zjaffee

26 ms·

211.
by zjaffee 8y ago
India has to want to become a powerful manufacturing base, their current (abet informal) development model ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai_Consensus ) doesn't tend to focus much manufacturing when compared to
212.
by zjaffee 8y ago
This is a super important point. Just look at the direction backend software is moving. Think about how many Postgres compatible databases there are. For virtually every major open source project that exists today, there are companies reimp
213.
by zjaffee 8y ago
This is the future and it's not just big companies doing it. Virtually all of the companies that were built on open source products in the past few years stopped centering their focus as being the best place to run said open source pro
214.
by zjaffee 8y ago
Goldman Sachs has been on the back-burner of ethical issues for decades, yet they're still one of the most desirable employers among college graduates.
215.
by zjaffee 8y ago
Don't forget the continued mistreatment of contract workers.
216.
by zjaffee 8y ago
Historically anti trust laws in the united states considered unions as potential trusts that the government would be able to break up. However, they later repealed that piece because it's completely absurd. Even the most powerful union
217.
by zjaffee 8y ago
The TV and Film industry is one of the most heavily unionized industries there is, so there's precedent for unionization in these types of fields.
218.
by zjaffee 8y ago
It absolutely does imply a high standard of living, to suggest it doesn't is incredibly ignorant. The biggest issue in the US is inequality between states. 10 US states have a higher human development index than every country in the wo
219.
by zjaffee 8y ago
It's because it's a dream for people, comparable to working on movies. That's like saying why should a AV technician not work on movies when they can make more money doing recordings for corporate events.
220.
by zjaffee 8y ago
The later is done in virtually every other high paying blue and white collar field, from construction work to all sorts of professional services. It benefits no one but the employers to not have such constraints.
221.
by zjaffee 8y ago
Virtually every other high paying profession has unions by another name, namely professional organizations who often are responsible for things like licensing, ethics enforcement, ect. Should Software Engineers want to remain a part of the
222.
by zjaffee 8y ago
A message probably counts every tweet a person views at a minimum.
223.
by zjaffee 8y ago
What are you talking about, google support is absolutely "some rip off percentage". If you are saying it isn't you clearly aren't working with it at any sort of scale. Edit: I'm being downvoted but it's true, i
224.
by zjaffee 8y ago
As someone whose worked with multiple cloud providers (at very large scales), I would not recommend google cloud simply because of support issues I've had and clearly misrepresented service capabilities and limits. I will agree that GC
225.
by zjaffee 8y ago
I was overlooking the hammer, I was too caught up on the miracle mile, downtown and expo center museums.
226.
by zjaffee 8y ago
What museum is walkable from westwood?
227.
by zjaffee 8y ago
Sunset is hardly part of a broader walkable neighborhood, it's a single street where there are various gaps along it where there's little built for the pedestrian. Parts of Hollywood, Downtown Santa Monica, Koreatown, Downtown, an
228.
by zjaffee 8y ago
None of those neighborhoods are walking distance to museums unless I'm forgetting something. Additionally, I wouldn't call silverlake a walkable neighborhood but I'll give you the other ones. My definition would be could you
229.
by zjaffee 8y ago
Having a car gives you a stronger sense of having control over your transportation, namely you don't have to rely on other people, on timetables, or the stability of the regional transit system in order to get from place to place. You
230.
by zjaffee 8y ago
Those 600 dollar strollers tend to work pretty well for dragging kids around, also at least in manhattan, you can get virtually anything delivered.
231.
by zjaffee 8y ago
Venice is far from super-walkable, it's just walkable by American mid-density standards. I don't know how much time you spend there, but the sidewalks in Venice are pretty poor quality, walking to and from the grocery store would
232.
by zjaffee 8y ago
Sounds like you live in downtown, as that's the only neighborhood that fits all of those things within walking distance. The majority of people who live in LA, live somewhere nestled into the bigger sprawl that is the region. While the
233.
by zjaffee 8y ago
I don't think it's that simple, the work force participation rate today is about the same that it was in 1980 (abet there has been population growth since then).
234.
by zjaffee 8y ago
Wealth is absolutely a zero sum game depending on how you segment things. Increases in productivity and innovation are not zero sum, but things like land ownership on earth is absolutely zero sum.
235.
by zjaffee 8y ago
Because that's how our economy works, there is a limited cash supply dictated by the central bank, the only way for more liquid cash to be created is through central banks buying up securities and in turn introducing more liquidity int
236.
by zjaffee 8y ago
This is because college majors people do can be broken down into half as being generally viewed as practical or career focused such as STEM, business, education, agriculture, communications, ect. Where as the other half tend to be more enri
237.
by zjaffee 8y ago
It's really odd that he says that considering how different unemployment is today compared to 2008, where as in 1937 unemployment had consistently been bad starting back in 1929.
238.
by zjaffee 8y ago
Because the US government has a history of reclaiming the beach as erosion begins happening largely because the economic gain in doing so is higher than it's current cost. I'd expect this to continue far into the future.
239.
by zjaffee 8y ago
People have been saying this since 2015. While the conditions for debt refinancing have certainly changed, it's not clear by any means that this is the sort of problem that would cause any sort of cascading recession all at once.
240.
by zjaffee 8y ago
That's still an incorrect way to view it given that the fed still is holding on to around a trillion dollars worth of those CDOs, and one could argue this is a huge factor in why the median American home price is so much higher than it

More ›