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by joshe 8y ago
My claim is "economics is complicated", so we should listen to economists. Then I put in a link to what some economists say to give the flavor. You can go adventuring for yourself. Look for papers from the federal reserve, univers
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That's super interesting, I didn't know that about hourly wages. I tend to think of income gaining from 1950 to 1990 and flattening from the mid 1990s to now. Though it does look like total compensation (adding in benefits) did ac
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by joshe 8y ago
That's the section where they acknowledge that, yes, people lose jobs to immigrants. They go on to say that actually more people gain jobs at higher wages because of immigrants. There's a section on high tech jobs to read too,
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Both great points, I'll edit to say "change jobs easily".
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by joshe 8y ago
Yep, totally where I was going with that. One H1-B guy I worked with did in fact become a founder of a small successful firm, but that was after he got a green card. I think we've lost out on a few billion dollar startups and awesome i
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by joshe 8y ago
I've worked with a few H1-B holders in Silicon Valley and they're awesome. A great improvement would be to allow H1B holders to change jobs easily (maybe after a year). It's too easy for them to get stuck in not great situati
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by joshe 8y ago
Great paper. Some good discussion from the author (and other interesting research links) here: https://twitter.com/ASBeckKnudsen
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by joshe 8y ago
The helicopter market is small, about $30 billion a year sales in the US. GM had $111 billion dollar in sales. Tesla, which is still small, has $12 billion in sales. Total aircraft manufacturing sales in the US is $240 billion. [1] Passenge
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by joshe 8y ago
Here's a great example of the crazy markup. I use these $7 sunglasses for biking: 3M Virtua Glasses Gray Lens, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006PJHM6/ And these clear $5 ones for wind while bikin
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by joshe 8y ago
Absolutely. People are super confused about this. The reporting wasn't very good and you have to look beyond it. The original idea is - little 16 person passenger pods with bikes, wheelchairs, and luggage. $1 fare. - possibly sleds for
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by joshe 8y ago
If you watch the talk, the plan is for autonomous pods that holds passengers with their bikes. Little buses basically. And also cars. You can’t just read the media reports, they are always about max outrage.
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by joshe 8y ago
It's easier to understand if you think about the tunnels as lanes. Each tunnel can still have busses and cars, but you can also stack them on top of each other. You can do that above ground too, but it looks super ugly and you can&#x27
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by joshe 8y ago
This sounds more likely, it's much easier to imagine 20 tunnels than 20 lanes of traffic (250 feet wide). And much pleasanter to have it all underground where you don't have to look at it.
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Good point, it's really 5-8% a year, historically it did double in 10 years, which is at 7% growth. I edited the original.
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What a terrific compliment. Thank you!
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Why now? (Or why soon)? Or why might flying cars actually happen this time? The enabling tech is battery density. Battery density (per kg) has been increasing 5-8% a year (doubling every 10 years). That seems slow compared to transistors (d
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Sorry have to delete these, not comfortable with these comments sitting on the internet forever.
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Sorry have to delete these, not comfortable with these comments sitting on the internet forever.
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Sorry have to delete these, not comfortable with these comments sitting on the internet forever.
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Sorry have to delete these, not comfortable with these comments sitting on the internet forever.
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https://www.macstadium.com/ is another option. US based with data centers in Europe too.
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by joshe 8y ago
Totally agree, just edited to make myself clearer. I was actually reacting to all the negative comments.
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by joshe 8y ago
If it all works this would be useful. (Contary to all the negative comments about how pointless this is.) Not a water expert, but here's where this reported price ranks from some googling: Tap water in California: $.0005 /
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by joshe 8y ago
I don't know why this is attracting so much bitterness. If anyone is informed about water, it would be great to get a little more context, for example what other solutions like desalinization and other dehumidifiers cost in energy and
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At most the subsidy reduces prices by 0.1% for goods from China. If all foreign packages only cost the US $300 million a year (from article), China's portion has to be less than that. We buy $462 billion in goods from China. It's
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Bollinger Motors teases a rugged electric pickup truck with 200 miles of range(theverge.com)
1 points by joshe 8y ago|0 comments
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by joshe 8y ago
This is cool, a drivable airplane is a great idea. It changes private flight from an expensive hobby to a reasonable transportation option for middle class folks. Come share my excitement :-)! Private planes sound awesome. Travel at 100+ mp
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REPL Support for Swift Packages(swift.org)
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by joshe 8y ago
One valuable property of C that the author didn't hit, C code is easily translatable into assembler in your head. He kind of misses this point with the virtual machine discussion. Yes C code becomes different types of assembly by platf
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by joshe 8y ago
It's an api ( https://developer.apple.com/documentation/authenticationserv... ) so KeePass just needs to do the work.

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