marcuskane2

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by marcuskane2 1mo ago
And just like the panic over cell phones, this too shall pass. Maybe half of HN is too young to remember (or old enough to have forgotten?) but when cell phones with cameras were becoming mainstream, there was media panic over them too - pe
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by marcuskane2 2mo ago
It's particularly sad that we just proved this with the massive Covid-era stimulus and yet didn't collectively learn the lesson. We gave millions of people unemployment checks that were larger than their actual income had been, ga
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by marcuskane2 3mo ago
Or they're a student who has to work a part-time job after school. Or they have a long commute. Or they have hours of practice for a competitive sport or extracurricular. Or they have to take care of their siblings, grandparent or sick
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by marcuskane2 3mo ago
This was posted on a Saturday night (in the US). A story posted at lunch time on a Tuesday is going to get 100x or maybe 10,000x more views than a story posted on a Saturday night. It's not that HN readers lack intellectual curiosity o
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by marcuskane2 4mo ago
> hence more promotion-worthy Relevant for big companies where people intend to have decade spanning careers with multiple promotions. But for the tech worker who is going to have a series of 1-3 year stints at different companies, their
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by marcuskane2 4mo ago
> here is where I get confused It doesn't seem like you're confused, it seems like you're using that as a rhetorical device to be pedantic. > I'm not trying to be pedantic, but Followed by 4 paragraphs of pedantry,
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by marcuskane2 5mo ago
Internet commenters try to get me to hate lots of people for lots of reasons, but "Parents trying to send their kid to a school that fits their kid's needs" seems like such a hard sell. Like, I get the desire in a hypothetica
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by marcuskane2 5mo ago
There's no legal mechanism for the vast majority of what the president has done. Often it happens anyway, along with some protests, some resignations and maybe an eventual court case reversal months or years later.
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by marcuskane2 5mo ago
That "huge gap" is probably 3-10 years. A relatively tiny percent of mortgages not getting paid in 2007 & 2008 caused a global financial crisis. If even just 10% of current office workers lose their jobs and quit paying their
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by marcuskane2 6mo ago
> a home is the largest purchase they will ever make and the bulk of their net worth That's bad and a central part of the problem. I accept that my car is depreciating in value every year I own it, and but I need a car so I buy one.
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by marcuskane2 7mo ago
This is much ado about nothing. The US has so much excess capacity in farmland that we do absurd things with our excess corn and soybeans. We refine soybeans into ethanol to put into our gasoline. We feed corn to cows which kills them in fa
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by marcuskane2 10mo ago
I've gotta know which side of Poe's law this falls on. Was this written in earnest or as an ironic/facetious joke?
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by marcuskane2 11mo ago
There are a lot of misunderstandings in this post. I'll try to explain a few of them, which maybe can help realign your whole understanding. For starters, American insurance has a "maximum out-of-pocket" amount, which means t
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by marcuskane2 11mo ago
> your personal (not hosted by a corp) website I'm not sure that's enough. A few years ago there were some set of websites that wanted less censorship than the main corporate sites (or at least, a different set of censorship ru
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by marcuskane2 11mo ago
It's crazy to me that you're still blaming the poorest, most exploited, least powerful person in the economy for the problems instead of the people actually responsible. Since you moved the goalposts after I pointed out the absurd
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by marcuskane2 11mo ago
Kinda. Maybe I'm too optimistic and we're just doomed, but I think the average voter would have cared more if a handful of things had gone differently. For starters of course, Biden's rapid cognitive decline and the poor hand
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by marcuskane2 11mo ago
For years, we've talked about how much of the workforce was "bullshit jobs". HN would be full of incredulous comments from people confused by the headcount at various companies, wondering what all those people were doing ever
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by marcuskane2 11mo ago
> by having a Honduran guy come into the country and do his job for half the price, then use that to compete with him for an apartment, increasing his cost of living So the immigrants are making half the income, but also paying more for
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by marcuskane2 11mo ago
I think like, 90% of the crypto trading volume is by people who know it's all a grift, but are hoping to get rich while the music is still playing. People knowingly buy into pump & dumps, gambling that they're on the early (pu
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by marcuskane2 11mo ago
Man, your anger is just pointed in the wrong direction here. Be mad at the CEO & hedge fund managers making millions of dollars a year by exploiting the working classes, who will happily move all the jobs overseas tomorrow if they can&#
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by marcuskane2 11mo ago
> Especially South Park I think desensitized the millennial generation Desensitized some people, who understood and appreciated the irony, absurdity and inversion of norms. It hyper-sensitized others, who often doubled-down on the type o
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by marcuskane2 11mo ago
Sending innocent people to prison would absolutely be a horrible form of violence against those people. That's why we have trials, with independent judges, juries and rules. Remember when the Boston marathon bombing happened, and Reddi
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by marcuskane2 11mo ago
Or perhaps, that is the centralist position. To take an apolitical comparison, think about an ordinary crime- a murder, a rape, an arson, etc. There is some set of people saying "We know that this man murdered these victims. We think t
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by marcuskane2 11mo ago
There should be a public service campaign telling users something like "Even in the best case scenario, the moderators are weirdos. Most likely they're shills". People with careers, families, friends and hobbies are mostly no
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by marcuskane2 1y ago
As a thought experiment to check your own biases, how do you feel about people like Colin Kaepernick speaking out about police abuses and racism in the justice system? There are people who made roughly the same argument you're making h
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by marcuskane2 1y ago
32 hours per week is about 10-20x what the average American household uses for cleaning/lawncare. Most people have a cleaner or lawncare crew come like once every couple weeks for a couple hours, they're not hiring a full-time emp
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by marcuskane2 1y ago
> how to buy stocks, what ETFs are, what a 401(k) is, etc. I've seen this before, and I remain incredulous. We learned about stocks in 4th grade and did a mock exercise picking stocks and tracking their performance over a few weeks.
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by marcuskane2 1y ago
It wouldn't need to be some plan signed off on by ULA's top brass. It could have been a single person acting alone for whatever reason. Plausibly an employee of ULA who formerly worked at SpaceX and was mad as mistreatment there,
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by marcuskane2 1y ago
> the police does not show up to a fire or an emergency, why would they? Because they're trained first-responders, who have medical first aid training, vehicles with lights and sirens to move quickly through traffic, knowledge of th
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by marcuskane2 1y ago
Almost any of them? Asking a candidate about how fat someone is definitely does sound like something that would get an interviewer in trouble. Many people are deeply insecure about their weight, many women feel very uncomfortable when men m

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