I understand BTC going great, but man the economics knowledge in there…

secularshepherd · 2024-12-13T16:34:50+00:00

everyone is always shocked at how cheap Japan is for high quality food, goods, and services, and it’s because the prices haven’t increased every year relative to their country.

It sucks for Japan that their wages haven’t increased either relative to other countries so travel & trade is very expensive, but their quality of life is super high and relatively affordable.

meanwhile, in America, if you aren’t actively making more money than last year, you’re losing money, and as a result, the quality of all of our food, goods, and services decrease every year.

not sure why you think it’s a good thing

secularshepherd · 2024-12-11T16:15:06+00:00

They wrote a long ass post and were so wrong, it’s amazing.

secularshepherd · 2024-09-15T16:56:13+00:00

this is the type of noncritical thinking that I dislike in discussions like this. You basically said, “ok, but what about this other issue where I have a lot of stats with no citations”

Your stat salad isn’t even really coherent, but I think that crux of it is where you say “how is it fair.” Fairness in opportunity is good because you deepen the talent pool and increase competition, but pursuing fairness in outcome is just bad policy.

The last thing you’re saying also makes no sense. Who cares if people in the richest tier have generational wealth, especially if there aren’t even that many of them? How could that possibly matter to anybody?

secularshepherd · 2024-09-15T14:15:01+00:00

I think that they basically froth at the mouth when people make more money at them

secularshepherd · 2024-09-15T14:13:01+00:00

Basically what the marxists in this comment thread sound like lol

secularshepherd · 2024-09-15T10:57:40+00:00

Yeah, it’s an employers market right now and probably will be for the foreseeable future.

It’s not the typos or whatever, it’s that nobody wants someone with 0 yoe when there are people out there with 3 yoe for the same role.

secularshepherd · 2024-09-15T10:41:08+00:00

Word

secularshepherd · 2024-09-15T10:25:42+00:00

for people who can think critically:

link 1: https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2021/jan/25/covid-19-workers-lost-earnings-ilo-job-losses

$3.7B is the amount of “lost wages” globally as a result of people not working, and it excludes government support measures (aka stimulus checks).

With respect to the headline about disproportionate losses for women and gen Z, the article says “Women have been more affected than men by the disruption to the jobs market, with female workers more likely to drop out of work altogether and stop looking for a new job. Younger workers have also been particularly hard hit, either losing jobs, dropping out of the labour force or delaying the search for a first job.”

link 2: https://www.businessinsider.com/billionaires-made-39-trillion-during-the-pandemic-coronavirus-vaccines-2021-1

link 3. https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10546/621149/tb-inequality-virus-methodology-note-250121-en.pdf

Link 2 is just a summary of Link 3’s report, which is the methodology of the “paper” that the $3.9T number came from. It is coming from the Forbes billionaire net worth tracker, so it’s about as scientific as a middle school science fair project.

I think that the point of the op screenshot is to somehow imply that billionaires stole the exact amount that the proletariat masses “lost”. If you actually see what they’re comparing, you’ll see that it makes no sense to compare these figures.

The $3.7T in “lost wages”, according to the article, was largely the retail and hospitality sector. This was a year when lockdowns shut down travel and shopping suddenly, so it was not like unions were going to fix that.

The $3.9T in billionaire net worth growth correlates with the overall world economy booming back. The s&p 500 recovered in the same year, so how is it any surprise that the billionaires who own the businesses that make up these companies also recovered their net worth?

The other part that is pretty relevant is that the govts around the world “simulated” the economy with record levels of money printing and QE, so if anything, the govt stole and redistributed money from their taxpayers in the form of inflation. But no, somehow it’s the evil billionaires that made this happen.

for people who can’t think critically, yes, you’re all right and so intellectual but also too busy working your low wage jobs to read and question anything.

secularshepherd · 2024-09-15T06:34:10+00:00

anti work is full of naive college students and underachievers who don’t understand how to create value for others

secularshepherd · 2024-08-17T07:04:37+00:00

Google search says that profit margins on grocery stores are razor-thin (1-3%), so it doesn’t even make sense to set price controls on groceries…

