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by danans 2y ago
Indeed, all physical walls in our world are ultimately psychological walls.
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> If that's a problem, why does the progressive point of view typically argue in favor of giving more power over our lives to the ruling class? You've literally reversed the meaning of the term "progressive" by replac
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> Instead, all humans and AI aligned with the goal of improving the human condition I admire your optimism about the goals of all humans, but evidence tends to point to this not being the goal of all (or even most) humans, much less the
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> As you noted though, a home would probably be a preferable alternative. The problem is that the preferable option (housing) won't happen because unlike a smartphone, it requires that land be effectively distributed more broadly (t
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> Money is how we allocate limited resources. It will become less important as resources become less limited, less necessary, or (hopefully) both. Money is also how we exert power and leverage over others. As inequality increases, it en
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> This still seems to negate the point you made earlier that there are huge productivity gains and 100% of them have gone to shareholders. I didn't say 100%, I said most (re-read my comments upthread). Please don't misrepresen
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> Where is the black hole that is consuming all of the goods, if the workers dont get them, the rich dont get them, and they aren't exported. Take new cars as an example. We are producing fewer of them [1], they are larger and more
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> If you have a company and worker productivity goes up 200%, where does the product go? In a mature industry, there is no new product, because all else equal, demand doesn't change. The company makes the same amount of product, but
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by danans 2y ago
Increasing worker productivity manifests as greater returns that predominately go to capital owners, not workers. That concentrated wealth in the hands of capital owners is wielded as power in the political, economic, and physical realms.
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> Existing studies that show an increase in capital’s share of income miss the growing role of depreciation in short-lived capital, in items such as software, says MIT’s Matthew Rognlie in “Deciphering the Fall and Rise in the Net Capit
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> For me, this begs the questions of what exactly is being produced when we say worker productivity has increased, and where is it going? Power. Political power: policies written to benefit the highest bidder. Financial power: more lever
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> FAANG will argue that they are laying off people with skills they don't need, and there's a lack of people with skills they do need. They are laying off workers (permanent residents and H1Bs alike) mostly to cut costs while a
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> What company can manage the H-1B process but can’t remote to Ukraine or Colombia? Or capitalise their dev expense, inefficiently, granted, with AI? All of those are also happening, plus H1-B competition. Offshoring to low-cost countri
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> in practice it's only good for storing documents that don't need to be edited/queried much by the backend storing them Why aren't they good for that? They can have very high write throughput, they don't requir
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Correct, if you look at my comment I was unpacking what the phrase "to help industry" could mean, not rebutting your comment. It's relevant to the original context because what helps industry (in terms of immigration regulati
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> I dont understand how you are connecting it to the question of H1-B visas and if local benefits to industrial expertise outweigh the downward pressure from labor competition. Because what you are calling "local benefits to industr
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> I dont think there long term impacts are so clear or cynical The economic impacts I described are looking backwards, not forward, and the data is pretty clear that long term returns on capital swamp the returns on labor (especially sin
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> If harm was the goal, something like a STEM worker tax or cutting R&D tax incentives would be easier These would affect all STEM workers equivalently. The H1-B program, whatever one thinks of its merits, hurts domestic STEM worker
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> phrased differently, the goal is to help industry, not hurt workers. hurting some workers is an acceptable cost, not the goal. The phrase "help industry" has many dimensions. The simplest of course is that by increasing labo
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> It's interesting, to everyone but but the mega shops like Google, protobuf is a schema declaration tool There are lots of other benefits for non performance-oriented teams and projects: the codegen makes it language independent an
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> My entire "medium sized European suburban house" runs on a $2.5k 400m3/h unit with HEPA filters made in Lithuania - and that was the more expensive model That is just the HRV, not the design of the system, the ductwork,
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Installation is usually the most expensive part, and can easily send the total price into 5 digits of $, especially in a retrofit, depending on the market.
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Not in cold climates where in winter the air outdoors is very dry. Heating systems in such climates often have integrated humidifiers .
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IINM, listeria is usually spread by contaminated food, not air.
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Co-current flow (both flows moving in the same direction) work the way you described. Countercurrent-flow heat exchangers (where the two channels of the fluid/gas) move in opposite directions on both sides of the heat-transfer mechanis
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The way I like to describe HRV/ERVs to people who don't know about them is: "Imagine you could open a window to get fresh air into your house and stale air out, but when you did so, most of the heat/humidity would stay i
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"Every problem is created by a solution" goes the old saying. What was the raw stainless steel body a solution for? Oh ... right.
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Sure, because a community likely has more to gain from this than a big telecom corporation. A community benefits when its members can reliably attend telemedicine visits, even if the community broadband is provided at cost. They care abou
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What this tells me is that industries with limited growth potential and who are focused on incremental rather than transformative technology do not respond to government carrots, and to the extent that they do anything, it is to arrange sce
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> Uber did exactly that and got excoriated when the paid driver was on her phone and the car killed someone on the freeway. This is what Waymo does also. Perhaps Uber should have been more careful whom they hire, or put stronger controls

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