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by vannevar 4y ago
>By raising real estate prices, it stimulates the construction business, which is labor intensive and has a long supply chain. It benefits the entire economy of the country. Maybe, but only if the increase in wages paid keeps up with the
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by vannevar 4y ago
The image was part of the problem, but any new technology has the barrier of looking weird when first introduced (VR anyone?). The real problem was that they were super expensive, and there were cheaper alternatives that did most of what a
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by vannevar 4y ago
> Just a reminder to check your biases. Everything you don’t like isn’t caused by the other political party. You are correct. If I'd made the bet, I would have lost because the underlying data shows most of the increase in agreement
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by vannevar 4y ago
This link, right? https://www.staatus-index.org/ The screen that says "However, an increasing percentage of Americans in 2022 are questioning the loyalty of Asian Americans and blaming Asian Americans for the Covid-19
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by vannevar 4y ago
Saying they abandoned Facebook is not really accurate, it isn't like the same cohort had Facebook accounts and then left. More accurate to say that Facebook is no longer attracting new teen users at nearly the rate they used to.
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by vannevar 4y ago
Where are you seeing this? I don't see anywhere in the report where it breaks those two questions down by party. Also worth observing that the report shows 35% of Republicans wouldn't be comfortable with an Asian American Presiden
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by vannevar 4y ago
The change I want to see is broad recognition that Republican leaders are leveraging latent racism for political gain, so that moderate voters turn away from the party and it is forced to abandon that cynical strategy, which is actively div
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by vannevar 4y ago
The concerning stats are on slides 32 and 33, showing that an increasing number of Americans believe Asian Americans are more loyal to their country of origin, and that Asian Americans contributed to COVID-19. Unlike some of the other stats
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by vannevar 4y ago
The punitive damages are yet to be determined, and unlike the compensatory phase, for punitives the jury can take into account his net worth.
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by vannevar 4y ago
I'm sure it is, but "gluing things together" coherently in response to a text prompt is a stupendous achievement. It's not AGI, but it's miles ahead of where we were even a few years ago and opens the door to automa
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by vannevar 4y ago
I don't think anyone denied that it ever happened, I think they denied it was typical. And it isn't typical: the average emergency room wait in Ontario is around 2 hours ( https://www.hqontario.ca/system-performan
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by vannevar 4y ago
Hypergiant | Senior Java and Scala Dev | Full-time and Contract | Remote At Hypergiant we design, implement, and execute software and solutions across Space, Defense, and Critical Infrastructure. We’re looking for skilled Lead Java and Scal
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by vannevar 4y ago
>You've defined capitalism circularly to your argument. Not so much a circular definition as a practical one. Technically an investor could invest only to get dividends or rent, but in today's world, in both the stock market an
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by vannevar 4y ago
>Plenty of capitalists are happy running businesses at steady state. There are plenty of business owners who are happy to run at steady state---sole proprietors and family businesses, for example. These kinds of businesses can exist with
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by vannevar 4y ago
Social media companies are in a bind. They're companies, so they have to grow or die. But they're invested in their current platform, and the likelihood of a particular innovation being successful is low, so it's tough for th
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by vannevar 4y ago
https://everything2.com/node/superdoc/The+Everything2+Voting... One key idea: "Try to vote according to the standard of writing, not because you agree or disagree with what someone has written." This is
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by vannevar 4y ago
>I remember everything2 which was sort of a forerunner of wikipedia, and better in some ways. E2 has the best karma system I've encountered online, which went a long way toward maintaining high quality content.
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by vannevar 4y ago
>In an unregulated capitalist system, supply increases to meet demand. But demand comes from capital, not from the housing needs of individuals. In one tier of the economy, a house is a home; for another, that same house is an investment
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by vannevar 4y ago
>Landlords would subdivide houses into individual rooms and rent them out. Isn't our current crisis primarily a shortage of low income housing? Is all low income housing a "slum"? Landlords would be competing for good rent
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by vannevar 4y ago
Turn the rental market on its head and cap enforceable rent at 20% of the renters household income at the time of signing the lease. Landlords would compete for higher-income renters, but there are only so many of those to go around. They w
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by vannevar 4y ago
The housing market is not "broken", it's working exactly the way it's expected to in a relatively unregulated capitalist system. In unregulated capitalism, the wealthiest segments of the population get richer at a faster
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by vannevar 4y ago
Yes, because Amazon has created perverse incentives for anonymous manufacturers to fabricate as many "brands" as possible, there are now so many of them that they crowd out actual brands. The original purpose of a brand name was t
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by vannevar 4y ago
I think limiting the number of upvotes and downvotes a user has per day, with maybe a sliding scale for karma, would vastly improve HN. It would slow down the voting circles considerably and make fake accounts much less valuable to marketin
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by vannevar 4y ago
#5 here should be #1, by a mile. Here in Texas, Google is carpet-bombing local TV with ads blasting the bipartisan AIAOC as an attack on American technology by "tha lib'rals," cynically exploiting the political division to sc
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by vannevar 4y ago
Would any anonymous downvoter care to identify where this comment is inaccurate and provide some explanation as to why you think so? The poll results show very clearly that the increasing mistrust is mostly among conservatives. And unless y
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by vannevar 4y ago
Virtually all of the decline is among Republicans, which makes sense given that their leadership has focused for many years now on attacking the media as a political strategy. Add to this the fact that many Republicans believe the Trump adm
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by vannevar 4y ago
Your Mac, and my soul.
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by vannevar 4y ago
I don't know what it's like from the inside, but from the outside the acquisition of Oculus by Facebook has gone much better than I expected. I really thought Oculus would be gone within a year, but they've continued to put o
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by vannevar 4y ago
I don't know the LA market, but there is a scenario where both supply and demand could remain constant and yet housing prices could still rise, and that's if the income of housing buyers rises. And if the income rises disproportio
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by vannevar 4y ago
This is just one example of a broader problem with Amazon. It has become essentially a vehicle for automated salesbots to push anonymously manufactured goods of all kinds---not just books---to as many buyers as possible, drowning out storef

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