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Libertarians and mentally speed-running the invention of the nation-state: an iconic duo.
The individuals will get taxed on capital gains afaik. We could also tax unrealized gains (just like we do gains on property)!
Re:Prices and wages in Medieval England (2014) on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @12:35PM (#29894679)
IIRC these concepts are more relevant in a service-based economy.

In the Middle Ages, _land_ was the primary source of economic value. Fewer people means more land per person, therefore more wealth per person.

Re:What Is Dbt and Why Are Companies Using It? on Thursday December 02, 2021 @11:41PM (#29426681)
What makes left joins perform poorly in Snowflake?
Re:What Is Dbt and Why Are Companies Using It? on Thursday December 02, 2021 @08:09PM (#29425392)
Well part of the benefit is rapid development; it's mind-boggling how quickly someone can stand up a dbt project and begin to iterate on transforms. Using Python/SQL/JSON (at small/medium) scales keeps the data stack consistent and lowers the barrier to entry. No reason to prematurely optimize when your bottleneck is the modeling and not the actual data volume.
Re:What Is Dbt and Why Are Companies Using It? on Thursday December 02, 2021 @08:05PM (#29425360)
dbt and ELT in general are such a game-changer for allowing rapid iteration on business logic by data analysts; the feedback loop feels much more like "normal" software engineering compared to legacy systems.
Re:Cloud Infrastructure as SQL on Thursday September 16, 2021 @02:38PM (#28555449)
When will an ORM be available?

Still not sure whether this is serious or not, but it's not really infrastructure as SQL, it's infrastructure as database records which is stateful and defeats the point.

Re:Cloud Infrastructure as SQL on Thursday September 16, 2021 @02:29PM (#28555319)
It's using an implied cross join so each image is deployed onto a t2.micro
IMO if you have to lie, you've already ceded the moral high ground.
tl;dr just ignore it?
Re:OpenAI Announces Funding for Startups on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @04:55PM (#27295977)
Nobody uses HN because it's an amazing piece of software.
I think that's his point; that 5% returns aren't actually that great.
The rate of return on investments is proportional to the risk and/or effort necessary to make it work. Contracting out the management of things like condos, vending machines, etc. destroy the vast majority of any gross profit. Investing in a large-cap, high-dividend mutual fund (Vanguard, etc.) will generate reasonable returns with 0 effort on your part. Just cash out your dividends rather than re-invest.
Because it's easier for the average developer to follow Python code? This is a tutorial/demo, not a library.
Re:“User engagement” is code for “addiction” on Thursday March 04, 2021 @04:02PM (#26348269)
Literally any analyst or data science job related to growth or user engagement on social media.

https://research.fb.com/category/data-science/

It's probably bad data. 7k vs 13k is reasonable, but nobody is removing tonsils for $300.
Was the editor fired because of a "dissenting opinion" or because Cotton was effectively calling for martial law against protestors?

The NYTimes op-ed section has plenty of dissenting opinions and/or conservatives... just not ones calling for violence.

Re:Why are boys academically underperforming? [audio] on Thursday December 31, 2020 @12:07PM (#25594509)
Sure, here

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37254851

Not really sure what you're implying

Re:I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months on Friday December 18, 2020 @12:23PM (#25469420)
I do not think that "240k in debt" (he clarifies it was 140k in another comment) actually means owing 240k more than your total assets.

As far as the median net worth, that's just someone most of the way through paying off their mortgage...

Re:I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months on Friday December 18, 2020 @12:16PM (#25469325)
Or student debt; a doctor going 200k into debt for med school probably isn't exactly in dire financial straits.
Re:I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months on Friday December 18, 2020 @12:15PM (#25469306)
So it was really around 100k over four years with the last 40k covered by your acquisition earnings. So 25k a year on a 100k salary (pre/post-tax?). Which is a lot less than 80k a year. Still impressive, and kudos, but let's not pretend that it's anywhere the same. That's a difference of two whole median incomes per year.
Re:Olbers' Paradox on Saturday December 12, 2020 @03:43PM (#25401514)
The point is that any decrease is offset by the increase in the number of stars. Also your distinction between >1 photon per second and <1 photon per second is meaningless.
Re:How I got to $9.99 MRR after 7 years on Friday December 11, 2020 @12:58PM (#25388598)
I think this is satirizing things like Failory rather than unicorns.
Re:The Airbnbs on Thursday December 10, 2020 @05:33PM (#25379710)
Maybe people working in those industries _do_ share some blame. However, the linked article is not about any of those industries.
Re:The Airbnbs on Thursday December 10, 2020 @05:30PM (#25379679)
What wisdom, exactly? This is neither an original thought nor a particularly good phrasing.
r/pcm uses irony to defend racism and anti-semitism... it's a garbage subreddit
I'm not really sure what problem this is supposed to solve. Hysteria is not a new phenomenon (Satanic Panic, witch trials). Disagreements and politics are not new; what if someone posts about the start of the Iraq War? Ignoring the present doesn't do anyone any good.
There's a reason progressives don't like him.
Conservatives burned their Nikes because Colin Kaepernick was in an ad.

Not to mention the months-long propaganda campaign claiming that Big Tech was silencing conservatives on social media.

Also, conservatism is basically supporting the status quo. Why would conservatives have labor protests against the status quo?

Both of your "scientific" issues are fantastic examples of science having been politicized. Or at least trust in or acceptance of science.

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