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by clairity 4y ago
this is a symptom of the short-termism in equity markets that we get from abstracting ownership away from involvement. it's a direct consequence that such markets become centers of gambling rather than long-term interest, because other
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by clairity 4y ago
i actually keep finder off (force-quit via activity monitor) until i need it, preferring to use spotlight for simple file finding. it otherwise uses not only too much memory but also too much cpu time (and hence battery).
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by clairity 4y ago
edit: oops, wasn’t talking to me but will leave the below unedited for posterity (and to show my posterior). again, that’s a logical leap that i was careful not to make. small-time investing can have positive externalities on an economic sy
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by clairity 4y ago
sure, but in the long arc of history, we're past the peak of capitalism, groping for the next iteration to move us forward. to overcome the ossification you describe, it's time to take our positive learnings (assets are ok, wealth
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by clairity 4y ago
you seem to be describing the tragedy of the commons, not economic rents.
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by clairity 4y ago
no. must everything be taken to an extreme, made tribal and ideological? note the phrase "asset income being periphery", which implies an optimum. the ability to own one appreciating asset is great. owning two is probably ok in mo
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by clairity 4y ago
no.
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by clairity 4y ago
it's also short-sightedly self-centered. the better solution is moving the economy toward being wage-oriented, with asset income being periphery, rather than our current asset-focused system. make money by doing stuff rather than havin
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by clairity 4y ago
right, the causal chain is so apparent and obvious, it's hard to see why someone would provide puzzling alternatives such as "fluff". schools can't fluff up unless an unlimited money spigot appears out of the sky, as it
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by clairity 4y ago
note that EBITDA isn't directly equivalent to cash flows, and can be wildly different depending on how creative the accounting is. EBIT/EBITDA can be useful is some comparative valuation exercises as an idealized cash flow substit
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by clairity 4y ago
there was a homeless woman living in a cocoon of bushes/trees in one of the yards of an apartment building in my neighborhood. she was very tidy, quiet, and had a pet cat. friendly but not quite put together, she was nevertheless a nor
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by clairity 4y ago
that's what i do too, disable suggestions so everything i type doesn't get sent to $searchEngine. i also make use of a few keywords for my most frequently visited sites (like 'hn' for hacker news) so that my keywords alw
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Private Click Measurement: Conversion Fraud Prevention, Replace Tracking Pixels(webkit.org)
2 points by clairity 4y ago|0 comments
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by clairity 4y ago
yes, chaos theory, including strange attractors, is still deterministic. it acts at a level where the tiny probabalistic effects of a multitude of tiny particles cancel out in ways to miraculously make the larger subjects of interest predic
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by clairity 4y ago
appreciate the forthrightness, but frankly, that's an unconvincing answer. participants should have full control over their own data rather than offloading trust to government agencies or corporate organizations that are potentially th
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by clairity 4y ago
> "don’t let your views blind you to the truth....correctable but only when people understand the dynamics involved." indeed. those sunk costs don't matter in this context, which is why they were originally, and should con
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by clairity 4y ago
> "The common use-case is a data collector in the field fills out a form while offline. Whenever a connection is found, the data gets sent to server where it can be seen and acted on." is there any user control over this? other
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by clairity 4y ago
it's tricky but not deceptive. raising that point in this context indicates you've fallen for form of the sunk cost fallacy via conflating two separate business decisions (the investment decision with the pricing decision). we nee
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IKEA Debuts Matter-Compatible Smart Home Hub(macrumors.com)
4 points by clairity 4y ago|1 comments
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by clairity 4y ago
> "Most banks lose money on servicing a standard checking account with debit card for people with no cash flow issues." that's simply not true. the marginal cost of a checking account is on the order of a dollar. the break
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by clairity 4y ago
these things are such a staple of chinese wuxia/xianxia dramas. the hero(es) fall into the beautiful sinkhole full of ancient vegetation, get stuck there and meditate a lot, usually an ancestor/spirit imparts their wisdom onto the
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by clairity 4y ago
let's be clear, your goal is to make money via a privacy brand positioning. that's fine, but it's not the same as simply "to get meaningful privacy protection in the hands of as many people as possible". this change
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by clairity 4y ago
'growth dependence' is just a symptom of greed, which is also the root driver of over-consolidation/corruption in markets. that's why a thoughtful regulatory stance is essential to high-functioning markets (e.g., anti-tr
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by clairity 4y ago
> "Chipotle is to burritos as Little Caesars is to pizza." yah, the best burritos and tacos are from a street cart on the corner or a little hut restaurant, otherwise it's probably manufactured food, no matter what the bra
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by clairity 4y ago
the guide has a section on "How to select an intersection", which considers the other measures like a stop sign and a limit line (common at LA intersections, but not universal). note that pedestrians have right-of-way at every i
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How to Paint a Crosswalk(crosswalksla.org)
131 points by clairity 4y ago|104 comments
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by clairity 4y ago
futures don't guarantee a profit, only a price. it's up to the farmer to decide whether the price is worth the planting (regardless of profit). and the pricing function only works well in an uncorrupt market. the problem isn'
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Get your logo into inboxes with BIMI and email best practices(ctrl.blog)
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by clairity 4y ago
> "So maybe 'rems for body text, px for headings' is the way to go." what's probably a little more useful is that headings scale up slower than body text, using different clamp() functions, e.g., https:/&#x
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by clairity 4y ago
art, like writing, is all about the ideas, not the literal, physical object (or lack thereof in some cases), and as such, that's either a fool's errand or an intentional deceit. while some (post-modern) art has woven the medium in

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