CullingTheHerd

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by CullingTheHerd 10y ago
Wow, Toyota being given some love?! I thought there was a blanket ban on all things Toyota so the community isn't forced to admit that all things agile are actually from the manufacturing industry, decades ago. Where might this lead? M
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by CullingTheHerd 10y ago
HN is, barely, a step above twitter. If one were to pick the bottom 20% of comments from HN, it would be ignorant, biased, group think, poor logic, borderline bigoted (but mainly ignorant). I don't expect that you'd be nodding agr
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by CullingTheHerd 10y ago
The first line from Wikipedia: "A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important issue." And, this is exactly why I keep "losing my password" for my HN account, so that I have to take a
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by CullingTheHerd 10y ago
Re: ad hominem critiques. I thought they were duly deserved. Your comment came across, to me, as condescending and arrogant, both qualities of the person putting forth the argument, rather than the argument. So, the critique will by necess
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by CullingTheHerd 10y ago
Me too. But, again, not the point the commenter was making. Just, noise.
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by CullingTheHerd 10y ago
Hmmmm, do I really want to put myself through the painful experience of reading HN comments about "the problem of poverty"? Pass.
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by CullingTheHerd 10y ago
have fun regressing out everything else...
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by CullingTheHerd 10y ago
i used to work at an institutional investment firm. a huge one. (say it like trump) huuuuuge. we had lots of economists. i chilled with them. i partied with them. and when we partied, when the booze flowed and we all shared sordid stories a
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by CullingTheHerd 10y ago
even if we accomplish all this and more, we have still not answered the question, "what is the 'good life'?" because that is not a technical question. we can put off death. we can increase quality of life during the late
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by CullingTheHerd 10y ago
eventually even atoms will stop spinning. i think what the commenter was getting at, is that, immortality is impossible, and so finding meaning in a life that must eventually end, is still important. also, your argument, red herring. the co
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by CullingTheHerd 10y ago
Asking for someone to offer an argument for the claim that "it is worth while considering other life philosophies other than those that lead to chasing immortality and viewing the end of one's own life as a negative", is kind
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by CullingTheHerd 10y ago
Yes, I totally agree that Mathematica (other projects) can be the way to go when getting work done. No argument there.
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by CullingTheHerd 10y ago
I should have said: "And yet Mathematica is <sometimes> not nearly as effective as math when done by pencil, paper, and a trained mathematician." I wasn't meaning to imply that Mathematica has no value or has little val
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by CullingTheHerd 10y ago
And yet Mathematica is not nearly as effective as math when done by pencil, paper, and a trained mathematician. The value of maths is 1) it's "open-source", 2) it's free to use, 3) if you want to switch from one module t
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by CullingTheHerd 10y ago
"Mathics is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL)." There may be a few other differences you are not considering.
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by CullingTheHerd 10y ago
So 21st century. If this was 20 years ago, headline would read: "The FBI Director Puts Electric Tape Over His Blinking VCR Clock"
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by CullingTheHerd 10y ago
no. not true.
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by CullingTheHerd 10y ago
that's actually really interesting. that's local government at work for you, in the most real and annoying sense. people getting involved and trying to change things at the local level only to be stymied by some a-hole preventing
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by CullingTheHerd 10y ago
( >We don't have anything remotely close to a free market in housing, though... + >Right now, the market wants to build - we should let it. ) vs ( >I would be much, much more apt to lay the blame for the current housing crisis
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by CullingTheHerd 10y ago
generally,,, idk. i lived in Stuyvesant Town for a time, in Manhattan. it, was not blighted. it was effin amazing and i miss the living there, a lot. a lot, alot. if you didn't earn 150k+ in the city, it was pretty much the best thing
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by CullingTheHerd 10y ago
Going out on a limb, I think yourapostasy pointed to Levittown not to attempt to explain the entire economics of housing for the U.S.A. during the 70's (because hey, if we're taking the issue to that level we have to talk globally
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by CullingTheHerd 10y ago
I'll cede the floor to the well know investor, with impeccable credentials, Warren Buffett. In 2010, during the Great Recession, he said: ...After a few years of such imbalances, the country unsurprisingly ended up with far too many ho
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by CullingTheHerd 10y ago
I feel that this sort of response (land value tax) is very political, in addition to being an economic response. Taxes are at the heart of politics. Without taxes to raise revenue most governments would have no realistic power source. Prope
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by CullingTheHerd 10y ago
As has been stated in other comments, it's not that we don't have enough homes or that we don't have affordable homes. Perhaps the "free-market" is not the optimal distribution system for housing. Said another way,
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by CullingTheHerd 10y ago
"Nest" isn't a bust. "Post-Google" Nest is a bust. And the bigger issue is much, much bigger. Google didn't acquire Nest to out of an altruistic desire to assist Nest to grow faster to fulfill their mission. Ne
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by CullingTheHerd 11y ago
I think there is a dynamic being left out of the conversation here (and do please correct me if this has been brought already). There is certainly a story in that "yet another Google service is being shut down." But, let's re