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by HEmanZ 4y ago
I think the author needs an updated understanding of what is missing. Being interested in a particular property value would absolutely lead to more interest in dense dynamic cities. A city block in tokyo is probably worth more than a city b
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
This is like doing the same thing but expecting a different result. You think unions follow some optimal logic but I’ve seen no examples that do. The only real expectation you can have is that it would end up roughly like existing unions. I
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
I will tell you from personal experience, a huge percent of doctors do it basically just for the money. If you come from a lower to lower-middle class family, becoming a doctor might as well be becoming a billionaire. Many doctors don’t fin
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
It sounds to me like your expectations are way out of whack. I’ve seen friends, acquaintances, and colleagues become entrepreneurs. Without an exception, every one that has a serious social media presence is a fraud. They have a company tha
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
My 2-cents seeing friends and a sibling go through the IB track. You have 100+ hr/wk for a few years in your 20s, when you're young and can sort of handle it. But by the time you're having a family you work more normal hours
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
Where are people testing just rote memorization? At least 20 years ago when I was in lower school, most of what we did had only a very small memorization component. The SAT, ACT, SAT subject exams, etc only barely rely on memorization, and
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
I finally got around to reading Moby Dick this year. I found it to be about 100x better and more approachable than I expected, and there’s so much to meditate on while reading it that I am excited to read thru it a second time. Also, 2 new
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
If you like older wisdom books like this, I’d recommend the essays of montaign. Marcus wrestles with being a man, montaign wrestles with being a human.
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
When you get far enough right, everything is left (and vise versa)
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I think you’re reading the wrong thing into my comment. I would absolutely agree the problem is that externalities aren’t priced in. The result of pricing those in would be that everything gets more expensive and consumers get to consume le
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
Just because some people may not grasp this: it is still individual humans consuming the water. Companies and industry don’t burn resources for no reason, they become products that consumers buy. The only real solution is that we consumers
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
I think OP means that there should be one or the other, not both. Just increase the rate of one if you need more money instead of inventing a new one to double-tax the same income stream
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
Happens at least twice a day to me, sometimes a lot more. My wife finds it bewildering so I’m not sure it’s totally normal, but I know it’s not uncommon either.
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
Congrats. Guess who does want it? Almost every large organization on the planet.
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Not anymore, but she’s only two years out. Her hours are actually worse than most of residency these last two years.
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
Nope, not where we live. I have seen administration do some blatantly illegal shit around physicians with COVID, but I don't want to write that up here.
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
These threads always have lots of people jumping on doctors and their decisions/callousness/lack-of-reason/etc.etc.etc. My wife is a physician (OBGYN) at a major city hospital that primarily serves a very poor population. I&#
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Meaning taxes
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My response to everyone saying this must be the professor’s fault: I graduated right before the pandemic, so I don’t know how things changed during the last two years, but I do know that US college students at mid-tier universities are very
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
There are absolutely not a lot of existing homes sitting empty. I know the internet really wants to spin this as a "look at greedy people hoarding housing!" but real statistics begs to differ. Rental vacancies across the US are at
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
Don't many states/cities (if we're talking US) already do this?
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Food has one of the biggest speculative markets in the world, with insane amounts of leverage: commodity futures.
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I don't think the op is talking about you. Many professionals in NYC already pay over 40% in effective income tax.
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
Thank you. A lot of people I know act like the problems of today are somehow astronomically worse than they have ever been, unsolvable, completely new, and in-addition-to all previous generation's problems ("nothing has improved i
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by HEmanZ 5y ago
These comments make me feel like I'm getting old, which is weird to me. There are so many proactive comments that remind me of my 18 year old self. Social awkwardness, for me and for a lot of people I know, sort of just vanished with a
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by HEmanZ 5y ago
Any suggestions or resources on how to make friends or drinking buddies quickly when you have none in a location? Personally, I've had to move cities about every 6 months for the last 3 years while working from home. It's hard eno
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by HEmanZ 5y ago
I quite literally just quit and my decision was 90% because of compensation. I more than doubled my pay, which completely changes the material circumstances of my life. Do engineers leave for 10% raises? Probably rarely. But for 50%-100% ra
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by HEmanZ 5y ago
My thought on this, what's the difference to an agent between a real world an a simulated one? Why aren't all worlds effectively simulated?
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I would guess they are doing this entirely to keep people working through this crazy season. I have had 3 legs of flights cancelled (on different airlines) over the holidays due to lack of staff. I think if this had anything to do with unio
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by HEmanZ 5y ago
Wikipedia happily reports that North Korea has a 100% adult proficient literacy rate. Cuba has a 99.9% rate. Brazil 98%, all leaps and bounds beyond any western country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_b

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