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The fact that pharma has managed to obfuscate true prices is its own indictment of US healthcare. (edit) made my comment a bit less confrontational in tone

It's very interesting, the comment you replied to seems to be using a typical free speech canard in support of increasing censorship. Their argument doesn't seem relevant to the po…

I simply don't have the personality to work hard. In general, I don't believe people change after adolescence. Therefore I am most focused on contentment with the person I am, whil…

This is why I found this essay very interesting but not very useful. I don't have trouble identifying interests, I have trouble pursuing them with the intensity of a PG. I don't me…

Huge thanks to whoever posted this link first on HN. It's my favorite history blog by far. Even if this may not be the most popular entry...

Practically speaking, network effects make it nearly impossible for alternative platforms to achieve the scale of their mainstream ancestors. Right-wing communities exiled from Red…

Hope this gets a response - I don't see a paper. If there is a paired dataset, I guess this could be "easy". The stylegan "input" is essentially used to control parameters at vario…

You might be interested in the novel "The Goldfinch". It's pretty relevant to this post, and somewhat relevant to your comment. But it isn't a heist so to speak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEjQX8HVtG4

I would hope that increasing density doesn't require much upfront investment. It's definitely true that density creates more strain on public goods like roads that are disproportio…

I wonder if there is any data on how upzoning affects suburban property values. I would prefer not to live in a single family detached house next to condos. Then again, the optiona…

Personally, it strikes me as profoundly illiberal that we allow and expect from local governments such complete control over private use of private property. It is probably one of …

I meant "best" in the sense of achieving some sort of maximum total utility, mean utility, median utility, etc. My point is that instead of inspecting every economic relationship f…

Ridesharing created a more or less competitive market for this slice of the transportation sector. Competitive markets are the best way to allocate resources. If you don't agree wi…

I didn't see the article at the time but from skimming it I'm sure I would have been fooled. GPT-3 fits snugly into the pattern of "AI does intelligent thing -> we decide/realize t…

People spend so much time on the "meta-conversation" about the ecosystem of ideas, and so little time talking about the actual ideas themselves. What are these repressed debates pe…

Also relevant to note that Trump wasn't supported by a majority, as OP seems to be implying. He won in the arbitrary schema of the electoral college.

I've got a question, a lot of startup websites have a similar look to this one. It's a look I actually really like. What technologies are they all using? How would I build a site l…

Possible, but it seems simpler that they included luxury items from the Islamic world in their burial practices without understanding or worrying about the religious connotations o…

There are many choices in the policy space, but the decision about how to treat an individual advertisement is essentially binary. The line between truth and falsehood must lie som…

Somehow the scariest part was the erasure. Articles that praised Tiyip’s achievements are now being systematically deleted from the internet. His name and legacy are being erased, …

Completely off topic, but it took me three tries to parse this: There’ve been rumors for years that Ive had one foot out the door

I wouldn't take it for granted that he's telling the truth on that. He has been riding on My Lai credibility for so long, but some of his recent stuff such as his piece on how the …

You need to provide statistics for extraordinary claims about housing being purchased by foreign investors and not used. Common sense says it should be a very marginal phenomenon. …

Unfortunately, vague statements assigning blame to ambiguous external actors (like yours) are very much a part of the discussion. Demand isn't artificially inflated. More people wa…