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by fsckboy 4mo ago
the principle of comparative advantage does not ever fall flat on it's face. An entire country can be worse at manufacturing/growing everything compared to the US, but they can still manufacture and grow things, and engage in trad
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> Providing a hearing aid to someone hard of hearing so they can learn is equity. Their outcomes aren't guaranteed from your cited wikipedia page: "Equity is equality of outcome" https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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the SAT is an IQ test, btw. who would have thought that could lead to better results in cognitive fields? shocked. shocked! Now that there is some grudgin recognition of this idea, it might do to remind people that high SAT scores on Verbal
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
this is from 2010 but says that microsoft was not going to pay bug bounties https://www.computerworld.com/article/1510124/microsoft-no-m... did they start to do that at some point, or is this a pressure (blackmail
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> I wanted to try making a DIY wireless keyboard after having made a few wired ones if anybody is interested, I want both a "both keyboard" and a "both mouse": plug them both in, they're wired, unplug them, they
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
Etsy is a successful business, and the people who engage with it come back and reengage, and separately read up on Schumpeterian creative destruction when you learn physics (e.g. Newtonian mechanics) you idealize concepts like "frictio
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
I said "but people don't do that because there are better alternatives". I also said "with monograms" for example, i.e. there are irl handmade sweaters made today because people don't necessarily want a factory
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> The flipside is that there must be other work to be done or people starve to death false. people are not helpless and jobs are not fixed in number nor social welfare gifts. Human creativity and industriousness can be put to task to pr
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> The industrial revolution was enabled by more efficient agriculture feeing labour to do other work you're not wrong, but that's not exactly what happened. Agriculture itself was mechanized by the industrial revolution, affor
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
you can buy S&P 500, and short the component companies you don't like, but caution, this will achieve the solvency you want, but you will likely remain irrational
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i hold the steering wheel with my knee all the time, and make reasonable corrections, curves on highways are pretty gentle. the key is to be disciplined about paying attention to the road ahead.
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the pied-a-terre tax is simply and perfectly "taxation without representation" that is how it was designed, it only applies to people who are ineligible to vote in New York City, there is no way to push back. As such, it's re
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> LBOs but they aren't entirely devoid of value LBOs are encouraged by tax law. Stop it by stop making interest on debt tax deductible. Equity is an investment and represents ownership interest, and so does debt. From the company&#
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
I wish HN would split into two "subreddits", /r/HN and /r/AI > There is a certain wildness in the tech industry these days that both mimics previous eras of large changes, like cloud computing (runaway costs
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> You've probably heard someone say something to the effect of "renting is just throwing your money away". Don't believe it. It's a glib statement that simply isn't true. There are so many hidden costs to ho
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> Your traumata? That's a level of intrusiveness crossing into "rude" territory OP didn't say that, he said "hardest day of my life, my biggest life challenges" and then characterized it (his opinion) &#x27
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> It would be redundant and awkward to literally say “… at work” at the end of every question. It’s totally 100% the intent of the interviewer. you are stating your opinion as fact, and I don't think there is a basis beyond your op
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
it is not easy with a quick search to ascertain the subtleties of the CLOUD Act. the example case on wikipedia entails a US citizen storing data with Microsoft, a US company, data that Microsoft offshored from the US. So in that case, the U
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
they've just spun off the first quantum computer pure-play, the highest of techs, the greenest of green-fields, and your observation is "IBM doesn't do this"
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> Andrew Gleeson designed Analog Mono, “fixing the crimes of VCR OSD Mono.” There used to be this classic pixel font that you’d see everywhere in the 1990s on hi-fi equipment: VCRs, TVs, camcorders, etc. One of its challenges was a low b
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auri imbres
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
economic efficiency does not refer to productive effiency, it refers to having prices that allow people to make optimal purchase decisions, and whether competition ensures prices will reflect costs. so, according to you, you are not arrogan
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
again, nothing that you are talking about has anything to do with the conversation I initiated. (IBM used to be a monopoly, now they're not. How much power did they do they use? we don't need economics, we just look at their power
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> That’s an overly simplified model. AI companies spending results in infrastructure beyond the company such as manufacturing capacity, power lines, software systems, and even individual expertise. in a competitive marketplace, economic
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
I know what i'm talking about, and you don't. That does not come from me being rich, it comes from me being raised as a far left-socialist, and being on the spectrum, and then studying economics and finance in graduate school and
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> The ubiquitousness of and here I was thinking ubiquity was ubiquitous for this concept > ubiquity of bash is among the few reasons... I guess I'm getting older than I thought, I feel uneasy pangs every time I use a bashism be
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
it's mostly actors who traffic in tropes, and also actors who travel in troupes... coincidence? i think not
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> Let me guess: you’re doing relatively well for yourself? Let me guess, you sit down next to Kobe Bryant and start by saying you're going to tell him about winning basketball?
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> Treating the entire economy as a single company gives nonsensical results trust me bub, I've studied much more econ than you. If a competitive market sets the prices (check, that's what is happening), and you want to analyze
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
HN deletes certain words at the beginnings of submitted titles: could we add "It's time to talk about" and potentially also "my"?

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