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by badpun 3y ago
> did we all just happen to make the exact same decisions in lock step since the 70s by incredible coincidence? It might have been a combination of circumstances and intellectual tides turning. The 70ties saw stagflation everywhere, whic
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by badpun 3y ago
Margins go up, but volume comes down, so hard to tell if the overall profits will increase or decrease.
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by badpun 3y ago
> Just a few brands own most of the stuff you buy [1] and then supermarkets have deals with those. Both protect each other. I buy almost exclusively store brands. Probably less than 5% of my grocery spending goes to name brands.
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by badpun 3y ago
Plenty of difficult, ultraspecialized jobs don't pay much, because they're in industries with low margins.
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by badpun 3y ago
I don't think there's a way to communicate with vehicles at the bottom of the sea. Seawater isolates EM signals perfectly. It's actually much easier to do live updates of vehicles in space.
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by badpun 3y ago
> This whole war in Ukraine is very bizarre, no Navy, no Air Force, just ground war and drones, it's like the really expensive pieces of equipment are too costly to be risked for Ukraine. Russia's air force is supposedly a majo
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by badpun 3y ago
Not a winner or loser. It's just that, if I get you to lower your price by 10%, then it's more money staying in my pocket and less money going to your pocket. And similarly, if you convince me that your shoddy work is good enough,
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by badpun 3y ago
Do employees need a confidence in leadership? Employment, like all trade, is basically an adversarial, zero-sum relationship. I don't need to have a confidence in a counterparty in a trade - on the contrary, I'd prefer them to be
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by badpun 3y ago
Economically vibrant cities will continue to attract migrants (both from within the country and abroad) and will maintain their population levels. Cities that are already on decline, as well as rural areas, will be hit hard.
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by badpun 3y ago
@OP this is the kind of person you will be competing against in the interview process if you want to do interesting and challenging work.
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by badpun 3y ago
Isn't there currently an ongoing, large scale, multi-year, violent social protest going on in France? At least some portion of the people must be pretty unhappy about the state of things.
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by badpun 3y ago
I'm guessing part of the reason for startups specifically is, US remotes will be shown as employees, while non-US remotes will technically be contractors, thus not counting towards the head count - which is one of the things that deter
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by badpun 3y ago
That is still supply and demand. The "demand" part comes from what you wrote about - how profitable the capital holders believe their tech ventures will be - this sets the ceiling for tech salaries. Currently, the capital holders
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by badpun 3y ago
I have a theory most people have very low opinion of coding as a profession. To them, it must look like the most dry and boring kind of work, even worse than accounting. That's why they don't flood our field by the millions, even
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by badpun 3y ago
> Almost impossible to buy your way into farming as an individual business strategy (10k/acre in the midwest, need ~500 acres to support a family). Can anyone explain to me why farmland in developed countries is so expensive? It sou
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by badpun 3y ago
> Burning cars on the street would sure affect the livability in my neighborhood. Especially if it's my car. If these guys want to burn property so badly, why don't they bring their own cars to the area and burn them, in a sort
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by badpun 3y ago
> With almost every aspect in life--just focus on being a real, genuine person and the rest will work itself out. It won't, at least not in terms of money. Most people's indiosyncracies aren't conducive to making enough mo
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by badpun 3y ago
Linux is Linux thanks to large involvement of big tech. It remains to be seen if any Big Tech companies would be interested in seriously supporting development of an open source browser.
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by badpun 3y ago
Ladybird is currently far from competetive. Andreas himself told that his loose goal for Ladybird is to be able to render YouTube page correctly and play video with sound - 5 years from now.
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by badpun 3y ago
Some things are clearly valueless. For example, if you slave away for 6 months creating a report on something, and then the document is never even opened by anyone, your work was clearly valueless. There are a lot of jobs which have compone
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by badpun 3y ago
I don't think so. The language used in 2023 may be different, but the intent is the same: "Give them nudity, give them sex, give them violence. This is what will make us money".
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by badpun 3y ago
If I see a referral link in any kind of advisory/review article, I immediately assume the whole website is a low-effort, no-ethics attempt at making money, and not much else. There are very few exceptions to that rule, where it's
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by badpun 3y ago
An "activist" is someone who "use direct, often confrontational action, such as a demonstration or strike, in opposition to or support of a cause.". Whereas these people are not activists, they merely live according to t
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by badpun 3y ago
True bonds require years and decades of frequent interactions to grow.
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by badpun 3y ago
This may be an artifact of our current times, which change so quickly that the wisdom older people accumulated through their life experiences may no longer be applicable to the current reality. But, throught history, older people often real
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by badpun 3y ago
> Personally I can find wisdom in 2 year olds babbling Such as?
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by badpun 3y ago
"Taking a risk" by definition means things may improve for you, but they can also get worse. Most people aren't in that great of a position in the first place, they don't want to fall even lower. Esp. since the lows are
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by badpun 3y ago
In a couple of small, wealthiest countries in Europe (Scandinavian countries, Switzerland), sure. But everywhere else, if you go for the dream and fail, you'll be barely making a living. Whereas in the US, you can fail and likely still
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by badpun 3y ago
> All investments come with some level of risk and riskier investments, on average, provide a higher return. Average outcome is computed by summing multiple potential outcomes, and diving by number of trials. It's completely meaning
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by badpun 3y ago
> “People always tell you to follow your dream”. Perhaps in the US. It's the privilege of living in an extremely wealthy country - the risk of following your dream is not that high, since, if you fail, you'll probably still be

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