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by derg 5y ago
No, you're not reading: > Then the negative externalities should be properly priced in. is what I was replying to, saying the market isn't going to naturally do this because capital doesn't actually care about negative ext
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by derg 5y ago
so it's not the market naturally pricing it in then is it?
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by derg 5y ago
and who exactly is doing the pricing here then?
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by derg 5y ago
we all know that rarely if ever happens. market don't care.
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by derg 5y ago
> whereas before you could run away to somewhere new, a new town, a new country, a new frontier now you can't escape it. I genuinely think about this a whole lot. It's wild to think about this being an actual thing... > What
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by derg 5y ago
> It's a strange combination between modesty and strategically bending rules. I kind of adore that. It's very earnestly human. Being rigid is fine and all but it also kind of sucks a hell of a lot. So it turns into a "how
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by derg 5y ago
Honestly it could also be it's just hard to fathom the breadth and scale. Easier to imagine someone opening your mail or tapping your phone or otherwise physically interacting with things you own over the government intercepting a requ
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by derg 5y ago
Hey look, they rediscovered that color exists! I dig it.
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by derg 5y ago
ha i meant to reply to the person asking for a citation but also another one you can add into your post.
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by derg 5y ago
hell hath no fury like a displeased business tyrant imagine getting that mad as like the richest person in the goddamned world.
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by derg 5y ago
It's also literally in the Intercept article with a link to the story lol: > According to Recode, the suspicious tweets in fact came at the behest of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who had recently conveyed disappointment to Amazon official
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by derg 6y ago
Cellular Automata are so cool. I did a project for a distributed computing course on them and it was real fun throwing different rules in and seeing what emerged.
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by derg 6y ago
I would very much like the ability to transfer between services but also completely delete once I've backed up locally.
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by derg 6y ago
oh you're one of those climate deniers. nothing you say is valid or worth listening to.
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by derg 6y ago
> Climate models show that we only have about 10-15 more years before complete climate collapse. and here i am, waking up every day putting on my stupid pants and my stupid hoodie and meandering to my stupid laptop to make stupid little
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by derg 6y ago
Yep. The entire building needs to be completely scrubbed down and all tech needs to be taken and destroyed. A complete fresh start. Move operations to a new building while this is happening.
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by derg 6y ago
yep. trains are also more relaxing in ways that busses/planes can ever be for me. it feels like the one time my brain can truly shut up for a bit and i can just enjoy existing. something about the smoothness of the rails (speaking from
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by derg 6y ago
I don't necessarily completely disagree here, but I'm always thinking of the Douglas Adams quote in Hitchhiker's Guide on this: "For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than
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by derg 6y ago
right? and like something i've come to realize over the years is that there is a huge value add of having something just work that i don't think many people actually appreciate. I would absolutely love to pay more in taxes if
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by derg 6y ago
Walking and biking with some public transit to fill the gaps honestly. Outside of the obvious downsides to a car centric culture, the united states would definitely have healthier people if it were feasible to walk to more destinations. And
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by derg 6y ago
95 really sucks for a lot of reasons. i like to imagine a world where the smart thing was done and it became a ring road around the city instead of just cutting directly along the waterfront. always hated the spring garden el stop because o
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by derg 6y ago
hell at the ones I went to there were roving groups of people handing out masks and gloves (more masks than gloves and the masks came directly from the box), hand sanitizer, and water. it was a sight to see honestly and very heartening bit
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by derg 6y ago
It's so weird for me personally because while I have absolutely zero interest in boarding a plane to go anywhere at the moment, there is a weird small feeling of being trapped so to speak. like losing the option (that i wasn't g
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by derg 6y ago
Yes, this is true. I guess I wasn't very careful with my wording as I was talking in the classical sense of "there's too much money now so your dollar is now worth 20 cents across the board" inflation and not necessarily
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by derg 6y ago
> But if we're talking about a thriving society and population, surely our aims should be set higher than the very first step on Maslow's hierarchy of needs? Very much agreed. The issues with sectors that have been outpacing in
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by derg 6y ago
I would agree to this but this isn't necessarily a blanket monetary policy of spending too much money across the board and is a result of political capture by the wealthy where it's used to keep fueling the infinite growth machi
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by derg 6y ago
Yep. There's a concerted effort to keep bringing up high inflation as a means of forcing more austerity. The mythical "high inflation" hasn't materialized but the cries continue to happen.
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by derg 6y ago
>Even now, with the gyms closed for months, I can feel that newly acquired skill slipping and predictably, my self discipline slides too. I've almost forgotten how good it feels after a nice workout. Right? I've noticed my own
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by derg 6y ago
And this is all _before_ evictions and foreclosures are allowed to start again. With the number of people already behind on rent and the number of people paying rent on credit cards it could get really ugly without any policy to mitigate th
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by derg 6y ago
What future? What is there to be excited about? Can't actually spend money at the federal and state level aside from tax cuts and the military without being met with resistance and a subset of politicians and economists screaming blood

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