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New comment by z3rgl1ng in "Things I've noticed while visiting the ICU"

z3rgl1ng — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 21:13:11 +0000

This is an oft-repeated piece of received wisdom that is empirically untrue.

https://www.statnews.com/2018/06/28/end-of-life-health-spend...

New comment by z3rgl1ng in "Amazon is said to plan to lay off thousands of employees"

z3rgl1ng — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:22:44 +0000

My pet theory is this boils down to investor confidence. Executives get more comp in stock, cutting workers sends the right signal.

New comment by z3rgl1ng in "Korean nuclear fusion reactor achieves 100M°C for 30 seconds"

z3rgl1ng — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 21:21:55 +0000

Jevon’s paradox implies we’d have a brief respite, chronologically speaking, before having to tackle something like heat shedding.

New comment by z3rgl1ng in "“Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs"

z3rgl1ng — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 22:00:36 +0000

Actually, originally no; stocks paid dividends.

New comment by z3rgl1ng in "We Are Qualitatively Different from Other Species"

z3rgl1ng — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 15:09:31 +0000

“We are qualitatively different. All we need to do is open our eyes. You look out your window at that beautiful ~~city~~ anthill that happens to be out there that cannot be explained by this gradual increase of biological complexity.”

The only constant in our study of life is underestimating the complexity of other living things.

New comment by z3rgl1ng in "My Father Was a Great Teacher. He Wouldn’t Last a Week in the Modern Classroom"

z3rgl1ng — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:37:13 +0000

Would love to see some data backing up the authors assertions, otherwise this reads a bit as a screed.

New comment by z3rgl1ng in "Slowing Down, Yes, but to What?"

z3rgl1ng — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 13:31:42 +0000

I'm curious as I see this thrown around a lot; how does the slowdown in production and labor not factor into inflation, too? It seems to me like those are much stronger contributions, as the CPI items that are up the most are directly tied to those: - Chip slowdown leading to more used car purchases - Travel backpressure leading to more rental cars - Labor shortage leading to food shortages

None of these seem to be directly tied to "printing tens of trillions of dollars" in my mind.

New comment by z3rgl1ng in "The world must cooperate to avoid colliding satellites and space debris"

z3rgl1ng — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 15:33:15 +0000

Periodic reminder that Starlink’s 12k cluster will only support ~500k users[0] at a minimum $1bn cost to taxpayers[1].

[0] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200928/09175145397/repor... [1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/12/07/spa...

New comment by z3rgl1ng in "Making is show business now (2020)"

z3rgl1ng — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 21:52:24 +0000

Christ, every reply to this thread is an anecdote.

Please back up assertions with _some_ data point..

New comment by z3rgl1ng in "Making is show business now (2020)"

z3rgl1ng — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:57:16 +0000

+1, [Citation Needed].

New comment by z3rgl1ng in "Trends in Income From 1975 to 2018"

z3rgl1ng — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 16:05:15 +0000

Citations for your claims? As I understand it most inefficiencies we see in government come from stripping resources out, not from wasteful allocation.

New comment by z3rgl1ng in "Trends in Income From 1975 to 2018"

z3rgl1ng — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 16:04:12 +0000

> But my overall point is that taxes targeting the rich and super-rich will fail, as they always have and always will...

Is that true though? Not long ago taxes on the wealthy were much higher and income inequality was lower.

Personally I have a kinder eye towards government; it’s A) not efficient by design, it’s meant to be comprehensive, and B) less wasteful then I think most people believe it to be.

New comment by z3rgl1ng in "I hired a team of shoppers to find out how businesses were opening in Dallas"

z3rgl1ng — Mon, 11 May 2020 14:28:49 +0000

Seems to be because we can’t spin up testing.

New comment by z3rgl1ng in "Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour"

z3rgl1ng — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 02:23:00 +0000

They said Waymo had that valuation.

New comment by z3rgl1ng in "My story as a self-taught AI researcher"

z3rgl1ng — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 00:52:51 +0000

Yes. The writing style is unkind to the author.

New comment by z3rgl1ng in "Tesla Cybertruck"

z3rgl1ng — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 05:28:09 +0000

This is what happens when an Aztec mates with a Delorean. This is the biggest boondoggle, maybe ever. The Reliant Robin has more charisma than this thing.

New comment by z3rgl1ng in "Tesla Cybertruck"

z3rgl1ng — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 05:26:54 +0000

Will they be able to survive until then with this though? Because I seriously doubt it.