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by pc_edwin 3y ago
This is business at truest and most raw form. Its easily one of my favourite parts of capitalism where you get as close to nature as you can in a civilised world. WeWork is walking an extremely tight rope with a very narrow window of time a
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
I touched on this in one (or more lol) of my tangents. Where is this good outcome you speak off? All these western nations are staring down a barrel with the exception of tax/banking havens and nations with a commodity to population as
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
TLDR: It will be exponentially easier to pass (even federally) than any prescriptions I've suggested. That said, my point was the consequence of such a law would be much worse than doing nothing. Long Version: If we did nothing, inflat
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
> attacking me doesn't help your argument Wasn't my intention, I was trying explain how answering yes or no would be a tacid admission to the claims smuggled in your question. I don't even think its intentional. > It se
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
Because you're jesus smuggling extremely flawed assumptions through your question. e.g. If you don't kill every 3rd cute puppy born, all the pandas in the world will face gruesome deaths. Do you want all the pandas in the world to
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
Minimum wage is a small part of a larger set of collectivist policies that the west has been sleep walking into since WWII. TLDR: All of those 21 countries are US protectorates or vassal states. Most of them are European countries that are
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
As I'm writing this from the UK I'm not sure I see the "worked out pretty well", especially considering the bakery below me who had to let go off my cousin and the town centre which looks nothing like my youth when it wa
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
Honestly your respectful tone is refreshing. Based on my past experience with HN, I was bracing for a complete evisceration lol. The issue I have is you're painting a distorted picture of reality that reads like a badly written fairyta
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
> training the american workforce which is done with taxes Thats the entire point/undertone of my post. We have replaced crucially important aspects of society like integrating kids (Rites of Passage), apprenticeships, taking care o
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
Lets put this in software terms: Lets say I have a software development agency focusing on scaling sophisticated platforms. There are plenty of rote repetitive stuff thats not critical in nature. So it would make sense to hire a guy/ga
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
One of my fantasies is becoming elected president and creating a constitutional amendment against minimum wage. It is truly one of the most egregious and inhuman concoctions of modern collectivism. No government or king should have that kin
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
Cutting expenses doesn't really put in perspective. Head count was cut by over 80%. Everything was switched to austerity mode. These are not minimum wage workers, these are thousands of people who on average got payed more than the pre
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
Thats a start but if they were really going for it, it would look more like a multi-billion dollar investment with M&A, head hunting, training infra, partnerships etc Atm its looks more like getting they lay of the land, which IMO is th
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
I'd be surprised if they didn't. Heck I'm a little surprised that its taking them this long. I'm guessing all those severance checks must have hurt. Either way, a part of me really wishes Elon didn't the take compan
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
The interesting thing is they have the bankroll to actually make this work and it actually makes a lot of sense. I remember watching a Google I/O presentation back in 2016 when voice assistants were trending. There was all sorts of ide
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
> Those numbers 100% prove you wrong. Not it doesn't. Its mostly tax/banking havens and oil/gas rich countries. The only exception to the rule is US lol. > Your adoration of billionaires and your materialistic values cl
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
Hahaha nice one. Funnily enough, it is scalably confirmable. You can feed all my HN comments before chatGPT into well.. chatGPT and ask it whether I'm british based on the writing. I bet we are just a version or two away from being abl
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
The funny thing is I live in Europe (UK) too and I can tell you most of these countries are like an old person in pain waiting to die. The entire continent just leeches of the good will and work done by their ancestors like a bunch of trust
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
"londons_explore" - Ahh the classic British cynicism (Don't ban-ish me señor Dang, I'm British so I can say this). > Similar possibilities existed in medicine for 50 years It would've been like building the tower
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
I just don't understand how they can package all of this for $20/m. Is compute really that cheap at scale? I also wonder how Apple (& Google) is going be able to provide this for free? I would love to be fly in the meetings th
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
Its truly an amazing time to be alive. I'm right there with you, super excited about this decade. Especially what we could do in medicine.
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
P.S. I think the Elon musk point is a key difference. You guys have a massive reality distortion where you either entirely or mostly discount that value of capital allocator class whether if its human or actual capital. There seems to be so
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
The interesting thing about HN is, although they are incredibly smug, arrogant and often incorrect, at least you can sense that you communicating with smart people. I can assure you, you're not one of them and that makes things pretty
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
The rules are flexible but not the consequences. The only reason such ideas are even on the table is because of the bailouts of 2008 and 2020 (consequences). You do realise this will bankrupt the US right? Not because America can't aff
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
AI and automation will end up creating more and better jobs than the industrial revolution that created these peoples livelihood. Humanity always strives for more and better. There are entire fields left untouched. We have an entire galaxy
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
As it should. Btw thats the worst of their worries, they will get wiped out in bankruptcy and they should. The shareholders who didn't fight of unionisation like their lives depended on it deserves to get wiped out. I'm all for tr
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
Also btw "die" is a matter of perspective. The shareholders will be wiped out, a huge chunk of the management core will replaced and probably a massive layoffs. Oh and their pensions wiped out (can't have pensions without a c
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
These companies are gonna die and they will become cautionary tail for the future. Ford's situation is particularly interesting because until Tesla, they were the only major US automaker to never go bankrupt. Their taking in massive lo
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
I live and breathe that Steve Jobs quote. The difference between that and what you guys have in mind is the difference between Falcon 9 and the vaccine mandates. You want root access (sudo, rm -rf). You want to re-organise society (bueno) f
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by pc_edwin 3y ago
The is the obvious next step for the industry/technology. I think a better answer is to maximally reduce the potential fallout from a compromised employee. This is easier said then done and if you go the direction of complicated proced

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