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by tarsinge 7y ago
We may disagree on political solutions, but I hope at this point everyone will acknowledge that in a society with otherwise so much wealth, health care shouldn't be that dysfunctional.
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by tarsinge 7y ago
My understanding is that it has already snowballed for a lot a small businesses, and I'm not sure loans to certains industries are saner, without even talking about the government debt of some countries.
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by tarsinge 7y ago
Not if suffering on earth is put in the context of an eternal afterlife of joy coming after. You cannot dissociate the two.
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by tarsinge 7y ago
On a last resort there is an extreme solution that seems to work in any field especially artistic ones: stop doing it professionally. Get back to it as a hobby, exploring and playing with anything on personal projects without any financial
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by tarsinge 7y ago
Personally it took me at least two years to learn to work from home. The key for me is actively rebalancing your social life and interactions on outside of work activities. That's not intuitive because we are so used at getting some in
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by tarsinge 7y ago
Actually contrary to popular belief medieval peasants had plenty of free time, and holiday occasions: https://www.businessinsider.fr/us/american-worker-less-vacat...
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by tarsinge 7y ago
I agree, this is anecdote but a dysfunctional company I have seen had engineering stick on their own roadmap disconnected from customers. The end result was a product that failed to evolve to the market, no features were added for years bec
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by tarsinge 7y ago
That's a very good point, inflation in real estate is easy to grasp.
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by tarsinge 7y ago
It could be hard for startups because of lower consumer and enterprise demand, plus VC funding drying up, but that’s still hypothetical I guess.
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by tarsinge 7y ago
The irony is that a lot of things you list are causing huge challenges for the environment and are not sustainable, so maybe a golden age for your generation not so much after.
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by tarsinge 7y ago
In theory yes, but in practice even with frameworks codebases can turn into messes, and/or tends to become solid but completely frozen on a particular feature set. Small changes suddenly becomes daunting because the initial architectur
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by tarsinge 7y ago
I think the not owning the software subjective sentiment is made worse by the subscription model. Personally paying for Photoshop for example was more acceptable when it was "physically" an App in my Mac. I still have very old ver
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by tarsinge 7y ago
Is timing the market always wrong though? I don't feel like I made a bad deal selling one month ago and now re-entering DCA. It was obvious that the US market was not correctly pricing this pandemic. I think there is a middle ground be
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by tarsinge 7y ago
This is/was maybe true on Windows but on macOS installing an App the standard way is straightforward and any user knows how to do it.
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by tarsinge 7y ago
It’s totally viable to have a no growth business. Trustful clients, steady income, no debts. I’m lucky but for now there is nearly no impact on my web agency. And even if activity dropped to 0 we have cash for a few months to pay salaries.
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by tarsinge 7y ago
Apart from paying people to stay at home during the pandemic what's the issue? Why would tourism disappear? Buy the failed airline/hotel, change the name, personnel returns to work, business as usual.
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by tarsinge 7y ago
But Japan did not let the banks and corporations fail, then they got zombie economy. Instead let entrepreneurs buy defaulting corporations with all their assets for $1 and see what can happen with fresh blood and creativity. No value is des
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by tarsinge 7y ago
I'm not well versed in economy and I have a maybe dumb question: how would large public infrastructure projects financed by the government in the post-crisis period help with keeping people employed and help the economy spring back? Ed
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by tarsinge 7y ago
Exactly this. This is not a financial crisis, corporations bailout without Demand will do nothing and we’ll have wasted all that money.
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by tarsinge 7y ago
Maybe a pause of all rent activities combined with financing only vital industries could work. The costs would be limited to a few select industries, and while huge it would be nothing compared to gouvernement trying to maintain the whole e
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by tarsinge 7y ago
That’ll look like a good case for UBI if we go down that route of leaner businesses. Also given that a reduction in consumption was needed short term for climate it might have indirect middle long term positive effects.
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by tarsinge 7y ago
The past is not a predictor of the future, 2008 is a single point hardly representative of any economic crisis to come. A lump sum invested in 1929 would have taken decade to recover, and with the Nikkei it still wouldn’t have. These models
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by tarsinge 7y ago
Regarding war before the 20th century, Total war[1] was an exception. The plan for European civilians since antiquity was basically life as usual, war was a matter of political power and resources, farms weren't burned and population k
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by tarsinge 7y ago
Sounds strange to me, I have a free account with N26 in France with free debit card, and also most banks here do instant transfers now.
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by tarsinge 7y ago
In Europe in dense cities . In France near Paris for example you can clearly see the distinction when you go further in the countryside[1]. Anecdotical but I know very few people under 40 who own a car in Paris: [1] % of families having at
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by tarsinge 7y ago
Also the validity of software EULA in the EU is still blurry for me (definitely not expert), to my knowledge they are not more enforceable than conditions of how you are permitted to use any object you bought. You own it, you are free to us
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by tarsinge 7y ago
> owning a Tesla one of my medium-term life goals for the environmental benefits Sorry to jump in but just in case keep in mind that pushing an old ICE car has usually a lesser impact than buying a new one, it can take years until the di
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by tarsinge 7y ago
Sure a therapist is better than books but it’s not true that everyone is broken, that’s the equivalent of saying everyone is sick and should be on medication. Everyone has issues but having a balanced life with lots of social interactions i
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by tarsinge 7y ago
At it’s core SAP as it is used in most companies nowadays is mostly just a database of clients, vendors, invoices, purchase orders, and inventory, with a UI for CRUD operations. Business decisions are usually made on exports in third party
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by tarsinge 7y ago
The defendant is a small business = real humans you can talk to. Maybe they could have explained that they did not have the money yet but could gladly bring coffee outside with more service in the meantime. It's easy to hide being lega

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