WillPostForFood

8 ms·

91.
by WillPostForFood 8mo ago
https://voxukraine.org/en/messing-with-the-truth-disinformat...
92.
by WillPostForFood 8mo ago
"it is already showing up as stagnant or declining Western salaries" Real median salary, and real median wages are both rising for the last couple years. Maybe they would have risen faster if there was no AI, but I don't thin
93.
by WillPostForFood 8mo ago
So why is there a 25-50% tariff on steel?
94.
by WillPostForFood 8mo ago
Definitely possible, but the more likely answer is that the Phillipines is the only foreign country with operators.
95.
by WillPostForFood 8mo ago
The way the Waymo rep answered strongly implied they only have workers on this task in the The Philippines. -- Markey: In what countries are these employees located? Waymo guy: The Philippines. Markey: Excuse me? Waymo guy: the Philippines.
96.
by WillPostForFood 8mo ago
He does deserve some credit, but 1979 was a total mess for the growth, inflation, the dollar. Nominating a credible Fed chair to fight inflation was both a risk and politically expedient in the short term. Trying to build some economic cred
97.
by WillPostForFood 8mo ago
Dude, I literally posted a link to the numbers. 12k public. 2.5k private, 14.8k total per person public plus private. Here is another link to the OECD numbers directly. Is is 12k public, 14.8k Public plus private. https://www.oe
98.
by WillPostForFood 8mo ago
I'm just talking about government spending. If you add private spending it is even more unbalanced. Just per capita government spending alone: US $12k Germany $8k UK $6k Medicaid + Medicare is 22% of all US federal spending. Defense is
99.
by WillPostForFood 8mo ago
I'm not happy about the, most likely temporary, price increases, but come on, it has never been an accessible hobby. It has always been an elitist, expensive hobby. Console game is the cheap way into gaming. Here is 1995 custom PC buil
100.
by WillPostForFood 8mo ago
Who is responsible now when human coding errors leak user's sensitive information? I'm not seeing programmers held up as the responsible party. The companies who own the code are vaguely responsible, so it will be the same. The br
101.
by WillPostForFood 8mo ago
Us does spend the money on healthcare, it is just very inefficient. US government spends much more per capita than any other country. 50% than the #2 country, Germany. https://www.statista.com/statistics/283221/pe
102.
by WillPostForFood 8mo ago
Don't you think it has gotten an order of magnitude better in the last 1-2 years? If it only requires another an order of magnitude improvement to full-on replace coders, how long do you think that will take?
103.
by WillPostForFood 8mo ago
Carter has good employment, but terrible inflation making everyone poor in miserable. His Fed appointee, Paul Volcker raises interest rates, kills inflation, puts the country in recession, and drives unemployment up during Reagan's fir
104.
by WillPostForFood 8mo ago
Think of the PC gamers The battlecry of the new revolution?
105.
by WillPostForFood 8mo ago
Which cities, for example?
106.
by WillPostForFood 8mo ago
Antifa is also a noun describing a group of people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)
107.
by WillPostForFood 8mo ago
What about sourcing and the cost of energy? Solar Panels more efficient, no bad weather, and 100% in sunlight (depending on orbit) in space. Not that it makes up for the items you listed, but it may not be true that everything is more diffi
108.
by WillPostForFood 8mo ago
The scammer isn't trying to get the earnest money, they are trying to get the full sale price.
109.
by WillPostForFood 8mo ago
It isn't just about sales, it is about margin. F150 Lightning was losing money on each unit produced - they cost about 40% more to product than they sold for. Cybertruck has a positive gross margin, so even though sales are terrible,
110.
by WillPostForFood 9mo ago
There are open accusations of mail-in fraud in California, not a settled issue. France is an interesting example because there was fraud, settled issue. It seems obvious, no? 1: Vote in person, with ID 2: Mail ballots out, mail ballots in W
111.
by WillPostForFood 9mo ago
Just last week it was revealed that it had gotten an ESRB rating (now removed). So it must have been pretty far along in development. https://web.archive.org/web/20260114063329/https://www.esrb....
112.
by WillPostForFood 9mo ago
France is an example. They allowed mail in voting, had issues with fraud, then banned it. https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/57152/why-isnt-...
113.
by WillPostForFood 9mo ago
Yes, so turns out people with a basic grasp of how economies function can have different models of how things work. This a great paper, and important in that it shows who is paying the tariffs in the examples they looked at. What it still
114.
by WillPostForFood 9mo ago
this is a classic "nice story, bro".
115.
by WillPostForFood 9mo ago
to the surprise of absolutely no-one with even the most basic grasp of how economies function. No, it is surprising, as noted in the article, because basic economics suggests that suppliers will adjust pricing, and eat some of the tariff
116.
by WillPostForFood 9mo ago
FWIW, the MD-11 was designed by McDonnell Douglas, and manufactured by McDonnell Douglas in 1991, before the Boeing merger. A McDonnell Douglas DC-10 failed in a similar way in Chicago in 1979, so it the issue may go way back.
117.
by WillPostForFood 9mo ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86jx18y9e2o Apple has responded and has started moving a lot of manufacturing out of China. It just makes sense for risk management.
118.
by WillPostForFood 9mo ago
*hasn't changed in the last 40 years in the United States
119.
by WillPostForFood 9mo ago
The amount of sugar in Coke hasn't changed in the last 40 years, and probably longer than that. It's been consistent at ~39g/12oz, even through the "New Coke" debacle. Wouldn't be surprised if Coke in the 40s,
120.
by WillPostForFood 9mo ago
Copyright isn't doesn't protect a document from being read, by a human or a machine.

More ›