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by jb775 5y ago
@dang I'd urge you not to ban/shadow-ban my account considering I openly represent a political minority here at HN during a very turbulent time politically in the world where people are often afraid to speak up. Banning people lik
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by jb775 5y ago
> Do nothing? Yes. If the currently available options intended to fix a particular problem don't actually fix the problem while at the same time make the offending business more powerful while making the little guy less powerful...t
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by jb775 5y ago
In other words, crypto miners are investing in lobbyists.
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by jb775 5y ago
No, you are delusional. This is called sexism, but you can't admit what's right in front of your face.
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by jb775 5y ago
Your covid numbers are 100x skewed and essentially fake.
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by jb775 5y ago
No, you didn't.
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by jb775 5y ago
Are you considering the modifier here to be the word "male"? If so, your statement is simply absurd. That's like saying the term "female cheaters" equally insinuates men and women as the cheating-gender being discus
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by jb775 5y ago
#1 Sounds like you are complaining. #2 You missed the point. Twitter is trying to tweak their algorithm not to fix the actual problem, but to reduce the Twitter-perceived downside of not aligning with in-vogue leftist politics (i.e. in this
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by jb775 5y ago
Seem insanely low considering it's really just a for-profit business asking the general public to figure out a very difficult problem they aren't able to figure out on their own.
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by jb775 5y ago
Probably because mentally bronze is 1 place away from not being a medalist while silver is 1 place away from being best in the world.
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by jb775 5y ago
Because not all business costs go up by the same relative amount and not all of them are able to easily pass the costs onto customers.
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by jb775 5y ago
Except the ones that do go out of business and aren't talked about.
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by jb775 5y ago
> There would be a base fee of $6.50 to enter the congestion pricing zone with eligible discounts based on income level. If you make more than $100,000 a year, you’d pay the full amount. Commuters who make less than $46,000 would not pay
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by jb775 5y ago
I'm aware guaranteed income isn't the same thing as collecting unemployment, but the fact there's major employee shortages (at restaurants, etc) the moment the lower classes are given some money (via Covid bailout money addin
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by jb775 5y ago
The private cartel would never give up that power. So common sense tells you that if they ever appear to willingly give up that power (by use of the media propaganda, etc), there's a major catch to the whole thing.
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by jb775 5y ago
Elected & appointed govt workers and their immediate families shouldn't be permitted to buy/sell any stock while in office or 5 years following. And they shouldn't be allowed to take jobs/money (including "speak
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by jb775 5y ago
> her husband, Paul, is a longtime investor/VC...but the trades don’t actually look suspicious I would argue this is an even bigger red flag. Professional traders are much more aware of subtle cause & effects within the markets.
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by jb775 5y ago
This reminds me of how the glaciers were supposed to be gone by 2020[1]. [1] https://lidblog.com/national-park-service-glaciers/
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by jb775 5y ago
Bezos mentioned there's a pocket of air that forms a cushion underneath just before it hits, slowing it to 1 mph at impact. The older woman said she didn't even feel it.
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by jb775 5y ago
The people buying are millennials (currently the largest generation) that are settling down in their location of choice. I predicted this would have happened slowly over the next 15 years, but covid and inner-city violence triggered a fligh
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by jb775 5y ago
The fact that you and everyone else claim we're in a peak bubble is evidence to me that we're not in a peak bubble.
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by jb775 5y ago
I'd suggest we protect freedom of speech similar to how we protect civil rights. Before civil rights, "private businesses" used the same exact excuse as big tech while refusing customers based on race. In the current setup, b
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by jb775 5y ago
Is anyone else sick of all this forced "connected cloud" crap? My wife just got a new Windows laptop and the amount of dark patterns they use to push people towards the Windows cloud is insane. I haven't used Windows in years
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by jb775 5y ago
Private my ass. I understand the terminology, but they are part of the defacto public domain, and are a publicly owned company. They built their company utilizing the resources and technological prowess of the United States, then piss in it
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by jb775 5y ago
But you're taking the already discovered "magic bullets" for granted...and are essentially acting like the next one is impossible even though they happen on a semi-regular basis. Science is simply an on-going collection of re
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by jb775 5y ago
The simple solution to learning CS is to just start building something. The process of getting stuck and figuring out how to get un-stuck is where the learning actually happens.
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by jb775 5y ago
...says the guy who happily agrees to direct and indirect mass censorship based around in-vogue leftist Silicon Valley politics.
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by jb775 5y ago
A reference from the article: https://www.sciencealert.com/less-than-5-superagers-what-the...
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by jb775 5y ago
It wasn't just bruised ego, the guy brought legal charges against Musk claiming libel. How is hiring a 3rd party to investigate the underlying libel not a good initial response? Especially if he could easily afford it.
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by jb775 5y ago
I find it interesting that you position this guy as a "hero" with supporting arguments being that he brought failed legal action against someone else for calling him a name on twitter, while implying the reason he lost was becau

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