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Nuclear companies generally aren't prepared to assume full liability for nuclear accidents [1]. This makes me pretty skeptical that nuclear power is really that safe. https://en.wi…

Roads are non-rivalrous (to an extent). Meaning during off-peak times a private toll road would likely be under utilized if it were not regulated/subsidized. Another reason is that…

> actual unions are a far cry from how they are portrayed as helping the worker. I think it's a fairly well established industry trend that, on average, union membership is a net p…

Another measure is major sector labor productivity (labor inputs vs outputs): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workforce_productivity#/media/...

> And I would also expect that social mobility would decrease as an economy "matures". If you're in a developing country seeing 7-10% GDP growth, then you'd hope mobility is higher…

Interesting read, but supposedly when we're talking about changes in social mobility we really care about the change in the percentage of people that are richer than their parents?…

> We seek to do this as far as the law allows us to do, and other companies do that as well. We operate within the rules placed on us by the legislatures of this country and its st…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption

He also works on Google's Knowledge Graph https://research.google/people/vrandecic/ https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...

Off the top of my head the risk of identity theft and black mail are probably biggest reasons why privacy is important. This is especially concerning when you realize how "secure" …

https://www.opensecrets.org.za/agm/

Employees are subject to intense competition for employment, while big companies face much less competition [1]. This means that, all other things being equal, big companies are le…

I'd say that's a bit of a false dilemma. Countries like South Korea and Taiwan have dealt with this problem far better than other countries despite having very few lockdowns [1,2].…

I think this practice is a bit worse than other forms of electioneering since it is not clear if views being expressed come directly from the candidate or not (unlike a TV ad or a …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony

I think the company-country analogy is stronger than you claim. > A nation uphelds the law whereas a company uses proxies (lobbying) to make laws Once companies can influence the g…

Fair points, but on the other hand, to quote Page and Brin: "we noticed a major search engine would not return a large airline’s homepage when the airline’s name was given as a que…

Note though that when many of the former soviet economies liberalized some of their economic and social outcomes were initially not so great. They experienced high inflation and, i…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18369384

If you haven't already, I highly recommend you read We by Zamyatin [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_%28novel%29

Has anyone looked into creating a cooperative data labeling service similar to Scale AI, except where labels are owned by the people who created them? Perhaps this might even incre…

In the related work section of their paper they mention that WANNs are related to genetic programming [1], a subfield of evolutionary algorithms. Genetic programming is quite a pow…

IIRC objects experiencing acceleration (e.g. planets orbiting each other) are not subject to Galilean relativity like objects that are moving at a constant velocity (e.g. ball bein…

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