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They’re unwilling to pay for fast mode because of the current step function price increase once you hit your quota. It’s a psychological effect. Because most shops I know in the US…

Seems like a pretty obvious effect no? There’s a major power imbalance between professor and student. Not sure how much it would extend outside of the classroom.

Closing certainty is a major reason people will take all-cash offers over financed ones. Even if you're pre-approved for a loan.

Unfortunately the problem is literally the way the government is structured from an electoral + mathematical perspective. Particularly heinous failure mode is polarization, which h…

The randomness is whether the committee reading your essays read them before or after lunch, or if something you wrote reminded them of their first romance, etc. etc. etc. The scor…

I think OP is speaking about people who have 5x or more than their current salary in equities, where even a 50% temporary drop in assets will have no meaningful effect in lifestyle…

Intellectual property is theft

On Linux I’ve done this by pinning processes to a certain range of CPU cores, and the scheduler will just keep one core free or something. Which allows whatever I need in terms of …

For events specifically, my cohort (somewhere between Gen-Z and Millenial) have moved event organizing entirely to Partiful, which I've found to be far superior to Facebook Events.…

Nothing in this article (nor its citations) claim that the product is being discontinued. Ramping down production of this version is not the same as discontinuing - and even that p…

Wonks and experienced New Yorkers aren’t dumb. I too refused any apartment that wasn’t “No Fee”. But only a tiny fraction of the housing stock - especially very few “cheaper” place…

This is a win for price competition - the "broker fee" paid by the renter is a classic example of principal agent problems / information asymmetry. First, the service is being prov…

If nothing else, the uncut video of the robot autonomously folding laundry for 10 minutes is incredibly impressive. Regardless of current robustness, or how long it took to get tha…

If you’re only doing vacation travel planning, sure. But there’s a long tail of advanced functionality used across all kinds of industries (with plugins upon plugins) that are most…

Yeah when you have way more applicants than you can possibly look at, the usual strategy is to just randomly sample 10% to review, and throw away the remaining 90% of resumes witho…

Turboprop is different from jet

Things actually changed in 2018 with some implementation details of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Step_Act . Parole is not given, true; but you can earn a bunch of credit day…

> I hate that this is such a common thought process. In most teams, not everyone is on the same page: - There are people with varying levels of experience, some may not currently h…

This doesn’t necessarily follow - it may be that the average potential buyer wants the same amount of house as before, but due to supply issues the lower end of potential buyers ca…