z3rgl1ng

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by z3rgl1ng 4y ago
This is an oft-repeated piece of received wisdom that is empirically untrue. https://www.statnews.com/2018/06/28/end-of-life-health-spend...
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by z3rgl1ng 4y ago
My pet theory is this boils down to investor confidence. Executives get more comp in stock, cutting workers sends the right signal.
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by z3rgl1ng 4y ago
Jevon’s paradox implies we’d have a brief respite, chronologically speaking, before having to tackle something like heat shedding.
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by z3rgl1ng 5y ago
Actually, originally no; stocks paid dividends.
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by z3rgl1ng 5y ago
“We are qualitatively different. All we need to do is open our eyes. You look out your window at that beautiful ~~city~~ anthill that happens to be out there that cannot be explained by this gradual increase of biological complexity.” The o
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by z3rgl1ng 5y ago
Would love to see some data backing up the authors assertions, otherwise this reads a bit as a screed.
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by z3rgl1ng 5y ago
I'm curious as I see this thrown around a lot; how does the slowdown in production and labor not factor into inflation, too? It seems to me like those are much stronger contributions, as the CPI items that are up the most are directly
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by z3rgl1ng 5y ago
Periodic reminder that Starlink’s 12k cluster will only support ~500k users[0] at a minimum $1bn cost to taxpayers[1]. [0] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200928/09175145397/repor... [1] https:/&#x2
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by z3rgl1ng 6y ago
Christ, every reply to this thread is an anecdote. Please back up assertions with _some_ data point..
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by z3rgl1ng 6y ago
+1, [Citation Needed].
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by z3rgl1ng 6y ago
Citations for your claims? As I understand it most inefficiencies we see in government come from stripping resources out, not from wasteful allocation.
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by z3rgl1ng 6y ago
> But my overall point is that taxes targeting the rich and super-rich will fail, as they always have and always will... Is that true though? Not long ago taxes on the wealthy were much higher and income inequality was lower. Personally
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by z3rgl1ng 6y ago
Seems to be because we can’t spin up testing.
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by z3rgl1ng 6y ago
They said Waymo had that valuation.
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by z3rgl1ng 7y ago
Yes. The writing style is unkind to the author.
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by z3rgl1ng 7y ago
This is what happens when an Aztec mates with a Delorean. This is the biggest boondoggle, maybe ever. The Reliant Robin has more charisma than this thing.
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by z3rgl1ng 7y ago
Will they be able to survive until then with this though? Because I seriously doubt it.