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by Aunche 4y ago
Software engineering is far more saturated than it was in 2000 and 2008. In 2008, Amazon, Apple, and Google all had a seemingly endless room to grow. The iPhone, Android, AWS, and video steaming were still in their infancy. There's not
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> By my time in the 1970s, home electronics projects aimed at teenagers had devolved to "Stick this here, and that there, and connect the battery, and gee whiz isn't that neat!" I'm much younger than you, but that was
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I'm guessing that part of is that they have a very tight relationship with insurance. Insurance covers Luxottica much more than the budget brands, so for me personally, it's actually a similar price if I choose a frame that's
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Clearly someone was being stupid if there was no accountability in what contracts they sign
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Anti-capitalists and anti-globalists fail to understand that it's impossible to transition from very shitty conditions to good conditions hitting a midpoint of moderately shitty conditions. They just cherrypick examples of bad situatio
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> They also have 300% debt to GDP compared to 84% for India. You're comparing the total debt of China with the national debt of India.
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Solar has a much higher upfront cost than coal, so it's much easier to finance a coal plant than solar one. That said, this is a better excuse for poorer, developing countries than Australia.
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> advertisers and agencies need assurances that Twitter isn't on the road to becoming a cesspool, and that their brand/ads won't appear near harmful content. The underlying assumption is that slackivists will actually put
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Sure, the average person could be smarter, but there's nothing you can really do about that. The more concerning thing I'm noticing is that some of my peers who are highly rational when it comes to work but are completely irration
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> This is the old "voters are actually stupid" idea. I don't think that voters are necessarily stupid. They just happen to act stupidly because they treat politics as entertainment rather than their civic duty. If people d
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>the Fed just doesn't want you to know about them. First of all, the Fed doesn't have the power to implement price controls or levy taxes. Also, why do you think they don't want you to know about them? Janet Yellen, our la
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From your source: > SpaceX has said it pays for about 70 percent of the services used by Ukraine, offering all the terminals in that country the best possible option, valued at USD 4,500 per month even though most have contracts signed o
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According to Musk, Starlink has spent $80-120 million to subsidize Ukraine. He could be making this up, but this is supported by a letter SpaceX sent to the Pentagon even before Musk's infamous Ukraine tweets. https://www.cn
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I don't like Musk, but he's done more for Ukraine than you can dream of. But he also sent a few stupid tweets that he took back, so that's a good enough excuse for virtue signalers to feel superior.
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> Powell will continue to raise rates until the labor market cools. This is entirely different from "complaining that the labor market is too tight." The Fed has nothing against a tight labor market so long as we don't hav
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Lowering interest rates wasn't to encourage consumer spending. It was to prevent businesses from going bankrupt. If you owned a perfectly sustainable business pre-pandemic that happened to owe debt, you'd be completely screwed whe
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That's not how this works. You're the one peddling a conspiracy theory. If you want to be taken seriously, you need to provide better evidence than him delivering a populist speech once.
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When did I say he was a sinner? It's just really odd to characterize the a member of arguably the most powerful political dynasty in US history to be "challenging the status quo".
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What makes you think that RFK was substantially different from LBJ or any of the other Democrats at the time?
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Robert Kennedy was the son of the equivalent of a billionaire and the brother of a President. He was the status quo.
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If you control the media like China does, you can fake every metric if you want. In any place with a free press, economists could easily approximate GDP and report it if it were fake.
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Everything makes sense when you think of Harvard and similar universities as selfish private institutions that want to maximize their reputation. They want the children of world leaders, billionaires, and actual super-geniuses. They don&#x2
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> The US alone has installed leaders and toppled parties repeatedly to maintain our status quo, and historically empires just do this. It's almost as if... protectionism is bad. Colonialism and imperialism are inherently protectioni
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Is Asia just a made up continent? How do you expect the child of an uneducated subsidence farmer to become a programmer when they live in a poor country, and you're blocking means of external investment? What people don't seem to
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It's funny that that anti-globalists like to frame it as them caring about the "poor sweatshop workers" without considering the sentiments of those workers. They think that taking away the little economic choice that these pe
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Please share a source. I googled this with several different variations of quoting and only saw your HN comment
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...as I mentioned, the vast majority of this money goes towards things like paying people to read legislation, prepare presentations, and speak with politicians. It's not "literal legalized bribery."
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You might want to revise your assumptions. These are the top lobbying recipients: https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/top-recipients . All things considered it's not a lot of money. The vast majority of lo
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>I think my shock was greater when I discovered that lobbying in the US means "literal legal bribery". This is what the internet thinking lobbying means because they just want to be angry at a thing without bothering to learn a
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> I think they're constrained in how forthright they can be, lest they trigger a market reaction. This is why I said that they try to be honest. Doctors are also inclined to err on the side of optimism when they are uncertain. The

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