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by pwinnski 4y ago
There were tons of other REITs when WeWork launched, and most of those didn't burn more than $10B on fraud. Neumann will brand these apartments, and enough people will feel excited to be living in a "Flow" apartment to fill
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by pwinnski 4y ago
In the US in 2021[0], 5658 people died on rural and urban interstates combined. This was 13.2% of all roadway deaths. 0. https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Testing shows that Teslas specifically have trouble identifying young (short) children as people to be avoided[0]. To your point, if Tesla were able to provide in the future that they actually do result in fewer deaths, but that the deaths
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Most of the problems seem to be poor implementations, because what's the motivation for, say, a car company to get Bluetooth exactly right? How many people buy cars based on the speed with which Bluetooth connects? As evidence, stickin
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I recall it not have named ranges initially, but I remember them being added pretty quickly. Not sure what year, but very early. The name manager was added in Excel 2007.
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Didn't you mean to search for "what is the capital of Florida?" ;) Because that, amusingly, gives me an info box with the answer. Either way, the Wikipedia page for Tallahassee is the third link on the page. It is amusing tha
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by pwinnski 4y ago
> It's not clear to me that DDG even does (1) though from the article - all the claims I can see are slightly weaker Exactly right! The claim seems to be that DDG's privacy policy contains text that, if you squint just right wh
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Instead of focusing on distributing CEO pay to the rest of the company--where I think your math is off--consider things like annual bonuses for employees that are affected by company performance. Something like "you get $20k, or a litt
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by pwinnski 4y ago
So one of us produced a link to supporting research, and other produced hypotheticals and dismissive insults. Okay.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Perhaps you forgot what you asked? You said: > How did this person become the sole shareholder of a 100 person game company producing wildly successful game without any work in your story? Steve Jobs somewhat famously never wrote any cod
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by pwinnski 4y ago
They quit selling those in the US last year. I love my Fiat 500e EV!
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Calling someone out (Rob Pike or not) for "A lot of other lazy programmers" is cringe. It's clear and accurate communication, and shouldn't need to be workshopped to avoid offending people determined to be offended.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
It's been a while since I dug into the French Revolution, but I think many software developers today would be considered "petite bourgeoisie."
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Bank loans and venture capital.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
As an example of the sort of societal distortion I'm talking about, consider Elon Musk, who wanted people to buy his cars rather than take trains, and so lied about a fantastical system of tunnels he would surely build, and... well, th
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by pwinnski 4y ago
The issue is not so much a one-time cash grab, it's that with that concentration of wealth comes a concentration of power that distorts society. Put another way, the primary goal is not to give more money to everybody else, it's t
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by pwinnski 4y ago
> Presumably the CEO bring something to the table - capital, fundraising ability. I mean why else have him/her? You're so close! In fact, there's an expectation that the more you pay a CEO, the better they perform, and t
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I suspect the author would say that we currently live in a system that is designed to reward a certain way of doing business, and that artificially makes things harder for those determined to control their own labor. Some of that system is
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by pwinnski 4y ago
It is quite possible we could live in a post-scarcity economy today , at least in rich countries, if we chose to eliminate scarcity on food and clothing and shelter and health care. During the pandemic, many (most?) US schools stopped char
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by pwinnski 4y ago
#1 The article is suggesting radical change across a wide swathe of society, while you are suggesting a minor adjustment for individuals. Yes, ideally we can choose any one of many options that require us to work, work, work to make someone
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by pwinnski 4y ago
> Nothing significant stops people from forming worker collectives This seems to be very much in contrast with the linked article. There are significant legal obstacles as well as much resistance in the form of illegal violence.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
They do. Once they finish their buildout and can meet the performance required, they can re-apply.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Because people independently choose to use Ookla, it's very popular. Few people use the FCC's app, which depend on people at the locations using it to provide data.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
100% agree on reducing! Still, are you suggesting that clothes should be kept forever? Because whether you're talking about someone who discards entire wardrobes at the end of every season, or someone who rotates the same very-few item
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by pwinnski 4y ago
By ownership? MS has chosen to let .NET run on platforms not owned by MS, but they are still controlling product direction.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Sure, but you're relying on reporting here, which seems a bit circular, no? WSB has predicted a spike in inflation six times out of the last one. They also predicted that their wife's boyfriend would ride a rocketship to the moon.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
> if you took a trip in a time machine back to then, I'm fairly sure you'd come off as a raving lunatic Absolutely! Which is WHY acting as if every rule and guideline from more than 200 years is holy and must not be changed is
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I'm in favor of the bill, but the name is stupid, even misleading. The spending is largely good, but it won't have much effect on inflation, if any.
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I've seen so much skepticism about this. People without EVs can't seem to believe that brake pads don't experience much wear on EVs. I owned a Toyota Prius for many years, and while not a pure EV, it still used regenerative b
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by pwinnski 4y ago
> CEO's always talk positively about their company and roadmap > "Tesla stock price is too high imo" @elonmusk, 2020[0] 0. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1256239815256797184

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