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by brigadier132 2y ago
Apparently communism can only function with trade with free market capitalists?
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by brigadier132 2y ago
Standing? Their population has declined by 20% in 2 years. I'd describe that more as crawling on the ground and starving.
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by brigadier132 2y ago
> Just a question of the degree of nastiness? Just a question of degree of nastiness? Yes, competitions involving life and death are qualitatively different from competitions involving money. Something interesting to think about is that
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by brigadier132 2y ago
This type of criticism reads to me as a general hatred of what humanity actually is. Mr Beast exists because humans like to watch it. By blaming Mr Beast, you are putting the effect before the cause. There is no enlightened society that is
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by brigadier132 2y ago
> You could provide a bespoke error type for every single function that returns an error, but that's a ton of boilerplate If we had more typescript-like discriminated union semantics a lot of the boilerplate would go away. Throw in
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by brigadier132 2y ago
I can't find the source for the stat I mentioned originally but the data I did find doesn't paint the rosy picture of a getting college degree with debt being an unambiguously +EV decision.
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by brigadier132 2y ago
We can disagree on it being overblown or not but I think it would be enormously useful to be able to look at a function signature and know exactly how it can fail.
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by brigadier132 2y ago
Here is a source I found and repayment rates tanked after 2009 https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/education/our-insights/t...
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by brigadier132 2y ago
> I get why it is that way, but it feels icky. There is no reason it has to be so boilerplate heavy, a lot of it can be fixed but someone has to put in the work. The only technical reason that could hold it back is compile times.
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by brigadier132 2y ago
I heard an interesting fact a couple of days ago, The median student that graduated from college starting in 2009 had more debt than what they started with after 12 years and it's only gotten worse. So your belief that it will cover th
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by brigadier132 2y ago
It's far from perfect. One of the biggest problems with Rust error handling is that if you want to have explicit error return types encoded in the type system you need to create ad hoc enums for each method that returns an error. If yo
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by brigadier132 2y ago
If your opinion were correct the degrees would pay for themselves and we wouldn't be having these discussions. We have people paying $160k a year to study in fields that are increasingly having their fundamental research completely deb
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by brigadier132 2y ago
The vast majority of universities are not for profit . As we clearly observe with all government guaranteed demand subsidies, prices sky rocket.
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by brigadier132 2y ago
In your 4 step process where do you blame the not for profit schools for raising tuition by completely absurd and unsustainable amounts? If we are going to forgive student loans, tax payers should not be on the hook. The loan originator
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by brigadier132 2y ago
> The idea of the public university is to bring a traditionally aristocratic practice - the devotion of several years of one’s young life to not-necessarily-practical intellectual pursuits - to the middle class The entire idea that spend
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by brigadier132 2y ago
> I love a good market as much as anyone but there really are problems markets will never solve The problem with student loans is that they are not driven by markets. If they were, absolutely nobody would give a loan to an 18 yo to spend
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by brigadier132 2y ago
Yes, profit incentive is generally a good thing.
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by brigadier132 2y ago
I want them to make the point explicit so I can explain why they are a greedy leech. If they keep the point ambiguous by asking a rhetorical question they can move goalposts.
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by brigadier132 2y ago
That's literally what eve already is.
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by brigadier132 2y ago
Because they want to allow for transactions between players but don't want to become a bank.
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by brigadier132 2y ago
No, not necessarily. Trivially, in a monopoly, raising prices infinitely for a product does not maximize profit. SpaceX has effectively had a monopoly on commercial space launch since it was first able to actually use reusable rockets. Beca
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by brigadier132 2y ago
Will become more expensive? Are you willfully ignoring the actual data?
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by brigadier132 2y ago
Instead of asking a question why don't you just make your point?
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by brigadier132 2y ago
This is a pointless statistic. I assume you mean market capitalization by net worth and if they were fined that much every month their market cap would immediately drop by 90% because their costs in paying fines would take away 90% of their
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by brigadier132 2y ago
He says he doesn't care about the integrity but I think he's wrong and he's misidentified the lesson from this. Because you are absolutely right, doing things that are inefficient and stupid for the sake of it is absolutely d
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by brigadier132 2y ago
> It most certainly is enough to make a major lifestyle improvement when someone is living paycheck to paycheck This is not what the recent universal basic income study showed.
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by brigadier132 2y ago
> Driven people will work hard regardless This is empirically not true.
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by brigadier132 2y ago
He doesn't understand stock buybacks.
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by brigadier132 2y ago
> And what supports those individuals? Society You are missing my point which is that you will not get individuals to act against their own self interest. So all this talk about what businesses "should" do is beside the point.
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by brigadier132 2y ago
Yeah, don't put words in my mouth and create a strawman please.

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