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by bpt3 11mo ago
I find it hard to believe you actually read my comment before demonstrating you are probably one of the people I'm talking about at the end of it. At no point did I state or imply that workers should be working solely or even primarily
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by bpt3 11mo ago
The reasons to care are personal pride in the quality of your work, understanding that your lack of effort has a negative impact on your colleagues, and your continued employment. And if you hate your job, but are completely unable to find
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by bpt3 11mo ago
You need to make people include some sort of objective evidence with their argument, and either have a (hopefully benevolent) dictator solve the "vim vs. emacs" problems or just let people pick their environment and sort out any i
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by bpt3 11mo ago
There's a difference between caring about your personal work product (and reputation), your colleagues on a personal and professional level, and your employer as an entity. I expect my employees to show up to work and put forth a solid
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by bpt3 11mo ago
What I meant is that something like SAG-AFTRA provides some benefits and sets minimum standards for a work environment but does not limit your ability to negotiate a higher rate for your work, does not require promotion (whatever that would
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by bpt3 11mo ago
I think most engineers/developers/scientists would welcome, or at least be fine with, being a member of a guild like writers and actors. Their parent poster is suggesting that a traditional US union is the way, which I personally
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by bpt3 11mo ago
You think the parent poster is anti-housing and anti-poor, either in practice or in their own mind? I would say progressives in the US are anti-wealthy first, leading to poorly thought out policies with obvious second or third order effects
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by bpt3 11mo ago
Most people do effectively the same with Google searches.
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by bpt3 11mo ago
I'd much rather deal with some less stability and have a lot more resources available to smooth out the bumps. The US has made the correct choice for the last 250 years, I hope people like you aren't able to derail it.
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by bpt3 11mo ago
Of course, individuals (renters in this case) will vote for a policy that benefits them at the expense of everyone else. Increasing regulation does the opposite of making it easier to build new housing. I do agree that current residents sho
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by bpt3 11mo ago
Just enforce the existing rules against cartels, rather than enacting known bad policies in an attempt to counter them.
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by bpt3 11mo ago
It's not humanistic, it's pandering to current renters at the expense of everyone else. You can put your right to stable housing next to your right to internet, healthcare, and every other meaningless positive right.
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by bpt3 11mo ago
You forgot to include the rest of the abstract: "Thus, while rent control prevents displacement of incumbent renters in the short run, the lost rental housing supply likely drove up market rents in the long run, ultimately undermining
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by bpt3 11mo ago
Easier or not, it's certainly more productive to focus on what you can control. Also I'm open to critiques of capitalism, but the post I replied to didn't contain one.
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by bpt3 11mo ago
Then people who are unable or unwilling to have foresight will continue to suffer the consequences.
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by bpt3 11mo ago
I said this elsewhere, but I would anecdotally agree as a landlord. Everyone is paying for the costs to evict a non-paying tenant in jurisdictions where it can take 12+ months to regain control of a unit. More friction = more costs, and mor
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by bpt3 11mo ago
It reduces the incentive to build because it reduces the ROI on a new build and reduces the control the owner has over the property (places with rent control are notoriously tenant-friendly, meaning the risk of taking 12+ months to evict a
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by bpt3 11mo ago
I think creating a permanent world peace would be easier than convincing progressives to give up their tired, inaccurate housing market tropes. It is impossible to have a constructive conversation with people who refuse to accept basic fact
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by bpt3 11mo ago
Again, you are just discouraging people from building more homes. People like to create financial Rube Goldberg machines to address high housing prices, but the solution is simple: Add supply. Now adding more supply is not trivial in many c
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by bpt3 11mo ago
Everything is a crisis if you can't control your impulses.
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by bpt3 11mo ago
The people who use chatGPT or Claude are replacing Google searches with chat conversations. Google already has most of what you're talking about from queries, so they don't need to infer much. These companies are in on AI because
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by bpt3 11mo ago
> clearly ai chatbots are better suited for that than the old web of google search Why is this clearly the case?
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by bpt3 11mo ago
What do they have that's more personalized than Google search history for the vast majority of users?
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by bpt3 11mo ago
I think they're going to try to charge a premium for ads because of all the context and personalized knowledge they have, but I don't think they actually have any more relevant information than Google in practice.
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by bpt3 11mo ago
Serving ads is a great business when your related expenses are low. I'm not sure how it'll work out when your computing expenses are much higher. It certainly won't make them profitable using traditional models.
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by bpt3 11mo ago
To add to the valid counterpoints in the existing replies, Amazon was cash flow positive for most of those 20 years, so they were investing their own money back into things that could generate even more revenue (and profit!) for the company
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by bpt3 11mo ago
I would assume startups are much more likely to post here, and they were hit hard by the end of ZIRP around the time of the downturn you mentioned.
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by bpt3 11mo ago
Those are not "tech jobs" for the most part, they are business support jobs. Data scientist is an exception based on title, but in my experience there are a large number of people with that title who have never heard of the scient
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by bpt3 11mo ago
People value convenience and most people are poor cooks. Grocery store margins are pretty high on prepared food.
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by bpt3 11mo ago
Making a stew at home. Canned stew would be a few dollars a can in my area.

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