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Wealth could be invested (impacts those borrowing), used on consumables (impacts businesses), or hidden under the mattress or equivalent (reduces the supply of money so acts deflat…

This approach does work when there's a clear answer but what about tasks where the correct answer is multi-modal? Incentivizing agreement works only for tasks where there's clear a…

This likely means those consuming the outputs of Mechanical Turk don't have a good way to measure the value (aka quality) of the outputs. If they did - then they shouldn't care whe…

Any advice for a senior/staff level FAANG dev working in ML tooling but not in the health space interested in this kinda stuff? What are good things to read, etc?

Fascinating. I feel like smart person + data (context such as health records, labs, insurance docs, etc.) + LLM -> some helpful tips for navigating the process. However, evaluating…

> If you're a software engineer who cares about health, and have been sitting on the sidelines till now, I think the next few years are a really interesting time to make a contribu…

I'm in a similar boat too! I found verbalizing it with anyone who will listen helps the anxiety.

> I participate in some management-focused online communities. I know - slightly off topic - but would you be willing to share this list?

I used to use the docker + homebridge route but it became tedious to maintain. Instead, I connected it via the Google Home integration (requires an Insights plan) and then use my e…

The HHI [0] attempts to quantify that. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herfindahl–Hirschman_index

isn’t that just an estate tax?

59/60 - SDE 61/62 - SDE II 63/64 - Senior SDE 65/66/67 - Principle SDE (aka Staff) 68/69 - Partner SDE (aka Senior Staff)

> the rest tried every trick in the book to get me to the dealership before they'd give me a price would you be able to list those tricks? I'm currently car shopping myself. how di…

> contractors can write off the expense there's an opportunity cost for that expense. it reminds of this episode of Schitt's Creek - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg1Uk60rBsc .

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I wonder if for those who it was very obvious for "put their money where their mouths were" and bought a set of securities that would make them a ton of money on what was obvious w…

> create a management committee, possibly with a rotating chairship, and in general give the employees more say over the direction of the company they work for". this sounds very s…

Income is evidence of a person's ability to pay. Credit history is evidence of a person's willingness to pay. I would expect a positive correlation between the two but relying on t…

This is what economists call the Laffer curve. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve .

I don't live in MN but there are also adult baseball leagues here but teams tend to consist of former minor league players, college, or high school baseball players who couldn't or…

This is an excellent recommendation since there are a few threads that specifically discuss this. I suspect your conclusion might end up being travel to the Mayo Clinic for a few w…

I know this is slightly off-topic but I figure I'd share an approach to picking a solid buyer's or seller's agent that someone told me about that might interest folks reading this …

To go a step further - you probably don't even care about having the best air conditioner. You probably just want to reliably feel cool when it's hot at a reasonable cost.

In economics, an externality [0] is a cost that is not paid for by the buyer or the seller but generally society bears the cost. For example, when buying a pollution machine - the …

What would stop someone from operating a currency exchange system? Ex: a market to buy and sell credits using USD