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by twoodfin 1y ago
When do you think that trend reversed and per capita disposable income was declining prior to the current rise?
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Real per capita disposable income has been on a steady upward trend for decades: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A229RX0 Unless socialization activities like bars or athletics are major outliers, it seems likely tha
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by twoodfin 1y ago
You put your finger on Apple’s big problem in the inter-Steve era: Product. They had all the pieces, or certainly the smart engineers and designers to build the pieces that were missing, but nobody with a strategic product vision to make th
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by twoodfin 1y ago
My view of the history is that Steve wanted to take the Mac simultaneously in two directions: Get the “classic” Mac cheaper and more capable for home users, and build out a “Big Mac” line of workstation/business machines. Both of these
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Explicitly and between the lines, Carruth and Google have made it clear that the “bad” part of C++ from their perspective is the standards committee. In particular, the committee’s unwillingness to make ABI-breaking changes to the language,
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by twoodfin 1y ago
To avoid any possibility of reintroducing the Most Vexing Parse? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_vexing_parse
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Slick! Have you considered adding product feedback from the exploration & experiences of the agent back to the app developers? “Several users had difficulty navigating to their order history” etc. Product managers I know would drool ove
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by twoodfin 1y ago
If trends continue, then you'd expect people to spend less time in productivity software, and more time creating and connecting. Does the average American worker today spend a ton of time in productivity software? I know and Zucker
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Turing be praised!
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by twoodfin 1y ago
“About a third” doesn’t sound anywhere near a monopoly to me. This is all demand-side inflation: For any number of better and worse reasons (mostly worse), as building codes have gotten stricter and fires have become rarer, municipal spendi
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Wizardry!
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Wow, no idea highlights existed. Glad you used this opportunity to …uhh… highlight it via this great post. I was at MIT just before this switch, and treasure having gotten to take these deep dive courses, even if .002 and .003 kicked my ass
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by twoodfin 1y ago
I suspect high-end merchants get that the financially well-off potential customers who hold high-fee rewards cards expect to be able to use them. Worth the 3% on a high-margin purchase to attract the customer vs. annoying them. The fee ends
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by twoodfin 1y ago
If I were Nvidia, the last thing I’d want is a foundry. Much better to have multiple capital-intensive suitors—and governments!—bending over backwards for my business.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
The year on this article should be (2024).
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Broadly, what can you do in Xbox “developer mode” that you can’t do with a similar Apple developer account & their SDK?
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by twoodfin 1y ago
He also has that rare Fred Rogers-esque gift of talking in a way children understand without talking down to them. Not unheard of in today’s tap-obsessed world of YouTube Kids & streaming apps, but much harder to find.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Prices cannot rise faster than inflation by the same metric. By definition the rise of prices—by whatever debatable metric—is inflation. Wages have been rising faster than inflation, that’s link #2.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
“If you remove the workers who are showing increasing participation, the labor force participation rate is declining.” Sure.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060 Minus the Covid blip, not lately!
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Real income has barely increased since 1980, as in 10% or less. Real median household income is up over 36% since 1984 (the furthest back the linked chart goes: 1984 was in the middle of an economic expansion, so you’d expect a comparison
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by twoodfin 1y ago
The current economic order is good. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Couple of points in defense of the stargate sequence: a) It’s meant to be seen and heard on what even today would be a pretty insane cinematic setup. Even moreso than the rest of the film, it loses a lot in the translation to the home theat
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by twoodfin 1y ago
This kind of link always makes me want to plug a 25 year-old episode of C-SPAN’s Book Notes, featuring Stanley Lombardo—beating a drum in rhythm with a reading of his then-recent Odyssey translation—and Christopher Hitchens, among others.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
TFA addresses this theory directly: The leap in fertility that became the baby boom started years before the war.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Congrats. Take care with the money, as always, but kids are the most rewarding “investment” imaginable.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Would you say there’s a brown M&M’s aspect (intentional or otherwise) to FIPS-140, or is it all just bowing to the sovereign for his indulgences?
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by twoodfin 1y ago
“Mom-and-pop” operations holding 1-5 homes sound like classic single-family developers who tackle a small handful of homes at a time.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
For anyone who didn’t already know, this concern is a key plot point in the second season of HBO’s “comedy” series The Rehearsal . Personally, found it simultaneously one of the greatest and most insane seasons of television ever. YMMV.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Korea?!

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