oramit

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by oramit 4mo ago
So much ink has been spilled on the "disconnect" between the public mood (very bad based on polling) while on paper Americans are wealthier than ever. The author's focus is the upper middle class because he's a wealth ma
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by oramit 6mo ago
If you didn't bother to write it, why should I bother to read it?
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by oramit 11mo ago
I had to check the year on this post because I couldn't believe someone could post something this naive in 2025.
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by oramit 1y ago
With the current data we have there's simply no good policy reason to cut interest rates. Inflation is either staying elevated or slightly increasing. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/29/pce-inflation-report-
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by oramit 1y ago
People keep making the mistake of thinking that there is any sort of logical consistency to Trump policies.
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by oramit 2y ago
Yes. The founding mythos of Silicon Valley is of plucky upstarts destroying all the middle men and dis-empowering the establishment. But now tech is the establishment and has all the power so that story isn't useful anymore. Instead th
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by oramit 2y ago
I think you're being too kind in assuming there is some sort of real philosophy or faith here. I laid out what I have observed the tech elite doing precisely to show that they are rootless and will join with whatever bandwagon is popul
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by oramit 2y ago
It's been interesting to watch and experience Techbros jump on different philosophical/religious trends over the years. Post 9/11 through the Great Financial Crisis New Atheism was all the rage. Once the tech boom was in full
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by oramit 2y ago
As a fan of Georgism and Land Value Taxation I was hoping for a good rebuttal but I am mostly just left confused by this article. It spends a ton of time talking about the political environment (not entirely uninteresting) and almost nothin
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by oramit 2y ago
Why this amorphous "the government" wording? The people elected Congress and Presidents, who did this over decades with popular support. Executive agencies are not unaccountable. They have specific charters and there is a huge vol
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by oramit 2y ago
"Hitting a few singles and doubles beats trying to hit a home run and striking out." As game developers and publishers have consolidated into mega corps this line just isn't true anymore. You need a billion dollar game to mov
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by oramit 2y ago
I don't think this is heresy at all. I read this and just think you have a giant blind spot because you seem to be assuming that the way you learn is universally applicable. I went to an unremarkable state school where I had classes wi
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by oramit 2y ago
Every 5 years or so a new food bogeyman appears and all the fitness/diet influencers hop on the bandwagon and blame every ill on it. Seeds Oils are just the most recent of these memes pushed by the power of group think as opposed to th
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by oramit 3y ago
I definitely listed the most egregious rules first. Those silly and overbearing laws exist though and have the same force as entirely valid ones like keeping trees along the coast to avoid erosion. In isolation each rule is defensible (to v
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by oramit 3y ago
The incredible thicket of state, county, and municipal rules all layer and combine to make housing incredibly difficult to build. It's the technical debt of the material world. Seriously, look up your local zoning rules. It's not
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by oramit 3y ago
Yeah I used to listen to them quite a bit back in the day but in the lead up to the 2016 election they became insufferable. There was one Clinton story in particular they kept bringing up so I went through their show notes to the source and
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by oramit 3y ago
This is one of my big annoyances as well. Whatever happened to the idea of electricity that was too cheap to measure?
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by oramit 3y ago
It sounds like something is wrong with your installation. That behavior certainly isn't normal for heat pumps and I would get a new vendor. I had a heatpump in my Condo and those things were rock solid, from 20 degrees to 110 I never h
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by oramit 3y ago
Yeah this list seems to be pretty low quality stuff. There's a couple economic/political links that I think are interesting but I can totally see why they would be removed as off-topic or likely to produce a flamewar. It's pr
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by oramit 3y ago
The 2020 elections were such a shitshow on PredictIt. So many trades were skewed by partisan bias that it was shockingly easy to make money. My favorite trade that year was for some reason the "market" was pricing in a lower turno
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by oramit 3y ago
In the last year of my last job I took on recruiting and mentoring tasks as one of my goals for the year. Management encouraged it, I got great feedback all year, and in my annual retrospective I highlighted it as a big win. When the annual
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by oramit 3y ago
"They provide high quality care at a reasonable price." What's the cost to the patient for this boutique care?
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by oramit 3y ago
Also makes me think of the quote often attributed to Churchill though there is no evidence he said it. "Americans will always do the right thing ... after they have exhausted all the alternatives"
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by oramit 3y ago
Caffeine pretty much every day, I can only have it in the mornings though or it interferes with sleep. Alcohol a few times a week, usually just one or two drinks. Now that i'm mid thirties the booze hits me much harder than before and
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by oramit 4y ago
"Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the department assessed PSSI $15,138 for each minor-aged employee who was employed in violation of the law. The amount is the maximum civil money penalty allowed by federal law." Wow, I knew th
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by oramit 4y ago
Thanks for linking this. I needed a good chuckle this morning. On a more serious note. I'm gay and if you want to know why Pride parades, Pride month, and being out is so important, it's this sort of rhetoric. Calls for "bibl
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by oramit 4y ago
Health benefits and it pays pretty well. This is the sort of side hustle that used to be popular on this site :)
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by oramit 4y ago
Anxiety is certainly part of it but I think it's simpler than that. We can't be "on" all the time. We need hobbies, distractions, and escape just as much as we need productive work. As the author notes though, this escap
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by oramit 4y ago
While the author compares his problem to Alcohol addiction I was struck by the sentence: "It's gotten to the point where I don't really enjoy the video as much as the numb hypnotic state from consuming that much content.&quot
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by oramit 4y ago
While framing the watching of a movie as "serious" is probably a bit much I do agree that going to the cinema is a great exercise in focus. The whole place is setup for watching movies and when I'm there I feel engrossed in a

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