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by gwright 4y ago
This seems like a pretty limited viewpoint. We could all be coding in assembler still but generally we find value in using something higher level. Does that make us all dumb?
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by gwright 4y ago
Well you've changed the assertion a little bit there. I shared that one particular technical innovation shifted the mix of jobs towards more skilled jobs. That doesn't say anything about any individual person of course. Your state
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by gwright 4y ago
I wonder what the square footage of those median homes were in 1999 vs 2022.
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by gwright 4y ago
I'm not so sure. There is a Planet Money episode that talks about the effect the digital spreadsheet had on accounting employment: > Thanks to spreadsheets, there are 400,000 fewer accounting clerks than in 1980, but 600,000 more re
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by gwright 4y ago
I'm not saying there isn't a disparity but a comparison like this would need to include taxes, maintenance, and utilities on top of the mortgage to be comparable to a rent (well utilities may or may not be included).
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by gwright 4y ago
Could you clarify what you mean by "renew"? That sounds a mortgage with rates that are reset every five years, which doesn't sound like "fixed" to me.
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by gwright 4y ago
> It took a handful of years of renting cheap places (with roommates) Is this now considered unusual? I didn't purchase my own home for almost 12 years after graduation from college. I lived at home, then with roommates, which was
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by gwright 4y ago
Related: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/puffing
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by gwright 4y ago
> capitalism is an attribute of the government and power structure I don't think that is a common formulation of the idea of "capitalism".
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by gwright 4y ago
What are "capitalism laws"? My point is that the government is preventing the transactions. Doesn't matter if we are talking about a republic, a parliamentary system, a monarchy, a socialist country, authoritarian, feudal, l
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by gwright 4y ago
That seems like an unhelpful overloading of the word "union".
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by gwright 4y ago
I've been convinced lately that we have no collective agreement about what the term "capitalism" means any more. Yes there are text book definitions but none of those are used in typical public discussions like HN. Power ten
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by gwright 4y ago
> Not by passing a law but just raising interest rates Yeah, I can't imagine there would be any unintended consequences to that. In what world does raising the cost of providing housing cause landlords to reduce rents? More likely
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by gwright 4y ago
You need competition, which means you need developers to add more housing units, which means you need to change the regulations that prevent that from happening. Problems in real-estate are almost always government created IMHO and not &quo
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by gwright 4y ago
I fail to see why unions need to be brought in to this issue. Not every problem needs to be framed in the form of class struggle. Exactly what sort of "union" would represent tenants? It just seems like a unhelpful way to discuss
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by gwright 4y ago
I never took it to be about organization vs chaos. For example, if a team is responsible for two modules of an application they are less likely to create an API because the modules can communicate directly inside the application (i.e. monol
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by gwright 4y ago
Conway's Law comes to mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
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by gwright 4y ago
My thoughts also. This seems somewhat analogous to the "uncanny valley" problem in graphics animation. So close, but not quite there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
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by gwright 4y ago
> honest to god the damage control media outlets are attempting in the midst of what by every definition is just under a massive environmental disaster is just ridiculous. If this happened in China it would be front page news. Is it dama
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by gwright 4y ago
That certainly would be helpful.
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by gwright 4y ago
> I want a definitive, authoritative answer to a question In the real world we don't have any agreed upon general notion of "definitive, authoritative" sources. A certain amount of skepticism is important to avoid all sort
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by gwright 4y ago
> This is playbook of scumbag tyrants, doesn't matter if Putin, Erdogan or similar. I think you are being generous. The use of force is certainly a more extreme manifestation of the problem, but framing speech that you disagree with
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by gwright 4y ago
Yet another example of why inculcating the virtues of free speech and limited government into a culture is so important. It is too easy for those in power to infringe on individual speech rights by labeling something as "disinformation
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by gwright 4y ago
> The managerial class looting public companies for outsized compensation while taking near-zero risk, is a huge problem in the modern economy. Has it ever not been a problem? In any type of economy? In any type of company? Seems like t
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by gwright 4y ago
You are using hindsight to make that judgement.
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by gwright 4y ago
> Basic supply and demand" is almost always wrong for the labor market. We’ll just have to agree to differ. Although I would be curious to hear about examples of this scenario where employers hire more people when the cost of labor
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by gwright 4y ago
Thanks for digging up that news report. I wonder though if organizations have drifted back to the previous structures. In the example I was thinking of, I'm no longer directly involved and so I don't know how things have evolved o
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by gwright 4y ago
Labor laws create all sorts of unintended consequences and secondary effects. In 2017 the Obama administration was getting ready to make a number of changes in the area of exempt vs non-exempt workers (i.e. overtime pay). The changes were a
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by gwright 4y ago
There is no reason to think that interpretation of metric that compared "men" and "women" must be aligned with that same metric when men/women is substituted with some other populations. When you make the substitut
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by gwright 4y ago
I'm not an expert in this area at all but my understanding is that the differences are not all like 4X more violent but due to the nature of distributions, a small difference in the median of a distribution can lead to an enormous diff

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