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Comment on Why Vegas doesn't care if you visit anymore in ~finance
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Comment on Why Vegas doesn't care if you visit anymore in ~finance
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Comment on Why Vegas doesn't care if you visit anymore in ~finance
Eji1700 Link ParentI have literally reference you to the NGCB youtube as a starting position. You can go ahead and dive into stuff like the older lvrj summaries but the more recent they are the more likely they are...If the extent of it amounts of anecdata and "I'm a local, believe me", can't particularly say that's very convincing. It seems like just a process of wishful thinking.
I have literally reference you to the NGCB youtube as a starting position. You can go ahead and dive into stuff like the older lvrj summaries but the more recent they are the more likely they are to be totally inaccurate. Any history book about las vegas politics would cover it all as well. It all starts with why and how las vegas gaming law is what it is and why you can have 1000 machines at a hotel and 15 at a gas station and absolutely 0 at a restaurant EXCEPT if its a bar and why there was an older casnio in the shape of an L and so on.
It's not sexy and its not interesting because it's local state politics so there's not fun videos on it, but at the same time what more do you want? You are more than free to look up how much time effort and money has been spent trying to make sure that one of the only states where you could put money making machines in businesses legally DIDN'T wind up just having them everywhere and what that balancing act looked like and how it changed over the years.
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Comment on Why Vegas doesn't care if you visit anymore in ~finance
Eji1700 Link ParentYeah locals all now avoid the strip. Theres new competition catering to them, and that’s where you get downtown/the arts district and the like. I went from hitting the Mirage at 3am for noodles to...Yeah locals all now avoid the strip. Theres new competition catering to them, and that’s where you get downtown/the arts district and the like. I went from hitting the Mirage at 3am for noodles to going to the strip only if I have work at the convention center
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Comment on Why Vegas doesn't care if you visit anymore in ~finance
Eji1700 Link ParentI already gave an example. Fuck it’s arguable a point for the movie Casino which far predates this. My family and friends have been involved in local vegas and Nevada politics and industries for...I already gave an example. Fuck it’s arguable a point for the movie Casino which far predates this.
My family and friends have been involved in local vegas and Nevada politics and industries for 60+ years across 3 or 4 generations. Your random headline take just isn’t right and I’m confident any local with serious experience will agree.
This has always been talked about. Be it Kennedy taking down the mob, the corporations making it kid friendly, then adult friendly, then the housing crash making it cheaper, then the club phase, COVID, sports betting expansion, and a million other inbetweens (water conservation, state tax, public transit and road construction, state monopolies, unions, and so on)
If it want to watch NGCB meetings they’re on YouTube and it’s a starting point but it’s quite obvious you’re opining based on the random videos and articles that are made about the city but are far from a complete picture.
Vegas has ALWAYS been about balancing the delicate issue of being an industry town (again like Detroit) and trying to not wind up being wiped out by that industry shift OR by corporations driving the industry into the ground.
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Comment on Why Vegas doesn't care if you visit anymore in ~finance
Eji1700 Link ParentI mean your take on the market reasons for vegas adjustments is objectively wrong. Mobile gaming is a thing, as are lowered gaming regulations and stigma globally, but that isn’t what has been...I mean your take on the market reasons for vegas adjustments is objectively wrong. Mobile gaming is a thing, as are lowered gaming regulations and stigma globally, but that isn’t what has been driving the Strip practices. Neither could exist (like in the 90-00s) and you’d still see this practice expanding (again see referenced time frame).
It’s very much stemming from the mindset of “okay, you made X this quarter? How are you going to make X + Y next” that’s everywhere.
Obviously markets should grow with inflation but Vegas already had its major wipeout in 08 because of this mindset and it absolutely hurt the city and the locals.
Theres nothing wrong with saying “optimal business practices are going to eventually make this town unlivable and the people doing it won’t care because they’ll be moving on to the next one “ because that ABSOLUTELY happens.
It’s always been a huge portion of the discussion for Vegas because we’ve grown past the roadside nice town turned into a big box store phase but are still heavily threatened by economic trends (although darkly gambling does go up in down turn economies). It’s because we’re a tourist economy first with our second biggest industry after gaming(which brings the tourism) being construction.
08 hit both of those industries HARD and the NGCB is…what it is…. and so yes the city is always trying to expand its draw and diversify its core industries.
