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by MegaButts 2y ago
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL > Before May 2020, M2 consists of M1 plus (1) savings deposits (including money market deposit accounts); (2) small-denomination time deposits (time deposits in amounts of les
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Trump suggests media outlets be deemed illegal(thehill.com)
37 points by MegaButts 2y ago|3 comments
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by MegaButts 2y ago
Has SpaceX ever landed their rocket on a surface that isn't purposefully engineered to be flat?
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by MegaButts 2y ago
You could have credit scores that are designed to help people instead of the current mess where nobody can even tell you how it's calculated. The concept of a credit score is very different from what we have implemented in the United
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by MegaButts 2y ago
> Should credit bureaus also be illegal? I didn't realize there were many people defending credit scores. I mean yeah, I would just assume they should be illegal. At least in their current opaque form where it's impossible to
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by MegaButts 2y ago
Why is AI better for this than a human? We already know AI is fundamentally biased by its training data in a way where it's actually impossible to know how/why it's biased. We also know AI makes things up all the time.
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by MegaButts 2y ago
I genuinely have no idea what you're trying to say.
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by MegaButts 2y ago
How is it any more accessible now than it was before? Don't you have to fact-check everything it says anyway, effectively doing the research you'd do without it? I'm not saying LLMs are useless, but I do not understand your
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by MegaButts 2y ago
I should start counting how many political posts makes it to the front page of HN, and how many minutes until they're bounced off.
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by MegaButts 2y ago
I find HN more depressing than other social media. It's more focused on money, more anonymous (which isn't necessarily bad, but harder to connect with people), but mostly it's by far the most arrogant. I became a lot happie
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by MegaButts 4y ago
People that are too dumb to understand satire while pointing out why it's satire are indeed dumb, and should laugh at their own stupidity. But people on HN care more about being smart than self-aware, which is why this site is full of
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by MegaButts 4y ago
I've had this debate with mods already. I believe there is astroturfing but I'm not going to waste my time pointing out every instance, especially since I actually did this a long time ago and it's almost impossible to prove
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by MegaButts 4y ago
This always happens when there's a popular post about big tech on HN. Google is a big company with lots of employees and lots of investors and HN is no longer a tiny corner of the internet. Just ignore the astroturfing and look for t
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by MegaButts 4y ago
> You're acting like the random support guy is an idiot It's exactly the opposite. I'm treating him with enough respect to think he can think for himself. You're assuming he's an idiot and needs to be coddled.
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by MegaButts 4y ago
This has nothing to do with making people feel better. It's about holding twitter accountable to their own policies. What do you suggest I do if not use their own support system? The next step is to blast social media. "You can
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by MegaButts 4y ago
> You cannot possible be this dense. This is your idea of verbal abuse? Obviously this is subjective, but I would laugh at you if you said this to me - like literally laugh in your face. No, at some point you have to say the problem is
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by MegaButts 4y ago
Doesn't that mean mcone is correct, and the water isn't being diverted intentionally? The implication from the original comment seems to be humans are doing this on purpose, but the retort from mcone is that's misleading bec
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by MegaButts 4y ago
The entire point of this discussion is that we should be able to discuss it, and discouraging it is not a solution. You're supporting my point, not refuting it.
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by MegaButts 4y ago
> Finally, there's no irony about this no longer being on the front page. Sure there is. It's an interesting conversation to me and it's being pushed away from the front page. I didn't say it was foul play, I said i
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by MegaButts 4y ago
The increase in astroturfing is what I see as the biggest change to HN over time that makes it more like reddit. As HN becomes larger it becomes a larger target for corporate interests. You don't see too many companies successfully p
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by MegaButts 4y ago
> There's a long-running, recurrent myth that HN is becoming like reddit. Have you considered the possibility that the reason the myth is pervasive is because it's true, and over time HN is becoming more and more like reddit?
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by MegaButts 4y ago
> In contrast with the scenario in 2000, most of today’s tech companies are real businesses. How many of today's startups are just servicing each other with VC money? This isn't meant to be flippant - I'm genuinely curiou
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by MegaButts 4y ago
What a wonderful reference. https://youtu.be/xJxwvZ5SE_c
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by MegaButts 4y ago
> For example, why do people dump on pop music and think of jazz as "real music"? Because jazz+jazz=jazz https://youtu.be/GAbg8X9-uBI
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by MegaButts 4y ago
I saw this on reddit and a thread suggests it's probably misinformation. https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/w1ahrq/scots_tea... > Neither Guidestar nor Charity Navigator (the two largest
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by MegaButts 4y ago
Tesla gets clicks. Apart from that though, probably because Elon has been marketing them as having FSD soon for nearly a decade, plus numerous claims that autopilot is already safer than humans. Sure, not every Tesla has that but most peo
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by MegaButts 4y ago
Clearly it's the users who are wrong with their stupid assumptions and we will correct them with our mandatory weekly update.
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China crushes mass protest by bank depositors demanding their life savings back(cnn.com)
12 points by MegaButts 4y ago|0 comments
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by MegaButts 4y ago
I don't think you're their target demographic.
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by MegaButts 4y ago
I'd say avoiding death is about as likely as overtaking the speed of light. It seems like science fiction to me. No matter how much progress we make, we might be trying to do something that's literally impossible. That doesn&#x2

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