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by baron816 3y ago
Yes, people flooded in and then firmly shut the door behind them.
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by baron816 3y ago
This box cutter tool, which is <$12 https://a.co/d/aOxoVOp . It makes opening packages so much easier. It doesn’t have a blade, so it’s much safer to use than scissors or a knife.
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by baron816 3y ago
There’s an active academic debate about whether inequality has actually been rising: Why economists are at war over inequality: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/11/30/i... There’s ple
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I wonder how many were crypto startups
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> I always do wonder how realistic these war games actually are? The YouTube ones? No they’re entertainment. They talk a lot about the limitations of the software they use. For example, they say simulated hypersonic missile are likely mu
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by baron816 3y ago
I’ve been watching a bunch of these videos where they war game realistic and pretty far fetched battle scenarios https://youtube.com/@grimreapers?si=lvRNWBee9RfnkxBI . They’ll cover stuff like a Chinese carrier group vs a US
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by baron816 3y ago
Correct. This is all really bad for Microsoft and probably great for Google. Yet, judging by price changes right now, markets don’t seem to understand this.
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by baron816 3y ago
I can foresee three possible outcomes here: 1. The board finally relents, Sam goes back and the company keeps going forward, mostly unchanged (but with a new board). 2. All those employees quit, most of whom go to MSFT. But they don’t keep
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by baron816 3y ago
An economist would probably say "just increase car registration fees", and that would be the most efficient way to get people to own fewer cars. I have a car that I got as a gift. I put about 150 miles on it per month. But I still
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by baron816 3y ago
I wonder if this is one of those pivotal moments in history where OpenAI collapses or fades and Google or someone else dominates the future of AI, and we’re all left wondering “what if”.
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by baron816 3y ago
If you leave your wallet on the ground in a park in SF, the chances you’ll get it back are probably pretty high. If you leave it in your locked car, your car will probably get broken into. Thieves are strategic. They’re not looking around i
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by baron816 3y ago
Most people just aren’t philosophical about their dining habits or their pets. Both are mostly cultural things. In an alternate reality, pigs would’ve been bred to be pets and dogs would’ve been bred to be livestock. Or maybe both would’ve
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by baron816 3y ago
What? I don’t think you read the book.
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by baron816 3y ago
The Coddling of the American Mind is a good book on this topic https://www.thecoddling.com/ .
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by baron816 3y ago
> This is a major reason employees are dissatisfied with employers: current employees aren't paid market rates. Are you saying the market isn't paying market rates?
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by baron816 3y ago
Using RTO to get rid of people is such a catastrophically bad management strategy. You have no control over who is going to leave, so you could just end up encouraging you most valuable or even critical people to leave. That may happen anyw
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by baron816 3y ago
I really hope this comment is satire. If you really believe this, you should go to therapy.
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by baron816 3y ago
I bet the real story is one of retention, which is not always what companies want to advertise. If you’re going into the office, it’s harder to find time to schedule interview. But on top of that, going into the office and talking to real p
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by baron816 3y ago
People should pay for the pollution they cause
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A talk on “the economics of programming languages” could go a number of different ways. I’d like to see a talk (or maybe a whole book) on how the evolution of programming languages over the last 50 years has made it possible for multiple tr
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by baron816 3y ago
> It is worth the cost of slower introduction of new materials to take the time to ensure that those materials are safe. How can you ever prove something doesn't have any negative impacts? You're trying to prove a negative. W
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by baron816 3y ago
I wonder what the proportion of Parisians who would support this policy would be. It would not surprise me if 41% of the French population has taken fewer than 5 flights in their life, and that the proportion of Americans would be similar.
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by baron816 3y ago
Gold as a long term bet: https://www.reddit.com/r/FluentInFinance/comments/16upmcj/go...
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by baron816 3y ago
I’m not sure an economist (a mainstream economist) would really care that much about an individual holding gold. Maybe there’s an interesting behavioral question about why people become so paranoid about the value of the dollar when it’s pr
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by baron816 3y ago
I absolutely hate property renaming in the Closure compiler. If you’re not acutely aware of it and you do a `myObj[‘someProp’]`, you’re not going to get any in code warnings, everything will work as you expect in development, and you’re tes
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by baron816 3y ago
I’m wondering how many fish, birds, and mammals get eaten by non-humans every day. I wouldn’t be surprised if that number is less than the number of animals humans slaughter. Like, I’ve heard that there are more chickens alive right now tha
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by baron816 3y ago
The worst case scenario for Millennium Tower is that it will lean so much that the elevators don’t work anymore. That’s it.
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by baron816 3y ago
Unions have also perpetuated racism, sexism, xenophobia, organized crime, government corruption, etc. It’s not all sunshine and lollipops. America abandoned unions for a reason.
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It will change if it becomes harder for companies to hire and fire people, or become less competitive.
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If you’re trying to sell to other NATO countries, like Canada, Denmark, the UK, Germany, who are actively trying to reduce their emissions, yeah it might matter. A plane with lower emissions is just going to be more competitive. Everyone wh

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