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> First is that "Reality has a well-known liberal bias". Uh...what? Where is the proof of this?

There should be a legal requirement for companies to publicly post the salary band for every role. Otherwise, how do employees know where to start negotiations? This opaqueness onl…

I learned that working on a project you care about is the best tutorial you can do in order to learn a particular technology or framework.

> "Automotive semiconductors will continue to be a limiting constraint on the automotive market through the first half of 2022, but barring any unforeseen shutdowns or semiconducto…

Polarization is due to cultural issues, not economic ones. And no, those cultural issues don't stem from economic issues either. That's a Marxian base/superstructure analysis of th…

Even if we transition to a multipolar world order and renewed great power competition, America will still be the strongest and most secure global power. It has hegemony in the west…

> All the MAANG companies use algorithmic and system design style questions as their main metric for hiring candidates. The internal justification for doing so is likely a combinat…

Businesses that are highly leveraged with debt would either go bankrupt or raise prices to account for higher debt costs, which wouldn't address the problem.

A lot of this is due to fuel prices. The price of fuel affects the price of everything else. It's a benchmark since everything requires fuel. Manufacturing, transportation, agricul…

You are smart enough to know that intentionally coughing on someone is not what I meant.

That also doesn't work because that same precedent can be used for other preventative health issues such as obesity. "Well, you shouldn't have been eating all those cheeseburgers, …

There is no right to not receive another's germs. If we take your argument to its logical conclusion, then the flu vaccine would be mandated. But it's not. So if you say that Covid…

The problem with "Don't Be Evil" is that it assumes everyone agrees on what the definition of "evil" is. But that is absolutely not the case. We live in a post-Christian/post-relig…

Makes sense at face value. Generally speaking, religious minorities tend to perform better economically than the majority religious group(s) since they have to work harder to overc…

> Apparently, there are many other major religious persecutions that are not well-known today. Yup, like the Coptic Christians of Egypt. Or Christians in the Middle East/Near East …

Is there a good book on object oriented programming for beginners? By beginners I mean people who code regularly but aren't software engineers.

Thanks, I stand corrected. Looks like they are in fact diversifying their economy. Good on them.

Lower taxes, great food, more open space, less expensive property, more freedom to do what you want as long as you don't hurt others. The only problem with Texas is that the econom…

I did my undergrad in Economics but I want to transition to software engineering. But idk what stack to choose or what projects to work on. I also can't afford to leave my job to d…

I am still amazed by the shortsightedness of how these critical and strategic goods are off-shore. No wonder why the supply chains are fragile and not robust. It should be illegal …

There's an old adage but I'm not sure of the source: "There are four types of economies: developed, undeveloped, Argentina, and Japan."

> In other words, governments with fiat currencies — including the United States — have the power to expand the quantity of those currencies. If they choose to do so, they risk inf…

That's what the rich countries did to get rich. Germany, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, and the US. The US was the most protectionist country in the world from 1814 - 1914. Alexander…

Hyperinflation usually occurs for one of two reasons: 1. Supply-side shocks such as disruptions in oil production, food production, etc. that cause shortages, leading to massive sp…