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throw123123123··on Indian tech workers in Silicon Valley protest immigration discrimination
Yes.

Every job posting comes with a federally mandated anti-discrimination statement, and with a federally mandated discrimination immigration system.

throw123123123··on A new AI game: Give me ideas for crimes to do
This is funny and I take it as evidence that all AI output is grifting.
throw123123123··on More U.S. companies charging employees for job training if they quit
> I guess my issue is this: why is the burden on me, the employee, when you cannot figure out at what rate you're losing employees after training, what it is costing you, and why you're losing them?

It is not - the choice is on you to pick this employer or another one.

throw123123123··on Tell HN: The regret of parenting and how to handle it
You don't.

But kids grow up - it doesn't stay this way forever.

throw123123123··on More U.S. companies charging employees for job training if they quit
It surely depends on the market!
throw123123123··on More U.S. companies charging employees for job training if they quit
Sounds like a good plan - you can pay out of your own pocket to fire all these people that have jobs that don't fit your quality standards.
throw123123123··on New study suggests people with dark personalities weaponize victimhood (2021)
https://www.econlib.org/wokism-in-the-developing-world/
throw123123123··on More U.S. companies charging employees for job training if they quit
Because much like most of a unions touted benefits, the cost is hidden or diffuse.

If you ban the capacity to do this, then the role stops existing.

throw123123123··on More U.S. companies charging employees for job training if they quit
> quit either don't hire somebody without the training.

What is better for employees - to have the option to get training and have to stay at the company one year, or to not have the option at all?

throw123123123··on Linear.app
It probably depends on setups, but at Robinhood, Jira would take 15 seconds to load a wiki page (any wiki page)
throw123123123··on British pound hits record low against the dollar
I have a lot to say about Krugman, specially when he talks about Argentina, but he is not wrong here.

It's not a crisis to have a devaluation.

throw123123123··on Figma: A Random Walk in Palo Alto
Even the CDC got involved with this https://stanforddaily.com/2016/07/21/cdc-releases-preliminar...
throw123123123··on Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospital prices
It's an entire pipeline of billing to extract the tax benefit of insurance.

The real economy has way many more prices than this one - from each store of anything in the country that negotiates from straws to bread. The difference is that these ones happen in a system that has a paper trail from the doctor, to the insurance, and this admin burden is only (apparently) worth it because the vast majority of money in healthcare goes through tax-advantaged insurance.

Cash based payment should suffice for 50~70% of healthcare expenditues and it would have more prices and not have expensive and abusive billing processes.

throw123123123··on Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospital prices
De-reg. De-reg. De-reg.
throw123123123··on Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospital prices
Argentina has public free healthcare and it still has growing expenditures in the private health sector.
throw123123123··on Ask HN: Location based pay is killing my motivation, how do others handle it?
Shopify does not pay well
throw123123123··on Ask HN: Location based pay is killing my motivation, how do others handle it?
You need to start looking into the skillset necessary to get US pay without needing to be in the US - it's not an infinitely big market but it is there for the taking.

This is an extensive topic I cover for the LatAm community in a podcast - Tecnologia informal.

throw123123123··on Mikhail Gorbachev has died
All political systems are imposed, pragmatically and theoretically.
throw123123123··on Man who robbed bank to get his own money back hailed as national hero
Because banks are part of the government.
throw123123123··on U.S. Treasury sanctions virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash
Sure, but also note that force was the only thing able to stop it - turns out the use case is there.
throw123123123··on Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
They also say "There is no gene for success"
throw123123123··on Credit-card debt is soaring
> ...because we run permanent inflation...

Interest existed for 100's of years before the fiat model.

Interest is not paid on money, its paid on time of allocated capital. If you dont have money you can still collect interest in the form of goods - I give you 100 seeds, you return 1000 seeds to me next year. Without interest there is certainly not lending, so the owner has to invest themselves or consume the capital.

It would definitely be better that investment were not issued as debt and were always equity to prevent many ugly side-effects, but thats not a configuration applicable to everything, so this is what you get.

> In any other context the optimal interest rate is always zero because any higher than that prevents investments due to artificially high profitability requirements beyond what is available in the real economy.

This is mixing macro-economics with micro-economics. Even in a contraction economy you have growing businesses, which mean there is demand for capital for production itself. 0% interest rate means there is no demand for capital, which is not true even in North Korea.

Interest is just a price, like any other good in the economy.

throw123123123··on Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
Making smarter, healthier and more attractive people is a net good for society.

The moral issue is not "inequality", the moral issue is eugenics - building their behavior to your desire.

throw123123123··on Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
This is one of the best sci-fi movies of all time - it really captures one essence of being a human being, that motivation and drive vastly outcompete better opportunity.

"You know, my son was never what they promised me he would be" gets me to tears every time.

throw123123123··on Credit-card debt is soaring
It is not too old, but it is also certainly wrong - interest a very efficient way to lend capital. Banning interest is banning investment.

Debt in general has very ugly side-effects and incentives, specially when it is levered, but banning interest altogether would basically destroy modern capitalism.

throw123123123··on Leaked documents reveal Amazon’s process to review employees’ worth to Amazon
Reads like anti-newspeak - attrition is a bad word, and unregretted means company doesn't care about the people being fired.
throw123123123··on Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked into the UK using another child’s name
Why is that different to money for votes?
throw123123123··on The Uber whistleblower: I’m exposing a system that sold people a lie
When Uber showed up in Argentina, the taxi industry threw stones at their offices and flipped cars of uber drivers...

The reality is that most of the sentiment against uber is against the new kid in the block, not at all a moral or policy position.

throw123123123··on Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” synth sounds
Where is my mind on Fight club was a perfect use of the Pixies imo.
throw123123123··on I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to
You can do this with PPO insurance or paying cash.
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