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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Median U.S. income is higher than any other large developed country, including Germany, France, the nordics, etc. More likely is that computers and automation have enabled small numbers of people to have huge impacts. If one person can crea
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The conversation is whether UBI will fuel existing inequalities or remove them. I argue it will exacerbate inequalities because of the taxes needed to pay for it. How is this any more derailing than the OP's comment about Garcetti?
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That is entirely dependent on your idea of "benefit" to society. Accurate pricing of futures means farmers benefit from a price that accurately reflects the supply and demand of their product. Strong liquidity means farmers can se
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Mill really needed to be proven in academia with a physical implementation before going the startup route. If you look at RISC-V, that's been a proven path towards derisking the challenges of a clean sheet design+ISA.
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Sure it does. By redistributing it from people that don't use it to people that do, you increase the velocity of money. Inflation is a function of velocity * supply, ergo redistribution causes inflation. But I'm not talking about
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People who FIRE don't inherit money. The entire point of FIRE is that you are _saving_ for early retirement. You can certainly argue that these people might not have useful jobs, but I don't think you can argue that they've c
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Like I said, UBI would be funded by large tax increases, so instituting UBI would directly fuel those inequalities.
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Not the OP, but in general when there is high socioeconomic mobility in society, high taxes disproportionately impact high earners who are not yet wealthy. If you're already wealthy you can draw a subsistence income from investments an
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"FIRE" is more accurately described here as not being a productive member of society, which is fine if you've contributed your fair share for 20 years, but not so fine if you're 22 and just out of college. Somehow I doub
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I think a big problem with current UBI proponents (and in general in the last ~2-3 years, Democrats) is that they don't understand how supply and demand work. When you see Biden touting the Child Tax Credit as a response to decreased p
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By functioning, I mean markets where the local property owners haven't colluded to restrict supply via bullshit environmental assays, zoning, etc. Or at least they haven't sufficiently colluded to the level of straight up preventi
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Clearly you've never tried to purchase real estate in the Bay or done the math. $140k after taxes is more like 90k, and then rent eats up $25k of that alone. Subtract another $25k for living expenses (food, insurance, car, etc.) and yo
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The idea that the SAT is somehow racist is quite laughable. If you controlled for both family income and hours spent per day on academics you'd probably get an equal result. Culture differences mean that Asians are forced by their pare
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This is exactly why I think Copilot (and other "AI writes code for you" solutions) are going to fail. It's harder to read code than it is to write it. That's the opposite of how English works.
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How is the IO (particularly random IO) performance in Windows? In my experience that's been where VMs still have a long ways to go. Even kvm2 Linux on Linux VMs have severe IO performance deficits compared to native.
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And what are real wages for restaurant workers and other minimum wage tier jobs? If you take a look at SF, Oakland, NYC, or even mid-west cities like Chicago, they're higher than minimum wage by 20-25%, even at large chain restaurants.
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If the same number of people are chasing the same number of apartments but making more money, the natural conclusion is that the price of the apartments will go up. If the same number of people are chasing _more_ apartments, the price of th
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
You need a $150k salary to _survive_ in a 2bd apartment in SF or NYC. This study is a garbage take. The reason minimum wage workers can't afford rent is not because minimum wage is too low (because in big cities it's way above $15
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If that were the case Safari wouldn't perform much better than Chrome on certain benchmarks on Apple ARM based devices. But I think "optimization" is more making commonly used instructions really fast (such as uncontended ato
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That is ultimately the result of minimum wage. Because minimum wage is above the market equilibrium (since these jobs are unskilled and there is a surplus of unskilled labor in the U.S. due to illegal immigration and deindustrialization) an
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
If you want to lead a technical team or technical organization you should be technical. Developing people skills doesn't take a degree in gender studies. It merely takes giving a shit about improving and talking to people. Non-technica
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Those "educated" proletarians, at least in my experience, are no more educated than the "trailer trash" they mock, despite their degree. They read Marx in college and start parroting the talking points of choice of their
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It's what happens when you have "advanced" degrees that are not actually useful in large numbers to society. We only need so many sociologists and critical race studies professors and political scientists. These jobs also hap
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The tech industry didn't do shit, San Francisco NIMBYs were the ones who refused to build housing causing the price of everything to only be affordable for tech workers. I don't know how you can blame a high paying employer for ca
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That's because police don't even bother to report these crimes anymore. See: the article posted recently with the video of shoplifters straight up clearing out an entire Walgreens and no police in sight.
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You'd be surprised if you've ever talked to any left-wing (and I mean actually left-wing, not what Fox News calls left-wing) people. To shoplift from big stores is to "fight the corporate power". This demographic is part
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Prop 47 and SF's "criminals are oppressed by society" approach to crime are to blame here. You can't get the grunts to roll on the bosses if all you can charge them with is a misdemeanor, and you can't get police to
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If you look at any graduate program in CS/Stats/Math today, you would think "PhD in CS" is a proxy for "Asian". Equality of opportunity doesn't result in equality of outcomes. Many of those Asian students
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There is no "heads up our asses" going on in the SF Bay Area, only intentional and malicious stalling of new construction for bullshit reasons to maintain housing prices. I recently moved to a new city that doesn't give a shi
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I don't think you can say that. A quick Google shows some random school district in Pittsburgh says pass rates by the end of 9th grade were around 60% [1] and this percentage only went up around 20% for the "Gifted" track stu

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