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by twoodfin 8mo ago
The number Matt’s quoting doesn’t include AWS, AFAICT. It’s “North American segment” revenue in AMZN accounting. AWS is accounted separately as a global unit. Though now that I write that, I wonder if Matt divided by the total number of No
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
AFAICT, the numbers Matt’s referencing include Whole Foods so that’s a Whole Foods + Amazon.com $3,000. Frankly, I think a lot of people have lost perspective on just how rich the average American household is: Around $145k annual income. N
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
Average American spends THREE THOUSAND DOLLAR year at Amazon. That’s staggering. Is it? That’s by households, not individuals. Is it really crazy to imagine a household spending $200-300/month at Costco, Walmart, Whole Foods—or Amazo
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Anything that AI makes more efficient to produce. You can make a lot of money if you can predict the scope of that.
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Monetary policy isn’t inflationary if it’s on par with real production gains. More money chasing even more more goods is deflationary.
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The reason we can’t do manufacturing is because Wall Street demands capital light business models. Not at the (AI) moment.
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
Indeed, to the exclusion of the iPod or iPhone launches. And it gets the core idea right, too, that NeXT was a commercial failure but built the core OS technology launchpad for the mobile revolution—after saving Apple, of course. It’s told
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
Well, at this point the Roberts court has been a thing for decades so I’m not sure what distinction you’re driving at.
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Steve Webber on Multics(youtube.com)
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Indeed, if you want to case intuitional blame here, it’s far more Congress’ fault for forcing the court to split these linguistic hairs rather than address this issue head on themselves.
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The Major Questions Doctrine has been a thing for decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_questions_doctrine
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The expanded subsidies, which were a Covid-era enhancement some 10+ years after ACA was enacted.
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The vast bulk of this “freedom” is exercised by public and union pension funds, not individuals. e.g. https://apnews.com/article/biden-business-united-states-gove...
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I don’t think Trump is particularly crazy like a fox, but Europe taking its defense into its own hands in a coherent, credible manner has been the goal of US European policy across at least the last six or seven administrations of both pa
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
Reaching back 30+ years into my memory... yeah, they were pretty bad. There were some cool ideas embedded into the story, and of course teenage me was desperate to see the mysteries of Rama revealed, & Lee might be a fine writer in his
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Random trivia: Host of the video Gentry Lee is an accomplished space engineer, but he’s also 50% responsible for the collaboration with Arthur C. Clarke that produced the awful Rendezvous with Rama sequels.
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Aliasing being the classic example. If code generation for every pointer dereference has to assume that it’s potentially aliasing any other value in scope, things get slow in a hurry.
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
TBH, a junior dev pointed at an urgent issue who replies simply, “on it” vs. one who takes the time to write a short book report on their initial analysis and plans is—all else being equal—not a close call when it comes to promotion time. I
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Also, stories and those who tell them have been kind of a big deal for us homo sapiens now north of 50,000 years.
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I agree with all of this, good luck coming out the other side! My point was primarily that there’s no “one neat trick” via the AMA to solve the shortage of doctors. Ultimately, if you want more highly trained, highly paid doctors you have t
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by twoodfin 8mo ago
Hard to convey how effective Starflight’s game design was within the limits of the day. The embedding of the story within what was almost entirely free-form exploration & adventure across a huge galaxy was masterful. You could feel how
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by twoodfin 9mo ago
Thanks for a far more thorough version of my comment. I genuinely don’t know the logic of policymakers (if there’s logic at all), but it is fair to point out that one of the main drivers of health care spending is pay to doctors. So it’s no
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by twoodfin 9mo ago
Or: “Yes, But Which Button Do I Push to Fire the Phasers?”
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Writers' Technical Manual (1990) [pdf](engineering.thetafleet.net)
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As I understand, the throughput bottleneck on training new doctors is the availability of funded residencies. So chiefly on the hospitals and the government (Medicare, mostly) to spend more.
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by twoodfin 9mo ago
If you’re going to organize your society around the theory that humans don’t actually possess free will, you’re going to produce a fair number of outcomes that a classical liberal would find abhorrent.
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by twoodfin 9mo ago
Was already on my Watch Later queue, thanks!
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Big Tech today is far more powerful than 1990s Microsoft and 1970s IBM ever were. In aggregate, sure, but no company today comes within an order of magnitude of the power an IBM of the ‘70s and ‘80s or a Microsoft of the ‘90s and ‘00s had
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We have centuries of historical evidence that people really, really don’t like high inflation, and it takes a while & a lot of turmoil for those shocks to work their way through society.
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Generally, protective trade policies weaken rather than strengthen competitiveness in industrialized nations. I guess you could argue that we’re so far behind in some sector like manufacturing that we need developing-nation-like trade barri

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