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by bko 1y ago
The question is often framed as "fairness" but the more interesting question, are the high salaries worth it? One person they cite as a high salary is the Starbucks CEO. > The report listed Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol as making
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by bko 1y ago
> The hard question is how do you find the balance? If only there were an entire field of study dedicated to matching supply and demand to maximize utility while encouraging efficient resource allocation...
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by bko 1y ago
I like watching youtube videos solving these problems. They're deceptively simple. I remember reading one: x+y=1 xy=1 The incredible thing is the explanation uses almost all reasoning steps that I am familiar with from basic algebra, l
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by bko 1y ago
Government run grocery stores, rent control and not arresting people for breaking the law aren't exactly new ideas. They're bad ideas that have been tried and never resulted in a place where people flourish and want to live.
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by bko 1y ago
My bet would be flight search sites will learn how to exploit this to get you the lowest fare and Delta will abandon this as it will drive business to aggregators. My money would be the search sites win out as very few have loyalty.
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by bko 1y ago
What's the gps argument? That intuit lobbies? In 2024 that amount was ~$3.8m. Even if 100% of that is to make taxes complicated. Is their lobby somehow driving the complicated tax code and if we just tell them "cut it out" or
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by bko 1y ago
Literally every special interest group lobbies for more complicated tax laws. "We need to incentivize [green tech|solar panels|electric cars|homeownership|child care|education|capital investments|...]" just translates to more comp
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by bko 1y ago
Tax software isn't expensive and complicated just because. It's expensive and complicated because the tax code is expensive and complicated. Otherwise there would be a ton of free tools. People are focused too much on the tooling.
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by bko 1y ago
I don't think the government should be running liquor stores either
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by bko 1y ago
Nothing gets people to care so much about VC losses as does a 10 figure check! Seriously, this stuff is great. A lot of people are getting rich, and I'm sure some value will be created out of it. LPs will be the ones holding the bag bu
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by bko 1y ago
The most insane python feature is that for loops keep their intermediate variable. for x in [1,2,3]: print(x) x sticks around! So you'll always have these random variables floating around, and hope you don't use the wrong one. A
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by bko 1y ago
I'd prefer the version where the government states a goal and a market based process is used to determine who can provide best for that goal. Imagine if the government said no food stamps, we'll just run our own grocery stores to
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by bko 1y ago
One of the core responsibilities of the state is to protect itself. Not sure how you don't have this planned apart from anarchy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by bko 1y ago
That's fair, I agree.
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by bko 1y ago
Or I cannot trust a contrived laboratory setting with it's garden of forking paths. https://mleverything.substack.com/p/garden-of-forking-paths-...
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by bko 1y ago
I have written every line of code in the code base I mostly work in and I still find it incredibly valuable. Millions use these tools and a large percentage of them find them useful in their familiar code base. Again, overwhelming anecdote
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by bko 1y ago
I'm very skeptical of internet regulation and regulation in general, especially what Europe does (e.g. cookie banner, AI, overreaching right to forget). But I think it's insane that we somehow accept social media companies to have
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by bko 1y ago
When anecdote and data don't align, it's usually the data that's wrong. Not always the case, but whenever I read about these strained studies or arguments about how AI is actually making people less productive, I can't h
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by bko 1y ago
It didn't used to be. I delivered pizza in the early 2000s, and the fee was $1 and tip, which was usually $2-3. It was pretty normal people ordering the stuff. And the funny thing is I made about $20 an hour (unadjusted for inflation,
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by bko 1y ago
I love these work-arounds and generous tiers. A bit of a tangent, but with very cheap essentially unlimited code generation, are there any active projects that just run this for days straight with an ambitious goal like "Develop an ope
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by bko 1y ago
> Taxis in the US are one of the most regulated services around, and they were still utterly atrocious. Maybe the fact that they were the most regulated services around was exactly why they were atrocious. Regulation often erects barrier
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by bko 1y ago
I think we rely too much on government mandated websites than we do practical common sense that could save lives. For instance, over 175,000 people die from heat exposure each year across the WHO European Region. Compare that to 1-2k in the
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by bko 1y ago
Yeah cold emails aren't great. LinkedIn works much better in my experience. Ive replied to some cold emails if it's genuine, not trying to sell my anything. Like if a new grad asking me for advice. I would say use that. But almost
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by bko 1y ago
I think there's more to work than just taking home a salary. Not equally true among all professions and times in your life. But most jobs I took were for less money with questionable upside. I just wanted to work on something else or w
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by bko 1y ago
How are you trying to reach out? Paid marketing doesn't work in my experience. Social media is cheap. I've had an app get thousands of views based on a reddit post, and not one person (literally 0) bothered to click outside of the
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by bko 1y ago
> That means it is more expensive for Americans to travel abroad and less attractive for foreigners to invest in the United States, sapping demand when the government is trying to borrow more money. On the flip side, the weaker dollar sh
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by bko 1y ago
I'm pretty sure there's no law that says you can't require people to work 16x6 and plenty of bankers do that. We don't because someone else offers us better options (i.e. competition)
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by bko 1y ago
Capital isn't a group of people. What does this mean? People who own capital? Like there is some proxy sent to Blackrock about "should we shorten the work week to 4 days" and they vote on it. As someone with a 401k, I must ha
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by bko 1y ago
The term "fined tuned" in "fine-tuned version of the model did X" is doing a lot of heavy lifting This is rich considering an alternative study that had the opposite results or a model not bending ethically and was still
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by bko 1y ago
Actually the opposite. Cuomo <$50k by +19 Mamdani 50k-100k +6 Mamdani 100k+ +13 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/24/us/elections/...

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