krtong · HackerTrans

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It probably also stops people from unsubscribing, which means they may check on Netflix more often and possibly watch something again. Also if they go to resubscribe they may fall prey to the signup form attrition rate, so ensuring they don't have to fill that out again helps.

krtong

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A motorcycle on its own is a perfectly balanced machine. It takes a fairly large assemblage of human errors to wrestle one to the ground. It only happens more often with bikes than cars because bikes give you the freedom to write as big a check as you think you can cash.

There's an expansive gap in knowledge between one's M1 certificate and real-road proficiency. Few ever take it seriously, and would rather "send it" over the gap the hard way, but with the internet, the steep and often-painful learning curve is entirely optional. A couple cones, a parking lot, and a few drills from the right tutors on youTube can help unlock your machine's braking, accelerating and cornering capabilities, all while riding relatively slowly in a protected environment. Once you know what 100% of your ability is, being ready for the street simply takes having the common sense to leave half of it in reserve for bad weather and the dumbest thing someone else can do at any given moment--And knowing how to intuit all the potential stupidity around you.

The problem with these sorts of motorcycle-like cars is that you still need a regular car. You may not need cargo space or passenger seats all the time, but you do need them some of the time. Plus a motorcycle can fit in a parking space with another car. This thing can't. It's just a second car, but small. You also can't lane-split with this, or park it wherever you want. You'll look like a genius that one time you find parallel parking too small for a normal car, big enough for you, but you could've had your pick of any space between any vehicles with a motorbike. And you're just as relegated to traffic jams as you would be in a much bigger, more comfortable vehicle.

Okay, sure, on a motorcycle you can get yourself into trouble, but only because you're free to do whatever you want. You can split lanes at a hundred miles an hour, or pull wheelies through intersections. Or fly around that corner and gas it hard on greasy painted crosswalk lines. There's rarely ever traffic physically blocking your bike, or lights blinking on your dashboard electronically rescinding your input to "absolutely send it" like you would find while driving your car, but if you didn't have those limitations while driving, don't you think you would figure out how not to crash?

Just putting this out there: you can find an older Honda CB750 or whatever for a few grand--much cheaper than a smart car or something similar. Not enough power to get you into trouble, just enough power to get you out of it. Good looks for days, doesn't take up too much space in the garage and you'll never walk by it and regret owning it. Or if you'd rather not deal with the accompanying protective outfit, there's lots of mopeds and ebikes that may fit the bill too.

krtong

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What if there was an actual decrease in heart attacks and strokes because of the change in lifestyle during lockdown?

krtong

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he's just pointing out that nobody writes the flu as the cause of death on a death certificate. The CDC simply releases estimates, while we've been tracking the severity of COVID-19 deaths by asking clinicians to write the cause of death as COVID-19 on the death certificate if they tested positive.

Patient has flu and dies of a stroke? Flu can increase the chance of stroke by 50% but the cause of death was the stroke, not the flu. Same thing happens to covid-19? They died of covid-19.

The point is that the data collection methods are so different there's no possible way you can really look at the numbers and tell if one kills more than the other.

krtong

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Rapid technology growth also slows the adoption of electric vehicles because it increases the complexity of manufacturing and the pricetag for their cars. China’s in the business of making products of lower quality but much lower cost, then flooding foreign and domestic markets so Tesla cant compete. And given the option, many people would choose an electric vehicle, if it was cheaper.

For tesla to continue rapidly developing new tech it needs cheap manual labor for production and large markets to sell in. If china floods the markets with cheap electric vehicles, tesla loses their markets, their economy of scale, their data collection etc.

krtong

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The government has always and will always pick winners and losers. It's that simple.

krtong

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economy of scale doesnt apply to real estate. You can't mass produce homes or land.

krtong

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Again, dublin ireland saw 67% more housing available overnight. It's pretty clear that Air BnB has a dramatic negative effect on the supply of housing.

krtong

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I wouldnt offer air bnb a billion for 10%. I dont think they can pay it back. I hope they can't pay it back. Dublin Ireland saw 67% more housing available overnight because air bnb home owners needed to offer their homes to long term stayers since the travel ban. They're a nuisance.

krtong

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I think the lesson from N95 is DONT OFFSHORE SHIT FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE.

krtong

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I just dont know whawt it means. So someone at the store tests positive, okay. Take precautions to ensure workers arent also at risk. Okay. Shut down the whole store and reopen... when?

krtong

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It's the closest to printing money as the real world gets. "Hey here's an insane amount of money at 0% interest rate so you could literally invest in ANYTHING and make free money. Go ham."

Lets remember what causes slowdowns in productivity, panics, the great depression, the recession etc: people being slammed with too high interest rates for what's feasible for them to repay when times are tough. If the fed offered low interest rates directly it would be a different world. Remember also, the world is an auction house, so when people get these kinds of perks and you don't, your money doesnt go as far.

krtong

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I cant say I agree with this. Every person should be able to to discern a fact from an opinion, know how to pick an argument apart and identify logical fallacies, and if people can't then getting rid of bots doesn't solve twitter's disinformation problem if people are just as good at propagating nonsense as bots.

krtong

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Is there evidence that native apps take away customers from existing apps? I have every native app on my iphone either deleted or moved to a trash folder and replaced with apps that just work better. Seems to me that Apple is more or less validating these other apps by offering their own versions. If other iOS users are like me, they're going to immediately go on the app store and see what other people are offering instead.

krtong

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This is why you produce things domestically. We're at wartime. Alexander Hamilton understood this. George Washington understood this. This is going to be a turning point in globalization and offshoring things that will compromise our economy and ultimately undermine national security.

krtong

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I've never heard the term diseconomy. Sounds to me like Tragedy of Commons.

> stagnation resulting from bigness is a self-inflicted dysfunction that is independent of size (that is, it doesn't only happen when companies get big).

A book with a strong argument why this MIGHT be incorrect is called, "Big Is Beautiful" by Michael Lind, who argues that productivity, research and development stagnate when companies get as big as google, but relatively medium sized companies like BMW (I did say "relatively") have solid research and development and productivity that can't be found in smaller businesses.

The book also gets into why some of the mythology of America like "small businesses are the backbone of America" and "It's good thing that so many people work for themselves" are probably false. Either way it's a good one to read alongside "The Curse of Bigness" by Tim Wu.

Also this article goes into almost no detail by what he means. No fault of the author, it's just a lot to go over. I haven't read this author's book personally but another book I recommend on this subject is Michael Lind's "The Land of Promise: and Economic History of the United States."

krtong

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Also basically offered us a $1000 giftcard to walmart to fix the income inequality created by oligopolies.

krtong

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i disagree on pretty much every underlying supposition here: the tax evasion whataboutism, “why facebook when everybody evades taxes?” US allowing these other companies to offshore profits, as if the IRS has the ability to, at any point, ask for that money back; The government having any use for the facebook; facebook being capable of coercion/ memes and advertising having any effect on the way people vote.

We know people read what they want into political media. the content may affect your experience on facebook but Facebook has not been proven to have any effect on the ballots.

Facebook was probably caught in the act. IRS probably found some legal loophole to actually sue facebook and has not yet found one for google, etc. whats more important to the irs? Getting facebook to change its content policies which would have zero effect on this upcoming election given everyone already knows how theyre going to vote, or 9 billion dollars?

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