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by repsilat 5y ago
I guess if you mean "money is a small amount of liquid" then the analogy is fair? Otherwise the terms are very different -- handouts are not called "trickle down" in the US. The principle is not the same, it is literally
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by repsilat 5y ago
> everyone else is perfectly fine with My newspaper will shorten "United States" to "U.S.", and not add an extra period at the end of a sentence. (Not sure if the spaces are different widths.) When the next word wou
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by repsilat 5y ago
Maybe they mean old.reddit.com. I use it on mobile and it's fine. Fast, not too many pushes to change to the app, r/friends/comments works. Twitter on mobile has become almost unusable (unable to see most content without maki
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by repsilat 5y ago
> regardless of how technical they are They said "lesser technical people", not "less-technical people". A more technical person might not be able to read between the lines, but a better technical person should.
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by repsilat 5y ago
I think it's a common category error. The job of an academic linguist is mostly (as I understand it) to study language as-found, but I've met a few people who take that to mean "linguists -- the experts on language -- say we
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by repsilat 5y ago
Measured auto inflation is low because of hedonic adjustments. The sticker prices have gone up a lot, but their quality/value (according to folks measuring inflation) has gone up more. For a somewhat tendentious account, with graphs:
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by repsilat 5y ago
> sends a strong signal A signal of encouragement, you mean? Like, "invest in this space" -- no pun intended -- "because we'll offer you a great exit"?
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by repsilat 5y ago
I agree, but would add -- five years ago "Google has been stymied by copyright" was most of the story for them, but today "Google is subject to political pressure to exercise editorial control" (to put it charitably) is
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by repsilat 5y ago
In some polls I've seen there's plurality support for "permanent 'summer time'". People don't seem to care much that noon in civil time maps exactly to the sun being at its peak. Leap second drift is super
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by repsilat 5y ago
> hardly beyond standard practice in the industry. The SLS is Perhaps explaining GP's surprise: I've heard SpaceX's testing philosophy contrasted against this sort of thing. That none of their tests are "too big to
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by repsilat 5y ago
> I don't understand why executives of American companies don't see the manufacturing/production side of their companies as anything more than a cost center. This is interesting to me, because I think of it as the stereo
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by repsilat 5y ago
When it comes to small financial transactions, society is at least comfortable people who choose privacy over transparency. Some places have banned businesses from only accepting card/electronic payments, but I'm not aware of an
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by repsilat 5y ago
A zero sum concept of blame isn't really helpful IMO. It's better to just try to figure out the policy consequences without the moralizing. The simplest model of utility (linear in money) basically says "people will take thes
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by repsilat 5y ago
DB queries in blogs (especially with this kind of traffic spike) are super correlated, you probably don't even need a cache if you batch identical reads together when the requests arrive within say 10 or 100ms of each other. Not a comm
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by repsilat 5y ago
Huh, I always think of "Brutalism" in the context of web design as "no CSS, no JS, lots of <h1>." I guess maybe it needn't be unstyled, but certainly is unsubtle. To me this page is architecturally would be so
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by repsilat 5y ago
An annoying and more complicated (but perhaps not less accurate) heuristic is that the revenue of the company is related to the sum of prior work. For a product company, the number of features drives use more than the rate of new features b
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by repsilat 5y ago
The higher-level argument might be that if PFOF didn't exist, NBBO might be better. If Citadel et al wanted to make markets they'd have to publish their prices. (Of course, that gets rid of the "market segmentation" sign
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by repsilat 5y ago
Isn't it a consensus position among economists that corporate taxation is inefficient and badly targeted? That taxes on individuals (wages, goods&services, capital gains) and on land are easier to collect and better at providing de
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by repsilat 5y ago
> ...~2% of GDP on their militaries. We're at least 2x that. US defense spending was 3.4% of GDP in 2019. Quite possibly it jumped in 2020 as GDP dropped, but over 4% seems unlikely. (Still, in the ballpark and good context, I thi
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by repsilat 5y ago
Not to be combative: It seems like you're implying that this failed because Facebook is powerful, but I interpeted this the other way around -- "Facebook is a popular blue website, and maybe did some stuff, but who cares? There ar
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by repsilat 5y ago
I recently read the book "Bourgeois Dignity" by Dierdre McCloskey, and it makes a somewhat similar argument backed up by serious historical research. The thesis of the book is that the respectability of inventing, doing business
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by repsilat 5y ago
The grandparent quoted the line >> their only goal is maximizing shareholder value in the short term and mentioned Amazon making a loss. You're right that Amazon could credibly be described as "maximizing shareholder value
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by repsilat 5y ago
I think both points fit the "job market is healthy" description -- (1) explicitly has `newJob`, (2) implicitly assumes `newJob` in its faith in starting over. Conversely, if jobs were scarce it's plausible many of those chang
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by repsilat 5y ago
> ZIRP The naive valuation of a stock that gives it an infinite value at a real 0% interest rate relies on an infinite horizon. Thankfully at least for residential loans it's difficult to get an interest-only mortgage -- in practi
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by repsilat 5y ago
My dumb dead-simple trick that you've probably independently invented yourself: when I want to log variables x,y,z I write console.log({x,y,z}) not console.log(x,y,z) Who needs pretty-printing, formatting libraries, string interpolatio
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by repsilat 5y ago
I think this is more likely to bite as it pertains to Ireland as a friendly business environment than it does to Ireland as a diplomatic partner.
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by repsilat 5y ago
>> It’s also still a relatively small number in absolute terms: > In April, the share of U.S. workers leaving jobs was 2.7%, according to the Labor Department, a jump from 1.6% a year earlier to the highest level since at least
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by repsilat 5y ago
Ah, thanks. I agree, and I think it'd be a good point to raise and consider even if I didn't.
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by repsilat 5y ago
>> Ads today are almost indistinguishable from organic content > If that's the problem then there should be specific rules addressing that. Honest question, why? If ads make the experience worse for users then the page owner
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by repsilat 5y ago
> I think if Facebook got truly broken up worse apps would take its place Facebook has nothing approaching a monopoly on attention, social media, messaging, anything really. All of their products have serious, billion-dollar, hundreds-

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