Ironically the most dangerous canary in the coal mine things aren’t even being talked about on YouTube because it requires understanding why Nevada gaming regs are what they are, and how/why they’re changing. There’s very good reason for people in this city to be concerned and trends and how they’re being navigated because “business practice I don’t like” is something every politician here has been aware of because they have ALWAYS been legitimately worried it will become “business practice that makes us the next Detroit”
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Comment on Why Vegas doesn't care if you visit anymore in ~finance
Eji1700 Link ParentAs someone who's professional job is literally right smack dab in this wheelhouse, I will again say "it's more complicated than that". That stuff I am comfortable saying: There's always been a lot...For those who might be skeptical given the source, I can tell you from personal experience that they are understating things.
As someone who's professional job is literally right smack dab in this wheelhouse, I will again say "it's more complicated than that".
That stuff I am comfortable saying:
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There's always been a lot of comingled tourism between vegas and California (obviously mostly LA). I think some of your observations are more anecdotal and it's kinda always been that way (both as a personal and professional observation), but that leads me to point 2 which is:
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In general a lot is changing for both LA and Vegas. The status quo's of the past 40+ years are adjusting. God knows LA has been dealing with what you could charitably call growing pains, and Vegas is absolutely in its own co mingled issue.
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That said the local/off strip experience is still very...unique. Like everywhere, the housing market is a fucking wreck when compared to income, and a LOT of that is from all the Californians selling their 2k sq ft $2m home and buying the same thing for $800k in Vegas and proping up the market. Vegas is still one of the only places in the US that has the wide spread of cultures that you see in places like NY/LA (and now sorta Austin), but is certainly still the cheapest by far.
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All that said when looking at it from a tourist perspective, yeah we've basically marketed towards the upper crust. The strip isn't for "plebs" anymore and there's lots of reasons for that (China having MASSIVE growth and a huge population that can now travel is a part of it), and it's not like many people want to vacation here for the local stuff.
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Comment on Why Vegas doesn't care if you visit anymore in ~finance
Eji1700 Link ParentIt's a little more nuanced than that. Social media has COMPLETELY changed the value to appearance ratio of things. Used to be someone would go and write an article about the experience, and so it...It's a little more nuanced than that. Social media has COMPLETELY changed the value to appearance ratio of things.
Used to be someone would go and write an article about the experience, and so it needed to be decent. Now you can have the cheapest shit ever but make it look fancy for that yelp/insta/whatever post that the influencer is there for, and still do well. Vegas is 100% a reflection of that kind of attention economy, as of course our whole towns business model was sorta doing that before everyone else was.
There's very much a "don't hate the player, hate the game" thing, which I know is your late stage capitalism comment, but at the same time I think it's also just an issue with people more than government or economic system.
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Comment on Why Vegas doesn't care if you visit anymore in ~finance
Eji1700 Link ParentI will say it's a VERY surface video and like most, it's talking about THE STRIP, not so much as "Vegas", but of course we do brand the town that way. I hidden upside to Vegas is it is still...Learned a lot about Vegas from this video.
I will say it's a VERY surface video and like most, it's talking about THE STRIP, not so much as "Vegas", but of course we do brand the town that way. I hidden upside to Vegas is it is still probably the cheapest US cosmopolitan city I know of? We have a shitload of cross culture stuff, and unlike New York/LA, it's not completely priced out yet.
Still totally get it's not worth planning a vacation for, especially with how most of the hotels price these days. Still staying OFF strip is absolutely what I recommend, and what all my used to be local friends do when they visit because the strip and larger hotels have become more and more of a tourist trap.
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Comment on Why Vegas doesn't care if you visit anymore in ~finance
Eji1700 Link ParentYou're kinda talking past each other (which is easy because these terms don't map well to the reality people try to express, but they're used a lot). The issue is about the short or long term...You're kinda talking past each other (which is easy because these terms don't map well to the reality people try to express, but they're used a lot).
The issue is about the short or long term health of the industry and the economy.
We obviously have a lot of companies with successful long term strategies who's entire purpose is to capture an industry by blitz scaling with loss leading practices to generate good will and reach, and then clamp down and drive out competition and "harvest" the gains at any cost. To the industry, community, whatever. This very clearly works, and works well, in industries where:
- They can keep the near monopoly
- Where the underlying support doesn't implode.
