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by sershe 5y ago
Ok, I admit the edit could have been done better. I'll stop pursuing this path :). However, it was downvoted before the edit for expressing an unpopular, but IMHO factually justified (i.e. anti-natalist) position. I think that was a fa
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by sershe 5y ago
Interesting; I remember reading something similar on ACOUP about plow teams/etc. in the ancient world. According to ACOUP having access to plow teams and other expensive stuff due to trade/specialization moves the whole system int
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by sershe 5y ago
There was massive inflation in the 70ies and it appears that what you describe hasn't happened. In fact, at least in theory inflation decimates the savers and helps the borrowers (well, if you borrow before it really picks up I guess).
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by sershe 5y ago
"to have affordable housing built" presupposes a statist solution. I am not willing to have affordable housing built as presently defined, due to the amount of tax dollar waste, and actual results that I can see (in Seattle); but
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by sershe 5y ago
Simple product (almost everyone wants more or less the same things and/or things are hard to compare, like security) and zero cost of switching is how it happened. It is expected that it would produce this distribution. I've start
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by sershe 5y ago
Anecdotally, just last week I've seen someone I know on senior (IC) level actually amplify their transition to Facebook on LinkedIn ("so happy to have worked in X, so happy to join Y, blah blah"), and another former coworker
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by sershe 5y ago
From this comment and below (and 99% vs 1% claim; I've heard very different numbers on addiction and debilitating mental illness), would you, or other people in the industry support my, "Housing First, OR ELSE" approach? Give
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by sershe 5y ago
It's important to separate moral judgement from technical judgement. Even if I agreed with you on morality (which I don't on either count), addiction industries, including the legal ones like tobacco and games, have always been la
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by sershe 5y ago
C# story is a classic example of well-implemented, but leaky abstraction. I would say 99% of the time it works fine and very intuitive. Then 1% of the time something utterly bizarre happens, I've definitely seen very un-intuitive examp
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by sershe 5y ago
I don't understand why this article is trying to portray good things as dystopia. As someone who grew up ~poor surrounded by ~poor people, having achieved some financial security, one of my top priorities in life is to not live surroun
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by sershe 5y ago
The reason the generation holds this wealth is because it spent its life working and accumulating it. Is it really surprising that someone who worked for 40 years, including the prime productive years of their career, has received more mone
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by sershe 5y ago
Not the GP, but all of the above is true. There's a warped "coastal 9.9%" perspective on having children where someone in the Bay area working at FAANG on principal level told me they cannot afford a 2nd kid because of how mu
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by sershe 5y ago
Is there anything wrong with classism, and is there any reason to lump these together that is not extremely specific to the USA? I grew up relatively poor, and I am generally very classist (modulo educational opportunities, i.e. for adults
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by sershe 5y ago
To be fair to Soviet Union (I'm from USSR/Russia), they were actually the reverse in that area, there were gifted programs, gifted schools where you would be tracked if you were good, competitions for school kids in many subjects
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by sershe 5y ago
Well, going by that logic, now that Israel is where it is, does somebody else's "ancient presence there" matter?
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by sershe 5y ago
I dunno, git model always felt extremely intuitive to me... there are very few core concepts and ideas and all the complexity is layered on top of that and is easily decomposed. I feel like git concepts are very elegant while allowing a lot
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by sershe 5y ago
But do you want your values to change? An extreme example is drugs, if you start taking certain drugs your values will get replaced with wanting more of the drug. You-then might endorse that, you-now emphatically won't (I hope). In the
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by sershe 5y ago
Yeah, I forgot to mention that; sometimes that works, I do read with my wife, and we rock climb together a lot. However, sometimes you may have your own goals (climbing training like hangboarding is impossible to do together and not fun any
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by sershe 5y ago
The meta is that if you add something to your life, and you don't currently have a lot of time when you are just bored, something will have to suffer. I was wondering why I was often stressed out even though my life was good and I most
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by sershe 5y ago
"The way that hundreds or thousands of hours of human lives swirl about their whims" and many other little quotes in the thread betray the real motivation here. There are many more industries/groups of people that "waste
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by sershe 5y ago
If only humanities majors didn't later request that their loans be cancelled and constantly rant on Facebook/Discord/... about how the society is "unfair" because they are poor. It all ends up being about dollar ROI
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by sershe 5y ago
Why is that, though? I think it points back to problems with earlier schooling. People used to be pretty independent at 18 in the past, as far as I know, with formative years being much earlier.
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by sershe 5y ago
Interesting, my take on this quote was always sorta the reverse - the one based on Ibn Khaldun; Adams should have added add "so that their children would again have to study Politicks and War". I wish we could get stuck on the 2nd
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I dunno about 10x engineers, but there definitely tends to be a person who knows everything on many teams. I noticed over time that if I need to ask a random question about project A, I always ping the same 1-2 people from team A for most A
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by sershe 5y ago
But that is not actually what happens in the cities like SF. The lowest tiers of housing are not affordable. The worst apartment I've ever lived in my life (including Soviet-built flats) was in SF - a crappy 1906 victorian (or whatever
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by sershe 5y ago
This feel like a slow end of an era. I work in a mixed ML/dev team, on the dev side (distributed systems) and, looking at real-world ML work (and having tried it a bit at home), I really don't want to do ML unless that becomes the
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by sershe 5y ago
I dunno, as far as respect is concerned I personally rank most legislators somewhat below, say, the addicts in Tenderloin. Regardless of who does it, something that makes them upset but impotent would be a big positive in my book.
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by sershe 5y ago
You are not forced to use the pages/apps that are ad-funded you know ;) Traditional advertising that intrudes on public spaces is much more "evil" by that standard.
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Could it be that your expectations of what housing should be are formed by the "default" households? I think 2 bed is way too much for one person, while 3 bed is barely enough for two, so it looks like you are getting a better dea
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by sershe 5y ago
FWIW, I found it's cheaper per capita to live alone. Almost every non-negligible non-housing cost scales linearly. When I was alone I was happy in a studio; I could work, sleep, exercise, have guests, etc. all in the same room. At most

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