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by 0xfaded 6y ago
These house prices greatly exceed the value provided by a house (basically shelter from the elements, access to employment). An economist would call such margin a rent, and reason that supply would increase to take advantage of the profits
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The film "Canadian Bacon" has a (subjectively) hilarious scene where one Canadian Mountie corrects another for using "return from whence you came" instead of "return whence you came". But alas, it seems "f
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I've shared a thermal wingtip to wingtip with one soaring under a hang glider.
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I also just added it to firefox. Thanks Barbara Streisand effect!
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In Australia feral cats are culled since they kill the native animals. There's even a guy that skins them and turns then into stubby holders. https://youtu.be/VaB9J8JHVxI
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I'm glad you posted this. I was curious at what point the NHS would decide that a newborn was beyond saving. I know there are cost vs years-of-life calculations at the other end of life, but this case sets an extremely high bar for ext
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Even if you have a profitable SaaS business, it's common to use public funding to cover R&D, i.e. most of your software engineer salaries. Usually this will involve identifying features, getting documentation from your customers th
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Hey, I'm originally from Australia. My take is that Australia is ever so slightly better off since you don't have all the EU state support regulations to comply with. It's unbelievable how good the EU is at wasting people&#x2
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> We compete with companies founded with people that have access to clients with way more purchasing power and better supply pipeline. Your wording flipped a bit in my head. That exact wording could be said of Europe. There's a whol
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At the front of my mind are aircraft piston engines, which haven't progressed much beyond the 60s. One notable exception are the Diamond Astro engines, which are based on mercedes blocks. Seeing as mass scale ICE development is probabl
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One of the brilliant things about start-ups is that it allows you to step directly into the CEO shoes, and I'm amazed by and extremely grateful for the willingness of investors to allow first time founders to learn on the fly. There is
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FYI open cv has gradient based image alignment built in, findTransformECC. https://docs.opencv.org/3.4/dc/d6b/group__video__track.html#...
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This is fantastic news. As a reference point, in Denmark the highest software engineering salary I've seen is €120.000, which was at a large Danish corp. I'd love more data points.
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Yep, building sufficient housing such that demand never rises above supply is a great way to keep housing representative of it's true value.
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Unless everyone moves to protect their new found billion by buying assets, in which case asset prices shoot the roof. This is not a problem, since most assets these days are unproductive, and like you say, no one would notice a difference i
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Think of the de-risking achieved by vaccinating the people working in the quarantine hotels. Those 2500 vaccines would provide much higher value in Australia than saving face for some of the most incompetent politicians on the planet.
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Or more precisely, once a house attains some value beyond providing a roof over heads, the price of a house is no longer representative of a house, but a government backed asset that can never depreciate lest the pension funds fold.
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What is the cost per middle class job saved? I'm sure someone has statistics on this. The logic seems to go that the Fed should contract out job creation to private companies, which in theory produce economic growth. But this creates a
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I was thinking it would be fun to buy some uranium 238 (you can have up to ~7kg of it without a license). Then I tried ddg'ing what it would cost to dispose of. I couldn't find an answer, so I decided buying uranium wasn't a
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Lawyers are a counterexample. There are more law graduates than jobs. But starting salaries haven't gone down. David Graeber made this observation, and suggested some sort of class tribalism. Btw, to use cleaning as a specific example,
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Is there an authoritative book on kubernetes? Sort of the analogue to "The C++ Programming Language" for C++?
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Capitalism needs competition, yet capitalists hate it. There is an ongoing shift to more and more resources being dedicated to protecting the returns on existing assets instead of creating new assets. When there is no longer a realistic cho
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I want to put this out as a thought experiment. Given that current taxation policy is primarily derived from incomes, and an inheritance is by strict definition an income, then wouldn't it make sense for all incomes to be taxed equally
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I'm in the market for a card for computer vision stuff, but don't have steam.
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Out of curiosity how did you get those cards? Did you manage to buy them at retail or is the economics such that the miners are willing to pay the scalper premium?
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I like the idea, and kudos for keeping your costs at 1%. Putting on my company hat, and I'm no expert, I believe for this to work in Denmark (where I live), you would need to be able to put some form of goodwill on the balance sheet. C
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Facebook actually came in with a generous contribution. We also had a couple local people make private donations.
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I've been in a similar place raising funds for a makerspace. Sponsorship is a marketing expense for a company and can be accounted for as a cost of doing business. A private donation is hit by income tax and, where I live, depending on
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https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ This is a huge collection of charted data which shows that there may indeed be something going on that is a little harder to explain away than the average conspiracy theory. The study of how w
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neoliberalism has a fairly specific meaning in academic contexts. There absolutely was a "culture war", or war of ideas, that was waged to sell deregulation and privatization to the masses. Ironically, these included some fairly g

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