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by HEmanZ 2y ago
Honestly I wasn’t even approaching this with right vs left in mind. I spend most of my voice on this subject talking down my liberal friends off a cliff. The right and the left tend to think the economy has never been worse and it’s all X f
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by HEmanZ 2y ago
I linked this article because it summarizes why the data is weird and links to multiple sources, and frames the problem in a way that can be engaged with in a relatively short format. I find it telling that instead of arguing with data, poi
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by HEmanZ 2y ago
How are you making the jump from calibrating your emotional response to distant political changes that have no immediate significance on your own life, are par for humanity, and don’t matter in the long run, to nihilism in your immediate ex
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by HEmanZ 2y ago
You’re making such an absurd comparison in situations. The death of your own family has an immediate and extreme impact on you personally. 99% of what you see on the news you would never know happened if it wasn’t presented to you. And I’m
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by HEmanZ 2y ago
There is a massive amount of evidence that Americans basically think everyone else is having a terrible time, but asked to review their own living situation things are going well. Here’s a decent summary from late 2024: https://w
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by HEmanZ 2y ago
Just using your example tho, I feel there are two kinds of framing. 1. This is literally a worse outcome than the alternative you prefer. You should care enough to try to fight it politically, especially if you are well positioned to do so.
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by HEmanZ 2y ago
For many people yea, but I’ve also had many conversations where very left friends and acquaintances will argue that we shouldn’t density because: - more dense housing makes housing more expensive (and trying to explain why this isn’t true t
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by HEmanZ 2y ago
I feel like housing density is one of those subjects where I will get called a capitalist bootlicker or an Orwellian communist for suggesting that we should let the private market build more dense housing if there’s market demand for it. I
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by HEmanZ 2y ago
The cultural attitude about appropriate portions in America bothers me a lot. People blame restaurants but just anecdotally from my own life, Americans will refuse to eat at restaurants that serve “European size” portions. Restaurants in mo
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by HEmanZ 2y ago
I only encountered this attitude during college, when doing smart extra work outside of class or internships definitely put you ahead. In the real world, I literally can’t name a single Senior+ engineer (at the FAANG+ companies I’ve worked
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by HEmanZ 2y ago
These small local bars are usually illegal in the US unless they’ve been grandfathered in. The solution probably isn’t some fancy new membership scheme, just literally allowing them to exist in the first place. At least, we should try that
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by HEmanZ 2y ago
The entire western world draws its cultural lineage through the ancient greek civilizations, most of us sub-consciously consider ancient greek history "our" history. Even relatively un-educated New Zealanders on the exact opposite
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by HEmanZ 2y ago
OneDrive/Google can afford to take a loss on you, they are effectively selling you storage at a loss. Dropbox can not do this.
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by HEmanZ 2y ago
The younger generation in much of the world is looking at the most unaffordable housing market in generations. Anything that lowers the price of home ownership could possibly help them buy. Unfortunately, as many from 2008 will tell you, a
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by HEmanZ 2y ago
“Making 500k… driving a Ferrari” I’m guessing you’re being sarcastic but, I make that much at a tech company and absolutely can not afford a Ferrari. At least, not if I want a roof over my head. Of all the engineers I know making this much,
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by HEmanZ 2y ago
This seems very generally true to a point, so on average it works out. But I think there is a big caveat. My thoughts are centered around software development, but I know there are many analogous career paths. I really believe if your caree
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by HEmanZ 2y ago
I’d be fascinated to see the geographic and demographic distribution of HOAs. In American Suburbia basically every neighborhood I’ve seen has an HOA. But in some cities I’ve lived they seem completely absent. I’m guessing there was a partic
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by HEmanZ 2y ago
People debate endlessly about what effect it had on his music, and we’ll never know the counter factual. A few things about this that the majority of people don’t know tho: 1. He was wildly successful before he started going deaf. Like perf
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by HEmanZ 2y ago
What use is your 3d printed house if you can not legally put it somewhere that people want to live (near real jobs, schools, amenities)? What are you going to do with it when the local, county, and state government decide there are only a h
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by HEmanZ 2y ago
I lost a lot of hope for US housing when I went to an upzoning hearing for the first time a few weeks ago. The amount of fear-mongering vitriol and hatred over a proposal to up zone an area near the neighborhood (not even in it) to allow fo
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
I have never met an engineer in person who believes this, and without fail any one in my career I have talked to says college is invaluable. The only place I see this thinking is on Reddit or among people who aren’t engineers. It’s somethin
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
In many places it’s perfectly legal to walk down the street with an open containers of alcohol, and there are not the kinds of problems we see with other drugs. Opiates and amphetamines are entirely different animals than drugs like alcohol
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
IMO this is a big enough national security threat that what intel is doing is similar to if Lockheed said “we’re going to start selling to Russia instead of the US unless the US gives us nice grants”. It shouldn’t even be an option for Inte
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
That’s interesting. I’m a born and raised American, but I lived in two different European countries (Oslo and Geneva) between 2014 and 2017. During that time I traveled all over Western Europe and the near east for fun and business, and bes
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
I suspect the US is going to get a super bifurcated urbanist result across cities in the next 20 years. Places like NYC, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco (maybe not these exact cities but you get the gist) are going to
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
I see you’ve met some of my relatives.
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
Were the quotes from dermatologists, radiologists, and psychiatrists? Or from gen-surge and OB? What state? This is OB in the state of Illinois, it’s roughly the same cost ans all of the other OBs we’ve talked to here. She doesn’t have a li
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
About $270k last year. So literally just over half her income.
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
I actually do like the idea there should be more ladder and less silo. Im not sure how it could be implemented tho. I’m just reacting to the idea that mid levels are anywhere near as skilled (meaning training) as most physicians. The hurdle
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
It isn’t flat, that’s the average of the last two years. It does adjust for a lot of things, like any insurance. It is higher than avg in the state for my wife right now because she is only a few years out of residency. Mid career, she shou

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