Gabriel_Martin

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by Gabriel_Martin 5y ago
In the trend of questions we kinda know are dumb questions, why not just capture it where it comes out, at the powerplants?
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by Gabriel_Martin 5y ago
Sorry, I took the bait. My bad.
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by Gabriel_Martin 5y ago
"Forced conversion to Catholicism from a blood thirst cult that stained their monuments with the blood of innocents" Not sure you want to bring into focus Catholicism's history as it relates to the blood of innocents..
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by Gabriel_Martin 5y ago
I'm not sure why my replies got deleted, pretty wack
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by Gabriel_Martin 5y ago
> Compared with what? I really don't get what is the glitch here? You seem fixated on finding logical parallels to an ongoing response to a global pandemic, which is honestly getting quite repetitive to discuss. It's compared w
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by Gabriel_Martin 5y ago
I imagine the case would be different for different interests, but "a few hundred to a few thousand people die of covid every day" would be my go to if I were the one making it.
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by Gabriel_Martin 5y ago
You felt compelled to speak out in their defense, but your choice of comparisons and rhetoric is precisely why I felt compelled to clarify as well and what made me raise an eyebrow on the logic in it. That is to say I think you chose your e
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by Gabriel_Martin 5y ago
Because that's just how I understand reductio ad adsurdum to mean, there's a valid chain of reasoning that leads from the initial premise to an unacceptable conclusion. In this case you believe that being "banned from civil s
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by Gabriel_Martin 5y ago
If I'm understanding you, you don't personally believe in "banning overweight people from civil society" but you want to propose it to make a point about how much of a "horrific, dystopian, nasty, bullying attitude&
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by Gabriel_Martin 5y ago
I mean no platitude necessary, by your logic if debt is bad then no debt is good. But last time that was the case it caused the longest depression in American history. How does that add up?
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by Gabriel_Martin 5y ago
The run-proof nature of an 'approaching-cashless society', is a facet of this I'd never considered, I suppose the point is that it'd be infinitely propped-up thanks to be so detached from any real world asset. I'll
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by Gabriel_Martin 5y ago
These are the exact sentiments I believe personal/household finance analogies evoke, and basically why I oppose their use. It evokes comparisons to some kind of possibility of something happening analogous to bankruptcy when in fact: &
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by Gabriel_Martin 5y ago
When it comes to comparing the amounts of US gov spending to US household spending (not that I could propose a better mechanism, meaning I understand the value of framing things in such a way, and fully admit I can't think of a more sa
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by Gabriel_Martin 5y ago
From your link, wouldn't: "the multiplier being the maximum amount of commercial bank money created by a given unit of central bank money" be interpreted to mean that as soon as central bank monetizes it's debt, i.e. the
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by Gabriel_Martin 5y ago
I know this is unrelated, but the closed caption's text accuracy is embarrassingly poor for an organization of Reuter's stature.
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by Gabriel_Martin 5y ago
"If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts; if you have the law on your side, pound the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the table" In this case the table pounding is in the form of saying it's
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by Gabriel_Martin 5y ago
Possibly worsening the Zoonotic viruses issue we're already experiencing?
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by Gabriel_Martin 5y ago
Not to be too meta, but I kinda like that this just has [flagged] in the title, without much else changed. Hopefully it serves as a challenge to discuss the topic while following the "interpret each other generously" rule, and dis
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by Gabriel_Martin 5y ago
Ah oil, the path to peace for so many countries! No but in all seriousness there certainly must be better goods to trade which could replace oil, if peace is the goal.
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by Gabriel_Martin 5y ago
I mean ladders already existed
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by Gabriel_Martin 5y ago
FWIW, I don't think one needs to believe in capitalist conspiracies to feel repulsed by a situation in which stranded food is being buried in bulk to minimize losses, because there's not market mechanism to get it to people during
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by Gabriel_Martin 5y ago
I found the last line almost unbelievable "It's enough, you might imagine, to make him think twice about going back to sea. But he is determined. He says he is good at his job and wants nothing more than to pick up where he left o
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by Gabriel_Martin 6y ago
Very cool and collaborative plehoux, thanks for sharing! Just to lightheartedly roast you a little bit, I particularly love the typo in the frontpage email "ither questions", partially because seems like a little breadcrumb to a n
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by Gabriel_Martin 6y ago
I've noticed a trend of games graphics being fairly oldschool while the mechanics are modern. Maybe this'll lend it's self to that trend?
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by Gabriel_Martin 6y ago
Airbnb is the least of it I'd guess. More like parking, camping and vendors' rent, depending on how close they are.
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by Gabriel_Martin 6y ago
Or you could interpret their message to mean authoritarian..
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by Gabriel_Martin 6y ago
Location: Boston, MA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: JS/HTML/CSS frontend development, UI/UX Design and research Résumé/CV: https://rb.gy/936bls Email: Gabrielmtn+github [at] gmail I&#
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by Gabriel_Martin 6y ago
3D art like Zbrush, Cinema4D, and to a certain degree, Lottie and After Effects.
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Ask HN: Any advice for leaving my UI/UX dev career, possibly to Sales / AE?
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by Gabriel_Martin 6y ago
Location: Boston Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: JS/HTML/CSS frontend development, UI/UX Design and research Résumé/CV: https://rb.gy/ownjvm Email: Gabrielmtn+github [at] gmail I'

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