2 is where the "short term" mindset comes in because yes, a lot of companies are trying to copy what Amazon/Uber/whatever did, and regardless of if it makes sense in their area, don't always succeed and do larger damage.
If you compare that to say Costco or Steam, which while far from utopian, are certainly well known for offering a good product and generally keeping industry dominance from "better" practices (yes this is not black and white, i know) that are less likely to just beat everyone into submission but just straight up out compete their competition.
There is a very real question of if there will BE a middle class in 20-100 years, and it's a much larger discussion, but a lot of these practices do point to that not being necessary as they're clearly aiming for "so what if our workers can't afford our products/living near us" kind of thinking. Well not literally, as these things are always so silo'd/abstracted/segregated but that is obviously the concerning trend.
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Comment on US Supreme Court strikes down Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, upending central plank of economic agenda in ~society
Eji1700 LinkGoing to need to find time to read the decisions/dissent on this one as “the devil is in the details” is so very crucial these days.Going to need to find time to read the decisions/dissent on this one as “the devil is in the details” is so very crucial these days.
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Comment on Leaked email suggests Ring plans to expand ‘search party’ surveillance beyond dogs in ~tech
Eji1700 Link ParentI don't see how that'd be possible depending on your config. You can literally limit access only by direct IP connect which is something they can't grant if you block external at the router (which...Unifi
I don't see how that'd be possible depending on your config. You can literally limit access only by direct IP connect which is something they can't grant if you block external at the router (which doesn't have to be unifi).
I also can't find anything on sessions swapping failures for them at least not in the same way that Eufy fucked up.
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Comment on Leaked email suggests Ring plans to expand ‘search party’ surveillance beyond dogs in ~tech
Eji1700 Link ParentI believe Unifi and Reolink are much the same.I believe Unifi and Reolink are much the same.
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Comment on The AI disruption has arrived, and it sure is fun (gifted link) in ~tech
Eji1700 Link ParentI mean you can do it in raw VBA, but this is where we go in the loop of the author supposedly charging 350k for the work. I'm having a hard time seeing work like that EVER only needing in sheet...I mean you can do it in raw VBA, but this is where we go in the loop of the author supposedly charging 350k for the work. I'm having a hard time seeing work like that EVER only needing in sheet manipulation.
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Comment on Voyager Technologies CEO says space data center cooling problem still needs to be solved in ~space
Eji1700 Link ParentI do not assume they're idiots. I assume they're manipulating people who don't understand physics to get government subsidies. We do have it all figured out. It's basic physics and economics. It's...I also think it's a bit hubristic to assume that they're idiots who can't see that it's infeasible and we've got it all figured out.
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I do not assume they're idiots. I assume they're manipulating people who don't understand physics to get government subsidies.
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We do have it all figured out. It's basic physics and economics. It's the same reason the Hyperloop and the Mars Mission WERE scams, and many experts in the field rightly called as such. Space X doesn't violate physics and economics out of the gate on a fundamental level, and that was discussed heavily when its project was proposed as well.
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Comment on The AI disruption has arrived, and it sure is fun (gifted link) in ~tech
Eji1700 Link ParentThe $350k for dataset clean seems absurd, or seems to assume a temp rate billed yearly even though it wasn't. Something like a $175 an hour for top of the line work for a one and done temp job is...The $350k for dataset clean seems absurd, or seems to assume a temp rate billed yearly even though it wasn't. Something like a $175 an hour for top of the line work for a one and done temp job is believable, but obviously you're not actually charging $350k.
Data cleanup CAN be somewhere where AI could punch above its weight because you might know the correct answer and thus can quickly check if the AI got it right (everything SHOULD sum to X, but it's not), however it's a lot more likely to be one of the worst possible uses? When you can't check the AI's output it's hard to tell if it's actually getting the right result or just getting a result that passes a cursory glance.
In the end without a link to the data (which I know they can't) I feel like I'd default to "and then everyone clapped" energy on it. Could also just be an insane cost of living area (Cali/NY) which is another reason I hate raw numbers thrown out like that without some sort of breakdown as to why they'd make sense.
