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I use org-mode for note taking and personal knowledge base . In my notes.org file, I collect all kind of snippets, knowledge, ideas, how-tos, and such stuff. Outlines make it possi…

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China's debt-to-GDP ratio is higher than the US and stands at around 280%: https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/chinas-growth-is-burie... Also, China's "innovation" is mostly buil…

Try 600 million. It's supposed to shrink by half.

Companies that provide store fronts that law abiding customers living in those neighborhoods can't live without.

Do you expect these corporate announcements to contain anything but PR and euphemisms?

As a middle easterner who has lived all over the world, you sound like someone who has never traveled outside of your cocoon of a bubble.

Once tech companies can no longer cover negative cash flow with "funding", persistent tech unemployment will be reality.

Wouldn't that fit the second criteria since many first generation immigrants don't have the requisite language skills to compete with the native population for middle class jobs.

Except that's what the Fed is trying to correct. Inflation is caused when the money supply in an economy grows at faster rate than the economy's ability to produce goods and servic…

> The government finances its operations by issuing T-bills. If nobody is willing to buy T-bills, the government can't get cash to pay government employees, including the FBI, CIA,…

>> They’ll run out of money in 2-3 years if it’s not working. No. They won't run out of money in 2-3 years, they IPO. Or at least, they did in a zero-interest rate environment. "VC…

I didn't interpret the parent comment's reference to "automation and robotics" to include "industrialization and specialization". Sounds like a bunch of brogrammers coding up usele…

How exactly is "automation and robotics" taking the burden from our shoulders? I live in a single family house. I still need to hire plumbers, electricians, handy men to paint my h…

Her review of Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco https://web.archive.org/web/20221113051430/https://www.goodr... My very uninformed impression of how companies work is…

She is one of the devils in nerd's clothing: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2022/11/12/the-devil... She was an advocate of effective altruism who seems to be part of a con…

You're thinking about the Basij: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basij

The absolute worst is iCIMS. It's probably used as an obedience/submissiveness test by the recruiters. If you make it through the application process you've shown that you're despe…

Listen/read the latest econtalk episode to learn why Stable coins are supper popular at places like Argentina: https://www.econtalk.org/devon-zuegel-on-inflation-argentina... Basic…