juve1996

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by juve1996 4y ago
> Why would the people of a small town go for that? Because people are leaving in droves, only old people there are dying off, kids moved to better places, and the economy is dead? > If you have the money and influence to "gentri
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by juve1996 4y ago
Things that break lead to greater sales. How do you deal with this? If they're competing on sales, then they need to optimize for the point at which it can break without losing brand confidence.
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by juve1996 4y ago
These problems exist because we no longer live in an economy with true competition. Look at the post about Whirlpool owning almost all major appliance brands I see at best buy.
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How much more energy efficient are they really? How much are you actually saving?
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by juve1996 4y ago
Of course - they can iterate much faster. I know firms in the US that would have to wait 3 months for a prototype to ship for testing. 3 months. Think about how much time is truly wasted?
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by juve1996 4y ago
Is it really surprising to you why he didn't respond well to that? I would not be happy if someone said to me what you said to him.
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by juve1996 4y ago
Of course - the hypothetical emergency fund is great. The problem is the required amounts are rapidly growing. An emergency fund of 10k barely covers the 8k average deductible for a family. Ignoring things like rent, food, etc, all rapidly
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by juve1996 4y ago
The february 2021 had causes that are well researched. It's not indicative of anything. > Less easy to spot you’ve seen policy of not building new refineries and oil fields. The US has barely built refineries over the last 3 decades
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by juve1996 4y ago
De-growth policies have absolutely no chance in our day and age. I wouldn't worry about it too much.
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by juve1996 4y ago
Eventually these ladders have a top. The 20th century is a mere aberration in growth in human timescales. It's easy to say this is the best - but we're simply biased - it was the best, for us, for a time, largely due to hegemony.
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by juve1996 4y ago
What choice do people have? It doesn't make sense to trade anything for security because that security is non-existent anyway. Losing your job & health benefits for much of the middle class would be a death sentence regardless if t
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by juve1996 4y ago
I don't know if I buy that. > There are people that are surprised when the partner who cheated with them in their previous relationship also cheats on them in the current. Is it that these people don't know the risk, or they wi
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by juve1996 4y ago
> who he knew was slimy but decided to trust for some reason. Yes, it would have been good advice for him. He knew he was slimy, and did so anyway. This advice would not then help. > You shouldn't go into business with crooks. Pe
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by juve1996 4y ago
> One of the later tweets is "pick business partners...with integrity." They're both good bits of advice. Really? This is good advice? Is "don't work with a known thief" also good advice? Most people know th
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by juve1996 4y ago
> Drive electric? Stopping climate change would require massive infrastructure changes at this point. How about no car at all? Creating and improving that infrastructure takes decades. You act like gas stations came before cars - they di
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by juve1996 4y ago
> And that ought to be a problem for the HN crowd because getting acquired by big tech is one of the primary exits available to interesting startups. This statement bothers me and pretty much says "our product sucks but we're h
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by juve1996 4y ago
Also faster iteration. Back in my mechanical engineering days, we'd design prototypes and then have to wait months for them to come in (of course they were built off-shore). Doing it onshore was difficult (few could handle our requests
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by juve1996 4y ago
This has nothing to do with a "walled-garden" approach. Removing the walled garden essentially allows what you're so smugly against. Of course, this can be abused. But the problem isn't having a walled garden. The proble
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by juve1996 4y ago
Never said it was. > Alas you are right, we're all tied together- until we're not :) The south tried that once when the battle lines made more sense. We all know what happened there - annihilation. Maybe that is necessary again
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by juve1996 4y ago
So what you're saying is - money from the coasts provides money to flyover states. Thus, my point - with further balkanization, less economic benefits for the whole country. This thing doesn't work as a "European Union."
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by juve1996 4y ago
Your statistics are a decade old - in the meantime California continued to climb, there's updated numbers. The fact that a state that huge is competitive in GDP per capita with extremely tiny flyover states, is extremely telling.
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by juve1996 4y ago
Middle america would be devastated by this move. The coasts + Texas would be overwhelmingly rich vs the poor flyover country states.
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by juve1996 4y ago
The demographic simply changed. I could see these comic strips doing quite well on Facebook for the 50 and up crowd in many areas of the country. I don't agree with the point. But a lot of people do - and it's created a sort of co
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by juve1996 4y ago
> It's a tough one, because with access to so much information, I feel like there are a lot of interesting things to see and learn which could impact my thinking and the stuff I do a great deal, but at the same time, all of that stu
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by juve1996 4y ago
Not really since ADHD has been around for much longer than addictive apps and the internet media.
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by juve1996 4y ago
Parking is an underrated part of the equation that many on here are not taking into account. It's scarce, and extremely expensive.
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by juve1996 4y ago
The few times I visited Boston I thought the subways were fantastic - got me almost everywhere in the city close enough to walk. Was it faster A to B than a car? Maybe not in drive times. But I didn't need to find parking, which can be
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by juve1996 4y ago
I don't buy this argument. Cars are extremely heavy these days, and while they have better control, they're also much faster on average. On top of that, there are bigger vehicles going around, like enormous trucks and SUVs with ho
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by juve1996 4y ago
AirBnB's advantage was how cheap it was compared to hotels and other accommodations. That advantage is pretty much gone now, so basically you get an expensive place, with horrific quality control. It's a roll of the dice. I'v
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by juve1996 4y ago
Is it possible the US just has more bigger vehicles? Speed is obviously a huge part, but adding all that extra mass of many super-size me trucks and SUVs with poor visibility seems like it would factor in.

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