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The final versions used for the tables/figures in the book are here, I think: http://www.bcaplan.com/returns.htm

Why do you still work with the useless partners?

This uses domain fronting, which both Google and Amazon forced Signal to stop using in 2018: https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-on-the-front/ Did cloud providers get more permiss…

The US adult obesity rate is 42.4% [1]. To get to 75% of deaths being obese people, you'd need about a 4x death rate of obese people compared to non-obese people. Most obese people…

(OP here) This essay set may superficially appear to be another repetitive salvo in the interminable US healthcare political conflict, but I recommend reading a bit deeper. I think…

What specifically has changed since this essay set was published that would render it moot? If "the ACA", what specific ACA policies?

Isn't this strongly explained by the likelihood that Valley companies will start expecting everyone to come in to the office again this year?

What is a PWA?

As a company, why would I want to pay the hourly rate at all? Why not contract with a reputable bounty hunter, give them the level of access I'd give the hourly consultant, and pay…

Okay, so that's like 5/40 of your workforce that's in training at any particular moment, right? That's not a trivial cost.

> There is effectively no reward for the rich to make this technology broadly available. What about reduced training costs because you can keep your existing expert staff instead o…

More concretely: Amazon's drivers (arguendo) don't care what they're getting paid $15/hour to do. If Amazon removes the incentive for antics, then it can pay 14/15 the per-delivery…

Efficiency. If a driver has to spend 4 minutes of every hour doing stupid antics to get an order, and can earn $15/hour doing antics+delivering, then effectively $1/hour is going t…

I don't think so. Consider that many governments with professional public health departments, including those of the richest countries in the world, downplayed the unfolding disast…

Would you prefer that the companies involved did nothing instead of taking this costless action?

You can deduct it, but there are a couple of distinct minimums in the tax code for how much you have to spend before it starts reducing your taxable income. ( https://www.insurance…

One major factor in the US is that, from the perspective of an employee, employer plans have a massive tax advantage compared to anything the employee could buy outside their emplo…

> The characters of this article are so carefully constructed to evade this question that I have to assume malice. Julia Wise and Jeff Kaufman are real people who are, so far as I …

I have little experience with this matter, but it seems like the correct answer here is "get a job at another company that doesn't have broken procedures that render them unable to…

Internet access is more valuable than you surmise, I think. Having good telecommunications allows people to coordinate much better, and that efficiency bonus could easily create en…