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by baron816 4y ago
Yes, a big chunk of the labor shortages in hospitality, child care, etc. we’ve seen the last two years is a direct result of Amazon hiring lots and lots of people. And as shitty as the conditions of those jobs may be, they’re often still be
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Ask HN: How much money do you expect to be earning in 5 years?
2 points by baron816 4y ago|2 comments
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Isn’t the trolly also reducing carbon emissions by killing so many people? With enough of these questions, it will be able to reduce the world’s population to zero, at which point there should be no carbon emissions from humans.
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by baron816 4y ago
What TV has taught me lawyers do: they have a new case every week that goes to trial that week. The case is always won by evidence discovered during the trial, or by testimony of a surprise witness, or an impassioned speech during closing a
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by baron816 4y ago
I never found out since I never gave them the NDA, but I also suspect it was some sort of FB competitor.
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by baron816 4y ago
Let me tell you about my crazy experience with Meteor. The year: 2015. I had just graduated from Dev Bootcamp in NYC and was desperately searching for my first engineering job. I came across a job posting on Craigslist for a startup that so
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by baron816 4y ago
I had the opportunity to get a very high quality leather bomber jacket for my division at my company. The thing probably cost the company over $1k. I decided not to take it since I probably would’ve never worn it and didn’t want to waste su
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Affordable housing in California now routinely tops $1M per apartment to build(latimes.com)
158 points by baron816 4y ago|255 comments
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by baron816 4y ago
Someone should build an app where women have to create an “application” form, and men have to fill it out. If women are the choosy ones, let them be upfront with their choosiness and adjust the level of friction that men have to go through
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by baron816 4y ago
Yes, I remember it being framed as a morality issue. If you didn’t wake up early, it’s because you were lazy and irresponsible.
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The Economist has another article this week that's basically about that: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/06/09/miamis-su... . It's about Miami and how local, county, State, and Fede
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by baron816 4y ago
> No one knows. The fed could give up trying to contain inflation One thing that we know absolutely will not happen is that the Fed will give up trying to fight inflation. The Fed has a duel mandate to stabilize prices and keep unemploym
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Ask HN: Has anyone here lost money long term angel investing?
7 points by baron816 4y ago|3 comments
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Something like Pokémon Go where the main goal is to meet people and make friends. You get points for finding out information about people and doing activities with them.
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Something like Age of Empires, but with specialize cooperative play, ie one (or more) player manages and defends the base/economy, and other players command different armies that are part of the same team. Maybe also throw in the abili
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by baron816 4y ago
People doing what they want is fine as long as it doesn’t negatively impact anyone else. What really gets me here is that this guy is going out of his way to be obnoxious.
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> But Pennachio conceded he has modified four of the 11 cars he owns to enhance the rumbling of the engine, as a matter of pleasure, not safety. “Just to know you’re in a beefier man’s car,” he said This makes my blood boil. Fuck this gu
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by baron816 4y ago
This is a good point. I’ll also add that California is not one big city. There are parts that are doing really well economically, and other parts that are doing terribly. Housing may be somewhat cheap on those economically deprived areas, b
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by baron816 4y ago
I don’t know how you could argue that the biggest driver isn’t lack of housing. That’s going to be most people’s biggest expense.
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by baron816 4y ago
If a company acquired another company to stifle competition, that’s usually bad. In every other case, it should be good. Many companies simply would never form if the opportunity to get acquired didn’t exist. Some are only able to reach sca
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Ask HN: Has the myth of the tech bubble finally died?
4 points by baron816 4y ago|4 comments
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I tried to get my previous company to start an apprenticeship program. The CEO agreed that it was a good idea, but kept pushing it for well over a year. I left, and it’s doubtful that it’ll ever happen. But I still think it’s a great idea f
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by baron816 4y ago
> The definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative gdp growth That’s not the definition of a recession: > the often-cited identification of a recession with two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth is not a
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by baron816 5y ago
What happens to nuclear power plants if they’re destroyed by a nuclear blast? Or a nuclear waste facility? Wouldn’t that result in a Chernobyl like event, without the ability to contain it as quickly? How would the world handle a few dozen
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by baron816 5y ago
This is the kind of thing that could possibly be worth trillions of dollars. This is something that tens or hundreds of millions of people would be willing to pay thousands of dollars per year on. Now that we have some sort of evidence that
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by baron816 5y ago
It would be really great to recreate loved ones after they have past in some sort of digital space. As I’ve gotten older, and my parents get older as well, I’ve been thinking more about what my life will be like in old age (and beyond too).
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by baron816 5y ago
I think there’s a story here that no one has talked about. It’s that the “traditional” media has fought back against social media by attacking them ruthlessly and getting everyone to believe their some great blight on the world. Facebook et
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by baron816 5y ago
No government is telling me what time it is!
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by baron816 5y ago
The story here is that polluters look for cheap land (and probably proximity to cheap labor) to set up shop. I'm sure racism plays a part in it too though.
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The New Supply Side Economics(niskanencenter.org)
1 points by baron816 5y ago|0 comments

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