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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
California is a pretty substantial outlier there, not exactly representative of the country as a whole, and even then doesn’t actually need a super high inter-state immigration rate to get those numbers. It’s worth noting that the entire co
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
While you’re right that how hard someone works doesn’t determine their pay, how much money someone brings in at best loosely correlates to their pay as well. I think a lot of people have dissonance there as well, thinking “well surely if it
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
It’s worth noting that these stats don’t show a difference in moving between cities, but between residences. And if you do look at stats showing moves between counties, those have been fairly flat going back to at least 2005 (I couldn’t fin
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
You could always go for a US federalism type deal (but made more extreme), where you try and make the Federal government as minimal as possible and cities/towns as in in control as possible. Then there would be competition between citi
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
My experience with good managers at large companies is they do a lot of work to make sure the rest of the company doesn’t get in the way of their developers. Which yes, mostly involves a lot of reporting and meetings with other people on th
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
CEO is in the unique position of being capable of providing 4000X the value, due to being a force multiplier on the entire company (It’s the job they hold, not skill, that makes it impossible for a random secretary to have as much value to
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
Truth of it’s the opposite. Even now general estimates put insect and fish biomass at significantly eclipsing mammal biomass. Insects might be small, but there are so many of them that it doesn’t matter.
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
For this reason, I think maintenance load is a bad way to think of tech debt. Time spent not working on features represents design flaws that need to be fixed…but that’s separate from how I viewed tech debt to mean something. Maybe the arti
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
I’ve always viewed tech debt at related to the extent to which the system’s code and design increases the difficulty of making desired changes to it. Decisions made yesterday increasing the difficulty of making desired changes today. The im
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
Assuming good automation, most of the work comes in being able to do a second of something instead of just having one. The difference in work between “single point” and “multiple point” is a lot, but increasing the multiple points beyond th
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
You’re right, actually even the PS Vita sold more than 10 million which is better than I expected (It was a WiiU, not a Sega CD/Virtual Boy) . I’ll have to remember that in the future.
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
Historically it’s believed PC underperformed Consoles, but at this point it’s estimated that PC revenue is equivalent to the entire console market combined (for what it’s worth, both combined pull in less money than mobile gaming world wide
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
Microsoft is definitely pivoting towards making most of their money from their subscription game pass, with the idea that even if their consoles do sub-par they can also gain money from PC users and try and eat into Steam’s market share. Gi
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
Handheld gaming has always been extremely lucrative (unlike their TV consoles which have a spotty record, the worst selling mobile console Nintendo sold was the 3DS at 70+ million.) Sony just couldn’t capture that market, so gave up.
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
It’s important to recognize that while the Steam deck is awesome, it’s sold 1 million compared to the 100 million of the Switch. Nintendo has massive name recognition and exclusives of course, but also price. The cheapest Steam Deck is 400
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
Most people don't know the names of the CEOs of any of the other manufacturers. The flip side is also true, that there are people who wanted to own a Tesla just because Elon's name was attached to it. Being a celebrity is very muc
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
Why Tesla was late doesn't matter, it's still a fumble. If they can out produce the other manufactures in the coming years despite previous massive delays, then yes they could make up for that mistake given the competitors are als
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
Do you know of any documents similar to what you do that have been disclosed to the public, or is this a sub-industry that us completely opaque to outsiders?
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
Those are all interesting things you could do, but in what way would they help when we’re talking about the Meta platform? We’re considering the case where someone is actively choosing to use a name that’s not their own for some reason, and
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
It’s definitely a massive change, but it’s worth noting we don’t exactly have long term numbers on this. The first studies on sperm count are from 1929, and we started to see this issue in the 1970s. It could be that we’re seeing a drop dow
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
They weren’t claiming that they had an issue with the article talking about an issue that affects men. They were taking an issue with the framing of the commenter that changed the framing into a “mens issues vs womens issues” thing, which i
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
It’s surprisingly hard to find any research on this. The last survey I could find was articles saying the Lincoln project did a survey in 2018 showing about 50% of tech workers are Christians. Which is less than the 64% of Americans, but st
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
That’s not what a ponzi scheme is though. The most important thing about what makes a ponzi scheme a scheme is that the person running the scheme is obfuscating where the money being paid out comes from. It’s when someone pretends they’re d
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
While likely not how it would be work out in practice, you would hope that with better tools would also come higher standards. If you expect more complex, more thorough, and/or less error-prone output from students using AI then you do
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
Why would Meta have needed to either though? Or really Alphabet, Microsoft, Twitter, or a bunch of other companies? Maybe a handful more people to deal with scaling issues on products specific to pandemic needs, but the pandemic was always
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
Not when the downsides are unbalanced. If the future does not come to pass and you acted on it, you have to lay-off 10% of your workforce. If the future does come to pass and you didn’t act on it, other companies that did act on it eat your
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
My understanding about Chinese is that what makes it hard for English speakers is that it’s a tonal language. Hearing the tones at all, and even more so reproducing them, can be very hard for many English native adults.
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
I think that the extent to what you say is true depends on who has hiring power. The farther removed from the actual team hiring decisions are made, the less someones ability to work effectively matters. If you can convince some MBAs you’re
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
I would argue the benefit of the personal chef isn’t in being able to obtain made food for money (that is indeed quite accessible) but in being able to have someone that can tailor food to your nutritional desires. Even in large cities, fin
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by NineStarPoint 4y ago
Personal Chef, Personal Driver, and Personal Assistant (if I planned to keep working) have to be the trifecta of things I would want if I was rich enough to give a good salary to competent people entirely off my investments. The difference

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