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SolaceQuantumon Is presentation the cause of loneliness? (2017)

"I don't really see how friendships and relationships in general don't align with that sort of model. Can you reduce them to purely mathematical transaction values? Of course not."

This is why you cannot use a mathematical model to model behavior that cannot be mathematically reduced. I'm extremely confused how you can claim there's any accuracy in thinking something as a testable model on something that cannot be tested as a model.

SolaceQuantumon Is presentation the cause of loneliness? (2017)

" If it accurately describes the situation and enables you to think about it and get ideas by transferring what we know about other markets/interactions etc, isn't that better than putting human interaction, mental health etc into a corner of "this is so special that we must not think about it in trivial terms"?"

Consider the following: It doesn't accurately describe the situation and that is what people are arguing.

SolaceQuantumon Coronavirus has disrupted supply chains for nearly 75% of U.S. companies

I actually looked into american made clothing: Jeans.

American-made jeans are anywhere from $160-300. I can also buy some jeans at Levi's for $60-100.

It is not as small as you depict and also not as large as you are responding to, but it is still a very real gap.

SolaceQuantumon San Francisco bans public events holding more than 1,000 people

Classes may not be equipped for streaming at all. Additionally, chromebook and internet may not be helpful for children living in dangerous housing where their chromebooks may be stolen or pawned for food (after which internet means nothing) or in cases where internet may take days or weeks to be installed.

Additionally, this does not address that schools are often a major source of food for children. Or safety for children.

SolaceQuantumon San Francisco bans public events holding more than 1,000 people

School districts of families that cannot afford internet also are school districts that are so poorly funded that subsidized internet and cheap chromebooks are not an option. Additionally, schools may be the only time these kids are able to get real food.

SolaceQuantumon People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report

> It's actually true that rising wages result in higher rents.

Do you have a study you can point to, since this is trivial?

SolaceQuantumon People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report

Employment cannot solve poverty problems for the disabled, the sick, the people taking care of their children/parents/siblings/etc, or the people who are better served spending the time in getting a degree.

SolaceQuantumon Economists study what happens when people stop using Facebook

Arguably, framing someone's life behavior as functions of usefulness is antithetical to the need to engage in recreation. The following of TV is useful if your social sphere is amongst other people who watch TV. It builds a canon in which to socialize, discuss, invite people for watching parties, etc.

(I myself do not watch tv but I also have no desire to presume anything of people who do. I at least personally acutely feel a loss of culture because TV and movie watching is very common in socialization rituals and I am unable to engage in them.)

SolaceQuantumon UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking for higher pay

"e. They joined the union with the intent they would negotiate on their behalf."

They didn't have a choice. The union then negotiated against their interests.

SolaceQuantumon UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking for higher pay

Systematically it sounds insane that the TAs are wholly responsible for grading but they don't get to teach the class, and they don't get paid enough to live. How can you expect a TA to grade appropriately if they are starving? I would blame management for shitty TAs resulting in shitty work, than the TAs for breaking under unlivable conditions.

SolaceQuantumon UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking for higher pay

The UC System has been defunding their academic positions and putting billions of money into upper management positions for generations. [0]

"UAW local 2865, a labor union representing UC student workers and teaching assistants, recently estimated in over two decades about $1 billion dollars have been wasted in upper-level UC administrative costs. UC Berkeley Professor Charles Schwartz, who has conducted extensive research on this subject, estimated that the total cost of UC administrative bloat had been $600 million per year. He has also estimated that UCLA in particular squanders about $54 million per year, the most out of all the UC’s."

0. https://scaleatucla.weebly.com/ucla-senior-management-growth...

SolaceQuantumon Japan's PM to ask all schools to temporarily close

The business as an organization has a responsibility to value the humanity of the laborers they employ, which includes understanding that the greater benefit of paying wages is that now everyone has more money to spend on the business (assuming the business is actually good). Similarly, the business should be investing in making sure people are not coming into work sick, especially in the service industry! Spreading sickness to ones customers is a horrific idea. And lastly but not leastly, being able to treat people as humans actually saves the business money in turnover/training costs!

