- aisengardThere is zero guarantee that these tools will continue to be there. Those of us who are skeptical of the value of the tools may find them somewhat useful, but are quite wary of ripping up the workflows we've built for ourselves over decade(s)(+) in favor of something that might be 10-20% more useful, but could be taken away or charged greater fees or literally collapse in functionality at any moment, leaving us suddenly crippled. I'll keep the thing I know works, I know will always be there (because it's open source, etc), even if it means I'm slightly less productive over the next X amount of time otherwise.
- As opposed to the implication that Robinson is somehow a leftwing activist, confidently claimed by every GOP politician from coast to coast?
Also, even if it were, as you say, "misinformation", that is now somehow taboo on television? A sacred line none must dare cross?
- You literally only had to read one more sentence:
"With Monday’s announcement universal child care will be extended to every family in the state, regardless of income. This amounts to an average annual family savings of $12,000 per child."
- Maybe a comet?
- Or, you know, we can do both at the same time?
Also, once police are no longer occupied ticketing motorists, I hope cyclists are prepared for actually being held accountable to laws. The police budget isn't going to refill itself.
- Of course, this is not really a useful (or provable) criticism as long as the actual obstructionists are obstructing! Much more useful to oust the obstructionists, then you can work on holding the alleged lip-servicers accountable.
- Yeah, the horrible pay in private school is proof enough that the "free" market is the absolute wrong way to go if you want better teachers.
- Well, if you get to teach a lot of well-off kids who have a lot of extra support at home and you can siphon off the undesirables onto others, you get good marks when most of them inevitably "succeed".
If you have to teach the kids who need help, you get poor marks when some of them inevitably fail.
- Here's a good way to think about it - there is no world where education improves if teachers are not a well-paid profession. It's a race to the bottom, as we're seeing today. So if you want to get better, you have to create incentives for otherwise smart/talented teachers to enter the profession, rather than other professions. The only way to do that is to provide some base level of pay that would be enticing. Once you clear that bar, then you work on things that are unique to the profession, like protecting teachers from abusive parents.
If you don't care about education and you just want to extract the most money from parents for the least amount of effort, you do nothing and let the market take over.
- We price in externalities all the time. A lot of the time it's priced in as the cost of complying with government regulation, like food safety and labeling. Other times it's priced in the other direction, like subsidies for green energy or particular crops (corn/ethanol). We just don't necessarily price them appropriately, or in a way that some people may think is accurate, but we certainly don't ignore the concept of externalities.
- The only thing that burned up in the atmosphere for the Space Shuttle program was the fuel tank. All the other components, including the booster rockets, were recovered and refurbished for reuse.
The innovation here isn't about reusability at all, it's about the economics of reuse. Maybe landing a rocket back on the pad rather than recovering them from the ocean makes it cheaper to reuse, has there been a study around that?
- Actually, mere mortals pay tax eventually when they cash out their investments to pay for the things they want. The wealthy get to take low-interest loans against their investments to pay for the things that they want, without ever having to cash out. They never have to pay those taxes, and their inheritors don't either due to the truly insane cost basis step-up benefit you get when assets are transferred to next of kin upon death.
- Pretty sure he already has: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/10/elon-musk-tells-twitter-staf...
- Doing literally nothing would have already led to a better outcome than whatever waves hands this is.
- I know this is a troll, but I'll respond anyway. If someone can prove he's discriminating against institutions on the basis of religion, he can be sued. Whether he takes money from the government or not doesn't matter in the slightest.
- >>> “let’s avoid abortion, if we can”
>>> I see little argument to allow abortion in a logical sense
This is akin to saying "let's avoid major surgery, if we can", and then arguing that this leads to the logical conclusion that major surgery should be outlawed.
- Sure, maybe in tech, which had been in an unsustainable bubble for a long time. But unless everything changed in the last few weeks, we haven't seen this in the overall labor market, which remains as hot and labor-friendly as ever. Only interest rate bumps will put a dent into this unprecedentedly strong labor market.
- This has nothing to do with WFH, and more to do with how conditioned we are to rely on offices and employers to give us direction in life. It's like when you graduate high school and go to college, no one is going to proactively check in on you. It's a necessary adjustment we should all make at some point.
- Factories don't shut down on the weekends, they just have different groups of people come in for different shifts. A 4-day work week would just mean that they have to hire more people to fill the hours. Productivity wouldn't fall, unless they wanted it to fall.