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by ak_111 4y ago
This doesn't sound right to me. As a back-of-the-envelop calculation how much realistically would say the Russian government need? Even if they need in the league of 10,000s annually I think it would be easy for them to source this fro
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by ak_111 4y ago
wait isn't it standard for real estate to go up in inflationary times?
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Video game Homefront's plot (2011)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by ak_111 4y ago|0 comments
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by ak_111 4y ago
Even if all your employees worked 4-days week doesn't mean your business opens only 4-days week. You simply ensure the amount of workers who are off on Monday is the same as the number of workers that are off on Friday. You only need
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by ak_111 4y ago
4-day week would be a thing for example when employers out of desperation for not being able to find workers start enticing borderline great resigners by 4-day week (so you get all the benefits of full time employment: health insurance, pen
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by ak_111 4y ago
^ This is textbook Great Resignation. Wild to imagine the consequences to society if 20-30% embrace this for a prolonged period. Curious what is it about the pandemic that triggered this?
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by ak_111 4y ago
the context of this quote is that the UK economy shot itself in the foot by getting rid of cheap European labour, then someone responded actually no because they got even cheaper labour from outside Europe, I was pointing out that they are
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by ak_111 4y ago
I think all the behaviour you mentioned is not part of the GR. Changing desk jobs or getting new title/promotion doesn't have the macro impact I am talking about. It is more about people quitting desk jobs for entirely different s
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by ak_111 4y ago
It could be, but this would be an extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary evidence. A huge chunk of society suddenly changing their outlook on wealth and work-life balance and then committing to a radical new lifestyle as a result would
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by ak_111 4y ago
Changing career from desk job to desk job and working full-time is strictly speaking not part of the GR, your macro impact isn't the same.
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by ak_111 4y ago
Why did you quit in the first place?
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by ak_111 4y ago
This is the mystery, precisely why I wanted to ask the question. Some of it is due to asset prices going through the roof (real estate in some western countries have doubled over the last 3 years). But this can't be the sole reason. Fo
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by ak_111 4y ago
You need to factor in the cost of training them and their quality of service. For example European drivers usually have better English skills or have worked in similar coffee shops before, used to driving in Europe, familiar with cleaning a
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by ak_111 4y ago
It is indeed expected that if asset prices collapse, the Great Unresignation might become a thing and in a very ugly way. An alternative more rosy scenario is that the Great Resignation becomes even more entrenched leading to a radical chan
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Ask HN: Are you part of the Great Resignation, if so what's your story?
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by ak_111 4y ago
Why isn't that already reflected in the price? Surely FX traders (who are mostly very large institutional investors) have already factored this into their models since it seems a very important factor?
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by ak_111 4y ago
I wanted to keep it limited to "Facebook blue app"-like social networks and not just any app with a social element. So an app where people can interact with their immediate social network in a semi-private manner (I wouldn't
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by ak_111 4y ago
The interesting thing about Orkut was the weird geographical distribution of adoption. I think it was something like Brazil, Turkey and India. It is interesting to contemplate a world where one social network like facebook didn't end u
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by ak_111 4y ago
Seriously, is this the case? Source?
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by ak_111 4y ago
You are taking the analogy too literally. Lending to a country/corporation is different to lending to a person. There is no such a thing as "free time" for a country. If the president wants to gamble his own wealth on bitcoin
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by ak_111 4y ago
This guy seriously wanted to sell El Salvador's remaining gold reserve to buy bitcoin with it only a few months ago. Not sure how his population put up with him. https://news.bitcoin.com/el-salvadors-president-tells-pet
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by ak_111 4y ago
If you loan someone $100 and then find him going to vegas each weekend gambling $5 and spending the entire week boasting about what a genius he is and showing off his photos with his gambling friends, you will feel very uncomfortable loanin
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by ak_111 4y ago
You tend to see this a lot in LinkedIn profiles: "Increased CTR by 142%".
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by ak_111 4y ago
I am not sure if you are trolling, but this is exactly why I posted this... Far from being hubristic, I feel I am missing something and want to figure out what it is.
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by ak_111 4y ago
This is sensible take, and arguably backed by the fact that apart from bitcoin there are no other examples of practical blockchain tech.
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by ak_111 4y ago
Edit: if you are saying blockchain allows non-tech people the benefit of something like a git repo to run there everyday business, then this is a view I sympathetic to but it is arguably failing in this aspect as well since there is no non-
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by ak_111 4y ago
Let's assume this is true. There are many simpler and smaller-scale coordination games out there. Why hasn't any of these adapted blockchain? It is quite a stretch to think that you can go from 0 adaptability to 100% adaptability
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by ak_111 4y ago
even simpler than database technology. A git repository is tamper resistant.
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by ak_111 4y ago
"Blockchains are excellent for logging with peer participation, distributed append, and tamper resistance. For example, each peer can add their own chain links, and also see all the chain links added by other peers, and also be sure th
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by ak_111 4y ago
Maybe in terms of concept, but in terms of real life cases and adaptability Bitorrent was arguably and still is a very successful technology that many people have engaged with.

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