jimmywanger

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by jimmywanger 7y ago
Did they have to use a human driver to get the last few miles through surface streets?
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
FTA: > An ex-WeWork employee says Neumann frequently pushed hard to cut costs associated with office furnishing, a major expense. How much could the furnishings have possibly cost? They lost 1.25 billion in the third quarter[0]. Sounds a
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
I think the takeaway would be that WeWork has found the biggest sucker out there, and that nobody else at this point would invest a dime in them. Until you can somehow show profit on sales per unit, then you certainly aren't running a
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
> Either you're trying to gaslight me, or we're on completely separate levels. See how trippingly accusations flow out of you. Seems like you're misinterpreting everything I'm saying, almost deliberately. > This wi
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
> Of course not. You can, however, compel people to pay taxes. And you can compel people to not just throw their garbage out into the street. You cannot compel people to pay taxes, as New York discovered to its chagrin. [0] These are no
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
> I am a white, male software developer. I have absolutely nothing to complain about or envy others. Congratulations for your situation in life and happiness. Many people will never know that. > I am a white, male software developer.
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
> You don't compel labor, you don't print money. vs two sentences later. > And, yeah, at that point you have a bit of coercion Which is it? Can you compel a poor peasant farmer to stay on the farmer and grow food because tha
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
Depends. How much do you need to make? Do you need broadband, the new mobile, or a car and insurance? Will 3 days working as a garbageman make you reasonably happy? If so, please go ahead and do that and spend the rest of your time doing ar
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
How do you make the pay high enough? Compel labor, print money, or some sort of complicated metric? "Based on family background, education, and IQ tests, we estimate that your best job is electrical technician."
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
Why would you still be working there if you could find something, ANYTHING else as a job? This might end up being a black mark on your resume.
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
> People want purpose, but they also need their basic needs met. That means our garbage would never get collected or our toilets cleaned, because I don't think anybody's intended purpose is doing sanitation. If you're just
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
Perhaps I was not precise in my wording. With the way WeWork currently works, and its asset allocation and fee structure, I don't think expansion or more market cap than Regus is possible. If WeWork get all Regus assets for free and ha
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/445846-you-wasted-150-000-o... That summarizes the issue. Why pay 200k or even 100k at the beginning of your adult life for something you can read and then talk to people? If you think
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
https://i.imgur.com/11EVBte.jpg Basically, there's going to be a dip in the worldwide demand for oil, and with the permian basin coming online, we can satisfy much of the world's demand for plastics and lubricants
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/IWGFF?p=IWGFF&.tsrc=fin-srch This looks like the upper limit for WeWork. It doesn't matter how much nicer looking their offices are or if they have free beer bashes and parties,
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
> What about a variety of direct quotes from the heads of different state Republican parties? https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/us/some-republicans-ackno... . That shows no evidence that they are will
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
> Today the jim crow defenders, the people that say slavery wasn't so bad, some people were even better off. Those are republicans. > They switched. A lot of them switched for reasons unrelated to race. "Many white southerne
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
> Ah, so we are still acting like Republicans aren't the legacy bearers of Jim Crow. Democrats enacted Jim Crow laws (0). I see no evidence that Republicans have enacted any laws that systematically discriminate against black people
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
> When 'some' is enough to control a state legislature, and similar things happen across the country ( https://www.npr.org/2018/10/23/659784277/republican-voter-su... ), it's a logical co
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
>How about proof of citizenship for the right to a free press? Should we require a passport to get into church? Do only citizens get to walk into a post office? Do I need to show someone an ID before I send a letter to my representative?
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
> Because the goal of the Republican Party is explicitly to use these laws to suppress the votes of certain demographics, not to actually secure the vote. Your linked source is talking about an entirely different issue. Does not prove yo
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
I find it amusing that the first thing I saw on that page was a graphic asking me to accept cookies (I'm assuming tracking cookies)
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
Well, we'll have to look at the cost benefit analysis. It should be done if it makes sense. Would it be more economically feasible to invest the money into fourth generation nuclear technology and then research solid aluminum batteries
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
When they have liabilities that are due?
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
Rent controls are just a fancy way to say "price caps". If you artificially depress the price of a commodity, you induce a scarcity. Apartments are slightly less liquid than say apples, but the principle still stands. It should ex
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
>Any machine eventually calls in sick when it undergoes maintenance and failure. Of course the failure modes are different than with human labor, but the point is machines also fail. I think that robots are more fungible and predictable
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
Well, if they could they would. They're keeping the workers they absolutely need and automating everything else possible. The endgame is a dark warehouse (no lights, the robots just sort of know what to do) but the workers still need s
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
> Basic economics have failed when a company that has existed for over a decade without any ability to turn a profit IPOs. The markets are irrational sometimes. Basic economics assume rational behaviour, which is something that cannot be
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
So basically you're saying that you should use laws to send them out of business instead of basic economics? Why wouldn't you pass a tax on search and social media companies that sets the minimum wage of engineers to 1 million dol
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
Hmmm. Never heard that term before. I usually hear "gypsy cab".

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