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I'd like to work on LeetCode-style problems, but in my local development environment. Does anyone know of a repo that has good problems set up with test infrastructure configured s…

I find many, perhaps most of my searches lately are for something I've seen before - an article, blogpost, etc. Unfortunately, neither Google nor any of the other search engines I …

Prohibition did deliver many public benefits. Not to argue that it was the right choice, but it's worth noting that the research on lockdowns is all being done fast, in the middle …

twenty years ago it was common to make this argument about investment banking. I know a bunch of people who went into investment banking, claiming to intend to quit after a decade.…

A lot of folks, including Nathan Robinson, seem to have a weird idea that proponents of capitalism think that it creates freedom. I think a more accurate way of thinking about it i…

Those are definitely things that helped build this country, but one of them - massive brain drain from developing countries - (and by the way, you missed from Soviet countries) - i…

an individual stupid person does not matter. A large enough mass of stupid people can overturn nearly anything. It seems likely that this time, the mass of people who've decided th…

Not the original poster, but for me, because our political system is broken and we can never seem to do the hard part, so we shouldn't do the part that makes the system worse unles…

I think we all lose, if we do decide to pay for this entirely through taxing the rich. We (further) lose social trust between the rich and the rest of us, and we (further) lose the…

This is true, but misses the main point for how to determine whether the government providing money is better than not: positive externalities. As an example, we all benefit hugely…

I think there's more potential to convince the right wing and the center of UBI than student loan forgiveness. Certainly I think we're making a better society if we are able to do …

Plus - forgiving student loan debt, or, worse, Free College for All, would only incentivize colleges making college more expensive. College is already too expensive - it's literall…

Yes, because there are more important problems to solve does mean we should ignore this one. That's literally the point of prioritizing - budgeting is based on recognizing that the…

A good compromise here would be to allow bankruptcy on student loans. Those who need it can take advtange of that choice, while those for whom student loans provided a significant …

Landlords provide benefits: renting a property means getting somewhere to live without being responsible for major systems if they break. Just because some landlords don't do a gre…

SENS, first. Then maybe human gut microbiota and their links to allergies, digestive problems, and mental health.

This is a common meme, that your insurance might not pay for a procedure if you do something against medical advice. I've had a number of doctors claim it. It's false, thankfully. …

Your assumption that vaccination is binary is wrong. And your last question, you don't seem to care or know about immunocompromised people. So: - vaccination isn't perfect in preve…

In the situation of the 10 year vest, he pays attention to the feelings of unfairness that other employees pay attention to, but ignores the feelings of fairness that other employe…

Is there a Dealing-With-Ryanair-As-A-Service company out there? It would be hilarious for someone to figure out all the tricks of Ryanair and then offer, for €5 or something, that …

Anybody know a good product or hack for tracking a team's work-from-home, start-time, and out-of-office statuses? Right now we send emails or update the messaging system or you loo…

there's a reason it doesn't enter economists heads. Let me just respond to this: the basic income was in large part created by Milton Friedman, under the title 'Negative Income Tax…

GitHub and TreeHouse have talked here about running companies that largely eschew email. http://zachholman.com/posts/github-communication/ http://ryancarson.com/post/63593803482/ho…