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Peter

@astarf

Former military. Tech entrepreneur. Observing and commenting. Tech, politics, international affairs.

Atlanta, GA Katılım Ocak 2008
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Peter@astarf·
@Latest_Finance @parkersity_9 Got it, thanks. That appears to be drawn from second-hand Boeing pension fund data (e.g. the author of the paper reports that someone else gave him the data). An analysis of social security payments finds the opposite result: ssa.gov/policy/docs/wo…
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parks@parkersity_9·
Unpopular Opinion: Retirement should be encouraged to start at 50. People deserve more time to enjoy life.
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@marcorandazza @JasonNied Your driver lied to you or you're peddling a story you made up. Either way: you've been called on it. Your choices are: retract the story, come back with proof, or deliberately keep peddling the lie.
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Marc J. Randazza 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇧🇷
Marc J. Randazza 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇧🇷@marcorandazza·
Rideshare services are enshittified. I say support entrepreneurship. Ride to airport: i paid the service $100. Driver owns the car. He gets $36 for that 1 hour ride, pays his own gas, insurance, maintenance. He probably netted $15. To pick me up at 5am, to drive me to the airport, in the snow. When he showed me that, i took his number and said “next ride, I’ll just pay you” he said “great. I’ll charge you $75 any time” He’s already scheduled to pick me up on the way home. 1. He can pick me up at the place where your friends and family get you. No trudging to the “rideshare zone” 2. He can drop me off next time right at the terminal instead of the rideshare drop off. 3. He makes way more money, but i spend the same. 4. He gives MUCH more of a damn if I’m happy. Normalize doing this.
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@Latest_Finance @parkersity_9 This source-less graphic has been floating around on social for a while, but as far as I can tell does not originate from any reliable source or academic paper.
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skepticalifornia
skepticalifornia@skepticaliblog·
It's very on brand for California that one of the factors pushing Oakland towards a possible bankruptcy is environmental activists pushing the city to illegally renege on a port contract Taxpayers are now on the hook for up to $654 million, before interest
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@xwanyex @AnechoicMedia_ Yeah a credentialed, practicing orthodontist would not be able to discharge his loans in bankruptcy. It’s not some sort of form you fill out that magically gets you out of prior promises, it’s an actual process with safeguards.
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wanye@xwanyex·
@AnechoicMedia_ I have a strong gut feeling about the unfairness of student loan forgiveness, but discharging in bankruptcy seems fine to me. It’s already a moral concession allowed for practical reasons that mostly make sense.
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AnechoicMedia@AnechoicMedia_·
The problem with discharging student loan debt is we can't let an orthodontist stick society with a million dollars in unpaid student loans while retaining the credential and professional network that entitles him to a $300k job. If we do this it has to come with leaving the partner track job in private practice and serving Medicaid or VA patients for like 10 years, earning something like $70k but with no debt payments.
Bugman Hegel@FedPoasting

My most shitlib take is that student loans must be made dischargeable in bankruptcy.

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TheOmniZaddy 🌹🌐🔰🏗@TheOmniZaddy·
I used to hate private insurance more. Now I still do to an extent (don’t get me started on PBMs), but I realized that the biggest villains in the industry are the hospitals (and some doctors)
Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinson

I find it so weird when Democrats attack M4A advocates for wanting to "eliminate private insurance as it exists today." Private health insurance companies are parasitic middlemen who get between you & your doctor. They should not exist. Don't defend them! currentaffairs.org/news/2020/11/w…

