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by zjaffee 8y ago
Except the high salaries won't end given the level of productivity found within the technology industry. Tech companies as it stands today are some of the most profitable companies out there, it's this profit that enables them to
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Cuba punches far above it's weight when it comes to healthcare outcomes however which is a huge achievement and it's approaches are likely one of the best bets for improving health outcomes in developing countries. It's obvio
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This is my exact view on the matter, the comparison being made here is completely unfair as Cuba punches far above it's weight when it comes to healthcare outcomes and the west can learn a lot from their approaches here.
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I'm not a communist by any means, I just dislike that the collective community in liberalized, capitalist first world countries diss socialism in countries that would otherwise have been exploited by their own country without it. The i
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There's a similar percentage of people who left cuba that left mexico. A countries wealth has little to do with it being communist or capitalist as much as it does with it's ability to integrate into the broader global economy and
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And there are tons of people in capitalist countries who disagree with what goes on there too.
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Given rising interest rates, this seems like a decent model for encouraging large scale real estate investment, especially when along side existing affordability requirements. Ultimately, it seems like the best way to place these sorts of z
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The monarchs continued legitimacy and global reach is only sustained through a lack of domestic political involvement.
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Replacing the battery is always possible, I'd imagine if the electric components are built well, it's likely that with battery replacements you could make the truck last even longer than it would with a more mechanical machine.
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Except this is exactly why a society entirely planned around markets is bad, markets left alone would only result in every social ill being magnified as any given addictive and harmful substance would become cheaper to produce and further m
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Japan has a declining population, housing is cheaper in places with declining populations. Additionally, housing in Japan is often much lower quality than it is in the US, where they use electric heaters and various other plug in amenities
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Restrictive building codes are not the problem at all that causes low earning people to go homeless. The only significant source of new affordable housing in this country is single family homes (which are just over 2x cheaper to construct t
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Middle class by definition means that people are able to save and build up assets such that by the end of their career they can comfortably retire and pass down some wealth to their children. i.e. they make money from both capital and labor
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Organizing the price of labor around supply and demand is a choice that our society has made that comes with tons of perverse incentives such as organizing to make it more difficult for people to enter an industry. This is especially true b
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I have to disagree with your premise. Entrepeneurs who are starting these sorts of companies were often engineers at larger employers and were on teams where originally built these platforms that had become open source and relatively succes
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I have to disagree with you here, even from a social media perspective. Namely, with apps that leverage hardware at a high rate such as the camera features of Snapchat and Instagram. I agree that reddit might not need an app in the same way
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They're already the number one spot in the world, their net purchasing power is higher than the US. Their nominal GDP being lower than the US's is an economic choice made by their government to keep growth happening. This said, Ch
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It's worth pointing out that a significant number of people who live in the bronx and queens do take metro north and LIRR respectively.
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Most of the fracking that is happening for this oil is in West Texas, nowhere near any substantial water table as is the case when looking at the fracking done in North Dakota, and also in one of the least populated parts of the country.
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Why should I believe that AR will even be it's own unique product platform rather than just a part of every single smartphone app. Smartphones were much easier for people to adapt too since virtually everyone had already carried around
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Tacking on to your comment, one could argue that voice alongside increasing number of sensors and inputs available on smartphones are very similar paradigm shifts to that of the text-based computing to GUI shift. We're replacing the ke
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That's the thing though, given how cheap they an echo dot is, especially during promotions, there's very little reason not to get one. They're the perfect small gift. Virtually every other hot gadget from the last decade has
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The reason why we let copy written works remain that way is because then the profits of the artists work will always get eaten up by bigger companies. This is especially true in the digital age. Instead of artists profiting, corporations fr
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GCP is not nearly as good from my personal experience when it comes to support and reliability of services at scale. There are certainly some instances where GCP is easier to use, or they offer certain niche services that aren't exactl
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I have to say, you're completely overlooking why AWS/GCP/Azure are good services in your answer. The value add from using these services is that you don't have to know how to run any of these things, building an SRE&#x2F
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I have to disagree here, because the breakup of vertically integrated monopolies has been something that has been done by governments before. Entire components being open source certainly reduce the barrier for further closed source compone
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It's also worth noting that people don't think of the externalized cost of actually getting to the store verses getting these things shipped. If you have to drive a mile each way just to get that one extra item, the amount your sa
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Ignoring the benefits to taxi drivers, and focusing on a pure economic standpoint, Uber/Lyft did clean up the market place by busting local government taxi commissions which had previously created both economic minimums and maximums ar
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This is interesting to me though, because if it's the case that a person without a permanent address can start making money through the gig economy, that's providing more equitable employment opportunities than what was available
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This isn't necessarily the case in NYC the further out you go, and really many of the older parts of the north east. Tons of streetcar suburbs only really have street parking.

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