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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I think some people will work from home permanently. But yeah, a lot of people will go back. Not 100%. Maybe 70%.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
It's not like outsourcing wasn't possible before. You still have to deal with all the HR issues of hiring someone in a foreign country -- zoom does not change that. You will still need to set up at least a small office there, too.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
You'll never catch me! I'm going to play the piano next.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Say you bought a vintage car -- do you have to pay more sales tax each time the car appreciates? I know some owners of FJ Cruisers that would be pretty upset.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
If you are Erdos, it is a good decision.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I do the same thing
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
So the way it worked out with marijuana is the legal stuff is a lot more expensive than the street stuff. Maybe it would be different with meth, but I'm not sure why. https://www.inverse.com/article/39899-recreatio
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I think I remember a few of them: PIGOU Paypal Intel Google Oracle Uber SUP Square Uber Paypal PAIN Palantir AirBnB IBM Nvidia SAURON Square Apple Uber Roku Oracle Netflix FAM Fa
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I can't believe I forgot that one.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I remember before covid, Marin county was the antivax central, with mostly wealthy hippies that refused to give smallpox and measles vaccines to their kids. They had measles, whooping cough, all those old diseases. At Greenwood School in M
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Sounds like some people are already in their own metaverse and they just want Facebook to provide better hardware.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
If true, then you should be able to make that case directly, no?
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
But we wouldn't say that Japan is more of a Christian culture than the U.S., or that the U.S. is more of an honor culture than Japan. I understand the sociological theories you are referring to, but I'm not sure how useful they ar
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
But the harm or benefit of a policy is not measured by how many specific decisions are performed, but rather by the overall effect of the policy on the community, no? So let's just talk about that rather than counting steps between A a
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
The thing is, there is no need for people to be inventing their own accounting standards, particularly in the area of tax accounting. These debates about accrual versus cash based accounting have been hashed out long ago. Nothing material h
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
People trying to steal to get drugs could. People high on drugs certainly could. A lot of Breaking and Entering, for example, is to obtain money to feed a drug habit. For the person doing the stealing, all they care about is the cost of the
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Thank you. I don't mind reading propaganda -- people can advocate for their cause.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Personally, the only thing I ever watch on Netflix now is the new Israeli TV stuff -- Fauda, Mossad 101, etc. I think this is one consequence of them shifting to being a "channel" with their own content (which I mostly don't
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I think a lot of middle class people roll over their debt, too, no? Say buying a new car when the warranty expires on the old car. Or buying a new house every 10 years (US average). But I don't feel like digging around SCF data, so thi
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Yes! I have definitely heard that one, too. I will update the list.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> border adjustments. Don't we already have tariffs on China? I am a little hazy as to whether Trump's were repealed or not. IIRC, the political opposition was from all those companies manufacturing there -- e.g. Apple, Tesla,
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
But this was known, and why many people (such as myself) opposed lockdowns. It's stunning how much knowledge and wisdom has been lost about simple things like how to deal with plagues. This is not a new thing facing humanity.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
This is interesting: https://tenetpartners.com/top100/most-powerful-brands-list.h... Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft all in the top 10. Exxon way more popular than Netflix.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Pretty sure many in the middle class do the exact same thing. That's the whole idea behind mortgages, auto loans, etc -- to fund consumption on credit and pay the interest with income.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
One way it can work is if devs are already overcommitted on multiple projects, so letting them focus more does help. E.g. horizontal scaling, rather than piling more devs onto the same project.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Naw, I doubt "meta" will take off in the public consciousness. "Facebook" is already too well known.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
This is how I feel about collecting books. I have a nice collection of illustrated books from the Yellow Nineties. They are not a path for financial independence, but they are beautiful.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
This is like a Rorschach test. There is truly something for everyone. What caused all the supply chains bottlenecks? Hard Left: "It's the fault of *capitalism*!" Hard Right: "It's the fault o
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
That's interesting -- do you have a link for some background information?
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I heard that hydrogen, in the form of Ammonia, is the Next Big Thing for shipping, which is nice because those container ships are pretty nasty. https://spectrum.ieee.org/why-the-shipping-industry-is-betti...

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