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by tech_ken 3y ago
Many industries have massive negative externalities and a stranglehold on regulation through lobbying, loose campaign finance laws, and regulatory capture. I get that scrolling can become compulsive for some people, but I think comparing it
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I'm not sure if this logic really holds up. Lot's of things "waste time". By this definition both television (before scrolling people would easily spend 2+ hours watching "the boob tube") and traffic (many peop
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Do they? As in for immediate consumption on the premises? Or packaged to-go? The latter seems reasonable, but the former seems like a somewhat dangerous idea. Maybe I'm just too US-centric
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And their biggest margin item is alcohol, which is kind of a non-starter for a roadside restaurant.
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I'm curious about the cost structure of a gas station relative to a charging station. I would imagine that like an unattended charging port, connected to the grid and monitored remotely, would be very different to run and fund compared
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Big-time agreement with you there
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by tech_ken 3y ago
If the product is being sold for less than its true value then the person making that product will be underpaid and/or overworked. Sure someone choosing between "glass factory" and "semiconductor fab" may choose the
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I think the push to fab SCs in the US is going to quickly run up against the fact that consumer technology pricing is incompatible with our labor standards. We've spent the last 50+ years exploiting global wage inequality to flood the
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by tech_ken 3y ago
IDK, I enjoy the occasional spicy conversation but the intermittent, casual slurs are a big turnoff for me
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by tech_ken 3y ago
If I charge a fixed rate per hour then the number of clients is irrelevant no? 8 hours of work a day pays the same amount, regardless of how many people it serves.
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by tech_ken 3y ago
The difficulty required in producing this rate limits it, moreover artists can exercise professional discretion.
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by tech_ken 3y ago
"The country was doing fine when it was a racial caste system centered on extracting and exporting natural resources to the metropole" is definitely a hell of a take. Sure the British kept the city nice for themselves when they we
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I believe "Understanding Media" is his biggest one; source of his most famous quote "the medium is the message"
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> It is easy to escape poverty if you put in the effort I think this is a nontrivial assumption
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> Without them we wouldn’t have McNuggets. youtube.com/watch?v=uG3uea-Hvy4
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by tech_ken 3y ago
>Arbitrage and it's various squishier more stochastic cousins are the vehicle by which information flows through markets. >This works a lot like a game of telephone where changes in one market venue propagate through related inst
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by tech_ken 3y ago
>that was no small amount of work. It definitely shows, thank you for publishing it freely >The purpose of financial markets, sometimes but not always wholly achieved, is to transfer risks to those best able to hold them. This makes a
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Sure I’m pro-risk management. So by arbing lending-rates which risks are mitigated?
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Gotcha gotcha, that makes sense, thanks for the clear explanation! So I can see how the arbitrage (thusly defined) has the risk mitigation benefits other people talk about, can the same be said about speculation?
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I don’t think people think through the “deterrence” angle very well though. In order to make deterrence effective you need to have people who really stand to lose something, but like I was just listening to C.R.E.A.M last night (funny enoug
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by tech_ken 3y ago
This is an excellent resource and a great read, but DAMN do money markets seem stupid as all get out to me. Where is the productive output of all these arbitrage shell games? How is this more than an abysmal waste of time and resources simp
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Maybe I'm just a choke artist but if I win the exchange I'm probably losing the game. Opponent always seems to "turn on" and I just get blown away
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by tech_ken 3y ago
AFAIK NextCloud aims to replace something like Google Calendar, but this isn't exactly what I'm after. What I really need is something that replaces FB Events. I want to be able to create a distinct event, with like a page, time,
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by tech_ken 3y ago
> Hey, I wanted to reply to this, but just didn't find the time. Story of my life, glad you found things clear if not persuasive! Hope you're having a nice start to your week
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Sweet! Yeah my partner and I have made a shift to keep our lives in our personal calendars which has been a huge QoL upgrade for us, but it's still so hard to keep track of who in the friend group is available when, as well as keep eve
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by tech_ken 3y ago
This is a cool idea and a nice looking implementation. I have a Signal group chat that I've been trying to find a slightly better home for, one feature I think we desperately need is a community calendar; some way that we can create an
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by tech_ken 3y ago
My (and I suspect many others') main use case for a TV+surround sound system is social consumption of media. A TV I can't watch with my partner is useless, a speaker I can't use to keep a party going is useless. To me the rel
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by tech_ken 3y ago
>Predicting a textbook is like writing a textbook HN AGI discourse is full of statements like this (eg. all the stuff about stochastic parrots), but to me this seems massively non-obvious. Mimicking and rephrasing pre-written text is ver
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by tech_ken 3y ago
How does "get okay at software engineering" entail that it is able to strategize at the level your scenario requires? Finding an OpenSSL exploit already seems like a big leap, but one that okay maybe I can concede is plausible. Bu
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(Tragically) Colorado's school districts definitely do not have the manpower, funding, or will to handle linux tech support for a bunch of teenagers. They can barely stay open 5 days a week

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