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It's not basic supply and demand--indeed, most economists are pro immigration. Bryan Caplan went as far as advocating for open border (admittedly he's more libertarian than most).

Labor market is complicated because jobs are not a finite pool that people compete over. New workers are also new consumers, who create new jobs as well. If more workers are always bad for other workers, declining birth rate (ie fewer future workers) would be a good thing.

Profit margin is the wrong metric in this debate. The person you are replying to is saying that the insurance companies as a whole is a waste, including all the salaries paid to their employees.

I'd love to learn phonetics, but with written materials like this it feels like learning to ride a bike by reading a book. I'm still at a loss with regards to how to actually make the sound. Without a teacher, I don't think I even realize my own mistakes.

How did you learn to physically make the sound? How much time did you spend practicing daily?

Thanks so much for the advice. I too hope to do stand up one day.

I stalked the post's author (your?) LinkedIn and didn't see any background in statistics. How do you know to design this experiment so nicely?

Excellent experimental design and analysis!

Is there a way for me to buy you a coffee (or some cash equivalent)? I'd love to incentivize such rigor in online discourse.

An obvious way is to try out readwise ;) but I mostly read online articles and (pirated) books, so I'm not sure I'm a good use case.

Buddhism is about recognizing that everything is one, i.e. there's no sky/earth, but just sky-earth as one thing altogether.

Of course you don't have to believe it or find it useful, I'm just explaining Buddhist thought in general and Thich Nhat Hanh's thoughts in particular here.

Does your son have other alternatives to learn programming and make money other than Roblox?

If there are, then it's a great lesson about looking outside of one's immediate circumstance and striving towards something better.

Could you elaborate on how this Hamilton framework is a case of Dependency Inversion (which in my understanding is about removing dependency on low level class and using dependency on high level class instead)?

What's the low and high level classes in this application?

A great way is to encourage them to question the rules that they have to follow, including your own.

That's something they already do, and most enjoy doing. We just need to guide them to question the rules in a coherent manner.

Besides critical thinking and argumentation, by letting them question your own rule, the meta skill you're demonstrating here is intellectual humility, IMO the most prized quality of a great thinker.

Facebook, as a business, is primarily interested in making money and would love to avoid all these messy issues regarding what to censor so that it can focus on selling ads.

Therefore, FB would love to have a legitimate external authority, e.g. the government, mandating what's allowed or not. Unfortunately, no one is willing to do that dirty work, and thus forcing Facebook to do it themselves.

(Granted, I've simplified the matter quite a bit here by saying "Facebook, as a business". Facebook is also a collection of individual employees who have their own beliefs and do shape FB in their image.)

Awesome! Could you speak a bit about what you have in mind to incorporate actual experiment data into the algorithm?

This is an accurate summary of the article.

However, in my personal experience, it is not an accurate summary of the Bay Area. The startup scene may be truly this toxic, but I think such toxicity plagues any small, homogeneous group of people. It is hardly a tech problem. Indeed, mom-and-pop shop in small towns can be very abusive too.

To offer a counter anecdote, my experience with FAANG has been very positive. My workplace is the most meritocratic, efficient, and transparent organization that I've been in. (And I did spend 6 years on the East coast doing things unrelated to tech.)

I'm certain that the author's experience is true. I also want to caution against generalizing these issues to all of tech in the Bay.

Could you suggest a low cost option for meditation retreat? I'd really like to do one, but the idea of paying $1000 for what's supposed to be a no-frill, minimalist, anti-materialistic experience still trips me up. (As a reference, I rarely spend more than $500 for any kind of leisure trip.)

I understand that I'm being naive here, that "the Dharma is free but the light is not." Perhaps if cheap retreat is not an option, you can also reframe my thinking about the cost.

The article you linked says the opposite of what you quote.

Right after the quote, the article's authors say that these claims [about Europe being economically interdependent before WW1] are exaggerated and this do not disprove the theory that interdependence prevents war.