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by debt 8y ago
"The business has been selling the new version.." But it's not built yet? IANAL, but make sure they're doing this correctly. There's a fine line between selling and outright lying aka fraud especially if the "n
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by debt 8y ago
Growth will stagnant once the area reaches capacity. There is no political will to relax zoning to increase housing inventory to meet the new demand as existing residents are becoming very rich from their increased property values.
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by debt 8y ago
"I was shocked how much casual racism is present there." Don't move to California then as it's probably one of the most shockingly(it's California!) racist places I've ever lived. And I'm from Chicago!
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by debt 8y ago
Anecdotally, the push by larger companies to find sister cities to house their 2nd HQ's seems to be lending credence to my theory. The cost of living is high near their HQ so they move all their lower cost operations into another HQ in
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by debt 8y ago
I've been saying this for years . The math is pretty straightforward: as cost of living skyrockets in most cities, any city that has the infrastructure and housing to accommodate large numbers of people will win the race. So for examp
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by debt 8y ago
“Should the engineering be lead by a blind squirrel that once managed to find a nut, in a winter, three years ago” This made me lol
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by debt 8y ago
This speaks to the general boring middle that hits many successful software projects. There's a point where it's simply about iteratively improving it while keeping it running 99% of the time. It's unglamorous, monotonous and
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by debt 8y ago
"...then you're just not thinking very hard." Seems with all the rampant fraud that it's the developers that aren't thinking very hard.
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by debt 8y ago
"it'll be phenomenal, half-finished and then abandoned as engineers/leaders get bored and work on the next big thing" You have just described every project at every large software company. However, important to note that
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by debt 8y ago
"results in more economic damage" That's a cost the people in power are willing to bear; or should I say that's the cost the people in power are willing to offload onto to the powerless as a way to make the powerless hav
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by debt 8y ago
Also, enetically modified seeds and engineered fertilizer increase yield and decrease time between harvest among other efficiencies. Seems like that’s the best place to start for improving farming. Make crops that yield more for less.
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by debt 8y ago
Seems odd to just blindly accept whatever numbers Apple provides about the usage of its own apps. Isn’t it going to be inherently at best a little biased? I guess there’s really no possible way to independently verify these numbers anyway.
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by debt 8y ago
$100BB strikes me as true on the face of it, but there's something in my gut that tells me that is much too large a valuation. Is a television network worth $100BB? That's what Instagram/Youtube/Netflix etc. are becoming
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by debt 8y ago
I can see it now... Investors will mistake the loud pop caused by the bursting crypto bubble for gunshots. They'll jump for cover, becoming scared of tech, but as they do they'll then mistake another loud sound, this time a kaboom
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by debt 8y ago
The probability of a recession rises immediately prior to a recession. When the recession occurs, the probability drops immediately back down below the threshold; as the probability of a back-to-back recession is very low and the conditions
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by debt 8y ago
Why do central banks still want to drive down long-term interest rates?
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by debt 8y ago
I do wonder why the Valley has such an aversion to defense contracts then if other non-defense related “necessary” technologies cause guaranteed collateral damage. Is it because these technologies such as self-driving cars will only kill pe
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by debt 8y ago
Unrelated: I recently found out The Atlantic is owned by Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Steve Jobs. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/07/emerson...
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by debt 8y ago
The people in life that are most successful are usually the ones that are compelled to do a thing for whatever reason. If you're procrastinating; it's simply an indication you don't want to do a thing. Sure, you can use hacks
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by debt 8y ago
"Unless the plan is to create a brand new completely vertically integrated system" Judging by the companies involved, this is most likely the plan. Whatever they create will like cause the existing system change to it and not the
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by debt 8y ago
The fact that I didn’t even know they made quiet mechanical keyboards shows you how many assholes I’ve worked with throughout the years.
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by debt 8y ago
“Is there some kind of standard etiquette to follow?” Hm, I don’t mean to be glib, but what do you think the etiquette is?
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by debt 8y ago
“Plug in your own mechanical keyboard“ Note to anyone who does this: I know, I know you think it’s cool but it’s so not and you’re an asshole. The only way you can redeem yourself is by taking the keyboard home immediately and resigning bec
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by debt 8y ago
“AI in place of management” This is already happening. It’s an emerging field cleverly called “management automation.”
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by debt 8y ago
Meh it has a few bugs, definitely currently on an unstable build, but it's a huge enterprise system with hundreds of thousands of lines of code and technical debt but it's still running though after almost 200+ years.
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by debt 8y ago
Wealth concentration of this magnitude seems like an extremely inefficient allocation of capital. Dollars get things done and having them concentrated and controlled in a just a few spots seems like the worst way to apply their value. A per
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by debt 8y ago
Weirdly it seems no one is arguing about whether or not Apple is a monopoly but rather about who is injured by Apple’s monopolist, out-sized commissions. Or do I have this wrong?
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Apps are extremely tricky. The 30% does seem like a lot but if you consider a few things: Apple is providing an instantaneous, global distribution network. Save your ability to market the app, you can effectively guarantee the same experi
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by debt 8y ago
"so you would end up punishing firms that are otherwise innocent" That's exactly what the current tariffs do. So I guess if it's too much work to vet individual firms, we just lazily start a trade war? Again, for this ad
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by debt 8y ago
Not every single Chinese tech firm does these things. It's possible to develop a more nuanced view of China other than "China bad tariff good". Why not investigate which firms committed which crimes and punish those specific

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