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2019ideas

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Look at this list of top lobbyists. Oddly they correspond closely with everything you listed. Our government is very active in these. They just arent doing a great job.

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s

>Healthcare

The government has been active in regulating healthcare for 30 years. Oddly during that time Physicians became 300k/yr earners, Pharmacists became 6 figure earners. Hospitals, Pharma and everyone between are growing.

>Education, job training

Highly funded k12 education, subsidized loans for college

>housing

Blaming real estate laws for this, but Im mostly out of the loop. Real estate is a top lobby

>Transportation

Maybe, but I feel like this could be bad for the environment.

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>HN is very liberal

>HN believes in MMT

>MMT is unproven

Not sure whats going to happen to your post.

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The utilitarian in me asks-

What did we learn?

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>I know a lot of people here don't think there should be unions in software

There is a huge concern.

As a senior engineer, my pay is really nice. Its deserved as I am 'a jack of all trades', I have accomplishments recognized by other engineers, and I stay late whenever the job needs to get done.

I genuinely enjoy my job, and the pay is great.

What would be the purpose of unions? They take a fat fee, they standardize pay, standardize hours, and sound like they would overall disrupt what works.

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The most obvious and not controversial- Home screen on the iphone vs a home screen on Android.

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I consider all of these likely-

>FBI found someone inside they could negotiate with(IE- better patents or the threat of denied patents)

>FBI found someone they could bribe

>FBI hacked and broke into the iphone

3/3 of those Apple wants to keep quiet.

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This is the biggest benefit of Apple users.

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I like Bitcoin, I don't see a use for any other coin. Decentralized verification seems to be valuable in Currency only.

Timestamps and voting do not seem to be valuable, this was the craze over alt coins.

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>when you value things that are based on things outside your control e.g. social validation, financial success, you will struggle to be happy.

These are outside our control? I found both were achieved by choosing to be an engineer and going above and beyond.

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Warning,

When Medical got regulated in the U.S. the prices skyrocketed, and customer care stagnated. The regulators were incentivized to create a monopoly by the entrenched medical professionals.

Now people are asking for more regulations. Is that the solution?

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>the government will helpfully tell them what to correct.

>the government

There is no 'the government'.

The government is an entity of elected and unelected people. They have their own bias, their own friends, their own wants.

I have stopped using Facebook because it sucks, but if the government sucks, I am forced to use them.

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Higher standards of living. Less starvation, better environment, etc...

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>My friend "applied," knowing full well it was a scam.

Knew it was a scam and did it anyway?

These are the people that need to have conversations with economists.

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>Complete win for who exactly ?

The sweat shop workers, the company, the customers.

Sweat shop workers are losing their ability to do mindless labor, next up, they will be using their brains to make low skill decisions where automation cannot. Think Amazon Turk.

Customers get lower cost, likely higher quality products.

Company gets more reliable workforce.

>It's all fun and games until you have to take into consideration the soci-economical aspect of automation.

This has already happened in history. You COULD make it illegal, but then your countries technology will be out performed by another country.

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Its easy to disagree, its harder to come up with your own solutions.

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My buddy is developing a fireworks Sim in js + embedded systems to coordinate with a fireworks show.

The embedded work is basically done, but he was considering using JS and three.js, any suggestions/advice?

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>This seems like a very logical test for all countries to carry out.

Who is 'countries'? The president? The deep state?

I am not sure I want anyone but a group of decentralized nerds in control of this. And that control be optional.

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>Does the big tech company bear no responsibility for shifting as much work as it can out to subcontractors in order to cut costs?

> spit them out as burned-out husks with no savings at the age of 35, hey, that's the system we live in.

This sounds really bad until you look at the happy contractors making over 6 figures, and are on track to retire in their 30s.

Everyone likes to complain, everyone wants more money. If you are making 6 figs and can't retire by 40, that was a personal decision.

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If economics are irrational because humans are irrational. Apple is the primary argument that humans are irrational.

Forming logical conclusions on anything Apple does is dangerous. They overcharge and under deliver(at least on Hardware). They are primarily marketing, not tech.

For this same reason, their valuation is irrational. I don't expect Apple to be above 500M for much longer than a few years.

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This is how I found I was importing the wrong file after 1 week of working on it...

I was using Welcome.js instead of Home.js

I was happy, kinda. But also, wondering if I solved the issue earlier in the week.

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