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@TheOmniZaddy The biggest cost in healthcare is labor, and it’s a neat trick doctors earning 2x their developed country peers have pulled, convincing us that they are the solution and not the problem.
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drsmithy@drsmithy·
@StewMama71 @AvidCommentator Your grandparents would have spent a lot more time doing domestic chores (washing, cleaning, clothing repairs, etc).
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Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺
Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺@AvidCommentator·
This is quite a striking chart from the Economist. Millennial fathers spent only marginally less time caring for their children than Baby Boomer mothers of the same age.
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Alec MacGillis@AlecMacGillis·
How are Mississippi schools outperforming so many in wealthier states? The embrace of the "science of reading" is key, but it goes beyond that, as @smervosh explains:
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑
M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray·
A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.
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@fishontherun2 People who aren’t poor also appreciate plane tickets that cost half as much.
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Peter@astarf·
@VanyaWright @GaryWinslett No. Local service business are not economic drivers. New York is not wealthier than Lincoln Nebraska because more wealthy people live there, it’s because higher productivity jobs (finance, technology) that require specialization and large populations are clustered there.
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Vanyali
Vanyali@VanyaWright·
The real thing rural areas need is lower wealth inequality: when the only people with money to spend are the super-rich, then all the jobs end up clustered around where the rich live, and that’s generally the biggest cities, which is why the cost of living in cities is going up so much . If wealth inequality was lower then it would be worth while to start businesses that cater to everyone else, and so people could live in smaller cities, towns and rural areas and still make a living. Everything other than lowering wealth inequality is just re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
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Peter@astarf·
@humantransit Show me someone who committed a crime on the subway, and I’ll show you someone who (earlier) jumped the fare gates.
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Jarrett Walker
Jarrett Walker@humantransit·
This is the worst argument against free public transit fares. It insults decent low-income people. The best argument is that fares pay for more and better service that connects more people to opportunities. That's why I support low income discounts, but not free fares.
Dilan Esper@dilanesper

@VirginiaJeff3 @humantransit middle class people do not want to ride on transit full of the sorts of people who ride for free. you make transit nice for middle class people by charging for it!

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@Tesho13 The same could be said about living in something more complex than a tent.
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Tesho Akindele
Tesho Akindele@Tesho13·
Car ownership used to be optional. A luxury purchase to make life more convenient Now it’s an obligation. A $1,000 per month tax just to participate in society
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@chriswithans @aaron_renn I think you’re saying that if you total up all the taxes they paid in their life, there’s a chance they paid more than they milked in social security… … but everything else they got from government they got for free, or rather will be repaid by their grandchildren.
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Chris@chriswithans·
What do you mean "even" with interest? You're supposed to get interest when you loan someone money. The taxpayer lent the federal government money, and should get a decent return. And that's not relevant to property taxes. This person, at age 90, surely paid in far more in property taxes than he or she took out for schools or transportation.
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@colindhernandez Ahh, the old “how do your expensive new cars help people who just need a cheap, used car” argument. Where do you think the ratty, affordable housing came from!? It was yesterdays luxury build!
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Colin Hernandez for California Assembly
Colin Hernandez for California Assembly@colindhernandez·
Or maybe just build normal housing. "Luxury" housing just displaces existing residents, promotes gentrification, and drives up rent prices. Besides, no one wants to live in a souless apartment with an Erewhon or some shitty high end coffee shop beneath them.
Max Dubler, AICP 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler

This is perhaps the single most important thing to understand about housing policy in high-demand cities. If you don’t build the “luxury” condos for wealthy people in new buildings, those rich people will just buy existing homes and turn them into luxury housing.

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Peter@astarf·
@0xScottlai @grok can you review the comment above that “bamboo’s ignition point is higher than metal [steel scaffolding]”?
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Peter@astarf·
@quionie I agree… but also we are 10+ years into crypto and yet this point still needs to be made. That is not a positive verdict on the medium.
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Q@quionie·
I think crypto is incredibly important. Which is why I don’t think we need to slap that word everywhere. Most people care about outcomes, not infra (though it’s cool, to me at least). Best products I’ve seen lead with the problem: “send money for X% less” or “earn yield on savings”, etc. The blockchain part is just how it works. If you’re building: lead with value, not just vocab.
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@Latest_Finance @parkersity_9 @marcorandazza @JasonNied @xwanyex @AnechoicMedia_ @TheOmniZaddy @drsmithy