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Information bubbles on all sides of the spectrum.
People not willing to compromise and move in small steps.
Making bogeymen out of your opponents.
And, obviously, downvoting all the dissenters into the oblivion.
Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?
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#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
you don't have to be a digital nomad. We've been living in a rural'ish city (Cedar city, UT), that isn't a tech hub for awhile now. I'm a freelance dev (underpaid probably $40/hr). But, I like living wherever I want, and not having to move. Plus wife's family is nearby which comes in handy. I think one big thing though about the have-nots divide increasing is this is going to speed up automation unlike anything we've…
Check out Robin Hanson's Twitter. His hobby horse recently has been finding _any_ evidence that total employment is affected by recent automation and he's not really finding any.
Sure, there's always more work to be done.
Technological progress in production, like automation, reduces the proportional costs of labor, thereby accelerating inequity.
Because surplus (profit), not siphoned by management, goes to the investors (providers of capital).
This has always been true.
Some notable exceptions are profit sharing arrangements, like early Walmart, Microsoft, etc.
(Edit: Toyota too. They explicitly reward Labor for productivity improvements. I don't know if that's still true, generally. More recently, Haier has their own unique strategy for innovation and empowering labor. I'm super keen to learn more about them. I have no idea if they share the surplus more fairly. Of course, co-ops explicitly share the surplus; can't believe I forgot about them.)
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Seems to me that everyone, everyone, is determined to not see the pink elephant sitting in the living room.
Paul Krugman is maybe closest, with his theory that "job stealing robots" is a convenient cover story for decline of Labor.
Like how Big Timber deflected blame for job losses onto the spotted owl away from automation.
Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?
#193Serverside Rendering * https://laravel-livewire.com * https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view * https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor edit: added blazor
Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?
#194Doing nothing. We've been indoctrinated from an early age to be productive, to schedule every moment, to sacrifice sleep, to always be learning, building, networking, searching and improving. The covid19 lockdown is showing many people the benefits of disconnecting, de-scheduling, refusing or ignoring invitations, and being still with our thoughts for hours or days at a time, producing nothing of tangible economic va…
Inversely many working are being exploited to make sure companies stay afloat after many layoffs. Or hospital workers pushing their limits being understaffed.
Many long hours, insanely hard to disconnect, we definitely have two different extremes going on between people.
Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?
#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
Economic downturns are often times of great cultural movements. The renaissance, hip hop, punk/ post punk all emerged from economies in decline
Several of those weren't really great times. The Renaissance, particularly, was particularly troubled, according to a source ... I cannot locate presently. (Podcast, history hasn't turned it up).
There’s a long essay about how terrible the renaissance was at https://www.exurbe.com/black-death-covid-and-why-we-keep-tel...
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#196Space manufacturing. SpaceX Starship should get a kilogram to orbit for $250 (actually Elon's goal is to get the costs down to $10 per kilogram[1] which seems insanely crazy but be forewarned). Historic costs[2]: - Space Shuttle: $41,000/kg (24.4 t, ~$1B) - Delta IV Heavy: $14,600/kg (24 t, $350M) - Falcon Heavy 2R: $1,700/kg (57 t, $95M) A good first product to make in zero G is ZBLAN, fiber optics so clear that the…
Which brings us to what I think is a bigger issue: Space is a finite quantity, similar to land and EM spectrum. It's a land race for space. SpaceX and similar are racing to put their junk up their in orbit as soon as possible so they can squat. So who is going to regulate space? Will China Russia and North Korea respect ownership at 10KM up? What happens when GPS and GLONAS go out because of debris and some stupid wa…
By calling it junk I feel like you’re editorializing.
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#197Veganism, because we cannot afford for another planet, forests like other resources on earth are finite. It is a big trend and it will eventually become the dominant one as the trends show. However reaching a mostly-vegan nutrition in our lifetimes globally will change the course of environmental distraction and massive extinctions to come.
Vegetarianism seems like it should be enough - if your argument is ecological.
Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?
#198Increasing skepticism of science and evidence-based decision making.
Skepticism is science. Check out Kuhn’s “Structure of Scientific Revolutions”.
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#199Remote work. 20 years of progress were consolidated into the last 3 months. Previously, you saw people living in hubs like SF and NYC for the high salary and high prestige jobs. But when those jobs are available from anywhere, all of a sudden the "lifestyle cities" like Boulder, Boise, Chattanooga, etc. start to look a whole lot better. You no longer have to sacrifice the high-prestige career to live in a lower cost-…
I am really skeptical of this idea that suddenly people will be moving to small cities. For one, this assumes that people just move to big cities to work. Is there any research to prove that ? For most people, especially when they are younger, people gravitate to big cities for all the amenities that come with the big city living, jobs being one of them. So in essence, it is jobs chasing people into big cities, rathe…
It’s kind of both. More people in smaller places means more of the amenities and lifestyle of bigger cities without the cost and hassle. Will there be a massive outmigration? Probably not sufficiently to make NYC a ghost town, but it could absolutely turn second and third tier cities into places where a lot more people want to live. There are a sufficient number of people that move specifically for jobs, but would be happy to live in a smaller place. Even if that’s 5% or 10% of professionals, that’s still a huge impact on the communities they move to.
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#200Giving up our freedoms and way of life for a virus that kills .26% of the people it infects (and 0.05% for ages 0-49.)
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...