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by _uy6i 4y ago
This is my point - here is a clear example where equality of opportunity not resulting in equality of outcome, which should imply that inequality of outcome does not necessarily mean unequal opportunity.
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by _uy6i 4y ago
I know nothing about NET other than the 30seconds I just spent looking at their financials - they managed to triple their revenue over three years but they seemed to have managed to about triple their losses over the same time period and th
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by _uy6i 4y ago
Lol - “move quickly” Tangentially - I’m always astonished at the lack of self-awareness of many municipal/utility service providers - they pretend like I’ve sought out their service and WANT to engage with them, when in fact I just wan
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by _uy6i 4y ago
I think there is a difference between being thrown off by your routine (I have the same feeling if I’m not carrying my wallet or keys with me) and being “addicted” (for lack of a better word) to your phone and going into withdrawal - the nu
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by _uy6i 4y ago
How did humanity manage?! /s Don’t get me wrong, smartphones are great conveniences, I can land in a foreign country and book a hotel, a car from the airport, find a place for lunch, etc. all (surreptitiously) while waiting at passport
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by _uy6i 4y ago
Which is why there is a visceral pushback - if a parents struggles in providing a better life for their children don’t actually inure to the children, what’s the point (I.e. if I scrimp and save to send my kid to test prep-training to get h
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by _uy6i 4y ago
Opportunity + luck + preferences (I.e. someone values flexibility over compensation, or video games over homework)
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by _uy6i 4y ago
Take the gender pay gap for uber drivers, unassailable equality of opportunity, yet there’s a gender pay gap, oh yeah, people/groups have preferences… https://freakonomics.com/podcast/what-can-uber-teach-us-abou...
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by _uy6i 4y ago
While I appreciate many of the arguments being made - and there are countless similar situations (nifty 50 anyone) - that nasdaq is not the stock market it’s like 1/3rd of it… pop over to yahoo finance and look at the chart of the Russ
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by _uy6i 4y ago
This may be the case for many goods (e.g. cars, furniture, dishwashers, beef) - but definitely not assets (e.g. homes, bonds, stocks, art)
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by _uy6i 4y ago
It seems you think that having a phone, on you at all times and charged is easier/better than a key/fob. I honestly don’t see how one can think that is a better solution. This solution REQUIRES that I can’t leave my house with my
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by _uy6i 4y ago
Ok, and when I can’t get into my building because of a power outage or there is a “technical glitch”? Is something really more convenient/better if it doesn’t work when you need it most?
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by _uy6i 4y ago
Price formation is complicated - think about the fact 5-6m home sales a year, at the price for 80-90m homes, if the composition of those buyers and sellers changes, that changes the “implied” price for everyone
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by _uy6i 4y ago
No that’s more a chart of home prices values https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/index-family/indicators/sp... You’re looking for this: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=n9xI
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by _uy6i 5y ago
CU and Bank both have shareholders. The shareholders of a credit union are by law/definition its customers/depositors. The shareholders of a bank can be anyone.
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by _uy6i 5y ago
I did a project in the space, and iirc only like 10-20% of overdrafts (by volume) were inadvertent/mis-management, another smaller group were people that didn’t care (accept that they are going to pay a few hundred dollars a year in ov
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by _uy6i 5y ago
Not to mention that the vast majority of the imports are from western Canada going to refineries in the Midwest (which makes sense that the cost to import is cheaper than because the distance is actually closer than other producing areas o
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by _uy6i 5y ago
Agreed - edited to include my assumption
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by _uy6i 5y ago
But I would think that only relates to mechanical breakdowns due to normal wear and tear or lack of proper maintenance? Wouldn’t a manufacturer have responsibility if the breaks failed at high speed the day I drove my new car off the lot?
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by _uy6i 5y ago
Did he work for Koch? They’re fairly famous for disconnecting compensation from supervision/leadership - I.e. individual contributors earning more than their bosses.
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by _uy6i 5y ago
What’s Tesla’s exposure here - do they disclaim liability for a failure like this? Edit: Assuming this was software diver assist issue
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by _uy6i 5y ago
Fair enough - but I’d say the quality of construction was much higher as well.
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by _uy6i 5y ago
Compliance with building codes <> higher quality I grew up in a small farm house built in the 1700’s - post and beam construction, that will far outlast “code compliant” building methods of today
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by _uy6i 5y ago
This is pretty stupid if you ask me, the top of the list is just stable countries with a strong tradition of rule of law.
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by _uy6i 6y ago
3,300 feet in not a long runway - it means you can access ~80% of the ~5,000 runways in the US. On the the other hand A 777 needs 8,000-10,000 feet meaning it can only access <10% of US runways.... https://www.cia.gov/lib
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by _uy6i 6y ago
In furtherance of this point let’s take the article’s author at face value $50m inheritance @21% is $39.5m...not bad! But let’s now be a little more realistic, the family has two kids and not 1 so $19.25m per child - now let’s say that pare
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A mistake at Facebook broke Spotify, Venmo, TikTok, and other iPhone apps(arstechnica.com)
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by _uy6i 7y ago
Try walking into your local bank/gold dealer and selling a Swiss marked bar of gold or one that has the the markings of a drug cartel and see which you would prefer to sell...
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by _uy6i 7y ago
There is blending that takes place before counterfeit/smuggled oil is used so it meets the API/spec of the refinery. You can be sure refiners are testing before anything runs through the plant...
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by _uy6i 7y ago
Usually laughing at SF regulations - but this is eminently sensible - wish they had added a printed receipt as well

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