losteric

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by losteric 3y ago
If real estate companies/landlords sneak in favorable legislation by buying favor with politicians, that would count as collusion. Same as butchers. If the citizens of an area freely vote for legislation that aligns with their common g
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by losteric 3y ago
Landlords do not have infinite capital, and there is not infinite demand by renters. As supply approaches or exceeds demand, rent-seekinf margins are forced down.
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by losteric 3y ago
That's a false equivalency. In a democracy, voters are free to vote themselves in to oblivion (ie price out their children) or profit off non-voters (ie those that want to move in).
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by losteric 3y ago
Managed methodical growth can be more liveable than suburban stroad hellscapes, with the advantage that children aren't forced to move far away or sacrifice their finances when they come of age.
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by losteric 3y ago
Urban SFH needs to be replaced with the missing middle of housing. 4-5 stories, larger mixed-use buildings Building more SFH on the peripheries is fine for people who want that, but it's not part of the solution to lowering prices.
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by losteric 3y ago
Perhaps the area is underzoned
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by losteric 3y ago
Just curious, how would that ballpark number be helpful? This thread has inspired me to do further research and explore monetizing/selling some of my side projects. I am curious how a ballpark sales value is useful...
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by losteric 3y ago
> They hate technology and modernity and want to live as subsistence farmers, a lifestyle they romanticize endlessly "They"? You are overgeneralizing a group you are not a member of. What you're describing covers exactly z
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by losteric 3y ago
"wish" in what sense? Like wishing to get in to Hogwarts? Or like how some cancer patients wish for their end?
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by losteric 3y ago
Also in Seattle - I've never had that experience. Literally ordered something last night with next-day shipping, and it arrived in the early morning. Once in a blue moon something outright disappears, but so it goes with 20+ orders per
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by losteric 3y ago
Amazon does not universally comingle. There are many exempt product categories in addition to the seller's ability to opt in/out. If you buy a product from a specific seller which arrives with a stuck-on barcode in addition to the
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by losteric 3y ago
Two-way doors always bothered me, because reality isn't black and white. Most decisions I've seen given fall in the grey space. Invariably deciding whether a problem was a 2 or 1 way door was politicized. Managers always argued fo
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by losteric 3y ago
and with thanks to public support for solutions to those problems (to be fair, the Y2K would have been solved regardless since that could have impacted immediate quarterly financial reports)
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by losteric 3y ago
It's important to consider the rate of change and cost of job-switching. In America, there are no national programs for adult education, most Americans aren't aware of impending industry shifts, and 60% of Americans still live pay
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by losteric 3y ago
The way I use genAI, is exactly as you describe - it's my ultimate rubber duck, one that's actually smart and can talk back. I use ChatGPT as a study partner in learning new direct-skills, as a soft-skills partner in navigating bu
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by losteric 3y ago
That answers the first part, not the second. What force would push tech companies to accelerate their pace of innovation, necessitating a larger workforce? I'm not seeing a surge of customers demanding new essential features on the hor
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by losteric 3y ago
If you think the economy will stay the same or grow - why? And why would that imply layoffs end or labor growth resumes?
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by losteric 3y ago
I know. There's a gap between common language and technical definitions. Most people use "inflation" to baseline current prices against recent memory (ie cumulative change over multiple years). I opt against the quixotic batt
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by losteric 3y ago
Just to add specifics, the cumulative inflation since September 2019 is over 20% and it's still growing. All that's changed is the year-over-year velocity has decreased. But! US average hourly income is also up about 20%. Granted,
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by losteric 3y ago
This rhetoric around singularities is a little funny, because the singularity of blackholes (going to infinite density) is recognized to indicate knowledge gaps around how blackholes work... lines going to infinity is not necessarily taken
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by losteric 3y ago
It's not true that individuals need to band together. A single individual can kick off a class action lawsuit, private litigators can even kick start a lawsuit themselves (though ultimately the lawsuit will bring in impacted individual
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by losteric 3y ago
With all due respect, I was responding to your original highly reductionistic take > Do you want me to solve this for you? Here you go: As if your list was anything close to a viable solution for someone already homeless and addicted. Wi
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by losteric 3y ago
You're acting like people aren't emotionally attached to their home cities. Most people are born and raised in the same city or area their whole lives. The adult illiteracy rate is 20% and less than 40% get any kind of 4 year degr
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by losteric 3y ago
That's an orthogonal issue to dealing with addiction, which would be a problem regardless of legalization status...
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by losteric 3y ago
Getting assaulted sounds like the main problem. Police are a reactive force, they're useless to prevent or break up an assault unless it's a very ineffective (slow) attack
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by losteric 3y ago
This has news. Last week just reported on Senator Ron Wyden's letter, this article has concrete data from court orders and warrants.
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by losteric 3y ago
- ATC is a difficult job both in terms of training required and day-to-day work - There are high health requirements to hold the job, which should be revisited - The federally mandated retirement age is relatively low. - Pay is not attracti
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by losteric 3y ago
I suspect you live in an area of lower Amazon customer density? I regularly still buy and receive items sameb-day.
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by losteric 3y ago
What do you think capitalism optimizes for? I would say capitalism is a system which innately maximizes for greed. When the money supply expands, greedflation is outright expected - no collusion or conspiracy required.
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by losteric 3y ago
WhatsApp was/is heavily scrutinized, and it's fairly easy to sniff your own network traffic. It's unlikely that "some guy" and no one else discovered that WhatsApp was not encrypting content.

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