wallace_f

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by wallace_f 7y ago
Is attacking Grewnwald's character relevant here? Anyways, if it is, Greenwald has been one of the most outspoken critics of many aspects of the Russiagate accusations against Trump(1); and in consideration of your aforementioned &quo
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by wallace_f 7y ago
From a distance, to me it's interesting to read about fears of the FBI snooping in our phones and email, and see how quickly the discussion jolts to how immoral (or amoral) corporations are because one of them is not completely defying
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Sadly, it reminds me of all the stories of authorities using databases for stalking women they're interested in, or people they have a personal grudge against, or whatever. https://nypost.com/2019/03/11/s
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by wallace_f 7y ago
If you're familiar with the market and the dogma at the time, the idea was that securitization used mathematical techniques to actually reduce risk, and these were being sold as such. What's wrong was after this bubble popped, the
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by wallace_f 7y ago
>Larry Fink sent a strongly worded letter about how companies needed to make society better On the topic of executives needing to improve society, Fink here was important in the creation of the MBS market.
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IJ asks Supreme Court hold police accountable for destroying home with grenades(ij.org)
5 points by wallace_f 7y ago|0 comments
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Last decade was terrible for housing construction: https://reason.com/2019/12/23/the-2010s-were-a-terrible-deca...
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by wallace_f 7y ago
These argumentative tactics are of poor conduct, and seem to be clearly made in bad faith. Someone who disagrees with you is just someone who has a different opinion, and that does not make it appropriate for you to attack them. In other wo
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by wallace_f 7y ago
That was actually part of the point I was trying to make.
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by wallace_f 7y ago
See below comments, particularly shkmmo's. My comment above was socratic irony.
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by wallace_f 7y ago
>I don’t think physics operates on anything resembling a social-justice system Physicists are chosen within the Academic-Governmental Complex, and as such physicists are chosen according to its preferences. Maybe this is a big problem? I
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Physics has made a lot of progress in social justice and representation and these kinds of comments putting down "her point of view" is the type of toxic masculinity that will send us back 100 years.
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Very true. In fact, I doubt few people would be content being alone with themselves and their thoughts and nothing to distract them.
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by wallace_f 7y ago
No. Yes? That's what I mean, my whole life is a way of dealing with them by using escape mechanisms. HN is one of them. Lesser one.
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by wallace_f 7y ago
I feel like my whole life is a series of addictions designed to prevent me from drudging through the extreme anger and sadness I have in my life. At least, luckily, I don't like to drink so excessively.
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Paypal has the right to, not the government.
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by wallace_f 7y ago
I am aware. Even going back in history, I find most are surprised to know even Abraham Lincoln really went after journalists and the press. Anyways, I don't know why I was downvoted. Hopefully not because people disagree with that hope
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by wallace_f 7y ago
>“To comply with government regulations, PayPal is required to review certain transactions.” For mentioning the word Iran. Terrifying. I guess the best to hope for is that the Institute for Justice or the ACLU pick this up and sue for th
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by wallace_f 7y ago
US healthcare is corrupt and inefficient. It's not only a debate about who should pay for it. Your comment suggests changing the latter would fix the problem with cost, which surely has a lot to do with the former.
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Is Dopamine Fasting SV's Latest Fad?(bbc.com)
2 points by wallace_f 7y ago|0 comments
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by wallace_f 7y ago
It might be cultural. I think it is. Being unsure or humble is not valued as much as it should be.
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Thanks for the explanation, but I'm stuck on the last sentence of this part: >evidence of accelerating expansion is that based on the redshift of nearby objects, we would expect distant objects to have a higher redshift than they a
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Imagine if the FTC actually still did their job, not just how much more innovation and competition there'd be, but also lives saved.
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by wallace_f 7y ago
>smart people in a hypercompetitive environment and they will quickly identify the traits that are being rewarded and optimize for those. What does academia reward? Large numbers of publications with lots of citations, nothing else matte
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Good question, and why not just look at the Wikipedia entry, which addresses this in the second paragraph: >paradigm seeks solutions to social and ecological problems, based on principles of land rights and public finance which attempt t
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by wallace_f 7y ago
>can only be a negative Your argument is noy exactly true. If the value of finding a similarly open-minded individual outweighs the low probability* of finding it, then it makes sense. Put another way if given a utility function with te
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by wallace_f 7y ago
It would be nice if the FTC did their job of breaking up conglomerates and preventing monopolistic competition. But Washington is like a plutocracy and the FTC wouldn't be serving the interests of all that network of money and favors
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by wallace_f 7y ago
>"We've 12 years to live because of climate change!" are fickle and as soon as the current narrative shifts a bit there's no telling what other damage they're capable of doing. One of the contributing factors to
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by wallace_f 7y ago
>be quickly forgotten, much like mass shootings today Mass shootings have historically been responsible for deaths totalling in the teens per year, or less. Today, with increaded gun control, death totals from mass shootings are their hi
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Do you really believe that a billionaire clearly funding a marketing campaign for themselves would be received well? Charity often does good, but often does not have the intended or apparent result. See William Easterly on the subject.

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