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There is a good argument to be made that supporting remote work yeilds gains in processes. See e.g. remoteonly.org

Immigrants have nearly identical views to other citizens: https://www.cato.org/publications/economic-development-bulle...

What replaces it that is better? Inflated grades for the privledged? AP classes? Extracurriculars? Very easily biased and noisy interviews or essays? Test prep accounts for a small…

There is a problem if you are the de facto intermediary and using that to squash competition in other markets.

>We live in an era of noise, and we are in desperate need of better filters. How do we detect an argument made in bad faith? How do we respond once we know an argument can't be won…

Health insurance is both insurance and a discount/negotiation program. It'd be nice to disentangle the two.

I'm pretty sure you can convince someone in less than a day with a reasonably simplified version.

The stock price is the present value of the future profits. Since this shouldn't have a huge effect beyond 4 years, that's saying profits for Intel in the short term would be down …

I find it supremely hypocritical when the super poor lecture people about their tax avoidance when they pay an order of magnitude less. The tax rate is what matters there not the t…

He monetarily donated to support a position that half of America supported. One simply can't expect demand that level of moral purity in a free society.

When are we going to separate prosecution so that a non-govermental agency could get access to these and perform the prosecution themselves?

I think most would agree FactoryFactoryFactorys are bad. But how does one fix this? What's the alternative? Maybe a post on how to disentangle one of these?

>Who doesn't think the US Highway System has been great for our economy? When one considers the hidden costs of increased urban sprawl, reliance on automobiles, and the associated …

But do they hate it less than ads? If you pay for mobile service per GB then you already have this problem.

Modern aircraft undergo testing near the speed of sound to find issues as well. https://youtu.be/rpP7hsuVuoE?t=1155

Why do early investors agree to invest knowing that the future rounds will get preference? Tragedy of the anti-commons is a thing but you'd assume that existing investors would pus…

I'm more concerned with the opposite problem of how we will behave in response to AI control. AI has no notion of the Lucas critique. It doesn't consider the perverse incentives it…

Oil companies have been compensated for those benefits by people paying for oil. They have largely not had to pay for those harms. Allowing them to be sued brings their compensatio…

You'd think we'd have a better QOS metric for courts than standing.

I very skeptical that lithium-ion batteries are the end game for huge-scale energy storage. Lithium-ion batteries are the "hot" energy storage. Efficient, powerful, and very light,…

Higher prices encourage supplying more emergency supplies either through transporting them into the area or storing them in preparation for a disaster. Airlines are more likely to …

The author was trying to test whether a simple common test for bipolar was accurate. Presumably, the suggestion is to make the test a form filled out by each doctor for each patien…

Is that or s similar script somewhere public? I'd like to do the same.

You can look up DW nominate scores from since late 1800s and you'll see the rise since 1975 https://legacy.voteview.com/Political_Polarization_2014.htm

Saying that quantum effects are present and saying that the human brain is a quantum computer (or more?) and will get exponential speedup are two very different things.