SolaceQuantumon YouTube can restrict PragerU because it is a private forum, appeals court rules

I think this is a really poor-faith strawman and doesn't contribute anything positive to the conversation. Please reconsider how you approach people you disagree with.

SolaceQuantumon Is It a Pandemic Yet?

I suspect because its an opinion piece, not actual news.

SolaceQuantumon Kickstarter employees vote to unionize

Actor’s guilds don’t specify a ceiling to wages, only floors. We could do the same here.

SolaceQuantumon Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneurs (2019)

People who don't want to interact with society or be helped by society can... not interact with society or be helped by society. They can go out in the woods somewhere or develop a religion that gives you excemptions.

You can also organize among your minority group and protest that your rights are being violated, or hire lawyers to sue.

SolaceQuantumon Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneurs (2019)

Does that actually happen?

SolaceQuantumon Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneurs (2019)

Wait I'm confused, is this country requiring people take time off to become entrepreneurs?

SolaceQuantumon Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneurs (2019)

But we already have existing data that says that people who are given free money don't just become unemployed, and the only people who do take the free money to be unemployed are parents and teenagers who are trying to parent and study respectively. I think personally that sounds amazing. If someone wants to watch Judge Judy all day, every day, for months chances are they have a mental illness and need to be treated the same way as someone whose back is thrown out needs to be treated.

People will take jobs for the similar reasons we take jobs now- we want money, and take higher paying jobs to afford nicer things. In a world where bases are covered, luxuries will definitely be a better carrot than the stick of homelessness.

SolaceQuantumon Developer salary spreadsheet compiled from tweets

And I am arguing that approval ratings and protests may not be highly correlated or have causational relationships with the amount of social services.

SolaceQuantumon Developer salary spreadsheet compiled from tweets

The approval rating doesn't seem to be much better than US Gov't[0].

Also, the US is also constantly protesting too. What do you think Black Lives Matter, the Google Walkout, the Amazon protests in NYC, the current and ongoing unrest surrounding ICE camps, and the teachers union strike in LA are?

0. https://news.gallup.com/poll/1600/congress-public.aspx

SolaceQuantumon Developer salary spreadsheet compiled from tweets

What’s wrong with more data? Levels skews only to US based salaries while Glassdoor weighs older salaries excessively (thereby skewing lower).

SolaceQuantumon Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety

I actually do in fact read a few news sources to get a pulse on local happenings and call my representative upon situations like becoming a sanctuary city.

SolaceQuantumon Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety

" of course you're affected when the government decides on a new policy ... but how does knowing about it on the same day or in the same hour mitigate that?"

It saves people a nasty surprise when the policies they relied upon fall out from under them, or to try and head off future issues by calling up their representatives. For example, I was able to call up my representative regarding changes in immigration policy. Because other people aren't paying attention and don't call their representatives, I actually have an outsized voice and influence on the matter!

SolaceQuantumon Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously complained about autopilot

Would you be willing to link to some papers and cite some specific algos to play with? The above cited specific algos. What are the new versions of these named algorithms?

SolaceQuantumon A popular self-driving car dataset is missing labels for hundreds of pedestrians

"The simple idea is to do stuff like train your model on randomized subsets of your data and then compare its performance to using all the data you have."

How do you do this when you cannot verify that your data, in subset or in whole, is accurate? And furthermore you don't know how inaccurate it is?

SolaceQuantumon A popular self-driving car dataset is missing labels for hundreds of pedestrians

How would one reach a threshold of precision if the data on which precision is determined is missing or faulty?

SolaceQuantumon Li Wenliang

As long as you're not the scapegoat you're in a position of power relative to the proles, though.

SolaceQuantumon Why poor people make poor decisions

No; the above article is well-sourced but the comments heavily disagree with it. I'd like for these comments to cite an equally sourced article so I, an undecided reader, can decide for myself what I find more compelling.

SolaceQuantumon Why poor people make poor decisions

I am totally open to the idea as espoused in the comments that poverty is not about money but about decisions and mentorship.

Can I ask if anyone can actually point to any studies to highlight that? The linked article is very well sourced and I'd like to see sources that point to mentorship programs.