lukas099

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by lukas099 4y ago
The desire path was never desirable. You should always stick to the official trail when you are hiking in parks that have them. If the official trail is too wet to walk on, it's too wet to hike that day.
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by lukas099 4y ago
Even if it's not specifically that, if the company thinks you are the best available candidate (by whatever criteria they have) despite your not taking the test, I don't see how it's unethical for them to hire you.
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by lukas099 4y ago
All money has value for one reason: because people think it's valuable. It doesn't matter if it's cigarettes in prison, giant stone discs in Micronesia, or bits on a server owned by your bank.
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by lukas099 4y ago
I think being a programmer messed me up for a while in that it made me overly precise like this. I had to consciously learn to turn it off in normal conversation.
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by lukas099 4y ago
I think the word "masterly" can be taken as praise, but I don't think that's the way Keynes meant it here.
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by lukas099 4y ago
Leave the whole part about readers out of it. "The Lancet failed to recognise..."
907.
by lukas099 4y ago
The shareholders are the ones paying the CEOs, though, so it sounds like they are worth it.
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by lukas099 4y ago
This just means that there is more demand for US workers. I'm pretty sure businesses aren't paying them that much more out of charity.
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by lukas099 4y ago
It's generally desired to put up as few artificial features as possible to maintain the natural look of the park. Sometimes it is necessary, of course. The other problem is that many trails are just maintained by a couple of volunteers
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by lukas099 4y ago
You might have a better shot if you write a blog post that includes video elements.
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by lukas099 4y ago
So the CEO is the face of the company, and companies are willing to pay a lot for a face that projects a certain image? If that's the case, then couldn't you argue that it's worth a lot for the company to pay to improve its b
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by lukas099 4y ago
Can you help me understand how you think that ties into the above point?
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by lukas099 4y ago
Yes, and what I'm saying is that EVs could make this trend even worse.
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by lukas099 4y ago
If they were obviously more popular, that's what we would do. But usually it is all just a big mess of erosion and there isn't any obviously most-popular path.
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by lukas099 4y ago
It's not that they're more popular. It's that the entire forest becomes one big social path devoid of ground cover flora. One purpose of paths is to keep human disturbance to a small, well-defined area.
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by lukas099 4y ago
It happens at the operating system level, but on a desktop computer the hardware is not inexorably tied to the OS. When Windows stops supporting 8.1, you can easily install Linux.
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by lukas099 4y ago
Taken too far this can cause problems. Many have experienced the over-walked nature park where one can't even tell what the official trail is anymore. I have volunteered in public parks, and one of the difficulties is encouraging the u
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by lukas099 4y ago
So shareholders are dumb and execs are overpaid because they are good at duping them out of their money? Wouldn't a company that does NOT overpay their execs outcompete a company that does?
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by lukas099 4y ago
Also, providing lunches and coffee saves company time from employees sneaking out to go get lunch or coffee.
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by lukas099 4y ago
Somebody tell me if I'm wrong, but I'm worried that EVs will follow the same trend as phones, in that the small form-factor models will be phased out by the market due to users' prioritization of long battery life. As someone
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by lukas099 4y ago
> It's never been about "deserving", it's just supply and demand. This is the basic fact that so many people just fail to grasp.
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by lukas099 4y ago
You still don't even have to go to college to be a software developer.
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by lukas099 4y ago
Wow, what an a-hole ageist thing to say.
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by lukas099 4y ago
> Pay is a function of value. > A very free-market take. I'd argue that the free-market take would be that pay is a function of supply and demand , not value. As an example, musicians provide a ton of value, but the free market
925.
by lukas099 4y ago
Isn't most of the surplus value supposed to go to capital, i.e. the shareholders?
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by lukas099 4y ago
I have a question about overpaid execs. If execs are overpaid, why don't companies just hire less-expensive execs?
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by lukas099 4y ago
> The point of company perks is to convince people to forgo more salary than the perks costs the company. It's also that the company can provide these things to all employees for less than it would cost for every individual employee
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by lukas099 4y ago
Matt Levine's Money Stuff talked about this yesterday. I'll post a couple of the relevant paragraphs. > The regulators’ response to SVB — guaranteeing all depositors, but also the Fed’s Bank Term Funding Program to finance othe
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by lukas099 4y ago
Interesting reply, thanks.
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by lukas099 4y ago
If you drive, you still have to exercise. Walking to work gets the exercise done and gets you to work.

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