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by dnissley 2y ago
People have desires that go beyond their needs, and so long as they have money they will spend it to satisfy them. If we, as a society, took this into account we would make it easier to build more housing. The fact that we don't is th
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Pensioners gotta get paid somehow
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It's not really all that wild when you consider that they were hired for their impressive achievements in various fields and not their loyalty to the nazi party.
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Sure, but I would argue that Google's platform was open enough in that it was possible to download and install alternative app stores. They shouldn't need to do most of the things that are being requested here, like distribute p
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My commute is ~15 mins each way fwiw. I do pay a premium to live nearby, but that is what the high compensation is for. Not even close to all of the extra compensation is eaten up by rent increase though.
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Amazon already has 3 days in-office requirement
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To be fair not all people who are there to solve interesting problems prefer remote, so they would only lose some subset of those folks.
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Everything in moderation, including totalizing thought and mediocrity
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by dnissley 2y ago
What do you think about mediocrity? https://www.ribbonfarm.com/series/mediocratopia/ I’m fascinated by mediocrity as an aspiration, understood as optimization resistance and withheld reserves. Mediocrity is slouc
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by dnissley 2y ago
Total Compensation is the sum of all the different ways you are paid monetarily. This includes, but is not limited to: Base salary, Bonus, Equity (stock) compensation, Benefits
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The neighborhoods I have in mind here aren't "true suburbs" but rather "pre-war suburbs" that are already fairly dense. Think west SF, Fremont/Ballard in Seattle, etc.
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I agree, and I think even the folks who are against that would actually end up enjoying it more. But people hate change, especially when it means changing something that has been that way for generations at this point. My main point though
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I feel like I need to make this point again and again: It's not about increasing the value of properties for most (after all, allowing apartments to be built in your neighborhood would increase the value of the remaining SFHs). It&#x27
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by dnissley 2y ago
If youtube stopped allowing sponsored segments that puts pressure on the market to produce such a thing. Even now creators are trying to come up with alternatives. Nothing has panned out, but something like stopping sponsored segments could
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They could stop sponsored segments, but they couldn't stop creators and users from going to other platforms where they allow sponsored segments. They have far less control than e.g. Apple with the app store (where they literally can st
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This is what the world looks like when you give up the ability to download and install an app from anywhere.
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They still exist, but they are generally absurdly expensive because lots of people want to live there and they aren't particularly dense (although denser than plenty of other areas)
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Without the townhomes it would be even more unaffordable.
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Americans move less than they ever have these days: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/20/us/american-workers-movin...
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Hmm, what if we gatekeep the profession through licensing requirements?
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Will they have apps for non-Apple platforms? Otherwise how will they bring them to the masses
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The FTC fined Facebook 5 billion dollars and required new safeguards and audits around sharing of user data: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2019/07/...
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Theoretically it would just be the French market, due to: https://www.reuters.com/technology/french-antitrust-regulato...
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Tech is very interconnected though, and the article points out an example where what you state is very much not true: "How would Mistral, a leading AI firm, survive if Nvidia exits the French market due to regulatory concerns?"
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It might be true that they're addicted to caffeine, but it's likely also true that they're addicted to Starbucks
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They are extracting slivers of pennies on a per-work basis. Not $$$.
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One relates to what people do in their own homes. The other relates to things people do on the internet.
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There is a reasonable expectation of privacy. But we should distinguish between "privacy" with no qualifiers, and "digital privacy" which is a whole other thing. Some people see an equivalence. Others do not.
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Science is good, but it probably won't tell you how to fix your sleep. Especially not a book which is highly generalized. Experiment, experiment, experiment. Nerd the hell out. That probably means reading papers, but it also means tryi
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On some level not all power being elected is good. Provides some balancing force for an electorate with... I'm not sure what to call it... volatile whims?

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