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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
You think all or even most of your friends and colleagues are still going to live in the Bay Area in a few decades? :( Sorry, that ain't gonna happen. And it doesn't take decades to save up enough money to be financially independe
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
I don't think you're going to be able to attribute that to Bay Area compensation. Urbanization in general: yes. Bay Area? No.
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
This might be a problem for one or two of the top areas, but there are not enough Bay Area emigres to materially move the needle in the vast majority of non-Bay Area localities.
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
It's not pointless from the perspective of any given engineer. If a given engineer is willing to accept a lower relative quality of life in the Bay Area, the absolute amount they save as a result of that decision is larger at a lar
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
Our family just uses a Google Photos album where we put pictures of ourselves and our son. We send the link to people who might be interested, and then they get notifications when we put in more pictures. The rest of our family often posts
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
> This underlying misapprehension is at the root of the self-driving car hubris. I will basically guarantee you that no one working on self-driving cars thinks human perception is lackluster or an easily matched capability. Journos inter
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
My claim is not about what makes sense. My claim is about actual reality. People in general care more when powerful employees resign. It would be a huge deal if Sundar resigned over this, or Page. It is not a big deal that this rank and fil
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
It is a much bigger deal if a VP or a CEO resigns over something than if a janitor does, even if they do so for the same reason.
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
The citizens might be idiots, or the human social system might be so broken such that no matter who you vote for they are game-theoretically forced to behave this way. Whatever the case may be, I don't blame Page for declining to infli
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
No need to guess. You can look at the treatment Jack and Sheryl received. A bunch of ignorant, annoyed blowhards basically talked at them for a few hours, accomplishing nothing and expanding the pool of useful knowledge exactly zero.
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
I'm sure it's a little bit of both, right? If 99% of Gmail users had voluntarily migrated to Inbox, I'm quite certain it would not be getting shut down. That doesn't preclude that there is a significant contingent out th
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
Same reason I don't pay extra money to the treasury even though I think my tax rates should be raised.
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
They're identical to dictionaries/hash tables in pretty much any language, unless I'm missing something. Besides C, every language I've worked in comes with one of these things built-in. It's surprising to me that s
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
It's true that Arnold is quite a specimen. And on Reddit there was recently a video of a ninety year old man deadlifting 400lb. https://www.facebook.com/SPORTbible/videos/1131499677007260/ He doesn'
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
To be fair, the legs of healthy people who perform the same type of exercise do tend to have very similar shapes.
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
They could easily couch the statement in such a way that they would appear blameless, if they really wanted to make a positive statement. E.g. "We recognize the critical contribution of publishing companies to our society and want to d
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
I read the articles as well, and this commenter is right that, on their face, they don't seem like they would apply to a site like Google News. That said, everyone, including Google, seems to think they do. And as far as I am aware, no
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
I think it may be true that they may suffer the law better than their competitors. But I think if it was likely that they would benefit absolutely, they'd be in favor of the law, or at least ambivalent, rather than strongly opposed. Do
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
Do you have any statements or signaling you can link to from either of these companies to suggest they are in favor of this law? I know Google, for example, has fought strongly against similar link tax and other laws related to Google News
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
Right. But I'd wager that index fund investors are more interested in profits than GDP, at least as it relates to their investments and the proposition at the top of this thread that index funds will be "ripped" (presumably d
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
I guess my thing is more of a reaction against paternalism and the infantilization of the public. I do think there need to be much more in the way of bank regulations. I don't think the public ought to absolve itself of all responsibil
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
Y'all keep trying to explain the morality of what the banks and lenders did to me like I don't already know. I know. It's not good. That's irrelevant to the question of whether they were solely responsible.
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
According to this article [1], public firms account for about 80% of the pre-tax profit in the private sector. That's probably enough, given that public and private company returns are probably at least somewhat correlated. [1]: https
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
Yes, the banks were part of the cause. That is not in dispute, as you can see by reading my previous comments. But they would not have been able to commit their fraud without the aid of credulous buyers willing to purchase far more house th
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
If Joe Sixpack owned for twenty years, he was not underwater after the crisis. He might not be in as good of a shape as he was at the top, and I can understand how that would be disappointing, but he's still doing fine. If he got greed
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
That's true, but also a non-sequitur, since nobody "stole" home equity from anyone. The value of homes went down across the board because of oversupply, and that is a phenomenon that required potential homeowners, financiers,
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
> It caused a $5 trillion in transfer from wealthy away from the working classes to the investor class in that 2008 Mortgage crisis. This sounds like a made up number. What is your source? > The 2008 Mortgage crisis robbed the working
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
> I’m not saying it is likely, but you really can’t see a path? For all X, there is a path from X to great harm. Likeliness is critically important in evaluating whether X is still a good thing or not. I grant that your scenario is possi
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
I don't foresee any likely path by which encouraging the adoption of a particular open source publishing technology is going to do serious damage to future generations.
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by oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago
Startup literature about MVPs is mostly relevant to software products, which are inexpensive to develop compared to almost anything else.

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