CountSessine

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by CountSessine 4y ago
This is the difference between the long number system and the short number system: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales The long system makes vastly more sense, but in the English world we use the sh
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by CountSessine 4y ago
Tech companies are US corporations which are legal entities created under US laws and run by US citizens who are human beings who can be handcuffed and put in prison. Asking them to break US laws, even bad ones, is unrealistic. What we shou
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by CountSessine 4y ago
Exactly. They entire EU energy strategy was predicated on the idea that trade would moderate Russian ambitions and hold the peace. And they were flat out wrong.
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by CountSessine 4y ago
Wouldn't this qualify under the dormant clause if it protected firms in Washington state by making it uneconomical for recruiting firms from elsewhere in the country to enter the Washington labour market? This isn't just about lis
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by CountSessine 4y ago
This isn't epwr's claim. His claim is that Washington has written and passed a law that binds Microsoft's operations outside Washington state, which I'm pretty sure would violate the commerce clause.
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by CountSessine 4y ago
Nonsense. Your city council is the People’s Central Planning Committee that runs the construction economy in your city. They decide what is produced and they decide who does it. Construction in your city is a planned economy - every bit as
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by CountSessine 4y ago
Community types enforced by rigid laws outlawing market alternatives. If your “quality of life” is so compelling, why do you need to outlaw everything else, comrade? “Tear down this wall, Mr Gorbachev”
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by CountSessine 4y ago
I found a genuine compiler bug once, but it was in an obscure C++ compiler for the Playstation from an outfit called SN Systems (I think it used the EDG front end). But it was in a semi-experimental feature that did some really weird stuff
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by CountSessine 4y ago
That was an analysis? That was a lazy regurgitation of luddite talking-points that you'd hear in pubs after a few drinks.
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by CountSessine 4y ago
This is the “20 years out” that I mentioned. In the meantime, it’s lithium.
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by CountSessine 4y ago
Such as? Gravity is a terrible way to store energy, and everything else seems to be 20 years out.
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by CountSessine 4y ago
Among smartphone customers, what do you think the numbers are for customers who prefer a big phone vs a little phone? 99/1? 90/10? 80/20? I don’t know this myself. But I figure that if no one is stepping into this market, it’
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by CountSessine 4y ago
The funny thing is though that for warehouse employees at Amazon, their job is so simple and all of their work is wrapped up and recorded for KPIs that if they slow down or become unproductive, they could be fired electronically without eve
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by CountSessine 4y ago
Are we still pretending like Are you actually pretending that any of these cases compares to the scope and the depth of Volkswagen's treachery and lawbreaking with "clean diesel"?
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by CountSessine 4y ago
Yes I think the same thing. “Regulatory competition”? Maybe the only truly effective antidote to regulatory capture.
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by CountSessine 4y ago
Apple isn’t an EU company so they get regulated hard. Volkswagen was pumping tons of NOx into the air in EU cities for years and regulators there rolled over and looked the other way the whole time. But in the US they got regulated hard.
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by CountSessine 4y ago
If it’s questions and curiosity then that’s wonderful. But I find that it’s more likely to be contempt and simple-minded dismissal borne of cocksure overconfidence, and that’s probably what the OP is thinking of.
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by CountSessine 4y ago
Amazon Web Services won't have a union because support for unionization among Amazon's developers is low. Amazon will split itself in two before this happens. My prediction - warehouses that unionize will get split off into separa
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by CountSessine 4y ago
Why would the municipality do that to homeowners, the majority of whom are not logistics warehouse employees but do want products delivered to them quickly and inexpensively? Like, just the game-theoretic analysis here suggests municipaliti
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by CountSessine 5y ago
That isn't what the commenter you originally replied to was stating, nor was it my position. While your argument may have merit, it's a non-sequitur when used as a rebuttal to either that commenter or myself. The poster is liter
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by CountSessine 5y ago
That other problems exist is not a valid reason to prevent fixing something if that fix actually helps in some way That scarcity exists is the whole reason we're focusing on foreign buyers in 2022. And blind-bidding in 2021. And inve
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by CountSessine 5y ago
I completely agree. 1%/year should be very manageable. Especially for the country with the 2nd largest landmass in the world. And yet here we are. Folks love their suburbs. And they love those laws protecting their suburbs and excludin
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by CountSessine 5y ago
When I hear baby-boomers arguing against the numbers, statistics, and facts and saying things like, "don't touch my equity! You just have to be patient! It'll work out for you, too!", I sort of think about this - that th
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by CountSessine 5y ago
As a developer, why can't I buy 5 or 6 detached houses, tear them down, and build row-houses/town-houses on the site? I could house 3x as many families and charge a lot more than 1/3 the price for those homes. Why can't
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by CountSessine 5y ago
To summarize, you argue that it's a supply-side problem and not a demand-side one. That is not an accurate summary. Earlier... Either we limit Canada's crazy-high immigration rate (1% of population every year) or we build more
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by CountSessine 5y ago
As a contractarian libertarian, I agree, and in fact I am in favor of open borders. And Canada's age-demographic profile is terrifying, given that the baby-boomers are heading into retirement. We can use as many tax-paying millennials
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by CountSessine 5y ago
You've mistaken me for someone who thinks there's a political needle that can be threaded here. I completely agree with you - housing prices are high, mechanically, because of scarcity. But scarcity exists because voters like high
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by CountSessine 5y ago
...but I'm not sure that just building more will do much of anything <sigh> As long as we have folks buying with the intention of parking money or using homes as an "investment" you're going to have competition
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by CountSessine 5y ago
Is it so far fetched to assume some realtors may be juicing the bidding to... Of course not, and I didn't say that I'm completely against reforming the real estate industry and the bidding process. But it won't fix expensiv
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by CountSessine 5y ago
You're fighting scarcity. You still won't win the bidding war - it just won't be as one-sided. Stop championing scarcity by blaming scapegoats. Either we limit Canada's crazy-high immigration rate (1% of population every

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