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by wnc3141 3d ago
The brooklinen ads are mortifying when I'm online in public
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by wnc3141 11d ago
its mostly because the global economy is dollarized so there's a number of benefits store your wealth in dollars as a hedge or point of stability. If the dollar's dominance wanes, so too will be the appetite for US treasuries.
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by wnc3141 1mo ago
Meta saw the grave premonitions from ai firms as a means of edging out legacy firms through regulatory capture.
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by wnc3141 2mo ago
tell me more? I used to live in Albuquerque and always wondered what happened.
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(Planet Money, NPR) "We almost had a smartphone in the 90s. Why did it fail?"(npr.org)
2 points by wnc3141 3mo ago|2 comments
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by wnc3141 3mo ago
On general magic and their 90s smartphone efforts and the constraints they worked within.
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by wnc3141 3mo ago
Own a significant chunk of a rapidly growing large company, or be LeBron james.
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by wnc3141 3mo ago
Stalin's demographic researchers kept disappearing until they came up with the numbers he wanted.
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by wnc3141 3mo ago
The only thing that doesn't make sense: these companies are more profitable than ever. Google stock rocketed up last year. AI spend per employee is also up, many companies with a strictly enforced minimum AI spend. Surely that cost cou
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by wnc3141 3mo ago
I think the designation of the US as a flawed democracy is fair. We have free elections, yet (particularly at higher levels of government) rarely see popular mandates translate to governance.
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by wnc3141 3mo ago
A family member at a large tech has stated that their has been an effective hiring freeze for the last three-ish years in their department. To the point that they're letting major business lines rot on the vine.
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by wnc3141 3mo ago
There are extractive and inclusive economic institutions. democracies tend to guarantee the latter, we are rapidly pursuing the former.
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by wnc3141 3mo ago
I definitely struggled with feeling hyper engaged in the classroom setting, and then the jarring transition to the next class. By the time I switched between three and four subjects that day and on to do assignments, I was completely fried.
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by wnc3141 3mo ago
Loved my time at Olaf.
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by wnc3141 3mo ago
Bloomberg is crazy expensive. They used to have citylab articles without a paywall, but looks like they've fixed that.
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by wnc3141 4mo ago
I think the stocks don't have a arbiter managing a discrete outcome between parties that don't have any KYC compliance.
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by wnc3141 4mo ago
"one word. Plastics" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaCHH5D74Fs
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by wnc3141 4mo ago
Clare Malone era of FIVE THIRTY EIGHT was among the most serious political journalism out there.
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by wnc3141 4mo ago
But in exchange we get to also waste vast energy and carbon while depleting job prospects for just about any college grad.
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by wnc3141 4mo ago
I would think Police unions would probably gladly accept. higher pay for more accountability. It feels like accountability sheltering is a deal with the devil that cities made.
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by wnc3141 4mo ago
Read "why nations fail". It essentially covers this. Markets and technologies are great but ultimately bound by the systems of power they inhabit.
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by wnc3141 5mo ago
For expensive high growth markets, rents have dropped in most. Part of this is from a freezing of the labor market meaning nobody is really moving to town.
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by wnc3141 5mo ago
I think it's more contractors were responsible for providing only their deliverables. The program design as a whole is done by the DoD when they bid out their requirements.
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by wnc3141 5mo ago
It seems like in the last number of years, VC has been prioritizing becoming the beneficiary of the whims of the regime. In short, I wonder if this has any implications about their confidence in startups' viability in private sectors
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by wnc3141 5mo ago
I hate asking people what they do, but it's hard to know ahead of time what questions will get an excited answer, so it's sort of a fall back.
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by wnc3141 5mo ago
I would add, that in addition to the immediate need for income, there's an identity component of just being gainfully employed, marching along in life and providing for others. Hitting the brakes on that does psychological harm.
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by wnc3141 5mo ago
I think what makes this a little murkier is that this Beck guy appears to be already a well known figure in crypto circles. (I don't really follow the space). It feels more like uncovering the secret director of a film to be an establi
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by wnc3141 6mo ago
No but the airline might choose starlink. I think a gogo business install is on the hundreds of thousands and annual costs in the tens of thousand for their Eutelesat based system.
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by wnc3141 6mo ago
Of its still profitable to do so, considering opportunity costs for the capital, firms will continue to build. However, it's so expensive to build that these project wind up not becoming bankable very quickly. I think that's the u
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by wnc3141 6mo ago
to the point of where the cost of bringing the goods to market or its opportunity cost exceed the price the market will bear. Its why people living in areas of material poverty don't just get everything on discount.

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