sonnyblarney

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by sonnyblarney 7y ago
Commenters on HN often lack basic economic sensibility, the comments related to material business issues, particularly finance and economics are odd. My point #1, is the opposite of ridiculous, it's the point. Companies dominate by mak
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Of course they do, it's obvious the moment you step across the border. It doesn't mean the author is correct, or that there isn't variance. I find the issue with candour is mostly with casual conversation or casual issues. Th
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It's way more than that. There is specialized machinery, a whole set of very specific skills, and the supply chain is considerably more than 'resistors'. Walking down the street in Shenzhen you see a vast array of all sorts o
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1) 'Unit sales' data is not super important next to sales, and especially profit. Some of those manufacturers make $1 per unit, whereas Apple may make $50 per unit in profit. Apple is 50% of smartphone wholesale revenues globally
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"Geopolitical dominance and leverage." ??? So America will be paying through the nose in hard dollars for a trade war with China ... ... so they can get what exactly what (?) from 'Geopolitical Dominance'? Where does th
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'Don't work' to do what? Damage trade? Nobody is going to claim that a 25% tariff won't destroy a trading relationship, of course it will. That's a monster tariff. It's big enough and wide enough it will have s
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This might be the most damaging of all announcements made thus far. Companies have known they probably have relied a little bit too much on 'one country' thus far, and that there could be ramifications, and this 'mini trade w
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Funny how Zuck and even Bezos have this worker problem coming up all the time. Their making a lot of money, can they not at least make working conditions decent? Too much to ask?
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Below a certain level, people don't have any leverage at all. Most people depend on their meagre income quite greatly, it's a bold thing to say someone could just 'quit' their job and spend 9 months looking for another o
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So if your threshold for 'adversity' is getting 'eaten by Lions' I would imagine you're trolling? My point was to illustrate a family that might have next to nothing - and who's only aspirational escape from sl
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Yes - a 'car trip' to a crappy dive like Myrtle Beach and it's shady Motels as one's only , tiny respite from a life of slinging coffee at the Waffle House, in the balance of financial emergencies from something as triv
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There can be many causes to this problem, not just an apparent lack of supply. You could just as well say 'too much demand' is 'the problem'. Aside from regular market issues, there could be a number of external factors
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If there is a 'market abberation' find it, and deal with it. For example, if tons of foreigners are buying homes, this might be a problem. Regulate it. If tons of people are buying 2-3 homes and renting, thereby driving a wedge be
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If it's considered to be a currency by the gov. then regular financial regulations will apply.
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"Could you elaborate on what Bitcoin failed at?" BTC failed to be a currency that could be used for practical purposes. There's really nowhere to spend BTC today that matters. If Amazon, Costco and AirBnB etc. allowed BTC, we
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"That sounds amazingly dystopian. I mean, that’s literally a money built on an oligarchy. By design." To be fair, the Fed is kind of that. It's a cabal of bankers who decided that the USA would be better of if they did the ce
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Hot 100 today: https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100 Hot 100 1980: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_sin... They still make good music, it doesn't go on the radio an
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"I don't believe that thinking about nameless, faceless people thousands and thousands of miles away is particularly effective " But this is what is implied by the opening statement 'The Average American' etc. etc.
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Wow, no, this is almost insulting. Having to raise a family, maintain one's well-being, and being a good community member all while having to live in dour conditions that are never likely to improve , I would argue is actual adversit
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"It’s about price because consumers can’t measure by anything else." They can, but it's obviously the biggest signal. But let's not confuse the plight of the middle/upper middle class who can afford to start to inve
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I agree for many of us ... but I think 'life is not easy' for the bottom 50%. Most people sling coffee, serve food, work in factories, panic around in delivery vehicles all day, and with one wrongs step or bad health outcome they
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It's more than news; it's everything else as well. Even the music. Go ahead and listen to pop music from any previous area - there is a lot of happy music, and a lot of slower tempo, beautiful music. 'Beautiful' stopped
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I find the Java love/hate intriguing, I personally like the ideal of 'getting the job done'. Pre Java 8 is just fine, I don't think it's materially changed, I think what has changed is perception i.e. the realizatio
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I rent cars often, so I see these systems with fresh eyes and I'm basically shocked at the complexity of it all. I tremble a little bit when I want to play something with my iphone, nervously moving through the screens. I think a coupl
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(My comment below this one was meant to be directed as to the existence of speech laws, not the US constitution's position on 'natural laws') It's basically wrong to suggest that somehow the US's constitutional asse
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They are obviously overlapping, but they are definitely different due to the nature of disclosure: The press will be able to disclose otherwise 'privileged/private' information that one wouldn't be able to otherwise publ
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"The constitution of America is explicitly stated to be a statement of natural law. This view is highly unusual." It's not highly unusual, see my comment below: it's normative. As for 'natural law' - well, the
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"By the way the way Americans view the constitution as some sort of divinely bestowed natural law document is highly unusual." In addition to the US: Canadians have constitutionally guaranteed freedom of expression. Article 10 of
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"that it takes considerable time and effort to come up with the right set of types. " I've written once here before, this is one of the 'accidental advantages' of TypeScript: you set the compiler 'loose' w
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My office was across the street from UW for years, and I've hired handfulls of you as interns and full timers. You're great. But - '6 internships' is not quite enough to do this comprehensively, as exhibited by someone b

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