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by prottog 3y ago
> An indestructible 8 mpg truck will definitely be more polluting than an EV using solar electricity that lasts 30 years. I suppose it depends on how many miles that indestructible truck drives, but I presume on the first day of the 31st
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by prottog 3y ago
> I work enough in software to know I want as little software as possible in my vehicle. The old joke about how the only piece of technology software engineers keep in their homes is a 15-year-old printer, and a loaded gun next to it in
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by prottog 3y ago
> and it's not going to do anyone (besides exploitative employers) any good to have them paid even less I disagree, on the basis that a poorly-paid job is better than no job at all in the long run for the employee. A price floor cau
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by prottog 3y ago
The minimum wage should be lowered or dispensed with due to its deleterious effects on those most marginalized on the fringes of the modern economy, not due to any effect on inflation.
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by prottog 3y ago
Obviously YMMV depending on your use-case (not too many things can tolerate a 1.5 day downtime), but yes, in general people don't look at lower-level infrastructure enough. Even at the lower end of the scale, I'd wager 90% of weba
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by prottog 3y ago
Kia should countersue because Baltimore fails to keep up with being a city in a developed country.
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by prottog 3y ago
If anything, the city of Baltimore should sue itself for failing to prevent crime. It would make about as much sense.
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by prottog 3y ago
> As an example if you leave gold bars littered on your front yard people will pick them up. No amount of "putting thieves in jail" will save you. Of course there is an amount of "putting thieves in jail" which will s
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by prottog 3y ago
Like others said, in that case the customer who bought the product has standing to sue, not the city of Baltimore.
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by prottog 3y ago
> shut the fuck up I made a good faith effort to engage with the discussion points you raised. Have a nice day.
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by prottog 3y ago
I hope a better-run competitor arises and eats their lunch.
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by prottog 3y ago
With the caveat that I am certainly no expert, my understanding is that he blew up when VIAC issued a secondary offering, which flooded the market with new shares at a lower price, triggering a margin call then forced liquidation. So there
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by prottog 3y ago
> We're being shot. Don't ask about gun control, if we do that we'll spiral into a tyrannical hellscape (the irony) Firearm homicides are concentrated among people who are mostly already criminals. I'm happy to give y
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by prottog 3y ago
> It is really weird how currency and economics have been hijacked by politics. Such a weird phenomenon. I don't follow. If currency and economics aren't directly in the realm of politics, then nothing is.
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by prottog 3y ago
And yet crude oil prices are now lower than they were prior to the breakout of the war in February 2022. Funny things, these markets!
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by prottog 3y ago
He definitely could have unwound his positions quietly over time. He'd have moved prices, sure, and his profits would have been less than what was marked to market, but nothing would have crashed. Forced selling from margin calls is wh
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by prottog 3y ago
As I've heard it stated elsewhere, startups are an inefficiency between the transfer of wealth from VCs to Bay Area landlords.
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by prottog 3y ago
Since the Industrial Revolution, scientific progress has far outstripped progress in the humanities. We've gotten very good at answering the how, but not the why (or why not).
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by prottog 3y ago
> the culture is not the same as the US. French people tend to be very financially risk-averse Interesting, given the number of people who claim that better social benefits in the US would encourage more startups and other business forma
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by prottog 3y ago
Healthcare should also include taking care of yourself, but somehow we've gotten to the place where only a quarter of the population is at a healthy weight.
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by prottog 3y ago
> I propose we create a movement that demands that insurance companies use their excess profit, etc. to buy people's medical debt and free them of it. How do we get this movement going? Blue Shield of California alone has hundreds o
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by prottog 3y ago
Surveys of people "considering" or "planning" to do things are notoriously inaccurate. You have to look at the number of people who actually did do the thing in question. Your source shows ~375k to 2m non-business bankru
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by prottog 3y ago
Man, the French have been rioting for weeks over raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, after raising it from 60 to 62 and incurring similar riots about twelve years ago. In comparison, when the French Fifth Republic was founded in 1958,
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by prottog 3y ago
> It's the land of opportunity, not the land of guarantee Absolutely. > most people not making it By any metric, there's at most a handful of countries where the median person is as well off as in the US. I struggle to say t
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by prottog 3y ago
If you subtract $8320/year from a big tech salary, I'd wager you'll still find yourself quite handsomely compensated.
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by prottog 3y ago
I'm glad we had this productive exchange (and since this is the internet, I will explicitly state that I say this without sarcasm). I think you and I both agree with your point: > I think the question should be how to improve the so
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by prottog 3y ago
There is no great source on the details across the nation, but there are a hodgepodge of municipal-level studies that shed a light. There were roughly 20k gun homicides in the US in 2021[0]. It's been fluctuating between 10k and 20k ov
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by prottog 3y ago
> Also Vanderbilt and Carnegie existed during a time of much higher taxation Cornelius Vanderbilt lived from 1794 to 1877, when there was no income tax; Andrew Carnegie lived in the US from 1848 to 1919, and he would only have paid incom
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by prottog 3y ago
Agreed. There is very rarely a sober look back on any government policy to see if it actually met the objectives it set out to achieve, and at what cost.
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by prottog 3y ago
The vast majority of those gun homicides are inner-city gang-on-gang shootings, which is easy to avoid as a white-collar software engineer.

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