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by Aunche 4y ago
The two links you posted are the same.
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By the same standard, a witness who misidentified a suspect would be guilty of defamation as well.
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IMO, anyone who thinks that Americans care too much about work need to check their perspective. The Chinese workers in American Factory care a lot about work. I suspect that Americans a century ago were the same, but I think we lost that
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> Also transportation sec Buttigieg just casually saying not to worry we have over 1,000 train derailments a year That this is what people care about is why nothing gets done. A politician can't even say a fact without the news medi
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What are you talking about? The media and Democrats were heavily in favor of the protesters to the extent of denying its part in enabling rioters and looters. One of the greatest disservices in American education is how they teach about act
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> There's very little power for the citizens to actually do anything. How much effort did you expend before declaring that change is futile? The NYPD has political power because they worked to establish relationships with politician
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>And all of the things you just listed, do absolutely nothing compared to demonstrating against using oil and coal Says who? What's the marginal reduction of CO2 for skipping a day of school in the name of climate change awareness?
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Anyone can get your address and phone number from just about anywhere. What you can't purchase are the thousands of data points that Facebook or Google has about your habits, location, and preferences. That's their secret sauce af
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> Convincing other people to care more about climate change, and to be more willing to force society into common sacrifices for aggregate benefit takes a lot of footwork. If they actually worked to make progress on this aspect, they woul
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What gave you the impression that I think nothing can be done? You can drive less, eat less meat, vote for certain politicians etc. What's a waste of mental energy is worrying that everyone else is going to do the same thing. This is o
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The evolutionary purpose of dread is to motivate people to leave dangerous situations. When you hear about people surviving dangerous animal encounters, they tend to notice that something is "off" before they actually spot the hun
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Nothing dramatic has changed in terms of pollution in 2010 though, especially in developed western nations. If anything, it's been getting better as we've been transitioning to cleaner burning natural gas and renewables.
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The Apple Card is great because Goldman decided to get in the business of selling two dollar bills for a dollar as a growth hack. That's not something that will last forever.
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It's ironic that you say "nuance seems to missing in western discussions these days" after making a sweeping allegation about politicians and lobbyists.
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Most monarchs throughout all of history have listened to their subjects to a certain extent. That doesn't make their country a democracy.
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>cryptocurrencies have no intrinsic value If you get paid $20/hr, you can think of $20 being intrinsically worth an hour of your labor until you quit or get a raise. The dollar isn't actually intrinsically valuable, but it&#x
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>Like all central banks, the Federal Reserve was designed to make money for the government from its monopoly on issuing currency. Ah yes. The obscure third of the Fed's dual-mandate.
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Much earlier than Trump, politicians discovered that they could further advance their own interests by virtue signaling during Congressional sessions instead of actually make progress on legislation. Now, all meaningful negotiation happens
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I think the internet likes to treat basic human instinct as something profound. At least in the western world, I suspect that at most 1% of people actually over-optimize on productivity. This is different from the 9% of people who try too h
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Even if it's immediately obvious that someone is slacking, management isn't going to go through the trouble of firing them unless if the company pressures them to, which tends to make the office environment somewhat oppressive.
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My impression of the target audience of podcasts are people who are stuck in traffic for 2-3 hours a day, which is why so many podcasts are that long.
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>It's better to be wrong until you're right than right until you're wrong...because you will get the last laugh. Peter Schiff gets to laugh despite being wrong for 9 out of the last 10 years because he's not the one d
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Stadia is a perfect example of Google's risk aversion. Microsoft invested billions on the XBox from the start, and spent over a billion dollars just to buy Minecraft, but Stadia didn't make an effort to secure even a single AAA ex
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I don't think Sundar is bad per se. Rather, he is doing what most Googlers are doing which is resting and vesting off of that sweet ad money. It's unlikely that GPT is as monetizable as ads, so it's possible that he still los
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Fair point. Edited. I do think the examples are still relevant because I don't think many people are aware of how this relates to antisemitism and the Soviet purges. I could bring up for a modern example, like Trump somewhat dismantlin
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A food producer may benefit from inflation, whereas a government loses out, despite both representing "the rich". An unattached young trades-person can ride the wave of inflation because they can easily switch to jobs with higher
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> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35260210 As I mentioned in that thread, this is an extremely disingenuous take. The Federal Reserve has no interest in "hurting wage earners." Before the rate hikes, wage
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> debtors must use the payout to pay off debt, non-debtors may keep the money and do what they please with it. First of all, this isn't what your article says. It says that savers must buy newly issued corporate shares and the fund
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Commodity market speculation is also caused by too much cheap money sloshing around with nothing productive to do, and the solution is still to increase interest rates. By the time central banks decided to raise interest rates, wage growth
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If the rich and powerful are winning a "class war" it's because they actually bother to try to understand complicated issues like monetary policy, or at least can hire people that do. Meanwhile, they can spread populist disin

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