benrbray

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by benrbray 6y ago
What do you think of employee-owned companies as a way to accurately assess that value? It seems like capitalism and the question of whether profits should go to laborers vs owners is central to this issue.
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The numbers don't quite work out that way though. What if it's $500 rent and $10,000 a month or $5000 rent and $16,000 per month?
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Rent and food prices have increased dramatically in the last 10 years, at least in urban / suburban areas. For consumer goods, shrinkflation has led to a huge decrease in product longevity, meaning I need to replace items more frequen
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This seems more or less like a straw man of people who might loosely call themselves "anti-finance". I think most people support and understand the "idea" of finance but not the implementation. One weak point of this ar
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Am I missing something or does this product page have no information about / images of the actual product? I guess the point is to generate buzz but this kind of marketing dishonesty is unwelcome. When I see something like this, I get
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On the other hand, most of the time I'm willing to put in a little effort to express the desired types, since it dramatically improves the intellisense suggestions, making code edits / refactors much less of a mental burden. But y
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I think people who use dating apps tend to focus on superficial features like physical attractiveness or (the appearance of) wealth / status. People will judge you based on their first impression, rather than taking time to know you m
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I'm not sure exactly what you're hinting at, but I think you should take a cold, hard look at yourself and the expectations you place on your potential partners. Do you imagine them as actual human beings with their own thoughts,
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> until the end of time This is exactly the reason app stores should be banished! I want explicit control over my software and I don't want it to update without my explicit consent. There's a trend recently in desktop softwar
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The reason for the stock market to exist is ostensibly to help businesses succeed by competing for investors. But at the moment we have a casino, and shorts are one manifestation of that fact. Short sellers are effectively betting against
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It infuriates me to no end that bluetooth headsets have two modes -- one for listening only, and one for listening+voice, where the latter has absurdly low audio quality. This has been a major source of problems for me, especially on Window
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TIL it's Washington DC. I assumed it was Washington state, due to Amazon's presence there.
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For me, the most frustrating example of this is the control panel on Windows. The new mobile-friendly menus exclude many important "advanced" (emphasis on the quotes) settings, especially related to audio and networking. The old
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Look more closely into how gerrymandering happens and you'll see it's not necessarily a good idea for all e.g. black voters in a certain area to be lumped into the same districts, since it might neutralize an "excess majority
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The worst part is the intercom systems which are standard in every home. Not only do you hear the doorbell and the knock, but they get to broadcast their face directly into your private space! (I have since disabled the camera / audi
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I will use this as a chance to recommend the book "Debt: The First 5000 Years" by the late anthropologist David Graeber. The book is full of interesting stories about how various societies do and don't choose to keep track
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...what about the people who can't "hoard sufficient wealth" because it's all been sucked from the market? ...what if "health care" is viewed as a luxury good as it is in the statse?
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I assume you're being glib, since it's been mentioned elsewhere that more Europeans move to America than the reverse. In which case... You're missing the point, which is that the higher baseline QoL means that it's bett
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> Compensation is more than just money to us. It's vacation, stock, better healthcare, expanded education resources and benefits, buying programs, etc... This can be both good and bad. I don't think this is the right take at a
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This "every man for himself / kicking down the ladder behind me" attitude is exactly the reason to leave America. If you slip through the cracks by no fault of your own (e.g. covid), you have no safety net to keep your life
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> Because the first thing I thought was that if I hard-ban something they'll just learn how to do it without me knowing, especially if it is something their peers are doing. Yeah, exactly! Growing up in this age, it's impossib
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(IANAP -- this is not parenting advice ;) I speak mostly as a newly-minted adult who still remembers what it was like to be a child, when my world was small, so small decisions felt very important, especially when they were made without my
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I think it's dangerous to start banning politicians from using a public (even if privately owned) platform, especially when it plays into their narrative of oppression. Let him incriminate himself further until he's no longer a p
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Hills are great for aesthetics too. I grew up in the a flat Midwestern suburb so I'll never grow tired of biking to the top of a hill and gazing miles into the distance, watching the city confirm to each and every wrinkle of the geogr
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You're right that software engineering is currently much more profitable in the US, but as far as careers go SWE is a bit of an anomaly. Most other careers don't have nearly the same pay disparity, if any. That said, many compan
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Yes, I think Tokyo being expensive is one of the myths westerners like to repeat about Japan. One reason, I think, for this misunderstanding is that Tokyo is laid out quite differently from American cities. Space is used very efficiently a
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One scalable solution is community workshops / maker spaces / community gardens.
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> I completely agree with you but this will take decades, at best. Yup. I lived most recently in Atlanta, where they're on the right track with new projects (and a Microsoft campus to the west), so I expect it to be a much nicer pl
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Haha typed on mobile, my bad. The trains are pretty cheap compared to the cost of car ownership in America. From another comment I wrote: > I live pretty far from central Tokyo and for between 200-350yen one way I can get to Shinjuku &
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For those saying that the density of college campuses simply isn't suitable when many different types of lifestyle converge, I urge you to look at Japan or Europe for an example of density working at scale. Density doesn't mean ev

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