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by CPLX 2y ago
OK what do people use it for?
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by CPLX 2y ago
> If you’re not those people, then dont worry about it. Seems to me they're trying to get me to give them my tax money these days. Not sure "you do you" is really a great response to obvious grift and fraud. Nor is it an a
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by CPLX 2y ago
This to me is the archetypal answer to question about what crypto is useful for. Like it has all these words in it and it seems like a statement of some kind but there’s literally nothing there.
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by CPLX 2y ago
Right but half of all people employed in the US work for companies with 100+ employees.
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by CPLX 2y ago
He did. The parallels between Trump and Zaphod are not subtle.
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by CPLX 2y ago
Arguable. But yes of course the best lesson to learn is that tariffs are one of the fundamentals tools of an effective industrial policy.
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by CPLX 2y ago
> If tariffs work at all (which is doubtful) Of course they work. China has used them to go from people living in huts to the high tech manufacturing center of the world.
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by CPLX 2y ago
Pretty sure that gmail doesn't disclose a useful email address when using web version of gmail, is that right?
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by CPLX 2y ago
The fact that Chris Lehane is the one involved in this should tell you all you need to know about how on the level all this is.
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by CPLX 2y ago
Don't forget "vale" which I always think of as being Spain Spanish but you hear it all over the Spanish speaking world too. Which is like almost the same, but not the same.
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by CPLX 2y ago
It's pretty close. I always think of "send it" as a pretty close English equivalent phrase.
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by CPLX 2y ago
There's absolutely no reason whatsoever to think Twitter's financial performance improved after going private.
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by CPLX 2y ago
If we are being literal literal it’s “give it” or “give (it to you)”
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by CPLX 2y ago
> If GDP is growing equally fast in both countries but with dramatically different levels of indebtedness, you can unequivocally claim one is more productive than the other at present. Why?
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by CPLX 2y ago
A debt fueled spending spree by private enterprises boosts GDP too, for the same reason. That’s kind of the point of the number that measures spending sprees (and the other various kinds of spending). The degree to which it’s a “good thing”
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by CPLX 2y ago
Quora was great for awhile and then it sucked. I used to post there a lot they put me in the top writer program at one point and I went to a party once. I can pinpoint the exact moment the site started to suck. It was when they started comb
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Google to Ditch SMS Code Authentication for Billions of Users(forbes.com)
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by CPLX 2y ago
> You sound like someone who never used punch cards. I hope HN never changes.
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by CPLX 2y ago
They aren’t following the same rules as you, they’re on negotiated rates/agreements.
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by CPLX 2y ago
Don't forget The Vl'hurgs.
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by CPLX 2y ago
> to explain to someone who's really fired up about racial justice or climate change that they're not representative of the public To some extent yes. But also those issues have big implications for working people. It's po
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by CPLX 2y ago
There are absolutely enough people on "their side" in the sense that there are plenty of people on the side of working people, way more than enough. The problem is the actual leadership of the Democratic Party isn't on the si
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by CPLX 2y ago
The actual answer here is to exercise actual power. Oligarchs are always greatly outnumbered. The only thing that is genuinely effective is mass movement. A coalition of labor unions could shut down all of Elon and Trumps businesses in hour
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by CPLX 2y ago
When logic doesn’t agree with reality examine your assumptions. The first assumption to examine is the one where you assume that the speaker is credible.
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by CPLX 2y ago
Correct. And when we have more of them, the density will increase. The argument is not about higher or lower density. The answer to that question is higher. The argument is about where these people will live
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by CPLX 2y ago
Indeed. When the US population is 7% higher the country will be 7% more population dense. As mentioned this is a mathematical certainty. Since all outcomes have higher average density, anyone who argues against density has some further expl
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by CPLX 2y ago
Assuming you don’t believe in forced sterilization there is actually no public policy way to reduce density. It’s just a mathematical fact. More people means on average the population density increases. Since all solutions involve increasin
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by CPLX 2y ago
I guess. But a story is different than a list of facts. It has a protagonist and narrative elements that imply a sequence of events and causality. Many people do in fact try to tell people about products or services by just stating a bunch
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by CPLX 2y ago
https://gwern.net/complement Joel Spolsky in 2002 identified a major pattern in technology business & economics: the pattern of “commoditizing your complement”, an alternative to vertical integration, where companies se
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by CPLX 2y ago
> If illegal stuff is on the table Oh my sweet summer child.

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