maehwasu

9 ms·

31.
by maehwasu 7y ago
Yeah, if you’re bragging about Nobel prizes in economics, you’re doing it wrong. They make the Peace Prize seem rigorous.
32.
by maehwasu 7y ago
I think he means more that you can make it an operating expenditure and not a capital one, for accounting.
33.
by maehwasu 7y ago
Of course, once you start selling the item and build a business around it, retailers are less likely to randomly yank you with no recourse or real feedback. It’s almost like physical retail and software are different. Crazy!
34.
by maehwasu 7y ago
I grew up in the 80s and 90s, and the claim simply isn't true. My family mail-ordered all the time, and it was nearly always delivered to the house. I get that it feels neat and tidy to say that Amazon and Uber had the same growth mode
35.
by maehwasu 7y ago
The government is elected by about a quarter of the populace, and even the winning quarter is often dissatisfied at the lack of control it exerts over its representatives. Democratic representation is one of the leakiest abstractions ever d
36.
by maehwasu 7y ago
You can, quite literally, find someone from a university in the social sciences who say anything that you want. The practice of inserting quotes from random "experts" in news stories is one of the worst journalistic practices out
37.
by maehwasu 7y ago
Pell grants force the spending to be allocated to universities. Leaving aside how laughably wastefully the universities spend that money, disconnecting the borrower from the spender of funds is a massive anti-pattern. Awareness of and discr
38.
by maehwasu 7y ago
Most countries do the far more reasonable procedure of having you give up ties and get another residency, rather than fully renounce. Getting a second passport is extremely costly in terms of time or money, and your “free to pay an administ
39.
by maehwasu 7y ago
Airbnb + Uber = All Startups
40.
by maehwasu 7y ago
You'd also often be forcing people to leave their communities and families, because the right job for them was somewhere else. It feels weird to unthinkingly sacrifice valuable life preferences at the altar of Economic Efficiency Uber
41.
by maehwasu 7y ago
Russia already exerts a lot of economic influence over Kazakhstan, so this example actually goes the other way. There are MANY ways to derive benefit from a relationship between countries: it’s not binary annex/not-annexed.
42.
by maehwasu 7y ago
Ethnic, linguistic, and cultural ties tend to have great staying power (see US-Britain, the unification of Germany and Italy, Balkan conflicts, and on and on). This is all even more true when the countries are close geographically. Counting
43.
by maehwasu 7y ago
The parent comment made a relative statement (comparison of US to Europe). You responded with an absolute statement (US tax code is not progressive). That’s completely irrelevant to his/her point.
44.
by maehwasu 7y ago
It's bits vs atoms. Anyone who has run a company of both types feels the difference instantly and intuitively.
45.
by maehwasu 7y ago
“In his new book, The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us, Paul Tough explores this divide, and interrogates whether going to college has become a privilege of wealth and whether it can still lift people out of economic i
46.
by maehwasu 7y ago
"Corporations oppressing workers", while being a very bad thing that I am very against, has almost nothing to do with feudalism, even by structural analogy. As an example of something that would be apropos, Industrial Revoluti
47.
by maehwasu 7y ago
You're inadvertently making precisely my original point: "exploitation" and "bad thing" are incredibly general properties that exist in many systems, and it's not useful or insightful to compare them to feudali
48.
by maehwasu 7y ago
So "feudalism" = "things I think are bad?" The gig economy has many, many downsides, but those downsides don't share much at all in common with feudalism, even by analogy. If we let all words deteriorate to mean sim
49.
by maehwasu 7y ago
Given what we see in non-human nature, the tendency of visitees to get rekt by visitors is much, much more likely due to the dynamics of competition for life than to some human-specific variable.
50.
by maehwasu 7y ago
This doesn't seem correct. The author specifically says that Haskell is important because it is used in industry. There's a lot to be said for a language that is a) important as an idea and b) gets used enough to test out those
51.
by maehwasu 7y ago
Even if there were not already ample evidence that phones do listen to us, the very publishing of this article would basically be a blaring confirmation. This feels like it was dictated to the writer directly by a not-super-competent intern
52.
by maehwasu 7y ago
VCs who think they can then flip the whole mess onto the public markets.
53.
by maehwasu 7y ago
This is why the author of the article wrote the article: it turns out that there’s a real and useful distinction that takes more than 30 words to suss out.
54.
by maehwasu 7y ago
This is an insanely overconfident article, given that the field in question has dozens of confounding variables that likely can't be reduced to a pat conclusion+prescription. I guess that makes it par for the course for Tabarrok. He re
55.
by maehwasu 7y ago
Yup. I find it's awesome to experience the rich emotional things, and then write the boring dry things so that you can recall the former easily.
56.
by maehwasu 7y ago
Nothing will change wrt usage of Google products unless/until Google starts deplatforming users from Gmail-type services on the basis of their Google searches or email content. This is not currently happening, but a) it wouldn't
57.
by maehwasu 7y ago
I noticed that a lot of days/weeks/months started to blur together as I got older (and I’m not that old). I started keeping a very factual journal each day. Every hour or so, I write down where I was and what I did—subjective impr
58.
by maehwasu 7y ago
This sounds like exactly what you'd expect from a company that is bleeding talent and morale. Note: I do not have any information that that is what is happening in Google; I'm just saying what my guess would be if I were present
59.
by maehwasu 7y ago
Yes, because Russia = Bad, and so Bad for Russia = Good /s American provinciality is really bizarre and offputting.
60.
by maehwasu 7y ago
Yup. It’s a metonym that’s getting at the idea of “bits, not atoms.” Plenty of companies use extremely impressive tech to manipulate atoms, but, by convention, we call the ones that manipulate bits “tech companies.”

More ›