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by mcguire 4y ago
"Quantity of output goods" is measured in dollars, as mediated by the current price, no?
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by mcguire 4y ago
What I'm doing is putting how you describe productivity into the form from the original comment. And I'll stand by that last version: How much money changes hands off of how much workers work? The input to labor productivity is ho
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by mcguire 4y ago
Interesting idea. But, wouldn't that be competing with TikTok? And, Vine hasn't been a thing in what, 6 years? That's not so much "bringing back" as developing something new.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Are you taking something Elon Musk said seriously?
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by mcguire 4y ago
Before or after bankruptcy?
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by mcguire 4y ago
It's not intended for the business to continue operating after a leveraged buyout. Leveraged buyouts are typically used where the company has assets that aren't "productive" or is made up of more-or-less independent unit
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by mcguire 4y ago
Pardon me, but isn't this the standard operating procedure for leveraged buyouts of "inefficient" businesses? Cut expenses to the bone, resulting in a higher profit margin on the same revenue, coast on that revenue while dism
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by mcguire 4y ago
So, how much money changes hands off of how much workers work?
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by mcguire 4y ago
https://www.bls.gov/productivity/graphics/2022/graphic-4.htm "Real compensation" is "Employer costs for wages, salaries, and employee benefits", adjusted for inflation.
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by mcguire 4y ago
But it increases GDP! Yay!
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by mcguire 4y ago
So, how much money is made off of how much workers work?
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by mcguire 4y ago
Weird story: From the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, as-measured productivity significantly declined and then stayed at a lower level. This was during the initial few generations of technological impact on industry, including "just-in-tim
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by mcguire 4y ago
Also see the Racoon Mountain Pumped Storage Plant ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raccoon_Mountain_Pumped-Storag... ): 1652 MW.
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by mcguire 4y ago
The first thing you would have to do would be to remove much of the internal walls and structure, followed by running new electrical and plumbing. The latter two are very skilled-manual-labor intensive.
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by mcguire 4y ago
One interesting book is Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare by Thomas Rid. It's a history of disinformation, propaganda, and related shenanigans from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to the
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by mcguire 4y ago
I have here a pencil. My buddy is willing to give me $100 for it, so its value is $100, right? But I'll sell it to you for only $50. Bargain!
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by mcguire 4y ago
" Many black and white books and TV programmes have taught her all there is to know about colour vision. Mary knows facts like the structure of our eyes and the exact wavelengths of light that stimulate our retinas when we look at a li
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by mcguire 4y ago
There is a very good reason: their business model. They absolutely do not want to be in the business of verifying and maintaining their listings.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Human's gonna human. :-)
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by mcguire 4y ago
It's called a residential hotel, and they're all over the place where business travelers stay by the day, week, or month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartment_hotel
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by mcguire 4y ago
Technically, the reason AirBnB exists is that if you aren't paying for most of the "serviced" part, including obeying the city planning and safety regulations, you can rent a property for less than an actual hotel and still m
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by mcguire 4y ago
Have you looked at the Acme editor? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_(text_editor)
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by mcguire 4y ago
I have friends in North Carolina who had a daughter a couple of years ago. While they were in the hospital, a woman came by their room wearing scrubs and with the usual lanyard of cards around her neck. She told them that she was a lactatio
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by mcguire 4y ago
The US merchant marine fleet has declined (in terms of ship numbers) from 16.7% of the global fleet in 1960 (3000 ships) to 0.4% in 2019 (180 ships).
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by mcguire 4y ago
Petroleum-fueled vehicles are the same, for the same reason.
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by mcguire 4y ago
V2G (among many other things) is an optimization. Past the point where you stop actually wasting inputs, optimization is the enemy of resiliency. It trades lower costs for an inability to handle extreme fluctuations.
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by mcguire 4y ago
So, Maryland.
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by mcguire 4y ago
That's a variation of ye olde end-to-end argument. In fact, this subthread seems to be recreating many of the network protocol design ideas from the ancient days.
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by mcguire 4y ago
As an aside, I find many of these numbers to be very untrustworthy. For example, India has the note, "Includes 1,606 deaths listed as occurring in "judicial custody," but not due to police, military, or intelligence agency ac
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by mcguire 4y ago
Somalia demonstrates exactly the problem with that approach: power vacuums don't last any longer than any other vacuum, if there's something around to fill it.

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