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by jleyank 4mo ago
If ya build more housing, the value of existing homes might go down. Unfortunately, nobody wants to see their home decrease in value so they don’t want new construction. Or they want it “over there a ways” such that it’s not a negative.
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Erm, what's the good/great GUI aspects that MS delivered? Apple extended/stole from Xerox - who did MS steal from other than Apple?
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Probably not, but they have too many non faculty slots which are probably overpaid.
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Don’t get the magazine, but looking at the top stocks in my etfs indicated that the US sells ads while Europe sells drugs.
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Plato begs to differ re: philosophy. Ancient people could memorize staggeringly more than folks today. They probably also paid (far) more attention to their surroundings. Like Rangers in D&D, they could read blades of grass and state
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Same religions. Same political structures. Same engineering - we've only recently duplicated their concrete, and man, could they build roads and aqueducts. Yeah, they had a dodgy number system, but they had military and political or
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Comparing Plato to various current-day companies and governments, this is true. Assuming "primitive" means "clear or unobscured".
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by jleyank 4mo ago
I’ve always thought the war crime was firebombing, particularly if trying to create a fire storm. Whether it involved 1000, 300 or 1 bomber is cutting things too fine. The nuclear raids killed less people and did less damage, but they wer
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by jleyank 4mo ago
The average citizen in 1944 was in rubble, a factory, a jungle or on a beach in 1944. Compare it to, say, 1957.
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by jleyank 4mo ago
For whatever reasons, there were weren’t riots in the 50’s. Perhaps the complex financial games weren’t present, or perhaps information flow was insufficient to reveal them. Or, maybe, income inequality was much smaller and there wasn’t w
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Limit your opinions to areas where they are desired. Where you have reasonable expertise. And be able to express them such that your audience understands what you’re trying to say and aren’t just bs’ing or talking down to them. Opinions a
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Where there ever pensions in the tech business? Maybe ibm in the 50’s or 60’s…. Did DEC have pensions? Large, old employers like governments or pharma or union-supporting companies had pensions, but the rest had “defined contribution” ret
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Depends on what’s taxed at 94%. If it’s wages, they’ll just switch to passive 8ncome or stock/loans as they use now. If it’s all income, there’s going to be total change in the us compensation system.
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by jleyank 4mo ago
I think they prefer their winners to not have started the action that they're claiming credit for ending...
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by jleyank 4mo ago
As expected. There were decades where the post-war system suppressed their need to rearm (per Ismay). That suppression has been removed, and there have been examples of what happens when “sufficient defensive mechanisms” aren’t present.
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Yup. Which is why however nice Austin it, it's still in Texas.
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Purple, eh? Guess the blue ones weren't around when the various abortion issues were voted on. The OB/GYN population must not like the sun.
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Probably one of the highest salary areas for non-owners as well. Pretty good weather, particularly near San Diego. As people have pointed out, Prop 13 isn't progressive. Nor, really are the NIMBY rules that keep housing density low
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Tell them to move to Orange County. Unless there's been total demographic changes since the 1990's, they'll feel fine.
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Some folks find Howdy Arabia to be a pleasant, rewarding place to live. To me, I think roughly half of the US working population would dispute this, as they would dispute a discussion of any other place. It's just that the disputants
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Fully remote workers appreciate the lower cost of living, the reduced strain on their relationship with their partner and the ability to have kids.
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Introverts, two-professional family units and affordable housing are all favoured by working remote. Companies have a larger pool of talent to draw from, and probably can lower their salaries. And they also permit people with kids to parti
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by jleyank 4mo ago
If you have options in your retirement accounts, convert to foreign ETF’s, world markets mutual funds or us debt. Get you of things like nasdaq or s&p 500 unless you like the top companies. If you can get the r3k (smaller stock) mutua
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by jleyank 5mo ago
Pension? Perhaps the original Boomers got one of them, but "defined benefit" became "defined contribution" a long time ago for non-union, non-pharma people. Whole lot of tech workers, workers in smaller companies or th
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by jleyank 5mo ago
If the techbros are screwing up tech, how many are Boomers? Oracle, maybe, but I thought most were younger? Boomers, in many cases, are cashing out and returning assets to circulation.
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by jleyank 5mo ago
Greek city states and German petty kingdoms suggest conflict and failure to unite vs external threats common.
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by jleyank 5mo ago
Many of those cities are hot, possibly short of water, and offer a far different cultural environment than SF. Not having kids, I don’t know what areas are good/bad for kids, but they’d have to have money and the willingness to spend i
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by jleyank 5mo ago
FWIW, I've coded slightly longer than C although Focal and a PDP-8/E might not count anymore.
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by jleyank 5mo ago
No problem. They have to file taxes no matter where they live, and they won't draw upon US services "elsewhere". Unless they give up the passport, at which point the IRS only has their claws in for 10 years or so. But, wit
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by jleyank 5mo ago
Covered in 1962… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...

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