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by Retric 2mo ago
There’s a wide range of such designs due to the various different failure modes from false positives to the kinds of leaks resulting in 10’s of thousands in damages they are supposed to prevent.
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by Retric 2mo ago
If the seal between the washing machine and the water supply fails it doesn’t matter which brand you’re using. They have improved over time, but you need to have a drain for the washing machine anyway so the cost is quite low vs the rather
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by Retric 2mo ago
Because it’s not obvious to most customers that a corner’s been cut. Same reason most new construction in the US sucks. You can safely put a washer and dryer on the upper floor of a house if you add a proper floor drain, but you’re unlikel
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by Retric 2mo ago
It’s hard for a large company to survive on something with a vastly smaller market share. You can make a living buying a portfolio from other people making it slightly worse over time and repeat, but the pipeline gets expensive and the mar
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by Retric 2mo ago
Becoming wealthy and maintaining wealth are very different mindsets. Constantly jumping from unstable stock to unstable stock is a great way to suddenly be down a great deal of money. Offsetting a 50% drop takes doubling your money afterwa
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by Retric 2mo ago
Many products get worse so they are cheaper to manufacture, more shelf stable, etc and can therefore be profitably sold to more people. Sometimes the opposite happens, but in general when a company optimizes for people with less disposable
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by Retric 2mo ago
Flat tax is only ever flat when you hold down deductions. That’s way harder than it seems. The corporate veil is extraordinarily valuable to the point where a minimum 10% tax on any money passing through options makes a lot of sense. Howe
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by Retric 2mo ago
Google beat out the competition by being better in a market with near zero switching costs. It can coast a long time without being the best option, but once the fall starts it’s always harder to gain back reputation. Today I told someone t
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by Retric 2mo ago
Burning reputation looks great on quarterly reports until the death spiral begins. There’s a great number of products that I used to like that have been replaced and that’s fine as a consumer but stock holders are generally better off when
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by Retric 2mo ago
Until you stop using google search, which I and many other people I know have done. Losses and gains on the order of 0.5% market share may not sound like much, but at this scale it’s a vast amount of money. So being slightly more hostile n
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by Retric 2mo ago
Let’s try and deal with actual facts here. If you disagree then you should be able to post some actual data in terms of lifespans or costs that says otherwise. There’s multiple healthcare systems around the world, single payer results in v
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by Retric 2mo ago
No, it’s not a question of who pays for it but who benefits. You could have universal health with zero additional spending by the US government, but all that administrative overhead is someone’s income.
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by Retric 2mo ago
The issue with procedural generation isn’t how to do it, the issue is how to keep it from being boring.
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by Retric 2mo ago
> No. Combined, it is still de minimis. US equity markets alone trade something like $500B/day of volume or like $125T/year. If that was what you where trying to describe the second sentence is unconnected to the first. > ha
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by Retric 2mo ago
> trade something like $500B/day of volume or like $125T/year Trade volume is meaningless in the face of HFT. The very actions you’re defending prove the numbers you just presented have zero relevance and could increase by 10
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by Retric 2mo ago
If the costs where actually de minimis nobody would be fighting on those timescales, instead the costs paid by the market is the full operating budget of these companies plus their profits plus their negative externalities which combined en
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by Retric 2mo ago
> milliseconds of liquidity Speed of light delays. Due to the underlying physics of the universe there’s physical limitations on how much liquidity can matter on sufficiently small timescale.
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by Retric 2mo ago
In my experience that’s wildly inaccurate. Dietary choices, weight loss, exercise, etc are often given as an effective means of avoiding and or controlling a wide range of conditions. People are instead blowing off such advice because they
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by Retric 2mo ago
Yea, we’ve scaled wooden buildings to 25 stories. Arguments around bone scaling ignores the impact forces of running. Scaling often means trading margins not just keeping all constraints the same.
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by Retric 2mo ago
> zero fee trading Such wonderful marketing terminology. That’s not actually free, the cost of trading with less information is quite high.
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by Retric 2mo ago
Market makers are simply an artifact due to how shares are traded based on limitations that existed before computers. The aren’t some inherent aspect of having a stock market. The money isn’t coming from thin air. If N people trade a a fi
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by Retric 2mo ago
1960 was way worse than 1966. My point was you can’t reasonably look at thousands of years of horror suddenly ending and then blame the solution for not being perfect.
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by Retric 2mo ago
In living memory things when from famine so bad cannibalism was a widespread issue, to traffic jams. You can’t argue about quality of life here outside of profound ignorance. The CCP was objectively the worst government across thousands of
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by Retric 2mo ago
China’s population was absolutely fucked over by the CCP to a level that is hard to comprehend. That had nothing directly to do with any foreign powers, but because Chinese workers became valuable to foreign markets their lives massively i
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by Retric 2mo ago
Modern China is a vastly better place to live than China of 60+ years ago. Many countries are nicer places to live, but 1+ Billion people are simply better off making the “exploitation” narrative ridiculous.
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by Retric 2mo ago
Go to a better movie theater and they don’t do that. Alamo Drafthouse movies have the old please keep quiet message, but if you show up 5 minutes late you’re missing part of the movie if they even let you in.
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by Retric 2mo ago
There’s movie theaters that do that, Alimo is the chain near me which does.
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by Retric 2mo ago
Paying for quality content has been normalized, the price floor for payment is way above what Facebook and the vast majority of Web content offers. That’s why movies and AAA games can clear a billion dollars, but the internet is still depen
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by Retric 2mo ago
Formal education is wider than just 15+ people classrooms. Apprenticeships don’t require removing people from the workforce, but they require feedback to function well not just watching a master craftsman.
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by Retric 2mo ago
The vast majority of people vastly overestimate how well they learn things without the feedback of formal education. Easier on its own is therefore effectively meaningless when people aren’t actually learning beyond the most superficial lay

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