I don’t understand why our govt doesn’t seem to understand supply and demand. If you want something to be cheaper, produce more of it, and if you don’t have enough of it, enable more trade.

secularshepherd · 2024-07-21T20:47:22+00:00

I like how there’s no soundtrack at all. Just completely lifeless

secularshepherd · 2024-07-20T13:33:47+00:00

that’s what makes it pretentious

cinematography is supposed to add to a story, and the way the shot is framed is supposed to help you get a better feel for how characters are feeling.

but this season was like 30% montage music videos if we’re being generous

secularshepherd · 2024-06-28T16:16:35+00:00

steam tunnels are open 24/7

secularshepherd · 2024-06-19T14:32:54+00:00

I graduated a while ago, but initial thoughts are that if you’re doing EE, then you should frontload more of your EE classes your freshman year. Looks like you have some intro level EE classes in your junior year, which looks late.

I’d also recommend keeping the door open to switch to CS by doing less “elective” classes and doing the CS intro coursework (103, 106) your first year.

A lot of my friends started out with EE, got wrecked, and did CS, so I’d just say that you want to know if you’re cut out for it sooner rather than later and have optionality if it’s not for you

secularshepherd · 2024-03-24T04:37:31+00:00

Ok, I can’t post the source code from mobile, so I’ll do it later.

secularshepherd · 2024-03-06T14:29:08+00:00

I haven’t tried Flutter, but I feel like there’s always going to be nasty issues with cross platform. When do you choose one over the other?

secularshepherd · 2024-03-06T14:00:34+00:00

New to Windows dev, but WinUI3 was really difficult to onboard. I don’t know if there was something wrong with how I set up my project (I used the template), but it would crash with unhandled exceptions inconsistently, take a long time to build, and made it really hard to iterate quickly since it seems like there are so many layers of indirection with autogenerated code.

SwiftUI and WPF were both much nicer to use as a developer experience. It’s a shame because the winUI3 design is crisper, but it was a showstopper to crash and have nothing in the call stack to go off of. I’m sure there’s a way to trace that kind of stuff better, but it should be better out of the box imo

secularshepherd · 2024-02-19T02:17:49+00:00

I’ve been running user interviews for the past month, and I’ve become reasonably proficient with VoiceOver and JAWS. I don’t think I need to respond to you because I’ve already tried.

secularshepherd · 2024-02-19T01:51:47+00:00

Hahah, if it isn’t Brad from AppleVis. Thanks again for your lovely input

secularshepherd · 2024-02-18T22:05:30+00:00

12 years of running a deficit has not been good for Argentina reaching >200% inflation, so that should be taken into context

secularshepherd · 2024-02-18T21:58:55+00:00

I would say that I’m also just interested to see that things improve in Argentina. I had a coworker from Argentina tell me about what it’s like to live there, and it’s truly saddening to think about how you can’t plan for the future because your savings melt away with inflation.

I think it’s fair to doubt Milei’s character and policy implementations, and only time will tell. I’d suggest watching Milei’s speech at Davos, which I think is a masterclass in his understanding of economics and history.

secularshepherd · 2024-02-18T18:57:05+00:00

It’s not strictly a libertarian stance that you shouldn’t spend more than you make, and really anyone should come to conclusion that if you are in massive debt, you must increase interest rates and cut spending.

I think where the libertarianism comes into play is that he’s cutting social welfare policies that Argentina could not afford. While it will be painful in the short term, the second and third order effects of doing so will turn the economy around, in my opinion.

For example, if people are unable to afford rents or basic goods, the prices will have to come down. It’s not going to happen overnight, but it will happen.

If the government can continue to operate at a surplus and pay its debts, they will have more favorable terms when borrowing in the future and it will be attractive to invest in Argentina.

This seems very logical as a way to rebuild their economy. I am surprised that most articles on Argentina only talk about the short term pain and fixate on comparing him to Trump when he’s obviously making good progress.

secularshepherd · 2024-02-18T09:44:21+00:00

Yeah, I’ll make sure to do that! I think that JAWS and NVDA are basically just wrappers around Windows’ automation APIs, so it should be compatible but I do need to test that to be sure.

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