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I didn't say they needed a warrant. I said the opposite.

Also, numbers on a clock are arbitrarily assigned. Arbitrarily changing them doesn't change anything fundamental.

It's not like life is radically different on the east and west sides of a time zone either.

Finally. .001% of our national nightmare is over.

"evidence a very poorly performing employee was reading articles on the web most of the day"

Sounds like probable cause for a warrant. Not that employers needs a warrant to use their own property, but to assure employees that they aren't being watched unless there's legitimate suspicion.

I like M1 Steve, as it can honor two people.

The market doesn't pretend that it is science. But it doesn't keep alive things that clearly don't work when there are alternatives that do.

The market values many dimensions, not just a few considerations or what someone decides is "science". Like switching costs. Or failure to get the product into people's hands, even if it is better.

Even setting the price too high matters. Or setting it too low to pay the bills.

And many other things. Including the preferences of millions of people.

A scientist couldn't design an experiment that replicates what the market already is.

One could also say "Subsidies for electric vehicles are clearly beating subsidies for hydrogen vehicles."

All the more reason to tax what you don't want and not subsidize specific solutions. The government should focus on the problem, not on specific solutions to the problem.

Because politically deciding what should succeed is not science. Politicians may not even be aware of a better solution. Or it may not be lobbied as hard as poorer solutions.

Ah, but can I overcome it perfectly?

We'd be a lot better off if we ditched the concept of perfection and go with "perpetual improvement' instead.

When you go to heaven, you reach a state of perpetual improvement. :-)

Yeah, but does that stop someone from starting their own company and hiring talented people in the same boat, as countless groups have done before?

His videos are very long. A lot there but I haven't been able to get through one yet. 2.5 hours is long. Could be 3 or 4 videos.

My policy is if you hear 18 other recruiters murmuring in the background, decline, then block that number and that email.

Sometimes you get multiple contacts from different recruiters with the same company on the same day.

If they won't tell you what company is interested, they don't have a contract with that company.

Don't be open and honest with a recruiter if they aren't open and honest with you.

I'm very impressed with your ycombinator skills.

Yes, the process of retyping a page was automated to the backspace key!

heck, it wasn't just retyping the page you wanted to change. It was all the pages after that too!

When I first used a word processor, it was so liberating.

Is it rare?

Whenever a tool becomes easier to use, more people can use it unassisted.

Electric starters and automatic transmission probably eliminated the need or desire for some to have a driver.

That's happened with lots of things.

Those that have individual rights, including freedom of speech/thought/religion and property rights. Independent courts. Freedom of movement. The right to your own body.

If the government isn't censoring, lobbyists running the government doesn't lead to censorship either.

I wish low interest rates were the only thing incentivizing people to invest in real estate. It's tax treatment, it's bailouts, it's government buying underwater real estate and selling it at a loss to the same bank they bought it. It's Fanny and Freddy, ready to take those high risk mortgages off your hands>

And as real estates absorbs all the investment capital, a lot of buildings are built that sit partially or even fully empty, just appreciating. But not really producing anything.

Sometimes, even the shelter a house was designed to provide is not used. People literally buy larger houses for the tax advantages, not because having the space is worth the investment.

Meanwhile, other investments actually produce good and services people are willing to buy and often turn a profit. These kinds of investments are the real source of wealth. A house is something that can only be built using existing wealth, whether yours or borrowed.

All of this is done because someone convinced policy makers that consumption is somehow what causes prosperity. This is incorrect.

It's actually PRODUCTION that creates prosperity. To consume something, someone has to produce it first. Everybody may want a car but until Henry Ford figures out how to produce it cheaply enough, they won't get one.

And that's over investment in real estate is a problem: it takes capital away from innovation. It DELAYS innovations. And those delays cost trillions, depending on what time period you're looking at. Certainly delaying the invention of the assembly line by a century would have cost trillions.

Fingers crossed.

I suspect Christopher Reeve had a hand in this somehow. Creating awareness and motivation to work on this.

My guess is making it easy to unsubscribe to everything will make it more likely that people will experimentally subscribe to things in general.

This is actually better for users and legitimate, useful services.

Prosperity is generated by production not consumption. And who's most likely to invest in improving productivity?

I don't worry about stimulating demand when bubbles collapse. The viable parts of the economy get to pay lower prices for everything. That stimulates ORGANIC recovery and growth and avoids re-inflating the bubble in the fake parts of the economy that will only re-collapse again.

Delaying the collapse of unsustainable pricing and investment in non-viable sectors only makes their collapse bigger and more wasteful.

Acting over time, I doubt there's any misinformation that human intelligence can't see through.

And if it did exist, it would be invisible.

But, yes, in the short run, we can all be duped into believing SOMETHING, given the right circumstances.

What rules can we follow to reduce the chances?

Maybe LIMIT how much we consume from volatile sources like news sites.

Maybe act slowly.

One thing I've found is that it also really pays to explore something fully when you don't understand it. Just because someone isn't explaining something well may not be sufficient to dismiss it.

I'm unfamiliar with that term but I found some articles on it.

What's the best source of info on this topic?

Eventually is a long time :-)

Which is why this is true.

But I doubt there aren't any currencies around from 1000 AD that haven't suffered that fate.

This is only a concern with electoral systems that deny the losing group representation. Like winner-take-all.

It wouldn't make any difference at all with proportional representation. And PR can even be implemented in the executive branch, as the Swiss have demonstrated.

Better to learn to explore and build knowledge from the ground up than to repeat it back.

It is still good to know what's already known. But the teacher isn't the source for that. Google is. And there are skills for getting the most out of Google.

Those skills are teachable, as is the fact that Google isn't reality either.

Getting something in the mail is only imaginarily secure.

Talk about something that needs multifactor authentication.

It's not the Holodeck.

That's how bubbles work.

I was wondering if extracting geothermal energy could prematurely cool the Earth's core.

Here's a few answers:

https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/2302/can-th...