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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
> Why has the US minimum wage only barely begun to budge past the $7.25/h it was set to in 2009, despite that being below poverty lines for most of the country? Nobody actually gets paid $7.25/h. Amazon pays $15/h or more
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Compare the Chinese household savings rate to the American one, and I think you'll find people in the US do indeed spend frivolously. Note that living in HCOL locations beyond your means is still spending frivolously. You don't ha
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Is a burger flipper or barista serving the same number of customers in four days as five? No? Then where are the diminishing returns there? Pretty much any reasonable white collar job already lets you work however many hours you want as lon
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts. "Republican" governors in blue states are not really the type of right wing Republican you're thinking of, they're usually just moderates like Biden.
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Texas and California are both extremely powerful in national politics. Neither has an incentive to give that influence up just to play at being a separatist.
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
CA has been blue since 92 [1]. [1] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/8/13563106/e...
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
You mean things that can be challenged in court as opposed to a unilateral, unelected bureaucracy?
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
But nation states have never been restricted by export bans. For example the US during the Cold War bought titanium for the SR71 from the Soviet Union. And Russia is buying chips on the black market today for its invasion of Ukraine.
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Your survey seems very flawed. It puts an average SRE at 175k yet the CxO's only make 200k. Are you sure you're not excluding stock based comp in those numbers? In any case, even if you go by the data in your survey, a machine lea
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Sure, but then you are hiring less skilled talent that is probably incapable of working on pricing and matching algorithms (which along with scale are the real advantage Uber has, since everyone can make a crappy iOS app and call it a day).
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
I'd say the number of people willing to take a 5x paycut (it is literally 5x) for feeling better about themselves is pretty small. The number of those people who are qualified to work on matching algorithms and pricing algorithms is ev
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
But do high productivity / high demand employees earn outsized compensation? Software engineers at Uber, for example, earn probably 10x what drivers make. If you look at some of the recent ridesharing coop attempts in the US, they adve
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
But there could be other causes. You are operating under the default assumption long COVID must exist. But non-grads on average are poorer, work in different environments, and have different health (i.e. obesity and diabetes) than grads. Th
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
The data showing the difference between percentage of college graduates and noncollege graduates who believe they have long COVID seems to point to a placebo effect. I don't see why college grads and non-college grads would have any re
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Different circles I guess. While my spouse's family considers government jobs to be stable and somewhat respectable, there is a lot more respect for FAANG and other high paying jobs. One is respectable, the other is prestigious.
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Government can't afford to hire the competent talent, only the scraps after everyone else (even the consulting bodyshops) are done. The top GS pay bracket is lower than entry level engineers at many companies (not just FAANG, but also
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
For context, this is what 100W of LED looks like [1]. Those signs don't come anywhere close to this. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsrAV1Qh4fs
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
That average is over the entire benchmarking suite, including single thread tests and when tests are loading from disk or otherwise not fully saturating the CPU. Some of those benchmarks in that power consumption number are GPU only! Take a
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
I thought existing Starlink needed a phased array antenna to get decent signal strength. How the hell is a cell phone radio going to reach a satellite?
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
It is not, the laptop tested with the 6850U has a 30W PL2 and 50W PL1.
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
5900HX TDP: 35-80W depending on boost setting. Most gaming laptops set it at 60W+. M2 TDP: 20W
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
If I have a kid who is learning music, your plan screws over any opportunity they have to practice at home. I've lived in newly built apartments and even those are not sound proof. Not to mention public transit is dirty and unsafe in a
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
> a single mitigation That is the only mitigation used in DALL-E 2, which up until recently was the only publicly available text to image model. > I’d prefer not to have this awesome technology tainted out of the gate as a tool for ra
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Marginal cost of using that is basically $0. The internal dataset is a sunk cost that's already been paid for (presumably for their other, revenue generating products like Google Images). Half of their dataset is a publicly available o
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Ah yes, because removing overly restrictive zoning is totally equivalent to complete deregulation of everything. I bet you support designating things which are not historic as historic landmarks too, so the poors can't move next to you
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
> The killer with high property taxes is that you have to keep earning more as your property increases in value, or there is a real risk of you falling behind That's a feature, not a bug. The entire reason California's real est
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
Sure, but if you're going to compare taxes you have to compare the effect of Prop 13 on property valuations, as that's basically a tax but with the revenues going to existing property owners rather than the state. > but my expe
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
I find that hard to believe. A quick look at Redfin says tax on this $385k home is about $564/mo [1]. In any case, the lower tax rate in CA gets baked into the property value (hence the sky-high valuations) so you're paying for it
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
> is the US insulated from fossil fuel prices? To a large degree, yes [1]. The US is affected by oil prices globally, but if OPEC decides to cut off the US it wouldn't have the same effect that Russia is having on the EU right now.
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by ceeplusplus 4y ago
In a competitive market (I'd say even the biggest investors own <10% of the markets they operate in), rents are bounded by competition. The bigger reason rents are going up is there is not enough supply for people to live in. Things

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