harryh

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by harryh 2y ago
Making milk and bread free for everyone != making milk and bread free for poor people by giving them SNAP. The former is bad, for all the reasons I described. The latter is good!
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by harryh 2y ago
Let's go back to may example of bread and milk. Would argue for getting rid of SNAP and replacing it with a convoluted system where poor people could get free food but they had to spend hours hunting for just the right coupons to excha
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by harryh 2y ago
You're welcome! The topical book to recommend here is obviously The High Cost of Free Parking. https://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Free-Parking-Updated/dp/193...
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by harryh 2y ago
The solution to poor people not having enough money is to give them more money (if you really want to help them). It's not to make random consumer goods like parking free for all. If you do this, most of the goods will be used by peopl
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by harryh 2y ago
Homeownership rate over time has moved around within a fairly narrow range. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N
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by harryh 3y ago
Brockman is off the board but not fired. Which is weird right? You'd think if he was involved in whatever the really bad thing is then he would be fired.
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by harryh 3y ago
1) Note that I indicated that the 20% increase was a real increase and not a nominal one. That means that to the extent that household expenses have increased, it's because households are using their newfound wealth to purchase more&#x
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by harryh 3y ago
Median household income in America is roughly $70,000 per year. That is a roughly 20% real (not nominal!) increase over the past 40 years. $10/month would represent 0.17% of that income.
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by harryh 3y ago
Someone should start a company to sell business machines internationally.
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by harryh 3y ago
Worse demographic ratios though which I think is likely more important.
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by harryh 4y ago
The WARN act only applies for "mass layoff affecting 50 or more employees at a single site of employment." I'm honestly not sure how this would apply for a remote workforce. Consult your friendly HR or legal team counterpart.
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by harryh 4y ago
Fair point about Canadian law being different than US law. For the < 5% of Stripe employees there, that does appear to be true. Though I would again point to my 2nd bullet point: - There is no evidence that Stripe isn't paying sever
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by harryh 4y ago
This post should be flagged off HN. Everything in the tweet is factually incorrect. - Companies aren't required to pay severance when doing layoffs. - There is no evidence that Stripe isn't paying severance when firing for perform
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by harryh 4y ago
I suspect that whatever climate benefits generated by eliminating commutes will be counteracted by the urban sprawl fostered by your first point.
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by harryh 4y ago
There is no "someone" who could do anything about this.
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by harryh 4y ago
I think you're confusing availability zones with regions in this comment. AWS AZs don't even have consistent naming across AWS accounts.
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by harryh 4y ago
Yup. Which goes back to the housing problem. Under building of housing country wide (and even more so in major cities) is IMHO one of the root causes of many many many of the problems we see in America today.
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by harryh 4y ago
You don't need eminent domain. There are plenty of landowners that want to build. The issue is that NIMBYs have largely captured the city government and zoning restrictions have made new building mostly illegal. We jut need a governmen
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by harryh 4y ago
It's mostly illegal to build new housing in Manhattan.
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by harryh 4y ago
If NYC politics serves property developers first, then it probably wouldn't be illegal for property developers to develop new property in the vast majority of the city. I think you've misdiagnosed the problem.
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by harryh 4y ago
When considering this topic, it's worth noting that NYC recently made the construction of all new hotels illegal.
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by harryh 4y ago
NYC is safer that virtually anywhere else in America when you look at both crime statistics and auto fatalities. Ignoring the 2nd is a major omission. I don't have stats for Amherst specifically, but here is a comparison between NYC an
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by harryh 4y ago
This isn't true at all. The vast vast majority of homes in the US are owned by single family homeowners. And even if that wasn't true it wouldn't make much of a difference. Investment firms don't purchase homes to let th
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by harryh 4y ago
Steve Waldman has a great blog post on this topic that goes beyond big city rents (though I agree that's a huge issue): https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/7263.html
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by harryh 4y ago
From 2004-17 I lived in NYC and didn't own a car and very rarely rented one. From 2017-20 I lived in Chapel Hill, NC and (along with my wife) owned two cars. From 2021-now I've been back in NYC. We sold the cars and have no plans
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by harryh 4y ago
So what? Those other people aren't obligated to do things that lead to your enjoyment. Please.
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by harryh 5y ago
The WNBA players union negotiates a contract with the league that includes provisions like these. In general wage caps are included because the union wants to "spread out" money away from the top stars to raise the salaries of ave
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by harryh 5y ago
Very misleading title. Should be changed. This isn't about making libraries private and charging money to take out books or whatever. It's about municipalities hiring private companies to staff the libraries and manage day to day
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by harryh 5y ago
socioeconomic status https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioeconomic_status
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by harryh 5y ago
"less than 14% of the variance in SAT scores can be explained by SES in two massive and representative samples" https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/please-think-critically...

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