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Comment on Humble Bundle Books: (Almost) the entirety of Discworld for $16 in ~books
Eji1700 Link ParentHumorous fantasy satire about life and society. I traditionally recommend starting with Guards Guards, Mort, Going Postal, or a stand alone like Small Gods. Some of his earlier stuff can be a bit...Humorous fantasy satire about life and society.
I traditionally recommend starting with Guards Guards, Mort, Going Postal, or a stand alone like Small Gods. Some of his earlier stuff can be a bit rough/less interesting, but all of those start decent and lead to some of stellar writing.
I absolutely believe several of those series, or at least stand alone novels from them, should be mandatory reading in schools.
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Comment on The Possessed Machines: Dostoevsky's Demons and the coming AGI catastrophe in ~society
Eji1700 LinkI….augh. Look if a non science person reads an Einstein paper and finds it accurate it’s not prophecy. It’s ignorance from ignoring an entire field. Tech and science LOVE to rediscover that it...What I found there was so uncanny, so precisely calibrated to our present moment, that I began to suspect Dostoevsky of a kind of prophecy.
I….augh.
Look if a non science person reads an Einstein paper and finds it accurate it’s not prophecy. It’s ignorance from ignoring an entire field.
Tech and science LOVE to rediscover that it turns out a lot of philosophy/political science/economics is about the fundamentals of human nature and is not specific to X era but based on abstracted observations on humanity in general.
I fundamentally disagree with how much of threat these things are (or maybe what vectors they’re a threat on) but it’s hard to read this as much more than “woah this Hobbes guy is onto something”.
AI safety teams are expected to be marketing gimmick first by anyone who’s paid attention to business for the last couple of centuries. Or anyone who’s read about or worked on emerging tech or industries.
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Comment on SciFi and cosmic horror storytelling in games in ~games
Eji1700 Link ParentHaving also played tunic I think it’s something that almost everyone should play. Such a great game from so many angles. Especially the layered storytelling.Having also played tunic I think it’s something that almost everyone should play. Such a great game from so many angles. Especially the layered storytelling.
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Comment on The mega-rich are turning their mansions into impenetrable fortresses in ~finance
Eji1700 Link ParentTo be a bit literal about it, you're likely off by one or two 0's. Lot more population, lot more weaponry, LOT more infrastructure that will be non functional that's allowed vast swaths of people...To be a bit literal about it, you're likely off by one or two 0's. Lot more population, lot more weaponry, LOT more infrastructure that will be non functional that's allowed vast swaths of people to live who wouldn't normally, and much more likely to not have clearly defined lines or objectives.
And that's before you get into the chance of other nations seeing this as an opportunity to get involved/worried they need to secure nuclear launch capability.
It is the public documentation of Nevada Gaming Law. It's not some random influencer breakdown.
No you're refuting my refutation with a complete lack of what you'd accept as an acceptable example. This is not some mystery industry secret. It's very boring history stuff. Enroll in UNLV/UNR, they teach it. Watch the publicly documented meetings with the Gaming Control Board that I keep referencing. It's based on it. Buy some books on Nevada Gaming History. I'm not sure what more you could want that I can reasonably provide since "having worked in and around the industry for generations" is unacceptable anecdote.
It is, in fact, not at all a non sequitor as I have been saying this entire time. The history of this City is knowing they are one FBI raid, one congressional law, and one shortsighted industry monopoly away from becoming totally irrelevant. Vegas has ALWAYS known that national trends will affect them.
Further it's in direct relation to:
which is the claim i am refuting. They were moving up the market, again, long long long before internet gambling was legal, or even a thing, and this relates back to the previous point in that the balance of where they're allowed to move that market is a big reason as to WHY they're moving up that market.
Hell you're also demonstrating another major ignorance of Vegas business and politics because we ALWAYS lag on realizing/adapting to tech by decades. Most casino operations didn't even want to expand cell/wifi coverage because they were stuck in the 60s mindset of trying to make sure the player zones in, while basically every other gaming jurisdiction in the world was raking in customers who posted their jackpots on instagram.
I wouldn't be shocked in the slightest if major players in the local industry still believe that internet gambling isn't even a threat to their gaming revenue because they're just that behind the times.
And hell that's not even getting into the complete shift Vegas has done on F&B as a survival strategy, which is vastly more relevant if you wanted to at least be closer.