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Aside from fixed costs and aspects like coordination efficiency, companies have to raise pay more than linearly to get people into high hours jobs. Those disproportionate gains sho…

We had animal-like answers based on conceptions of the human telos. We had bee-like answers based on conceptions of societal progress. Pomo, globalization, and prosperity made them…

There is a whole mindset that has invigorated growth investing and has been invigorated by it: success is more luck and social proof than correctness or work + winner will take all…

Totally. We were making massive amounts of progress on our own and virtual school curriculum mostly gets in the way. We've largely stopped going to the video sessions and are just …

From behind Rawls' veil of ignorance, how many children would choose not to be born if given that choice? It is at least as reasonable to say that they've been given a most preciou…

>vote against “socialism” and then collect Medicade, social security and disability. Much like people rally against sprawl, but move the burbs for their kids; or rally against glob…

While I heartily agree in not forcing the child into a method, it very much matters when they learn to read. Reading is a tool more than a skill. Having the tool earlier is hugely …

I recently read Searching for Bobby Fisher and Joshua Waitzkin's childhood seemed intense, but not broken. Would you consider him an exception or is that level of intensity itself …

I am curious how they funded the tournament play. It tends to cost about $10/rated game.

You can find Top 100 lists at http://www.uschess.org/component/option,com_top_players/Item... and his play history at http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.php?16649696 . It is alm…

Or at least not consider buying a house as some kind of a necessity. The rent to buy ratios in these places tend to heavily favor renting. Plus they often have tenant protections a…

But it's the same thing in the other direction. Countless people claim that they've done their best and were just unlucky - or even that no one could have succeeded in their partic…

It seems to me that worker productivity gains come primarily from better technology and processes - from business investments - rather than from workers themselves. The rewards flo…