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The need for GPUs during an unprecedented spike in demand for chip fab capacity couldn't have helped. I think the basic model will eventually work out, though. The bandwidth is the…

> casual gamer Same. I had a month off between jobs and used a week of my evenings off to play through red dead. I don't particularly care about losing the license, because I just …

> This sounds like post-hoc, anti-intellectual rationalization. How is this anti-intellectual? If you want, I can formalize as a game the problem of choosing business/product strat…

Travel. Travel. Travel. Having everything USB-C just makes travel so much easier.

> How do you explain a non-negligible part of middle of America who voted for Obama voting for Trump? The labor movement always had a socially reactionary underbelly. My hypothesis…

> economic conditions dictate that within a few decade, there will be no restaurants in major cities. No. Restaurants will continue to exist. Sit down in particular. In cases where…

Someone working low-paid hourly wage work can probably make $20K. A few siblings + their parents = 5 people = $100K. Stagger availability schedules so there's always someone home w…

You can fit 3 generations in a single family home in an American suburb of a mid-sized city, and half the world's population would either (a) consider that a QoL improvement or at …

Fast food is pricing itself out of the market. I think it's a great example of a sector that failed to innovate and is now incapable of providing a product worth buying at prices t…

> I'd rather not base my picture of the entire economy around a single retailer Or retailers in general. Retail spending is down because services spending is up -- people are going…

>>>GDP has long been criticized for being a poor metric for the economy. But it's always been correlated enough with overall economic sentiment that it was Good Enough. >> yes by M…

Or, damn near every household bought a new TV during the pandemic lockdowns using their stimulus checks and now no one needs a new TV. I think Walmart's story in particular is one …

> This isn't true, major retailers have been reporting falling demand. As OP said, >> and services. > Wal-Mart WalMart's issue is that they have a massive inventory/demand mismatch…

Descriptions of economic conditions are obviously politicized. This was probably always true to an extent, but it really took off during the early Obama years. That said... my weal…

> Academia feels like such a minefield though. Yes. Get a PhD then leave for industry. The university system will be permanent decline for the rest of our lives. Another instance o…

On the other hand, we just went through a once per lifetime pandemic and a once per lifetime consumer stimulus package. Supply chains are wrecked and we're in a period during which…

Hah! An Accounting prof told me that I should double in Accounting because CS would be outsourced. I said something like "well, maybe, but CS is going to automate a ton of Accounti…

> I was concerned about rampant outsourcing for some reason. Because this concern was pervasive in pop culture / career advice columns during post dot-com. Fear-mongering about out…

I always enjoyed programming (like, from 3rd grade onwards). Basically, from my first line of BASIC, I was hooked. I realized I was built for computer science during my first indus…

This Sounds like financial engineering. It is possible the people involved were incompetent, either individually or as a group. But this sounds like an incentive problem. Competenc…

That's a horrible prior. This isn't about the SEC at all. Arresting on a subset of eventual charges is something that nearly all prosecutors do, and for a large set of very good st…