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by yobbo 5y ago
> AFAIK the main purpose first and foremost was to prevent the health system from collapsing. You're arguing against the wording of the title, but the overall conclusion is clear - that lockdowns (in the common use of the word) did
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by yobbo 5y ago
Easy - nowadays value is not created from software itself, but from data lock-in and "capture".
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by yobbo 5y ago
> Their retirement is not met with the same amount of young worker At retirement age, no one is active in IT at that level. For many decades, IT/engineering has been a bad career choice, and this perception has become part of the cu
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by yobbo 5y ago
> How do countries become unable to satisfy local demand through local supply? Demand and supply are measured in units of money, and when they don't match, transactions don't take place.
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by yobbo 5y ago
The question is rather why software salaries are so high in USA. That is the real anomaly.
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by yobbo 5y ago
With admin type duties, people in tech can work at least as many hours. That is probably the closest analogy.
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by yobbo 5y ago
Yep. Anyone claiming to be working more than 40 hrs is implicitly revealing that their job doesn't require much thinking. It is possible in crunch time to work harder on difficult problems, but not for longer than a few weeks at a time
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by yobbo 5y ago
> Imagine how much power those things used. 286s or 386s didn't need heatsinks, and since the rear side of shelves are up against the wall, there isn't much heat generated, or else they would have had problems. > If we ignor
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by yobbo 5y ago
> How can we push harder to find better than average candidates? Just ask them where they needed to solve a problem with an algorithm, why/what they did, how they implemented, tested, validated. What other problems could use the sam
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by yobbo 5y ago
> skirt around discriminatory hiring practices Yes, maybe we should consider leetcode interview as something of a rorschach-blotch. The interviewer can take the discussion in any direction he wants, under the pretence of "evaluating
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by yobbo 5y ago
> It's called Zoom Does zoom increase or decrease productivity relative to email and phone calls? I suspect it decreases productivity.
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by yobbo 5y ago
One such metric would be Chinese export volumes, in ships and containers. Apparently container ports are clogged in USA.
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by yobbo 5y ago
Recently heard tell of places that sell failed products in bulk on discount; but they are determined as failed before they reach this stage. Wouldn't seem surprising if grocers and distributors sell failing products on discount in area
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by yobbo 5y ago
Or it could be that the boomer generations are moving in to streaming and listening to all the songs of their youth. The proportion of people younger than 30 is shrinking everywhere there is 4G and more.
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by yobbo 5y ago
> high quality masters could be made which sound good even today Those mixes and masters were optimized in a world where everyone listened to vinyl, radio, home hifi, and crappy car stereos. This biases the whole production in certain wa
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by yobbo 5y ago
Even ABBA had multiple vocal tracks mixed together, with subtle phase/pitch effects done with tape, to achieve richer/fuller/sparkling sound. Meanwhile, breakdowns of Billie Eilish mixes show that Finneas, the producer, is us
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by yobbo 5y ago
Partly true. If your job is to create or be a "politically acceptable" pretext for an unavoidable decision, then you will have adversaries who will want to discredit you. This means that in order to be effective you have to engage
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by yobbo 5y ago
> Foreign keys does not correspond to class hierarchies If a foreign key is primary in two tables (1:1 relation), then it can correspond well to a hierarchical relation. In other cases, foreign keys can also correspond to composition as
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by yobbo 5y ago
No, since expected intraday gains are negative, this would be a losing strategy. Closing price seems to be lower than opening price on average. The suggested explanation is: buy orders are placed before open, raising opening price. The gain
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by yobbo 5y ago
> the power they wield in the job market This is new. Somehow stimulus/asset inflation is causing this (lower labour market participation).
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by yobbo 5y ago
Yes, true.
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by yobbo 5y ago
> after the plague you're planting food to feed only 60% All land would used as much it could, and if there was surplus after making food and drink of the best produce, it would become feed for animals. They could grow better things
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by yobbo 5y ago
When there is fixed amount of capital (crops, land, gold coins in short time scale), the amount of work is fixed.
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by yobbo 5y ago
Because of labour shortage, labour retains bigger share of value vs. aristocracy. Also, amount of capital per capita increases.
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by yobbo 5y ago
Yes, and note that a "Craftsman's house" was 2.5x yearly income. For 7.5x yearly income, you get a "Castle wall tower".
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by yobbo 5y ago
> beyond my boss believing it Even worse, the boss might not care what is true/false. The boss might win if she has many reports that seem to be working hard on hard problems, not achieving something measurable.
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by yobbo 5y ago
My ponderings: central bank economists are truly confused why the real world is not following text book examples, and they are still reluctant to admit mistakes. (factoids I don't remember sources for:) Chinese export volume is higher
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by yobbo 5y ago
https://www.ahri.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MEDRXIV-2021... Omicron is more transmissible. Less pathogenic. It evades immune responses from vaccines, and previous delta infections. But: it creates an
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by yobbo 5y ago
The business model is data/network lock-in. Everything is optimized to prevent users from switching, not solving users' problems. I think it's because users don't pay for anything; it's valuations based on ad exposu
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by yobbo 5y ago
> The current (very high) price of 1.5 SEK/kWh The average December price was around 2 SEK/kWh in southern Sweden, which after net fees/tax/vat is around 3 SEK/kWh for home charging. Assuming a charging efficienc

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