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by burlesona 3y ago
I think this has only been the case for the dark ages after the Great Recession where we were stuck at zero percent interest. Zero percent interest breaks a lot of the economy because it means there is basically nothing prudent you can do w
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by burlesona 3y ago
No, for my family growing up, nobody was going to try and read your mind, if you want something say something. For her family, they are always trying to anticipate needs. For her, if I'm not anticipating needs and taking care of them -
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by burlesona 3y ago
This is fascinating to me, because I'm from the southern US and strongly align to "ask culture" and my wife is from the northwest and strongly aligns to "guess" culture. I wonder how much it's about individual
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by burlesona 3y ago
If someone is sick or on PTO some things are assigned to another person and some things just wait for them to get back. And yes if the whole team has, for example, Mondays and Fridays remote, then some things just wait for Tuesday -> Thu
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by burlesona 3y ago
That's very interesting. My experience has been the opposite, that people who are pro-remote are intense about it, that they often deny there being any benefits to working in an office and get angry and dismissive toward anyone who say
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by burlesona 3y ago
This article is technically correct about a lot of things, but it also feels like it’s over-thinking things. Yes if you take big VC investments, the purpose is to grow a big company and sell it later, and at that point the deal really is “r
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by burlesona 3y ago
Tailwind makes a lot of sense for people who are doing componentized UI frameworks where they never write the same markup twice. But if you're actually writing markup in the more "traditional way" where you repeatedly mark se
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by burlesona 3y ago
It was better at two things: 1. not interrupting me with pings all day but helping me to catch up on messages in batches 2. Much better format for long conversations, proposals, and discussions
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by burlesona 3y ago
Tangential but I used Threads at a previous company and really liked it. I don't know how anyone could get a company that's already built around Slack to switch, but if you are starting fresh I think Threads offered a much nicer e
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by burlesona 3y ago
I think there are two legitimate problems in this article, and the rest is basically a screed. Most legit: the complaint that RTO means “everyone must drive 1-2 hours each day.” Now, this is strictly not true as plenty of people choose to l
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by burlesona 3y ago
“Owe” is an important word meaning a legal obligation. If the law says you owe nothing then you owe nothing. That doesn’t mean the law is just! It means we need to fix the law.
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by burlesona 3y ago
I agree: the word “owe” is a problem here. The thrust of the article is that the tax structure has historically charged a lower rate of tax on the wealthy than the poor. By definition that means the wealthy could pay exactly what they owed
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by burlesona 3y ago
Good write up, I appreciate the humility about what it is and isn’t. Cheers!
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by burlesona 3y ago
Corbusier and his acolytes were almost singly responsible for the many urban planning (and related social justice) atrocities of the mid century, especially in the US. If you’re interested in the more recent counter-movement trying to roll
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by burlesona 4y ago
I agree and have had the same thought. This is gas on the fire to winner-take-all dynamics. It’s already hard for new languages and systems to catch up fast enough to technically weaker existing options bc they have mature tooling. But when
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by burlesona 4y ago
They timed their marketing copy very poorly. Virtually everyone is talking about how long before chat GPT renders their jobs obsolete, and these guys are saying “AI’s impact has been too limited” and their tech is going to help it “really”
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by burlesona 4y ago
Unfortunately, the way financialization works, we should expect this to lead to a bump in home prices that roughly perfectly offsets the increased buying power created by this financial instrument. The only long-term solution to affordable
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by burlesona 4y ago
This should come as a surprise to no one. What I wonder is why the US government does not see the economic loss caused by limiting immigration. Our labor shortage could be quickly improved by embracing the skilled workers who would like to
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by burlesona 4y ago
Thanks for sharing, I had no idea about this. I have seen infant mortality numbers tossed out as evidence the US sucks and never realized the numbers were not so simply comparable between countries. I shouldn’t be surprised :/
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by burlesona 4y ago
It doesn't know it doesn't know.
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by burlesona 4y ago
I don’t think you’re missing anything. I like the “calculator for words” analogy that was posted on HN a few days ago. It doesn’t seem like a revolutionary product, but it does seem like a fundamental innovation which will then unlock many
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by burlesona 4y ago
I think you’d have to go further back to have better context, April 2021 was pretty frothy. But yes, the job market has cooled dramatically.
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by burlesona 4y ago
True, but it’s pretty awesome being able to check if you forgot to lock the back door, and then lock it, as your flight is landing 2000km away.
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by burlesona 4y ago
You can read John Hershey’s account here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima
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by burlesona 4y ago
Since the comments are already filling with simplistic takes on the bombings, I would encourage anyone who is interested in a substantive discourse to listen to Dan Carlin’s excellent Hardcore History discussion on this topic[1]. I also rec
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by burlesona 4y ago
Perhaps but perhaps not: 1. There can still be many companies in an area with lots of close by housing such that you’re not tied to a single job. 2. I moved cross-country several times while my kids were young and it didn’t bother them at
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by burlesona 4y ago
I will offer a contrarian take, not because I think anyone else in the thread is wrong, but because I think there’s more than one opinion here, and it’s not showing in the comments. I have multiple children, and I hate (ok, strongly dislike
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by burlesona 4y ago
One thing that a lot of people don’t notice is that this is the result of mass manufacturing replacing craft. People want good products that are cheap, and mass manufacturing creates them. Things made in a factory at scale are always cheape
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by burlesona 4y ago
While I don’t think the rest of society needs to go to the degree the Amish have, I think there’s a lot we can learn from their thoughtful consideration of technology and whether it makes their life better. Among the HN crowd, I feel we get
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It’s Game over on Vocal Deepfakes(daringfireball.net)
94 points by burlesona 4y ago|116 comments

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