>how society decides salaries. It seems pretty arbitrary from my perspective. Society doesn't "decide". It's a decided by the labor market. Nobody wants to pay programmers six figures. It's a myth that we think teachers…
No it's not. Actors are meant to pretend to be different people. The CEO isn't supposed to be pretending to be a different person.
No, long before AWS, Amazon intentionally re-invested all of the excess revenue that would be reported as profit back into the business instead (expanding capex and opex).
The number of new cars, new iphones, large houses, and other luxury purchases suggests otherwise.
>No, because at this point the barrier to entry is substantial. Not really. Unless the product has a powerful network effect, people can easily enter. If that weren't the case, starbucks would have run every coffee shop…
>After doing this for a while, you can use these relative effort estimates to project completion dates for new projects. This doesn't work. The problem is that you get periods where the work is relatively easy overall…
>absolutely destroyed Bush at Weird. I thought Bush finished out his term.
>They also pay 0.005% tax in Europe, sure it's legal, but is it morally ok? Yes. How would you decide on any other number and justify overpayment to the shareholders? >They certainly benefit from all the European…
Not related? Tapping an undersea cable doesn't compromise encrypted traffic. Unless it looks like the NSA gets Apple and Google to put in back-doors, the products are still significantly safer than Huawei which is just…
>It’s not an analogy at all Then why are you talking about a garbage company? Your whole comment is building an analogy. >Although I’d like to know which step in my story stops qualifying as one. This is where it stops…
> Could you find one economist that would say that an unpriced externality is not a subsidy? All of them? >This isn't a tortured analogy, it isn't an unconventional use of the term, these things are economically…
>I personally appreciate the headline saying "town" in a colloquial sense But that's the problem. It's not a "town" in a colloquial sense for anyone who grew up outside of major metro areas. If 170k is not enough, then…
Two things: - data costs for bandwidth costs hasn't gone down at the same rate - A big chunk of an ISP is labor costs, which do not go down over time
There is no difference. Regular debt is also discharged in bankruptcy.
>Thoughts? Don't preempt people that might disagree with you by claiming they are in cognitive dissonance.
People use the word NULL and in all caps as well, in particular in bureaucratic processes like those you would encounter at the DMV. NULL & VOID, etc. It is entirely reasonable that the system would not accept an empty…
>what I wished existed when I was learning said details. This isn't what 'pedagogical focus' means though. Just writing down the stuff that helped you out very rarely covers what is necessary to help people out in…
None of this is how this stuff works. >Huge amounts of cheap debt allow companies to buy lots of stock, driving up prices. Companies don't use debt to buy stock. Taking on the debt to do that would depress the stock…
Kubernetes is still quite exotic for 99% of businesses.
Not really. The difference in the land cost is effectively negligible. At this point (and it has been this way for many years), the limit in solar deployments is cost of panels and storage limitations. There are vast…
No. A decrease in Google's share price doesn't increase Facebook's share price. These companies are mostly in the same boat of being large tech companies with significant amounts of power. It's in all of the employees'…
Because hottest month on record isn't scientifically interesting? Yes, climate change is happening, no, we didn't forget. The article isn't even about any attempts to do something different to fix it.
>"data" (whatever THAT means) Holy shit. Observable evidence.
Facts still trump everything in all of those categories. You can certainly talk about how those facts can be explained by people's emotional state, historical context, etc., but that doesn't invalidate facts that might…
No, you're not right. How you render CSS and the page have very little to do with how secure your app is. SQL escaping, session handling, etc all come easily with standard php libraries. So "I didn't bother with any PHP…
>how society decides salaries. It seems pretty arbitrary from my perspective. Society doesn't "decide". It's a decided by the labor market. Nobody wants to pay programmers six figures. It's a myth that we think teachers…
No it's not. Actors are meant to pretend to be different people. The CEO isn't supposed to be pretending to be a different person.
No, long before AWS, Amazon intentionally re-invested all of the excess revenue that would be reported as profit back into the business instead (expanding capex and opex).
The number of new cars, new iphones, large houses, and other luxury purchases suggests otherwise.
>No, because at this point the barrier to entry is substantial. Not really. Unless the product has a powerful network effect, people can easily enter. If that weren't the case, starbucks would have run every coffee shop…
>After doing this for a while, you can use these relative effort estimates to project completion dates for new projects. This doesn't work. The problem is that you get periods where the work is relatively easy overall…
>absolutely destroyed Bush at Weird. I thought Bush finished out his term.
>They also pay 0.005% tax in Europe, sure it's legal, but is it morally ok? Yes. How would you decide on any other number and justify overpayment to the shareholders? >They certainly benefit from all the European…
Not related? Tapping an undersea cable doesn't compromise encrypted traffic. Unless it looks like the NSA gets Apple and Google to put in back-doors, the products are still significantly safer than Huawei which is just…
>It’s not an analogy at all Then why are you talking about a garbage company? Your whole comment is building an analogy. >Although I’d like to know which step in my story stops qualifying as one. This is where it stops…
> Could you find one economist that would say that an unpriced externality is not a subsidy? All of them? >This isn't a tortured analogy, it isn't an unconventional use of the term, these things are economically…
>I personally appreciate the headline saying "town" in a colloquial sense But that's the problem. It's not a "town" in a colloquial sense for anyone who grew up outside of major metro areas. If 170k is not enough, then…
Two things: - data costs for bandwidth costs hasn't gone down at the same rate - A big chunk of an ISP is labor costs, which do not go down over time
There is no difference. Regular debt is also discharged in bankruptcy.
>Thoughts? Don't preempt people that might disagree with you by claiming they are in cognitive dissonance.
People use the word NULL and in all caps as well, in particular in bureaucratic processes like those you would encounter at the DMV. NULL & VOID, etc. It is entirely reasonable that the system would not accept an empty…
>what I wished existed when I was learning said details. This isn't what 'pedagogical focus' means though. Just writing down the stuff that helped you out very rarely covers what is necessary to help people out in…
None of this is how this stuff works. >Huge amounts of cheap debt allow companies to buy lots of stock, driving up prices. Companies don't use debt to buy stock. Taking on the debt to do that would depress the stock…
Kubernetes is still quite exotic for 99% of businesses.
Not really. The difference in the land cost is effectively negligible. At this point (and it has been this way for many years), the limit in solar deployments is cost of panels and storage limitations. There are vast…
No. A decrease in Google's share price doesn't increase Facebook's share price. These companies are mostly in the same boat of being large tech companies with significant amounts of power. It's in all of the employees'…
Because hottest month on record isn't scientifically interesting? Yes, climate change is happening, no, we didn't forget. The article isn't even about any attempts to do something different to fix it.
>"data" (whatever THAT means) Holy shit. Observable evidence.
Facts still trump everything in all of those categories. You can certainly talk about how those facts can be explained by people's emotional state, historical context, etc., but that doesn't invalidate facts that might…
No, you're not right. How you render CSS and the page have very little to do with how secure your app is. SQL escaping, session handling, etc all come easily with standard php libraries. So "I didn't bother with any PHP…