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by anovikov 1y ago
Question that must be asked: isn't giving equity harmful long-term for tech performance? Almost everyone who is capable of being there, is already there because there are few other fields that pay so well, especially fields open for ev
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by anovikov 1y ago
Easy peasy. People buy homes because they feel psychologically insecure and uncertain about being able to keep roof on their heads in the future. It never made sense as an investment apart from a short period in 1970s and even that because
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by anovikov 1y ago
That's natural, upper class makes money from assets, not from work - it's hard and also probably morally impossible to tax these (do it and they sell and buy assets abroad where assets aren't taxed, and just throw country int
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by anovikov 1y ago
Exactly my thought. It is not based on 'ability to hide money from taxation' or anything like that. Just in lower corporate tax rate (even then, it's lower still in Bulgaria and Hungary and yet those countries don't ha
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by anovikov 1y ago
Funny! Here in Cyprus in spite of totally car-centric culture, parking is free almost everywhere or at the very worst, 4 EUR per DAY in a few spots, but even there it's usually possible to find a spot for free. Sometimes i wonder how o
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by anovikov 1y ago
Full-service restaurants as a mass product were only sustainable due to mass exploitation of illegal immigrants and abusive labor practices. They were modern slavery. If people are to be treated as people even to the minimal degree, full-se
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by anovikov 1y ago
Problem here is that if heating was done with electricity itself, it could have like 300% effective efficiency because of using heat pump, but a heat pump can't be used for 500C temperatures, it must be resistive heating. So even if no
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by anovikov 1y ago
Isn't it also the effort of entire society to compress the pay scale with exactly that effect? And societies that are furthest on that path (Nordic ones) are used as example to follow (and indeed appear quite comfortable and nice).
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by anovikov 1y ago
Naturally it was always a false hope. People use to attribute a lot more of what happens in their lives to their own effort than they should, this is a bias that exists in all Western societies starting with ancient Greece where they instil
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by anovikov 1y ago
I think someone who wears mask indoors outside of major pandemics is already kind of late insuring their brain. At best it makes an "i am a radical leftist" statement.
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by anovikov 1y ago
So probably, saturation has been reached just simply? You can't pour money endlessly into the same thing hoping it will keep bringing returns infinitely. Eventually the opportunity is just exhausted. I wonder why is it a surprise to an
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by anovikov 1y ago
I wonder how people get to crave on sugar. It's almost creepy to imagine that could be a possibility.
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by anovikov 1y ago
We love complexity because it lets us create moats that compels bosses to keep us employed because no one else could understand our shitty purposefully overcomplicated code.
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by anovikov 1y ago
Wasn't it called 'dust bowl' in the good ol' days?
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by anovikov 1y ago
Dark ages is the period from which very very little written record remains. It absolutely did exist - there's very few texts from between ~500AD and ~900AD in Western Europe, because education system, an integral part of Roman society,
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by anovikov 1y ago
It's not at all convincing. Recent announced deals in Portugal are over 1000 EUR per MWH which doesn't make any economic sense at all.
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by anovikov 1y ago
Almost as if in America, people vote rationally! One town where 66% of population is on medicaid and life expectancy is 10 years under the national average, just voted 88% for Trump. Sure enough, in Germany the highest anti-migrant vote is
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by anovikov 1y ago
It most certainly means that "under a normal run of things it's a huge competition from qualified PhDs to become a full tenured professor so it means years on poorly paid intermediate positions, here there are <1.0 candidates p
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by anovikov 1y ago
OK but what are the prices at which storage auctions land OUTSIDE of China?
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by anovikov 1y ago
There you go. $5 an hour developers. Back to 1999?
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by anovikov 1y ago
Isn't UK especially western parts of it rising instead of sinking due to glaciers melting in Greenland?
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by anovikov 1y ago
You don't need a neural network to understand that. Old age of average new car buyer (and population in general) holds it up.
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by anovikov 1y ago
Come oooon, mobile apps per se are not "innovation". They are extractive, addictive clickers.
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by anovikov 1y ago
That's obvious nonsense. Just to remind, during WWII Soviet Union suffered 7.9M killed and missing in action (same metric). Out of prewar population of 190M. Ukraine had a prewar population of under 40M even including the already occup
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by anovikov 1y ago
Because this is what naturally happens. The more you try to bend economic reality by forcing people to do less optimal things, the more the economy starts to resemble Soviet Union - i come from there and i don't want to go back. I agre
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by anovikov 1y ago
But that is the same thing! The rent reflects maximum profit that can be extracted at a particular place. If some other business is able to pay the rent, the rent will be higher than a pub can afford.
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by anovikov 1y ago
Please give me a ESPNOW SDK, with the long-range feature, for non-ESP device! Like Raspberry Pi at least. Compatible with ESP being on the other end. I'm fine if it requires root (can't be done without, probably).
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by anovikov 1y ago
That's called 'populism' right? 'Do things the way real everyday people, the average voter, wants them to be done'. It's not just a path to disaster - it's an immediate, acute disaster for any society.
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by anovikov 1y ago
People have been doing construction for millennia. It's the world's biggest industry by economic impact and employment. If there were dramatic improvements possible there, they'd be done a long time ago. The best real-world,
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by anovikov 1y ago
Thing is, for it to truly stop an incentive has to be removed. It shouldn't be a profitable idea. A business open in a particular place has to be the most profitable business possible there. What's the problem if it's not the

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