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by nouveaux 5y ago
> I’m paying a lot of money to live here, but for what? The weather. The high cost of living in the bay area and California is largely about the weather. People come to California for the dream and stay for the sun.
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by nouveaux 5y ago
So you're saying that we should take all the money the government spends and put it in stocks? What about infrastructure and public works? Schools? Research?
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by nouveaux 5y ago
I agree that it is problematic for the media to be so hyperbolic. However, are you saying that Florida is not having regular and more historical flooding? If so, why is articles about frequent floodings[0] wrong? Regarding peak oil, geologi
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by nouveaux 5y ago
Someone else's comment further down on this subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29491371
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by nouveaux 5y ago
I don't get it. Can you explain to me what the ROI would be if the pension fund invested their money into public infrastructure?
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by nouveaux 5y ago
"wow. just wow. So morally a person should only be paid what the need to live" GP isn't saying that the good and upstanding thing is be paid only what you need to live. GP is saying that if we're looking at the moral ess
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by nouveaux 5y ago
"Clearly investment, or "trickling down" (as its critics like to call it) isn't just effective, it is the only thing that works to make people's lives better." I'm not sure if you're being hyperbolic
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by nouveaux 5y ago
"Didn't Norway just bought into the stock market via their pension fund? That is literally the opposite of investing it themselves." A pension fund is payment to a group of people over a period of time. Traditional investment
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by nouveaux 5y ago
So I only looked up Netherlands: "The issue is that the accumulated inter-generational wealth compounds itself quicker than the Dutch government can reduce the money added to it. The Netherlands’ historical wealth can be traced back ce
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by nouveaux 5y ago
I agree with your comment but that's not what I was responding too.
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by nouveaux 5y ago
How about the difference between boys and girls? "It must be nice to think about a world in which every boy and girl is an equally-capable blank slate. But we do not live in that world. We live in a world where some people are tall, an
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by nouveaux 5y ago
"We all know what initiatives like California's leads to. Parents from middle to upper class families will send their kids to private schools or invest in extracurricular math programs." Are you saying it's not happening
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by nouveaux 5y ago
As a kid, I was given a random box of legos with no guidance. I wanted to make things but I couldn't. Didn't know "how". I quickly lost interest. As an adult, I've purchased a couple of sets and had a great time put
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by nouveaux 5y ago
Liability is a good deterrent in many situations but is far inferior to cooperation. Let's take an extreme example: the death of a child by a irresponsible corporation. Even with generous compensation, the family will not be made whol
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by nouveaux 5y ago
"That's more like markets and prices than it is appealing to a centralized hierarchy." My thought process is more like a well regulated market than it is a king of the world. A market requires consensus. With your point about
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by nouveaux 5y ago
"someone who requires everyone to agree about what's done with trees on your own property could well be considered tyrranical." 100% agree with the example of someone's tree on their 200 acre farm. However, if I have a d
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by nouveaux 5y ago
Why is this a LA/California problem? New York City and all major cities have had high price housing that benefits owners for decades. What steps have Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul, Shanghai, etc done to take their housing prices down
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by nouveaux 5y ago
I agree. I dont think all systems require consensus and its likely most things do not. When it comes to things that optimizes for survival, it is likely we will need consensus to be productive. Consensus only need to happen when we are clos
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by nouveaux 5y ago
In order to prevent a nuclear war, you need consensus. Anything less than 100% buy-in is insufficient. Going back to the neighbor example, someone being loud at 2am is a lack of consensus. In order to be productive as a group, you need cons
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by nouveaux 5y ago
This is the general perspective on conservatives and I agree with the sentiment. If you extrapolate this out, people who live happily in rural areas do not want someone (government) to tell them about new changes. Small government and less
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by nouveaux 5y ago
"To a large degree, we've just been lucky that they work, but it's neither obvious nor guaranteed that they will continue to do so." While I agree that it's not obvious our current systems will continue to work, I d
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by nouveaux 5y ago
"There's another word for "require everyone else to agree": Tyranny." I think this is often thrown out there to push back on liberals and socialism but this is the wrong point. We as a global society _need_ to agree
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by nouveaux 5y ago
Just the popular ones now but 10 years ago, they were really novel. Leetcode, Hacker Rank and of course, the best one is Advent of Code. https://adventofcode.com/
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by nouveaux 5y ago
Do you mind sharing what company did this? Seems like a great place to work?
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by nouveaux 5y ago
Project Euler was one of the first programming puzzle sites. I give credit to them for my interest in programming puzzles. However, I quickly abandoned them once I found other sites that was less math focused. For my personal goals, I want
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by nouveaux 5y ago
It is very common for disruption to happen with cross disciplines. It seems to me that it worked in this case with a software dev going into the auto industry.
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by nouveaux 5y ago
Doctors are on call. Firemen are on call. There are plenty of jobs that are not on call. Lots of enterprise positions do not require you to be on call. If you work on a site that requires 24/7 uptime, why is it so hard to accept that e
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by nouveaux 5y ago
Elon Musk was the only person willing to build out a whole charging network and that was the biggest factor in the adoption of EVs. That IMO did change the world. Its possible to love something for its good qualities and accept the bad. &qu
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by nouveaux 5y ago
Can you explain what significant improvements BMW have added in the last 20 years? I'm not a car guy but from my perspective, BMWs have only added incremental improvements.

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