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Wow, this is a lot more intuitive. gowld for BDFL!

Humans make decisions based on arbitrary and capricious preferences, and are good at coming up with logical-sounding reasons to justify those decisions (eg: rejecting a candidate b…

Countries have held much higher debt levels than the US currently does without being the global reserve currency.

Another interpretation of this data would be that causality runs in the other direction. You can also make up a plausible-sounding story for the mechanism - a dopamine response to …

This paper estimates the cost at ~$2.25B/year, and notes that more than 50 countries have military budgets exceeding $3B: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aae98…

I think solutions to climate change that require global coordination are doomed to failure. When things start getting rough it’s going to be some entity independently pursuing a ge…

I’m going to take this opportunity to call out Airbnb as having the best rejection experience I’ve ever gotten as a candidate. After a day of onsites (I think 9 interviews includin…

Interesting, I had no idea.

It’s common practice for the online video rentals (many different providers including Google and Amazon) to charge more for HD. In reality the marginal cost of providing digital co…

I understand why Google works that way since the login is tied to gmail and chrome browser history, but I’m not sure about Spotify. They have a popular Facebook integration but I d…

Based on this reading, “people” elect the senate. If “people” includes travelers, does that mean travelers get to vote?

If this happens to anyone, see if you can get permission to record it.

Business would be a bit better if there weren’t robocalls. But free-rider/coordination challenges make it difficult for the diffuse category of all businesses to group together and…

In my experience, Amazon drivers will mark packages as delivered when they haven’t gotten around to delivering yet. When I call Amazon to complain, they tell me to just wait and th…

I think this also applies to many kinds of low-grade chronic suffering. Changing your response to the sensation might be easier than stopping the sensation.

The only externality demonstrated is catching the Golden State Killer.

I don’t believe we should think of this person’s profession as a safety driver . We should think of them as a fall guy . It’s not reasonable for a human to sit around for hours doi…