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by sershe 5y ago
To add to the other comment about public-private competition (another example is schools - parents in private schools pay for both), the mostly-private industry managed to build inter-city railroads and local streetcars just fine. It is no
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by sershe 5y ago
Those things are not mutually exclusive. In a non-dysfunctional team, it is much easier to impress peers and managers if you have done useful work than if you haven't. The performative/visibility side has 2 aspects - first it shou
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How the Pandemic Supercharged Sprawl(bloomberg.com)
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by sershe 5y ago
Can you elaborate? Who is crony to whom here? Everyone in the exchange gives the information willingly... people here talk a lot about salary sharing, so here you go, your employer is doing salary sharing with other employers. Someone else
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by sershe 5y ago
You can collect them in the wild, at least in the mountains around Seattle. We found a bunch at some point... frankly I think they are overrated. What they really need to grow are king boletes ;)
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by sershe 5y ago
Heh, I came here to lurk for a better slashdot/lower-volume r/programming, but I'm actually in the upper Nk because I get dragged into all kinds of political discussions against the part of my will that I endorse. It would be
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by sershe 5y ago
They don't really create this externality, though. A person taking this job apparently cannot get a better paying job. With a higher minimum wage in otherwise free market, no jobs for that person would exist, so the social burden would
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by sershe 5y ago
All the numbers in the above data are adjusted for inflation. Anecdotes are not data. According to this (quick google): https://dqydj.com/historical-home-prices/ inflation adjusted median price increased by about 80-95
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by sershe 5y ago
The 2nd link has later data. Housing is an arbitrary metric (home ownership is only one aspect of class; it's very us specific - renting is far more normalized in other places; there may be unrelated shifts towards renting, e.g. for mi
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by sershe 5y ago
I wasn't even thinking about the global level, that's on another level of middle class becoming larger and richer :) Some US data: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/06/the-america...
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by sershe 5y ago
There are actually numbers for this (that I'm sadly to lazy to look up on my phone), taking fixed inflation adjusted income thresholds, more people are moving into higher than lower brackets out of the shrinking middle, especially if y
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by sershe 5y ago
It's a spectrum, not a boolean flag. There were many examples, my favorite was when someone wanted to organize a protest against lockdowns on Facebook, and cops came into their home. That is an action of an extremely authoritarian go
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by sershe 5y ago
It just so happens that people have different preferences. I grew up with excellent transit and walkability, learned to drive at 30yo and never looked back. Small example in lieu of a long post.. climbing gym halfway across Seattle is a con
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by sershe 5y ago
the only scheme i've seen in post ipo equity (rsu-s) is that you are given a cash amount that is converted to shares at current price, then the shares vest over time. If the shares go up you get more cash. Assuming an average company (
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by sershe 5y ago
Lives for most people under authoritarian regimes is "not that bad". That is from personal experience living in Russia, my life was pretty great, as far as I can tell from coworkers/visits to China it's similar there. An
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by sershe 5y ago
But "small places nearby" were also closed... that is what made me realize how little I need them. Having to drive to more distant places, something I previously might not have preferred, turned out to be much more convenient, som
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by sershe 5y ago
If people prefer driving, that may just cause more people to move away.
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by sershe 5y ago
For me, the COVID has really opened my eyes to how little I need walkability. My preferences completely flipped from "I want walkscore 75+ and ideally 90+" to "I want walkscore to be <15" I used to be very pro-transit
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by sershe 5y ago
Well, those policies do both fall in the same framework. Ending war on drugs is basically removing government power that can be, and is, abused in a racist way. Licensing is another one btw (many occupations require licensing => licenses
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by sershe 5y ago
I think a big problem is that it's typically not given as an alternative. You're either us or them... which makes sense, otherwise the wedge wouldn't work. However, I also don't think that to the extent that it is true,
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by sershe 5y ago
It is not complex and doesn't require much background knowledge ("critically" reading a couple books like So You Want To Talk About Race is enough, or you can just skip those and read Cynical Theories). This "critical se
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by sershe 5y ago
Even accepting that there's no moral difference between those scenarios of "parents mattering" (which I do not, but that is a separate argument), in one system someone becoming say a doctor depends more on their parents givin
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by sershe 5y ago
I really hate on-call, sadly in any serious distributed systems used by many customers/running large scale online services on-call is table stakes :| It's not like SWEs are paid by hour. If you are on call for a week every 2-3 mon
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by sershe 5y ago
Yes, because all of these expensive industries are paragons of free market economy. The industries where the government stimulates demand (everything from mortgage rate deductions to section 8 and from creating and backing loans non-dischar
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by sershe 5y ago
The problem is that it actually doesn't work and never worked. The public option always ends up being crappy. Soviet Union/etc is an obvious example (the public system is still there after it collapsed, but on top of it there&#x27
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by sershe 5y ago
> Any application that could be done on a blockchain could be better done on a centralized database. Except crime. "Crime" is a word with bad connotations, but what it actually means is "whatever your government doesn&#x27
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by sershe 5y ago
> The Biden administration is also backing off on drilling bans on offshore/federal lands and begun to hastily approve pipelines. Do you happen to have sources for this? I am asking as a supporter of these policies, but I've ne
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by sershe 5y ago
What are you basing this on? The most dire (serious, i.e. IPCC) forecasts I've seen so far are a few percent of global GDP lost due to climate change. Global GDP grows by 3-4% in normal years recently, so the "forced degrowth&quot
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by sershe 5y ago
My 2c is that it can also be reverse. I have generally had a reputation of being very productive at work, even though I don't even really like or care about most of my projects that much, and my productivity doesn't increase very
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by sershe 5y ago
In his book(s?), Pinker's conclusion is that we need to learn why things are/were improving, and make sure to do more of that. For things that are improving, that has to be something we were doing very recently. The attitude he pu

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