors that deeply impact what…

I think the author basically decides that "productivity" is not defined but "effective" is. The problem with productivity is that most of us aren't directly producing a thing that …

NLRB documents from proceedings between Atlassian and Denise Unterwurzacher, which yesterday produced an Administrative Law Judges Decision. This may be relevant to many tech worke…

Ok here's maybe a dumb or maybe a crazy question or maybe not: - the Fed has price stability as part of its dual mandate, and in its normal operation does this at the level of mani…

And notably, we used to have a somewhat progressive corporate income tax which, at least on paper, provided a quantitative disincentive against too much consolidation. Sometimes th…

There is something a bit ironic that the evidence to refute the "more research is better" position is selecting (cherry-picking?) a particularly bad study. Are there better ways to…

Or people that choose organic are also choosing other things that they think are healthy, and they're right at least some of the time.

I think #2 risk being incoherent unless you define things very carefully. "Illusion" ordinarily means there's someone with a subjective experience which creates incorrect beliefs a…

> RF was nowhere on my radar. cue rimshot

> Waymos pull over into bike lanes all the time for pickups and drop-offs and that’s neither legal nor safe. While perhaps drop-offs are often relatively quick (though perhaps more…

This is also the original way variational methods pick a parameterization of a model of known architecture which best matches some distribution which generated data but is not othe…

The 0.1% thing ... Is that even the right label? I'm guessing one in a thousand people globally isn't using these mechanisms. The article spends some paragraphs on the world's rich…

ok so it seems pretty bad that they changed the index rules both to allow spacex in early and the wonky weighting stuff. But if one already has index-based things that are likely t…

I think the "Leave them Behind" section at the end sort of ignores the whole "they will ruthlessly copy your material, and put aggressive extra load on your server while repeatedly…