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My recommendation is don't create conspiracy theories when the easiest explanation is incompetence. You'd be surprised - even though most businesses are fast at reacting to global events and responding accordingly, the US governme
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Some personal context (and why I share this): I moved from the US to Hong Kong 3 years ago and immediately noticed the 'vibe' of the city was not positive. In seeking to understand why, I dug in and realized that practically every
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Hong Kong budget to hit record deficit of HK$139b with HK$10k relief(scmp.com)
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psuedocode here https://gist.github.com/lifedispenser/3a9a3433551a324097829e...
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unfortunately, not really. The language you have to speak is still in variables, buttons and code. I'd love to be able to write in a way that feels more like documenting models rather than writing code. Admittedly this is a really spoi
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What would make explorables really take off is a killer framework to make building them easier, ala Ruby on Rails. I know ncase has built some frameworks and I applaud his work, but this space just needs a lot more investment. Here's w
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My point is that it's poorly defined from a technical perspective but well defined from a business perspective. If you define AI company from what AI means from a tech perspective, then yes, it's a useless categorization. But if y
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This is not a tech focused article, it's a business / investor article. It doesn't care about the definition of AI from a tech or software perspective - it cares about classifying types of companies (SaaS vs AI) so that it ca
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Animations look great when they work but affect the experience horribly when they don't. I'm for an easier animation creation framework but would rather not have a bootstrap-like library for animations.
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Good point - there are a ton of SMBs that have good business metrics, usually as a result of being around for a long time. I would think that these companies would be the primary audience for this - they would use the flexibility that a sec
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The biggest problem with this idea is that it doesn't really have a good market space. If your company revenue is too small, your subscription backed debt is just an inferior financial product compared to equity, which handles risk muc
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Since it's in my head, here's a summary of the public discourse of the current economic situation: Topic in question: the economy is unequally distributed to the point where the majority of the middle class are not getting the val
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What a disingenuous article. To put the entire blame on management consultants for wealth inequality and then to say, btw, Pete is one of them - it reeks of agenda politics and a hit piece. Let's talk about the actual substance of the
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I would be really grateful if someone can summarize the details of how people project $12b in costs and explain the modeling. I know that a lot of work has been done into economic impacts of climate change / air quality, and I've
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"Rent control, no other changes" doesn't just disincentivize people from moving to your city, it disincentivizes movement altogether. I see rent control as a fix for a symptom. Answering the question about the ideal living co
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I've been with people who stayed at work 80 hours a week but really worked about 100 hours. Some people really do work 100 hour weeks. Most people don't though.
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A lot of people argue for the ideal rather than the proposed solution, and conflate the two. In this case, the ideal is stable, affordable rent prices. The proposed solution is rent control. Rent control, from a policy standpoint, does not
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I think the more important number is not market share but profit margin / cost per goods sold. That's the number stores have to beat or compete with.
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I am exposed to low wage careers on the daily and while there are higher paying jobs than programming, programming is one of the more robust jobs in the market. There are very few jobs that are very stable in the modern economy. If you want
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I think it's because capitalism has a "soft correction" mechanism, which is consumer activism. Because complaining and boycotting kind of works as a defense mechanism against market forces, it masks the underlying systemic pr
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I think as a society we are waking up to the fact that we don't like how the market shapes many, many industries. We know that the market isn't perfect from Economics 101. Public goods, free rider problem, and other basic issues s
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> It's interesting to think that "quality time" which in this context simply means "2 hours per day together" should be enough. This is not how humans evolved. Just pointing out that this is an assumption and sho
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> It's a way to become more human, and I'm getting what I came for. I appreciate this self introspection. Humanity is a vast mysterious realm to explore and we've spent most of our lives focusing only on the concrete syste
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I remember being a popular, outgoing, friendly kid from kindergarten until 5th grade when I got my first pair of glasses. The glasses were not fashionable, and I went from being popular to being an introverted and isolated kid for the next
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The short answer is it won't help much and it might hurt a lot. 90% of working Americans make less than 100k / yr. The tax structure is already skewed so that the richer you are, the more you pay, and you can make it more extreme.
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The underlying issue that a unit of capital is intrinsically more valuable than a unit of labor in the current shape of our economy. From the perspective of what's broken, it's not who has the capital that is broken. It's tha
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thanks, appreciated this article more than the parent.
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Some of these problems feel larger than life because they are. I think our generation (I'm early 30s) is spoiled because we receive the benefits of great problem solving all the time in the form of continually progressive improvement i
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More critique to add on to the article (attaching to the thread since I like to similar topics grouped together for discourse reasons): One of the author's key points is that the economics of networks is the reason for poor discourse.
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Them ending by saying that tariffs killed them is consistent with their entire narrative as a company, which shows that they just lacked the business sense to build a cost competitive hardware firm on the market. People can buy into dreams

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