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by dismalaf 1mo ago
> less educated men comfortable going to the doctor, let alone a therapist. Is it that or is it the cost and availability?
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
> From an aesthetic point of view, I am getting pretty tired of this obviously LLM generated static site content template design in 2025/2026. Versus the same WP template or the same Jekyll template? I agree though, using an LLM to
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
Information workers. Anyone whose whole job can be done from a laptop... They're among the most privileged workers in the world.
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
Both are relative terms so they can be the same or different depending on who defines them. Nearly everyone that works in the US is rich by worldwide standards, so it's not clear that a lack of billionaires for example would make thin
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
Making everyone poor never made the world better.
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
There's still an ice sheet an hour from my home, and it's 5-35 degrees all summer....
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
In general I've simply never known someone with an iPhone who's never shattered the screen lol.
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
Yeah, these days hard to justify anything more than a $500-800 Android unless it's heavily subsidized. For $2800 I'd rather have a laptop + phone.
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
Here's the thing about economists... The loudest ones don't want to be correct, they want to be influential. The ones who can actually make good predictions work for banks and hedge funds lol.
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
1. Does unlimited actually mean unlimited? If I want to take 2 months off every year will there be absolutely zero repercussions? The others are valid though.
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
US companies almost always adjust salaries for LCOL. The days of them paying 3x local salaries are long past...
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
> But like I said, it doesn't cover inequality. Again, like I wrote, you need to prove that inequality is inherently bad. Or that home ownership is inherently good. You ever live in a 3rd world country? I saw families who "ow
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
Lol if languages that literally run a virtual machine and abstract away everything about the hardware are low-level, what's high level?
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
Common Lisp allows you to define VOPs (compiler instructions) in user code. Smalltalk allows you to write inline assembly. Are those also low level languages?
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
> GDP/capita don't matter if majority of voters perceive themselves as poor. The per capita part literally covers the amount of people in an economy. There are very few examples of countries where GDP per capita doesn't le
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
The "standard of living" component of HDI is literally GNI per capita PPP (basically the same thing as GDP per capita, with a few minor adjustments). The other components are just life expectancy and educational attainment. The ed
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
Here's a chart to visualize: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location... My definition of the economy is the actual definition lol.
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
> re-election is the real surprise for me It's interesting that it's a surprise to you, that such information bubbles exist. A great sage named Bill Clinton once said, "It's the economy, stupid!". And economic p
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
Is it a real A/B test? Honda's reputation is much better than Chevy's overall, regardless of infotainment system.
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
As opposed to the very productive and diversified Canadian economy? Over 50% of Canada's exports are natural resources and the rest of the economy is basically just downstream from that. Where are the tech giants or manufacturing gian
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
Lol Alberta absolutely mogs Canada in nearly every objective measurement. Highest per capita GDP, most affordable housing for places you'd actually want to live (Calgary twice as affordable as Toronto or Vancouver), most private sector
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
> Except that revenue doesn't go towards well cleanup Well it's a hard problem because companies that are still in business clean up their own wells. Only bankrupt companies leave orphan wells. So guesstimating the costs is d
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
They probably should increase the levies. On the other hand, the province does get $20 billion+ in direct oil revenue per year (royalties), so it's not like oil companies are just straight up robbing us.
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
$14 is still less than the provincial tax of any other province on a $350 panel. But bulk buyers of panels aren't the end consumer. Passing that on as part of a $15000 installation over 15 years is nothing.
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
Unless you've got the relevant licenses to install the panel up to code and hook into the power grid properly, yes, the cost of the installation is the cost. Also, 5% would still be lower than the lowest PST of any province lol.
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
This is an insane take. A $14 recycling tax per $1000+ panel comes to <1.4%, which is around a quarter of federal sales tax for example, or 1/10 of combined GST and PST somewhere like BC. Alberta has no provincial sales tax for the
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
> Russia is going to have a very hard time directly attacking the Eurozone without also hitting NATO home soil - which through Article 5 would also pull in plenty of non-Euro countries, including the United States Will it? The Russians
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
Didn't say we're stuck with it, just at this exact moment there's no obvious replacement. If China ever replaces Xi and the next generation takes a softer stance on a bunch of stuff it'll be a shoe in, but right now they
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
Why does anyone have any hobbies?
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by dismalaf 1mo ago
So which do you choose? Yuan carries Chinese geopolitical risk, Yen, probably not enough of it in the world plus Japan keeps trying to devalue, Euro maybe, but there's plenty of geopolitical risk there with Russia on the doorstep and

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