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by tcbawo 2y ago
This is the type of thing that a public review/reputation system tends to flesh out. But, we have seen this fail over and over as the system gets gamed or abused. Any industry where consumers buy less frequently than once every few m
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by tcbawo 2y ago
This also applies to several other competitive industries with asymmetric information — auto repair, plumbing, and HVAC come to mind. Consumers have to place their trust in someone. It always pays to be an informed consumer. Sometimes, I
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by tcbawo 2y ago
What candidate are you referring to?
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by tcbawo 2y ago
When the next recession happens, stocks will fall and bonds will rally, causing yields and interest burden to fall. The US recently had a historic opportunity to refinance and lock in long term debt at low rates, but that ship has sailed.
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What does it do better?
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by tcbawo 2y ago
Can’t any computer with external connectivity (ie serial or network connectivity) be considered to have infinite memory?
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by tcbawo 2y ago
Although it also helps that he was able to get a confession most(?) of the time
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by tcbawo 2y ago
I use Google Photo because it’s easy. However, the rate of recording has outpaced my ability to stay organized. I appreciate the memory highlights and throwbacks, but I think we are missing out on leveraging technology in this space. The
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by tcbawo 2y ago
Is it’s not an either/or proposition. There is a dearth of informed populace. But many of the problems in a modern society are very complex and boring to the majority of people. There is a very small population of informed people.
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by tcbawo 2y ago
Within the last generation, we have seen a large increase in wealth disparity. Technological progress and the multiplier effect that “internet scale“ enables seems to have amplified the effect.
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by tcbawo 2y ago
Is the extent of judgement around who makes the most money a recent phenomenon? It seems more common these days for people to look down on others that make less than them. Maybe there are more visible status symbols now. The older I get,
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by tcbawo 2y ago
> And they have zero idea how to mentor and train From my experience, they have zero _interest_ in mentoring or training. For C++, there are ways other than professionally to get experience. Despite the hate it gets here, there are exam
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by tcbawo 2y ago
It’s too bad that it hasn’t acquired the name of an author to describe this alternative functionality more concisely without being judgy (like Nagle’s algorithm). I looked around, and it seems that there isn’t any one designer/author
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by tcbawo 2y ago
Don’t forget strong property rights, fairly impartial justice system wrt foreign representation, and a large body of corporate case law with predictable outcomes
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by tcbawo 2y ago
I am looking for a personal contact manager that has integration with a personal calendar. I have talked about this with my wife who has moderate ADHD: it is harder for her to manage relationships, because she generally lacks a perception
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by tcbawo 2y ago
It’s a very difficult problem to know what your children are capable of. Both extremes are likely to build resentment. Believing that your children are always capable of more, and not celebrating success can lead to a black hole of succe
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by tcbawo 2y ago
One of the biggest struggles with high achievement comes from having to choose which activities to be an achiever. Sometimes you have to explicitly decide which activities to exclude . You have to learn how to be okay with not being the
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by tcbawo 2y ago
There was a quote from Winston Churchill that I saw once: “ No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.” When it comes to sports, school — anything really — I try to tell my kids that all they can do is prepare and do their be
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by tcbawo 2y ago
Civilization was the game that made me decide to stop playing video games. So many nights of “just one more turn”, then next thing you know, it’s 3am. So much fun and happy memories, though!
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by tcbawo 2y ago
Who is saying that there is a labor shortage? Or is there a shortage of people willing to do low paying/dead end jobs?
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by tcbawo 2y ago
Did you achieve mastery of the subject matter without doing the homework? If so, kudos to you. If not, then perhaps doing the homework might have been of some value. Practicing leads to solving problems faster and with less mistakes. Of
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by tcbawo 2y ago
Do you think your teacher saw potential in you and was trying to get more from you? My biggest frustration with the public school near me is that they don’t care whether a student thrives, only that they don’t fail. Attempting to instill
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by tcbawo 2y ago
> surprisingly childish response from an adult that ought to know better The lesson you learned from this experience was that the adult was being childish?
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by tcbawo 2y ago
> If you throw a bunch of unenforceable clauses into an NDA/non-compete/whatever, that increases the likelihood of the whole thing being thrown out I’m not sure that this is true. Any employment contract will have a partial in
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by tcbawo 2y ago
> people who have provably low income You want to give all your financial info to your brokerage? What increasing latency will do is widen the markets. We’ll go back to the days of multiple cents or dollars between the bid and offer pri
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by tcbawo 2y ago
Possibly. Although with GFCI sockets, I was not as concerned.
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by tcbawo 2y ago
I had a Braun shaver for a very long time — long after the battery had died. It worked great while plugged into the wall, which was fine because I kept it in the bathroom next to an outlet. I switched to a new shaver after receiving one a
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by tcbawo 2y ago
High rates don’t impact people without mortgages. There are lots of people who bought in ages ago and move their equity between homes. At least according to the WSJ and others, there seems to be a decent chunk of investor-owned real esta
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by tcbawo 2y ago
High rates also incentivizes your customers to save now and buy later, slowing sales activity and growth. This increases pressure to control costs. Trying to engineer a soft landing is hard. It’s like trying to perform a moon landing. Th
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by tcbawo 2y ago
Is this at least partially the product of a culture of disposable goods? People would rather buy a new TV every few years than fix them. As wasteful as it seems, people seem to choose this option more and more with their purchase habits.

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