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The Accelerationist Case for Frontier Pacing(contraptions.venkateshrao.com)
3 points by wskinner 3d ago|0 comments
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by wskinner 12d ago
And who owns the bonds?
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by wskinner 5mo ago
Road wear and tear increases as the fourth power of axle load. Are you counting the spending on bus stops, bus parking, dedicated bus lanes, and more on the other side of the ledger?
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by wskinner 10mo ago
Yes. The impossible to disable system services (photoanalysisd and friends) are an abomination of software design.
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by wskinner 1y ago
California has the most progressive taxation scheme of any state. Dividends and capital gains are taxed as income. I’m curious what you would consider “sufficient” taxation - the top marginal combined rate for a Californian is over 50%.
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by wskinner 1y ago
> Taking muni or bart involved walking, waiting, more waiting, and then more walking Exactly. Uber makes a lot of money these days. The price is not suppressed. And yet... it is more popular than ever. Prices were artificially low for aw
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by wskinner 1y ago
Higher energy consumption translates to higher standards of living and better outcomes for everyone.
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by wskinner 1y ago
Amazon’s capex is not funded by venture capital. It is funded by people buying things from Amazon or services from AWS. Uber hasn’t raised from VCs in years, and their business is far bigger than it was back when they were losing money. The
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by wskinner 1y ago
People are generally responsive to incentives. In this case, the GDPR required: 1. Consent to be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous and as easy to withdraw as to give 2. High penalties for failure to comply (€20 million or 4 %
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by wskinner 1y ago
> The mistake the EU made was to not foresee the madness used to make these decisions. It's not madness, it's a totally predictable response, and all web users pay the price for the EC's lack of foresight every day. That t
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by wskinner 1y ago
Why do the data only go back to October 2024? It would be great to be able to see the longer term trends.
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by wskinner 1y ago
The scholarly debate is over how large and how lasting the effect is, not whether any evidence exists.
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by wskinner 1y ago
There are over 40,000 _fatal_ car crashes per year in the US, and a few orders of magnitude more non-fatal crashes. Most of them do not make the news.
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by wskinner 1y ago
There is a natural garbage collection mechanism for corporations that become too inefficient. Inefficient government agencies can last much longer.
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by wskinner 2y ago
If that is true, then what stops port operators from raising prices from their present level and pocketing the free money? In reality, demand curves slope down and the surplus from efficiency improvements is split between buyers and sellers
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by wskinner 2y ago
It is, and it does. US ports are far less efficient than the more automated ports in Asia and Europe.
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by wskinner 2y ago
Everyone buys stuff.
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by wskinner 2y ago
> the benefits of the automation goes solely to investors and owners Totally false. The benefits go to anyone who buys or sells goods that pass through the ports.
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by wskinner 2y ago
X is not Meta.
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FIRECalc(firecalc.com)
2 points by wskinner 2y ago|0 comments
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by wskinner 2y ago
The 4% rule of thumb is intended to include sequence-of-returns risk. See e.g. https://firecalc.com/ , a tool commonly used to aid these decisions.
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by wskinner 2y ago
"Enough" is a function of how much you have and how much you need. 25x annual spend is a common heuristic for the required net worth before you can safely retire. And the older you are, the less margin of safety you need. 4% of $1
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by wskinner 2y ago
There is a big difference between Europeans in Europe and Europeans in the US - Europeans in the US readily point this out. The idea that Europeans are somehow genetically less suited to building tech companies is an obvious strawman. The r
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by wskinner 2y ago
If you as a shareholder receive a dividend of X% of the share price, you owe tax on it. But if the company buys back stock and as a result the share price increases by X%, you do not owe tax on that unrealized gain until you choose to sell
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by wskinner 3y ago
I share your sense of wonder at everyday objects. The essay “I,Pencil” captures this rather poignantly. https://cdn.mises.org/I%20Pencil.pdf
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by wskinner 3y ago
Sure we do. We can investigate the living preferences of people with the means to choose between multiple options.
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by wskinner 3y ago
What about people who don’t want to live near train tracks? Or people who currently live on land that would be seized if train tracks were to be built? Not everyone wants to live in a city.
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by wskinner 3y ago
Whoa! In my undergraduate computer science program at a top US public university, each course was graded to a curve that determined the number of grades in each range. If memory serves, 27% of the class received A or A-. I knew grade inflat
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by wskinner 3y ago
In the United States, laws come from Congress.
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by wskinner 3y ago
> Part of her agenda is strengthening the merger review process. Merger review is intrinsically hard, because authorities essentially have to try and figure out what the effect will be if the merger is allowed or denied. There is no crys

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