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Do you have tips for generating clean productive output per dollar?

TCJA made changes to corporate capital gains, no? As for tax hikes <90%, this hasn’t occurred in income; the opposite has occurred. You could make the case that it hasn’t been wort…

Well there are much simpler “algorithms” that do not use reinforcement learning and do not have the same emergent issues at stake here (addiction, ragebait, etc). The argument woul…

bls.gov/ces is the main page for this survey and has a plot. The error updates annually. Their handbook has a Reliability section where they detail sampling/nonsampling error.

God help us if they ever become one

Based on the discussions in this thread, they aren’t alone

It’s common in scientific/stats publishing to have the headline state the avg/median, the main text plot the errors, and the supplementary give the explicit numbers. They have a bi…

Based on their July 2026 report, there were tiny increases in several sectors. The big declines were in service providing, leisure and hospitality, and government (bc of a summer d…

The bureau of labor statistics publishes confidence intervals in their reports

What do you mean by scientist-heavy orgs solving everything in token space? I feel like they use them to make or run tools almost exclusively.

There’s definitely didactic art made post 2016, but I wouldn’t write everything off beyond that date forever. Online review aggregators are less reliable for recent movies, so you …

Counterpoint: my entire physics phd cohort is doing great now and it didn’t ruin our lives. I think better advice is “do you want to work in this specific lab for 5 years?”, not “d…

As many others have said here, you should just think about transactional vs analytical as well as single user in-process vs multi-user client-server when making choices. That said,…

You can have multiple read only processes. But yes, concurrent read mode and write mode is blocked

I think you would magically see more (edit: wealthy) people collect an income

People need to stop conflating evil intentions with evil capacity. It is done regularly with Elon, Thiel, etc. As arrogant as they may be on X, they are drooling imbeciles when it …

Low effort products will be used by low effort companies. In the case of restaurants, this might not necessarily be bad - I’ve been to amazing taco/burrito shops w abysmal menus. B…

I did the same research in elementary school! My parents were my seed investors. They asked for 25% of equity - all I ended up giving them was some collectible artwork for the frid…

Isn't it just a different form of private capital designed for the later stage of a tech company? I'm not saying its good, but I am not remotely surprised by tech's transition from…

Do you remember some of the studies this book cites? I always thought the drug development lag times and success rate made patents necessary. Do the authors make exceptions for rar…

Give me a break - tech is not remotely interested in comprehensive “systems” thinking about the problems that motivated these age verification policies

I agree with this (I want to be a parent very soon). I think I'm trying to articulate that while its possible to make a quiet place for your kid at home, they still live in a very …

In my opinion, none, but many parents disagree. Also, its more about the secondary effects, where all of their friends at school are talking about internet things they are unfamili…

Its a tragedy of the commons situation. The benefits of being offline are dampened by the kid being out of the loop

Bell labs and IBM made gobs of money in their respective hey days