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by CPLX 3y ago
I mean it’s true. Borrowing costs are a HUGE input into people’s lives and they’re not included in the standard measures of inflation so there’s a real substantive disconnect that has developed.
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by CPLX 3y ago
Nope. Supply and demand will never be smooth and linear, housing markets will always be intrinsically inelastic. Ever tried moving? Since that’s true you can use policy to decide who gets to keep the inevitable consumer surplus.
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by CPLX 3y ago
Of course you can legislate costs from one person to another. You can redistribute the profits from landlords to tenants. It will have consequences. Some of those consequences might be negative. But some won’t. It’s a policy choice, economi
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by CPLX 3y ago
The big variation now though is that the airfoil shape varies quite a bit from one end of the wing to the other.
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by CPLX 3y ago
Those reasons sound like bullshit, explanations that were devised by people who decided they didn’t want it as step one, and then then pulled together a committee to draft some reasons.
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by CPLX 3y ago
But that’s the point. You don’t have to trust me. The guy has an extensive and public track record.
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by CPLX 3y ago
No, it doesn’t. Like any policy that affects a complex adaptive system it has winners and losers and elements of unpredictability. Don’t worry I actually have a degree in economics, you don’t have to explain why you think that. Doesn’t mean
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by CPLX 3y ago
You don’t have to let imports flow into the country without assessing costs to that as well. These are all policy choices.
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by CPLX 3y ago
That kind of thing already exists. It’s trivial for large and well resourced foreign companies to bring in specialized foreign teams to work alongside American workers. What’s happening here is TSMC just wants to undercut local wages. There
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by CPLX 3y ago
American workers by any objective measure are at the absolute top for skills and productivity. Have you considered the idea that this story is being turned into anti-union propaganda?
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by CPLX 3y ago
No. They shouldn’t. I can’t think of a worse American policy idea than giving preferential treatment letting companies exploit American workers more aggressively, but only if the owners of the company who will profit from this are not Ame
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by CPLX 3y ago
We don't have to give the guy the benefit of the doubt. He has a pretty established track record of being a fully malevolent force in American society, and to the extent I think about that guy at all it would be trying to figure out ho
853.
by CPLX 3y ago
Of course I have a problem with it. He should be shamed and penalized and made an example of.
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by CPLX 3y ago
Of course they represent my own values. Peter Thiel’s approach to business is based on creating monopoly conditions, extracting maximum value from working people, and creating widespread social misery that he doesn’t have to personally expe
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by CPLX 3y ago
> leading to a more efficient society Efficient at what? Producing more highly-resourced sociopaths who share Peter Theil's values?
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by CPLX 3y ago
Now you're ready for the next observation. Which is to really understand the mentality of people from those institutions. Imagine if you took these two premises as true: 1) Harvard is the most selective and high level educational insti
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by CPLX 3y ago
The first main example used here is dumb. The point wasn't that carpooling needed to go back to being inconvenient again, the problem is obviously that if you expand the definition of "carpooling" too much you get unlicensed
858.
by CPLX 3y ago
Don't be ridiculous. Technology is confusing. A person should spend decades of their life studying law and practicing it and then have their career ended because they didn't realize that this new tool everyone said was so amazing
859.
by CPLX 3y ago
So there’s literally no example, anywhere on this wide planet, of a company that would be more successful with its team working together in an office?
860.
by CPLX 3y ago
Yeah I have the Dropbox packrat plan which I think covers basically everything discussed here.
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by CPLX 3y ago
> ME/CFS is unquestionably biologically rooted, says Avindra Nath, clinical director of the U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, who led the study. It revealed brain activity differences, along with immune a
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by CPLX 3y ago
I'm talking about something a little different. When you get into the level of method names and so on then yes you're definitely right. But I have had incredibly useful conversations on broad strokes stuff. A question like "w
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by CPLX 3y ago
Outreach is a legit and widely used sales SaaS company.
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by CPLX 3y ago
Having a conversation with it is kind of amazing, perhaps underrated. A very long series of questions can totally brief you on tech you don’t understand or have a base in.
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by CPLX 3y ago
It’s incredible for my use case. I have been involved in software and implementing technical things since the late 90s and from time to time have been pretty good at a few things here and there but I am profoundly rusty in all languages I
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by CPLX 3y ago
There’s absolutely no fucking chance this deal goes through in the current climate. It’s not clear why they are even trying. It’s not just the Biden antitrust contingency it’s going to be Visa/MC and the other big banks lining up again
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by CPLX 3y ago
Here’s a counterpoint. Fuck that. We’ve had enough concentration of resources in the hands of those who merely build technology that connects valuable things together, after having exploited market power to siphon off all the profit from th
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by CPLX 3y ago
Of course I do. Is your theory that manufacturing weapons of war is a morally neutral occupation?
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by CPLX 3y ago
The most famous example is almost certainly Jeffrey Epstein, but that of course is just a conspiracy theory, until it isn't.
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by CPLX 3y ago
Presumably you’re not Chinese. If you are then it’s the center of everything.

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