andrewjl

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Who would buy these net additional exports and where would they get the funds to pay for them?
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When evaluating inflation levels the Fed as a matter of policy uses a price level measure that doesn't directly account for food and energy costs.
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> There is also the growth that comes in spurts from technological innovations. Those spurts should be amortized across the entire ranges of years that follow them when assessing the resultant growth. Technological spurts ultimately driv
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> Problematic though copyright laws are, I see no world where all those protections go away any time soon, and so if the courts don't agree to protect copyright already in this scenario, then it will eventually be legislated to make
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Another book in this vein is Libidinal Economy by Jean-François Lyotard
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OAD is no longer in print and has been superseded by the New Oxford American Dictionary (NOAD).
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> ChatGPT can already emulate beings with agency, see LangChain. It's just very bad at it. It's gonna get better. What's an example that isn't a rote process?
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> The flaw in the thinking is that there will be "fair" competition. Why does what OP concludes require fairness? Wouldn't the same logic apply if every player defects, in game theory terms?
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Is that really the only rationale for this bill? Why does this it dilute stronger worker protection laws in the name of uniformity and not the opposite?
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What is your opinion of the FedNow Service bespoke flavor / enhanced message schemas vs what is formally defined in ISO 20022? Do you foresee any impact those differences having on how future versions of ISO 20022 can evolve? Is there
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Why don't tech salaries decrease come graduation season when hundreds of thousands of college students majoring in CS move on from college and are about to start working? Or why have tech salaries grown as much as they did when CS majo
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Why would fixing the visa system push US tech salaries down?
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> Still, if PPP GDP increases, with all else being equal (eg. stable population) it would imply the standard of living is increasing. That's not necessarily true, depending on how the PPP is calculated it may not reflect the cost of
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> You have to be conscious of the "providing value" part of your statement. Perhaps if "providing value" is something you have to be conscious of and not something that comes about naturally from doing what energizes
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> Everyone would benefit if more housing were built, but nobody wants more built near their land. Letting land owners build on land they already own with fewer restrictions solves this problem. If it's a matter of aesthetics or &quo
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> Life would have exactly two objective purposes: to survive and to reproduce. Why does abiogenesis and Darwinism being correct lead to those two being the objective purposes for humans?
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> attempts (make no mistake, of the rich and the 'elite') to transition industries because we(as in the west) have been losing the industry apparatus The meatpacking industry is challenged due to a labor shortage from the growi
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> His main idea, exposed in The Entropy Law and the Economic Process (1971), was that economic organisation is a continuation of biological organisation. Why? Because all machines are necessarily made of materials and use energy, and bec
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A curious choice of examples. What about someone who is open minded and as a result builds or invents something new that substantially improves peoples lives?
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Do you have a concrete proposal for such a "graceful descent"?
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There is a simple solution to fix unaffordable housing that is effective regardless of immigration levels. And that's to allow more housing to be built by relaxing zoning restrictions. Support for both immigration and zoning reform are
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> Science is about question and understanding. Science is inherently a social and norms-based process, so it is more accurate to state it is about _mutual_ questioning and understanding. > If you won't even consider the possibili
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> The iPhone cost roughly the same as 2007’s competing smartphones that were already selling millions of units (e.g. the Nokia N95), and it offered completely unique capabilities. At the time of launch the iPhone was one of the highest p
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> There’s no reason in principle why a business in any other industry could not adopt the same ownership model, although it does make it harder to raise capital. Yes, it would make attracting capital harder. It would also make it implaus
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IANAL but there are city housing code minimums around natural light in residential units. If the goal then is to change the housing code to let people live in SF for a more reasonable price then might as well skip to removing overly restric
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So the right move then is to structure the economy around what's good for Big Tech workers? Sounds like it'd be a pretty popular cause. /s
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What's odd is that focusing on feedback loops and cognitive load usually lets one out-execute the competition, mapping pretty cleanly to beating them in the market. Yet both of these are hilariously lacking in bigco type environments.
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What about foreign investors? Or citizens with foreign investments?
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It's really doubtful whether a labor constrained labor market helps _all_ local workers. Sure, some may see a benefit. Others might see employers cancel projects and reduce planned investments, due to more expensive inputs driven by hi
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> One's life meaning is traditionally simply their social role. The reason people lack meaning now is that we started determining our social roles by way of market whims John Stuart Mill noted that liberalism leaves the determinatio

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