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by sp527 8y ago
What's really interesting about this observation is that the problem with the subscription model is exactly that it prohibits perfect price discrimination whereas advertising does not.
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by sp527 8y ago
People should definitely do this no matter what. But I don’t think it’s so simple. You also have to develop a long-term habit of minimizing wasted time.
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by sp527 8y ago
Isn’t that illegal under GDPR? It’s also easy to catch by targeting the major ad companies with an ‘undercover sting’ company. They’d get away with it for all of one day probably.
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by sp527 8y ago
What's the proof that this treasure exists?
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by sp527 8y ago
The most important takeaway from this article is that knowing how to flirt IRL is a bigger competitive advantage than ever.
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by sp527 8y ago
I deliberately omitted most of those. ROI on appreciating assets depends on allocation and macro factors, not your socioeconomic position. You can also choose to buy cheap health insurance and your employer typically covers it anyway in the
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by sp527 8y ago
It's arguably "right" at a macro, species POV and ruthless at a micro POV. Logically speaking, if we refused to progressively improve how we perform tasks, we'd be cave men. Improvement (and automation is of course a par
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by sp527 8y ago
What they meant back then is quite nearly irrelevant in the modern age. No group of civilians is mounting a meaningful military resistance against USG for too many reasons to enumerate (though I did enumerate some of them above). The 2nd Am
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by sp527 8y ago
Haha I wish I was a less cynical person when it comes to political reform. I don't quite agree with Sanders' approach because I think it's very hard to make his numbers work without meaningfully detracting from aggregate econ
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by sp527 8y ago
I've heard as much. For context, I'm only 27, unmarried without kids, and just trying to think ahead :)
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by sp527 8y ago
Thanks for the answer! It's disappointing to find someone else who clearly appreciates the problem, but also doesn't have great ideas about how to mitigate. Sheltering wealth in a business doesn't work, unfortunately. My dad
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by sp527 8y ago
I would never think to deny anything you're saying. The 2000 word character limit on submissions prevented me from being more explicit in what I was decrying, which is that wellbeing does not seem to scale commensurately with salary&#x
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by sp527 8y ago
Our only discernible purpose is to propagate our genetic material (we are in fact 'machines' for doing so). Everything else is just something you or someone else has made up. So pick something that you can live with (:D).
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Ask HN: Upper Middle Class Crunch?
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by sp527 8y ago
Once you stop caring what people think about you, the only thing you need is an iCloud backup subscription.
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by sp527 8y ago
In short: market efficiency. Businesses that are innovative and will deliver higher ROI are on average more likely to require capital, which becomes a barrier to entry. The market is much more efficient for ideas that don't require cap
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by sp527 8y ago
I think you're conflating two different things: that such systems should generally be oriented towards maximizing human wellbeing (which I wholeheartedly support) and such systems should be vulnerable to human input/error (problem
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by sp527 8y ago
His thought about designing incentive structures and systems to solve problems and remove (inefficient, corruptible) humans from the equation is solid. I think many of the more rational theorists, irrespective of their political bent, would
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by sp527 8y ago
This anecdote made my day. Thank you for helping assuage my Imposter Syndrome.
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by sp527 8y ago
> And one quick note on rebellion. Rebellion is driven, beyond anything else, by a lack of complacency. The US is full on Algiers 1954 on internet forums. But in real life people are extremely content. Electronic devices and the internet
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by sp527 8y ago
For context: 27 and also a software engineer. If you do invest (and it's a good idea), make sure to account for liquidity requirements. For example, most people don't realize that if a substantial portion of their wealth has equit
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by sp527 8y ago
Well now you're getting historical/philosophical. I subscribe to what the Durants argued in 'The Lessons of History'. There is an apparently irresolvable trade-off between freedom and equality and, historically speaking,
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by sp527 8y ago
No, it's a lot simpler. It can be reduced down to a question: How is humanity deciding who gets left behind?
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by sp527 8y ago
I wonder what the least fortunate people in villages in Africa and Asia would think about our desperate push to figure out UBI. A looming threat of declining living standards (and a decline that will still never leave us anywhere close to w
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by sp527 8y ago
There are at least two variables he's missing that matter a lot: (1) Selection bias. The pool of immigrants who make it to America in the first place likely skews well above average. (2) Culture/ecosystem problems in black communi
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by sp527 9y ago
>Here's my case. I have problems trusting any centralised cloud service out there that is significant for my privacy. I have problems with Pocket, because it knows what I read. If data would be stored on the decentralized nodes and
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by sp527 9y ago
For the sake of registering a counterpoint: I disagree entirely that things like kernel development or assembly (and let’s throw in architecture, computability theory, and all that jazz for good measure) are even remotely useful in software
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by sp527 9y ago
As a corollary, this is along the lines of one of my favorite bits of wisdom from Poor Charlie's Almanac. If I recall correctly, Munger considers incentives to be the single most important concept to properly understand in order to dri
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by sp527 9y ago
> I guess the lesson here should be about the primacy of law, and how you won’t succeed in using technology to undermine it. What? I think the lesson is that centralization and regulation are necessary to prevent undesirable outcomes amo
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by sp527 9y ago
Isn’t that just a long-winded way of saying that early investors, who take on more risk, earn superior returns? As for the barriers to the general public investing in risky startups, that’s a feature not a bug. Look no further than dotcom 1

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