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This is shockingly comprehensive and valuable; thank you. One minor suggestion is to generate a single-page or PDF version. I manually created one although of course this will go s…

The SpaceX/Musk presentation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOpMrVnjYeY

Thanks, I've added an existing research section and will reach out to researchers in the field for more feedback.

Thanks, I've tried to expand the abstract.

I think the meta-point is that betting on intellectual ideas is an underused tool in the toolbox of decision making. Endless academic journal debates don't seem to help much in mov…

The point is that these are bets between people who disagree with each other. They negotiate the data and terms and hopefully learn from the result and change their minds. This is …

Dr. Caplan is a big proponent of betting. Disputes in academic journals are endless and inconclusive. Betting gets people to put their money where their mouth is. I think this is t…

It's worth noting that the economist John Quiggin didn't propose an adjustment for this in the bet.

> Second, he never addresses any other value than the unemployment rate as a number (for example, I can easily imagine an "apologist" being uninterested in his bet if they think he…

He includes a link to data connecting unemployment to unhappiness. His so-called smugness derives from betting: putting his ideas on the line and winning. I think he's the opposite…

The first sentence of the paragraph you quote links to data connecting unemployment to unhappiness.

My favorite quote from Ioannidis: “Science is a noble endeavor, but it’s also a low-yield endeavor,” he says. “I’m not sure that more than a very small percentage of medical resear…

Summarized by Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."

I think this gets to the heart of it. Some places to start: Meaning in Work TED talk by a researcher in the field: https://youtu.be/RLFVoEF2RI0?t=177 Happiness vs Meaning: https://…

Actual quote from Linus as opposed to the click-bait title: > I still wish we were better at having a standardized desktop that goes across all the distributions. There's been some…

This could also be: What's the latest in freelancer platforms that people like? However, anything specific to video creation and editing would be better, I suppose.

It's a short(ish) and somewhat thought-provoking read, although it has the questionable value of most analogies, and is light on details; however, I enjoyed this line: > One of my …

I know nothing about Citadel, but it may be unfair to generalize from one experience. For example, that particular group may be bad but other groups may be fine and don't know abou…

I guess this is the Bandcamp link: https://aubreyhodges.bandcamp.com/album/quest-for-glory-shad...

I hear ya. I've been a programmer for over a decade and even though I'm making great money and it's intellectually stimulating, I'm essentially giving it all up and diving into bio…

WINAMP, WINamp, winamp... it really... Still works. Winamp is still my main music player (with classic skin, of course). I run it through Wine on Fedora 28. Some things cause crash…