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by joe-collins 4y ago
Let's look at projections for the world of 2030, shall we? https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/employment-by-major-industry-... Most jobs are not office jobs and cannot be done remotely.
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by joe-collins 4y ago
Rather than targeting flipping, I think ownership of more than one housing unit should be taxed progressively and become prohibitive rapidly.
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by joe-collins 4y ago
Amazon is forced to compete on price because electronics supply is flexible. People can find other retailers. Even if every regulation was struck from the books tomorrow, housing supply doesn't have anywhere close to the same flexibili
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by joe-collins 4y ago
Existing housing is expensive because a substantial portion of the stock isn't owned by the residents. Housing is used to extract rents, by wealthy individuals or businesses, and rent-seeking drives up prices. New housing is expensive
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by joe-collins 4y ago
Desal, like wind, keeps hitting opposition from locals. This was a factor in the Coastal Commission's vote against a Huntington Beach plant, earlier this year. No comment on crops. Such a tax break was just signed into law, AB 2142, wh
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by joe-collins 4y ago
IMO podcasts without transcriptions shouldn't be allowed, period.
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by joe-collins 4y ago
I wonder if there are generalities about the products that "require" advertising and those that don't. Perhaps we would find that, on the balance, those products are not worth their externalized costs.
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by joe-collins 4y ago
Notably absent from the list of product categories is wireless charging pads. So, Apple ditches the wired charging port, and continues to sell their MagSafe Qi chargers with Lightning.
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by joe-collins 4y ago
I remember buying just a pair of bulbs for my first apartment in 2010 at $20 each, and now they're a dollar or two apiece.
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Many, many jobs are only paid in straight wages. No commission, no bonuses. This bill will highlight the gap between the lowest-paying jobs and skilled trades, and induce pressure on workers to skill up (they see exactly how much they'
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California jobs required to post pay range starting 2023(gov.ca.gov)
43 points by joe-collins 4y ago|32 comments
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by joe-collins 4y ago
Working at a major big box retailer, my location simply stopped selling Apple gift cards because the rate of fraud was so high. New cards would get shipped in via the supply chain and we would just throw them directly into the trash (they&#
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Prop 22 Depresses Wages – Median net wage $6.20 per hour(nationalequityatlas.org)
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by joe-collins 4y ago
Try it. Reduce the tokens to single characters but keep the structure. Does it work? Maybe single characters looks too much like an abbreviation and that throws it off, because those are found in sufficiently different contexts. Exchange to
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by joe-collins 4y ago
I think the sentences in this example are, odd vocabulary notwithstanding, fairly typical descriptions of logical implication, which I expect has non-trivial representation in the training set. GPT-3 is probably capable of matching the patt
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by joe-collins 4y ago
This idea of playing less than "perfect", so as to steer your opponent into plays that give you greater advantage than is available in the perfect mirror-match, is a well-worn familiar concept to game designers, and yes, poker pla
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by joe-collins 4y ago
This is absolutely where I stand. Hurrah, Ethereum's cost on humanity and the environment is dropping drastically! Unfortunately, it still has a measurable (if no longer grotesque ) cost with extremely dubious benefit.
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by joe-collins 4y ago
I'm hugely relieved that you see the black box as a situation to be addressed. For me, that circumstance alone turns Discord from a neat and useful tool into a tragedy that I'm forced to live with, and I'd love to see it move
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by joe-collins 4y ago
I don't think that's specific to the economy. I think that's a succinct description of civilization.
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by joe-collins 4y ago
> So the question is, where should the fix be applied? I'd posit that there is no good answer to this question, and that attempting to find or optimize one is a distraction. In very broad strokes, if you try to fix a problem too slo
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by joe-collins 4y ago
I don't know the statistical tools to properly validate it, but to my eye, it looks like the study participants actually tend to do a solid job of estimating the rate of change within the past handful of years. Their awareness of the a
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by joe-collins 4y ago
In 20 years, I've seen SpaceX start from scratch and develop and launch the Falcon 1, Falcon 9, and Falcon Heavy, and nail propulsive landings on Earth. Since it's members joined forces to form ULA 15 years ago, I've watched
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by joe-collins 4y ago
If someone is in sufficiently acute danger that a hospital bed is under discussion, I suspect that the manner of lighting and any putative benefits thereof is a relatively small concern.
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by joe-collins 4y ago
There are a few games, mostly high-profile ones, with exceptional wikis or fan sites, but they are exceptions.
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by joe-collins 4y ago
On the one hand, I met my partner in a community that uses Discord, so I can't disagree that developing relationships there can work. On the other, the flip-side of free-flowing conversation is endless rounds of "hi guys, new here
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by joe-collins 4y ago
Community is good, but you can get that within a chat server, and there's something else massive that we've lost: searchability. Slack and Discord each have competent internal searches, after you've joined a particular serve
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by joe-collins 4y ago
Jonathan Blow made a couple of neat video games. He also tweeted this while wrapping up development on The Witness. https://web.archive.org/web/20160318053101/https://twitter.c... Whatever the actual con
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by joe-collins 4y ago
Agree. 33 years old, gmail, with a handful of other accounts used to corral expected spam from low quality websites. My inbox is 100% automated messages, and the only one going back through July that I explicitly solicited is from a conce
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by joe-collins 4y ago
It seems true in a trivial sense, so remarking upon it seems less revelatory, and possibly backed by some ulterior motive.
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by joe-collins 4y ago
I'm at the same level of partial knowledge where I agree with you. My understanding is that everything in the universe interferes with everything else, but we assume, with some justification and empirical success, that the impact of

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