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by seoaeu 5y ago
And to quote one of the other commenters in that other part of the thread: "That’s zoning with a different name."
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by seoaeu 5y ago
It is silly to focus on number of engineers rather than on total cost. Any company should keep hiring more engineers until the additional salary expense exceeds the decreased operating cost/increased revenue that engineer generates
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by seoaeu 5y ago
The bet is symmetric, but not around the current price: A thinks the price will be under $90 in one year B thinks the price will be over $90 in one year Of course that doesn't explain why they chose $90. If A really wasn&#
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by seoaeu 5y ago
A set of local laws that says "heavy industry isn't allowed in residential areas" is a zoning code
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by seoaeu 5y ago
In your example the bet is between A and B. If the price in a year is say $80 then yes A makes a $10 profit. But in that situation B loses the same amount: they started with $100 of stock, and a year later ended with $10 cash and $80 of sto
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by seoaeu 5y ago
The problem with GameStop was that many redditors thought there was more shorts than total stock available and that this would make it impossible for all of the short sellers to cover their position. In reality, a single unit of stock can
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by seoaeu 5y ago
No, there's an equal number of people* on the opposite side of those bets. If there was an imbalance between people thinking the stock is worth more than the current price and people believing the stock is worth less, then that would c
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Everybody involved is already being paid to get the containers to where they're supposed to go. Plus the specific incentives you suggest seem like they'd discourage any trucks from even coming to the port
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Sure, it is better for North Dakota to make high-value products there, but why would it benefit manufactures to be there (except during rare global logistics disruptions)? Transporting cargo by ship is super cheap during normal times
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Allegedly, the 2 stack limit was put in place for aesthetic reasons. On the ships they're stacked way taller than that!
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by seoaeu 5y ago
That isn't true. If a country makes a habit of printing too much money, then creditors will start to insist on only loaning it money denominated in other currencies. And once it starts doing that, the country can be forced to actuall
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by seoaeu 5y ago
You are claiming that defaulting on sovereign debt would have no consequences?
583.
by seoaeu 5y ago
Anyone who disagrees with me is a Luddite, says cryptocurrency peddler
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Yeah, skimming the start of the Spanner paper (to take a random example from CS), can you really claim with a straight face that any of these would be intelligible to the average layperson? > At the highest level of abstraction, it is a
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by seoaeu 5y ago
There's plenty of workflows where untrusted people have their proposed changes audited and then written to a git repo
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Do you have any context on who Dr. Hossenfelder is or why their "debunking" is meaningful?
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by seoaeu 5y ago
A lot of the comments are about the rate of scientific progress being unnecessarily low in general, but I understood the article to be about the relative rate of progress in different fields. The authors findings suggest that not only is
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by seoaeu 5y ago
All the more reason to pass this and move on to focusing on bigger issues!
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by seoaeu 5y ago
What? They're nothing alike. One has normal, logical options like selecting sound effects and output devices. The other has useless things like how much the media keys adjust the volume by and whether to entirely disable sound on the s
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by seoaeu 5y ago
You were hoping that the court would find the very concept of copyright to be invalid?
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by seoaeu 5y ago
That's not the full picture. Population adjusted, violent crime is at nearly the lowest level it has been at it decades. Murder has spiked, but is still way below the peak of the early 90s [0] [0]: https://www.bbc.com/n
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Yeah, if the most positive thing you can claim is "the rest of our Black employees didn't quit" then that is really saying something. I liked how he bragged about improving on some undisclosed metrics though, as though that k
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by seoaeu 5y ago
By what metric? The crime rate is down and the stock market is up. Not to mention that given the scale of the country, just continuing the same level of government services costs trillions
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by seoaeu 5y ago
An easier comparison: cryptocurrency uses nearly 10x the amount of power Google does!
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Yeah, this is the real problem. It is hard for a law to disentangle whether payments to a foreign company are market rate purchases from an independent supplier (that can't be taxed due to free trade treaties), or transfers of profit t
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by seoaeu 5y ago
They wouldn't have to lose money, just avoid taking in additional revenue. An incentive certainly, but far from the worst in the tax code. Personally, I think the tax rate should be higher than 15% for all corporations so I'm not
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by seoaeu 5y ago
It struck me as highly dishonest. I have a hard time believing that anyone one seriously thinks 0.000000% of government spending benefits common people
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Since when does the US have no roads or schools? Also not convinced that government spending to boost food production is a bad thing. Famines are really unpleasant
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by seoaeu 5y ago
To avoid significant layoffs they'd something like 10% of their user base to donate $20/year. I'm far from an expert on nonprofit finances, but that strikes me as a tough but potentially doable goal
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by seoaeu 5y ago
And what browser would that be? Mozilla keeps doing these things because they're desperately searching for a revenue stream that doesn't make them beholden to their biggest competitor. There aren't any other viable options be

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