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by supplied_demand 1y ago
Chicago has had fewer shootings this year than any time in at least a decade. There are plenty of news articles on it if you care to read up. Those of us who actually live here can visibly notice the difference. [0] https://news.
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
== without addressing the dramatic decline in public safety in virtually all US cities== Can you expand on this? What timeframe? Which cities? Which crimes? Violent crime is down precipitously in pretty much every US city right now.
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
It’s odd how you claim this will impact foreign companies, but your only example is a US-based company. The question was, do you believe companies will just accept lower margins or if they will eventually increase prices to re-coup those ma
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
== hints at pressure on corporate margins.== And if those hints become reality, might prices rise to re-increase margins? Do you make the same argument about the corporate income tax being absorbed by companies? Or do you assume that tax ma
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
==There is no context that justifies Hamas using schools as weapons hubs.== Hamas isn't a part of UNESCO, nor should they be. I don't think we should let the KKK, Proud Boys, or Gatekeepers into UNESCO either based on their domest
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
==I'm just tired of people thinking timelines are short when stuff performs under super ideal conditions== This feels like a strawman. We just started doing this in one place with ideal conditions. The next step could be other places w
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
==California represents the easy 80% side of the Pareto curve for a lot of this stuff== It also represents 12% of the country's population, which makes it a better benchmark than just being 1 of 50 states.
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
== How many kids do you have to drop off at school on your way to work?== This is the definition of moving goalposts. What about this work-from-home that everybody on HN is always hyping? People in cities can often just walk their kids to s
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
== There’s nothing you can do about it other than to impoverish the population.== So dramatic. I know plenty of economically successful people who take public transportation. Visit Chicago, New York, London, Shanghai, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo,
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
What is the difference between “widgets” and “insert favorite agenda”? It seems like the exact same thing to me
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
==That fuck in Chicago.== Not sure what this is adding to the discussion, but eliminating cash bail has been a success in Illinois. That’s why you don’t hear the right talking about it anymore. Crime in Chicago has fallen every year since i
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
==the Russia/Ukraine war causing all sorts of problems.== Problems, yes. Catastrophes, no. It's not clear that they "needed" full backup capacity.
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
I see plenty of congestion when I drive in Texas, with its Republican supermajority. Surely, a few more lanes on the highway will fix it.
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
I am working on building a prototype for a simple 4-track recorder. It would be a cross between a Yak Back [0] voice recorder and a Tascam DP-004 [1] mixer. My 7 year-old has gotten into music and is trying to record his own ideas. We have
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
That’s fair. I was looking more at the promises of what it can/will do than integrating it into products. The MBA CEOs seem more focused on solving business problems and the tech CEOs are more focused on changing the world. This is all
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
They are slow-playing the promise of what AI can, should, and will accomplish for us. Nadella said this yesterday at YC’s AI Startup School: == “The real test of AI,” Nadella said, “is whether it can help solve everyday problems — like maki
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
Funny enough, the large AI companies run by CEOs with MBAs (Alphabet and MSFT), seem to be slow-playing AI. The ones promising the most (Meta, Tesla, OpenAI, Nvidia) are led by strict technologists. Maybe it’s time to adjust your internal “
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
==We can also look towards the UK where socialist politics have been a mainstay since the 90s,== The UK was lead by the Conservative party continuously from 2010-2024. You somehow skipped all of that and went straight from Tony Blair to Kei
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
You haven't demonstrated that it is de facto policy, only asserted that it is.
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
You are proving the original point by again focusing on the extremes. Do you have any data/research to back up your claims that people who think they are in the middle are actually unhealthy or that they compare themselves to outliers?
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
== Pretty sure they're referring to a de facto open border policy,== I’m summary, not open borders. There have been about 20k border patrol agents in the US each year since 2008. Seems like a lot of agents for an open border policy. h
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
I don’t see an Open Borders policy in any of those links. Most of them are about how the countries are tightening their rules for allowing migrants. You cannot tighten rules unless they already exist, they wouldn’t exist if the policy was O
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
== Currently, in western countries, socialist policies to import the 3rd world and open borders are directly responsible for the lowering social trust.== I don’t know of any western country with an “open borders” policy, can you provide one
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
== And make no mistake: there was enough dirty bathwater to go around== Any evidence to share?
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
== I think a huge, huge amount of the government is wasteful but the CSB is doing incredible work== It feels like there is some type of reverse Gell-Mann Amnesia that goes on with government spending and programs. Those close to the subject
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
== Government programs have no concern for ROI and that's precisely the problem; they just siphon more resources out of the private sector and keep going regardless of whether there's any return or not.== You have inserted your pe
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
If we are being pedantic, they are called “LEGO”.
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
== if they spend too much on negative ROI activities== This is the key, and it has nothing to do with being private or public. You have brought that bias into the discussion.
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
Most democracies don’t have 100% vote share or approval going to one party, so we have disagreements. There are also lots of other elections that happen more often than every 4 years.
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by supplied_demand 1y ago
==Government has no mechanism to ensure the money it spends is on things that have a positive ROI== Sure they do, elections.

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