landedgentry

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by landedgentry 2mo ago
Why would a Canadian who has options stay when the government shows time and time again that real estate should make more money than productive members of society, and that capital should be used to inflate assets than to invest in the coun
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by landedgentry 2mo ago
I don't think success directly translates into high trust. I think of China as a hypercompetitive place, which to me should mean lower trust.
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by landedgentry 2mo ago
This data conflicts with my image of Japan and China, and I wonder where the discrepancy lies.
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by landedgentry 2mo ago
I think the 2008 recession and its aftermath redirected many "Wall Street people" to Silicon Valley.
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by landedgentry 5mo ago
S.Y. Lee wrote an excellent series on the privatization of Japan National Railways (JNR). This is part 4 of 4: https://www.substack-bahn.net/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-japans-... If I remember correctly, the privatization
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by landedgentry 5mo ago
This tweet finds that US systems like BART and MTA have more employees, when adjusted by number of riders or miles of track, than JR East, which seems to contradict your comment. https://xcancel.com/shinobu_books/status
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by landedgentry 10mo ago
When merit is easy to define and measure. I have a lot more respect for athletes than tech leaders.
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by landedgentry 10mo ago
Youtube premium is not claiming AGI to justify a certain valuation.
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by landedgentry 1y ago
I think those tickets are for people who train watch on the platform or see off friends/family from the platform.
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by landedgentry 2y ago
Pachinko
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by landedgentry 2y ago
> The amount of transparency over government Can you describe how transparency over government has increased (by social media)?
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by landedgentry 2y ago
Correct, Fidelity has a list of 25 Program Banks[1] of varying quality, so I prefer sweeps into a money market fund instead of a bank. I also use Schwab _Bank_'s checking account instead of Fidelity's Cash Management Account for s
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by landedgentry 2y ago
Agreed. > I have given poor reviews to people who invested lots of time and energy in projects and probably even did good work on them, because they were _completely_ off strategy and completed before anyone who knew better could tell th
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by landedgentry 2y ago
Some employers will have healthcare concierges that help with resolving such issues. An example is HealthAdvocate[1] (no relation). I believe some of these services will take a cut (e.g. 25%) of the money they save for you. I cannot speak t
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by landedgentry 2y ago
These alert systems could definitely be abused. In January 2024, the Taiwan government issued an erroneous "presidential alert" to the entire country of 23 million people, warning of a "missile" from China. Occurring jus
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by landedgentry 2y ago
Well, you're supposed to read the code and figure it out. And if you can't, you're not good enough an engineer. According to people at Meta.
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by landedgentry 2y ago
I have had enough problems with USPS, both sending and receiving, that I no longer rely on them, and I'm just an average person who doesn't use USPS much. Whether it's first-class, certified mail, or priority mail with tracki
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by landedgentry 2y ago
Agree. Bandwagon behavior seems to indicate aversion to (perceived) risk.
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by landedgentry 2y ago
I'm a big fan of this blog: https://atadistance.net/2023/04/04/final-frontiers-how-suica... The author understands Japanese sources and writes about how the various Felica-based systems operate and evolv
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by landedgentry 2y ago
Hong Kong's Octopus card uses the FeliCa standard, not MIFARE.
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by landedgentry 2y ago
The MIFARE protocol (which Oyster cards use) takes 300ms to 500ms per tap. EMV (i.e. contactless cards) take ~500ms, which slows down normal walking speed. Here's a good summary of NFC protocols used for transit gates: https:/&#x
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by landedgentry 2y ago
I certainly believe so. Most executives (heck, most professions) are just pattern-matching and regurgitating cargo cult fads of the day. When's the last time someone had an original thought? The only problem is AI can't shake your
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by landedgentry 2y ago
This is what worked for me. (In my case the insurance company and provider were the same - Kaiser - so YMMV.) Write a letter to your insurance company to dispute the explanation of benefits. Follow the instructions for the dispute process.
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by landedgentry 2y ago
Problem is, with growing inequality, the 80th-percentile school and the 20th-percentile school is vastly different, whether that is in school resources or the life trajectories of graduates.
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by landedgentry 2y ago
There is a huge asymmetry in costs. When an issue arises, the customer has to spend an inordinate amount of time and effort to fix it, but for the company, the problem actually benefits them (e.g. a billing mistake, refunds for a cancelled
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by landedgentry 2y ago
I'm less concerned about the spying and more concerned about insurance companies arbitrarily non-renewing policies with no recourse for the consumer. Insurance is heavily regulated for good reason, and insurance should be a source of s
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by landedgentry 2y ago
Calling it luck makes it sound like there are uncontrollable forces at work. However, these consequences are entirely downstream of artificial, man-made policies.
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by landedgentry 3y ago
It's exhausting. I wish there were a way to quantify this, because it feels more and more unabashed, egregious, common and normalized.
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by landedgentry 3y ago
Tax rate seems too low to make any difference.
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by landedgentry 3y ago
I should've been clearer about the doctors. Whether a doctor is part of your insurance network can change unexpectedly when the contract/relationship between your doctor and the insurance company changes, even if you yourself don&

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