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by Aunche 4y ago
SF is a much smaller city. Areas in NYC not connected to the subway tend not to be particularly walkable like Staten Island.
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by Aunche 4y ago
The only reason for a manufacturer to want to produce a cheap car is to sell a ton of them at a low margin. If not enough people are buying them, then there's no reason to continue selling them. At sub-$20,000, you're going to be
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by Aunche 4y ago
My point is that people don't take out loans to leave it in the bank account though. Going with your example, the bank would be insolvent when the customer tries to transfer the $20 to another bank because that would deplete its entire
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by Aunche 4y ago
No it can't unless if it instantly wants to be insolvent when you withdraw $101. The bank can make 101 $1$ loans because it can be confident that the all the debtors won't withdraw their money all at once. Edit: I realize now th
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by Aunche 4y ago
>fundamentally the incorrect claim that banks lend out their depositors funds Not sure what you mean by "fundamentally incorrect"? If your bank only has $100 in deposits, you simply can't loan out $101. The money multiplie
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by Aunche 4y ago
This is what happened in the Soviet Union. Leadership at consumer-facing enterprises had no incentive to do anything more than the bare minimum because profits are socialized. Meanwhile the Soviet military did a much better job of keeping u
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by Aunche 4y ago
Unions aren't a hack that let you subvert supply and demand. The "bad" parts of unions are what give it power. Without excluding an out-group, you're left with a useless bureaucracy. For Hollywood, I think this is a nece
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by Aunche 4y ago
That logic only applies if you have unlimited potential downside. If they were really certain, they could have bought put options.
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by Aunche 4y ago
The only people secretly moralizing about economics is this chain of comments. The article never claimed that people were "bailing" or "freeloading" because of stimulus checks. It said that they were increasing consumer
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by Aunche 4y ago
> Citation please. Look at stock prices, which are primarily owned by the wealthy. The richest 500 people collectively lost $1.4 trillion last year. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-12-29/billio
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by Aunche 4y ago
This is the nonsense narrative the mainstream media is trying to pedal to drive populist engagement, but it doesn't make any sense. The interest rate hikes have dramatically decreased wealth inequality and tempered inflation without af
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by Aunche 4y ago
Trump's tweet literally said that Hillary smashed the phones with a hammer. He already got the benefit of more engagement on a exaggerated tweet. Why shouldn't he deserve some mild pushback?
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by Aunche 4y ago
Not a sample size of one. Out of 20 papers they published, 7 got accepted, 6 were rejected, and 7 were still undergoing review. Also, I don't think that paper is that different from the postmodernist literature that I've read.
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by Aunche 4y ago
I made that qualification to acknowledge that I'm not an expert, but I've read enough on my own to make an informed judgement. Feel free to offer an alternative explanation to how such a comically absurd paper got into a prestigio
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by Aunche 4y ago
Ancient China is in a different department. It would make sense to allow students to choose ancient Aramaic instead of Latin, but that's not the change. You can now graduate specializing in Ancient Greek without reading a single line i
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by Aunche 4y ago
I'm not saying that gender studies is useless. It has obviously produced many valuable insights in the past, and I'm sure plenty of academics produce high quality scholarship in this field to this day. My point is that it makes li
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by Aunche 4y ago
My (admittedly uninformed) impression of contemporary gender studies is that so long as you reach them conclusion that X gender is a victim (where X isn't cis men), it matters very little what path you take to get there. This is how an
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by Aunche 4y ago
If you're studying history, you should be reading primary sources. Translations are a useful tool, but everyone makes mistakes and has their own biases, so your scholarship is compromised of you rely on them. The only jobs relevant to
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by Aunche 4y ago
Princeton, which had been previously known for grade deflation, removed the requirement to study a classical language (Latin and Ancient Greek) as part of their classics major in able to make the field more accessible to people of color. h
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by Aunche 4y ago
> that is because HR exists to protect the company, not the employee. This honestly makes me think that a lot of the story is heavily exaggerated. Why would HR entertain a hypothetical that could only get them in trouble?
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by Aunche 4y ago
> It's like no body seems to give a shit about anyone except themselves anymore. Whats the cause of this? What's the solution? Be the change you want to see. If you want your police be tougher on crime, then get informed and in
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by Aunche 4y ago
There are plenty of examples of Elon Musk's hypocrisy, but this is not one of them. He has always said that intended to comply with the laws of any country.
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by Aunche 4y ago
>Supply and demand works best when the data about the market is symmetric. In the job market it is not. Sure, I agree that corporations should be more transparent but this isn't the messaging that I'm getting from these comment
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by Aunche 4y ago
Yes. Regulations should exist. Econ 101 is a prerequisite to learning about exceptions to Econ 101, which evidently the general populous has not. This is why people get surprised when the solution of throwing more money at a limited supply
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by Aunche 4y ago
This narrative is counterfactual to how capitalism actually works. Your worth is determined by supply and demand. Investors would never agree to paying American developers twice as much as European developers if they knew they would be on t
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by Aunche 4y ago
Not sure who are the historians who are "vociferously insisting" that something is impossible any more than Graeber does.
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by Aunche 4y ago
> Noble savage myth The noble savage is a trope represents the innate goodness of humanity when free from the corrupting influence of civilization. If anything, it's Graeber propagating the noble savage myth. Societies that are smal
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by Aunche 4y ago
> If you worked for Google for 20 years you don't expect to be let go with no notice by an automated system. Why? From the executive's perspective at megacorps like Google, employees are completely replaceable, and even for a m
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by Aunche 4y ago
This is only true if you're talking about some sort of fringe view like flat earth theory. Once a stupid view reaches a critical mass of popularity, even people capable of rational thought will start to believe in it unless if they see
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by Aunche 4y ago
>One of the guests I talked to was a junior dev. He was making 120k/y. He had to flat share. With 120k? For one, every city with a lot of career options for young professionals is actively hostile towards housing development, except

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