weirdstuff

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by weirdstuff 6y ago
The government may not be out to intentionally "get" anyone, but it's still very capable of harming when it intends to help. That's what's behind a lot of the consternation over government responses. A lot of lives
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by weirdstuff 6y ago
City populations are some of the most unequal in all society. Extremes in close proximity. I've read research on this in the past, although I don't have any links at the moment.
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by weirdstuff 6y ago
The Fed never unwound, at least beyond an initial and failed attempt. When the Fed started unwinding a little over a year ago, they had to suddenly stop when markets tanked—hard. After the Fed ceased, stability returned. I'm not sure t
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by weirdstuff 6y ago
If we want to handle this crisis, let's not create a yet larger crisis in the process. I'm not ready to go weapons-grade nuclear on civil liberties.
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by weirdstuff 6y ago
Not even close.
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by weirdstuff 6y ago
All of your civil liberties? Really? That seems to be a very high price to pay given we all die someday. I'd rather live in a world of risks than one without liberty. My mother is older and has chronic health issues. We both rather ris
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by weirdstuff 7y ago
After a long and respected career at MIT he’s no joke.
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by weirdstuff 7y ago
You'll likely deal with each of these no matter which route you go; these things just occur naturally. School provides a little safety margin, but at a cost. And there's a different cost to not going to school. Choose your own adv
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by weirdstuff 7y ago
Let’s not accuse HN’ers of being Russian plants, it’s bad for discussion in my opinion. It’s rotting Reddit already.
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by weirdstuff 7y ago
It’s amazing how controversial Marx is 150 years later, and I’ve only ever met one actual “authority” on the matter outside Marx’s actual writings. (And I’m in economics!) Makes me think there’s something very lasting about his ideas, moral
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by weirdstuff 7y ago
No, they don't need one. The article shows how some groups are pushing for legislation to allow news orgs to form a cartel, in order to compete with the likes of Google and friends, who themselves enjoy a high concentration of market s
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by weirdstuff 7y ago
I'm kind of tired of the trades "break your body" argument. I think just as many bodies routinely get destroyed in office environments—especially in tech. You know the trope. Sitting all the time under artificial light breath
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by weirdstuff 7y ago
I urge you to look at this chart: https://www.financialsamurai.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/... There's a strong correlation there. Fed funds rate seems to lead a bit. I agree with you about the a
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by weirdstuff 8y ago
It's a bit of circular logic. Big names are where big populations are. By that criteria San Francisco city has more "nowhereness" than San Jose. New York metro area is much more nowhere than Tokyo metro if you want to go buy
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by weirdstuff 8y ago
I'd add it's not just HN, but most social sites are far into self-censorship territory. I agree though, HN is much more hostile these days. WRT dang, even today he shut down a thread regarding the deepening SEC inquiry into Musk (
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by weirdstuff 8y ago
We've done a pretty bad job at bringing back jobs. Labor force participation rate has fallen, while people are retiring later. Retirement/aging doesn't even help explain the drop. Especially since the younger generation has m
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by weirdstuff 8y ago
It doesn't mean they're automatically wrong, either. Not sure you're saying much. They created a whole website to outline their argument.
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by weirdstuff 8y ago
These patterns are likely to happen in times of extreme wealth inequality. Many people point the finger at Google and the like, and they may have a good case.
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by weirdstuff 8y ago
That's not what they're saying. They don't want Google specifically, for reasons they detail in-depth on their website. Being welcoming to everyone doesn't really work, or otherwise we wouldn't have prisons. Being o
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by weirdstuff 8y ago
I think it's pretty obvious NASA does this so that we can eventually send the former middle class to Mars and make more room here.
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by weirdstuff 8y ago
Alchemists were experts on alchemy, but now we know their insights weren't all that useful for what they intended. (Although they were some of the smartest minds in their day.) Same might be true for many economists. We like to think w
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by weirdstuff 8y ago
You make a good and valid point. But I think I'm just refuting his/her authority, not establishing my own. Also, there's so much pushing and shoving lately it's hard not to get caught up in it. Lately HN has a very polic
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by weirdstuff 8y ago
Not just you. It's a high price and I wouldn't go for it. Don't use it enough.
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by weirdstuff 8y ago
Well, it was a good run.
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by weirdstuff 8y ago
Not sure about that. Wasn't the Doomsday Clock just moved back to an all-time dangerous spot?
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by weirdstuff 8y ago
And it started right after Trump won. Before that night the wisdom was exactly the opposite: that our elections can't be hacked, and we shouldn't believe claims about it. Then Trump won and created mass hysteria in the political c
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by weirdstuff 8y ago
It's unfortunate that countries do increasingly exist to serve markets. In my opinion that's a real inversion, although subtle, that's been taking place. Which leads us to a bought political system, at the moment at least.
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
This is the elephant in the room. U.S. based interests spent billions to influence public opinion here and abroad. But less than $1 million spent by a Russia media organization (to maybe attract viewers?) and some trolls tossed the electi
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
This is my fear: the UBI would be instituted and then the "Universal" part slowly erode into a sticks-and-carrots regime like how taxes and transfer payments are used today. We need to make damn sure that adequate opportunities to
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
I don't know; living here in the rust belt has been a pretty harsh wake up call if you ask me. Economic value is primo in the U.S. (It's shocking to see first-hand entire regions in various states of collapse; furthermore becoming

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