WarDores

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by WarDores 7y ago
Keep in mind that large companies are already using the surveillance and advertising complex to influence behavior, and have been for years. This just puts it in the hands of anyone with $50 to spend.
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by WarDores 7y ago
Anyone interested in the "creating money" aspect of banks should definitely read a paper called "The Monetary Basis of Bank Supervision" ( https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3421232 )
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by WarDores 7y ago
This. "We can't find a qualified applicant at 75% of market rate, guess we need more H1-B visas". No wonder wages are stagnant.
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by WarDores 7y ago
It also disproportionately affects lower income families/individuals. Very similarly to smoking.
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by WarDores 7y ago
There's much more evidence for fast food being bad for your health, and we're not up in arms about that one (collectively). I'm not _for_ vaping, necessarily -- and I don't like it in public: I'm for smoking in gene
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by WarDores 7y ago
I think we've hit the "moral panic" stage with e-cigarettes.
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by WarDores 7y ago
I'm in the same boat. However, I love the flexibility of a DAW. My "hybrid" solution is the Ableton Push (small LCD screen, but not a monitor) and Komplete Kontrol S88 keyboard. Still get my soft synths, but I can do a ton wi
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by WarDores 7y ago
Why would Uber necessarily reap outsized benefits from self driving though? In my mind, "ridesharing" would be even more commoditized, with price and safety being the two main factors in consumer choice.
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by WarDores 7y ago
This guy urged his sister not to marry a guy because he liked to golf? I'm glad this turned around in the end, but damn, that's "surely he's exaggerating" crazy.
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by WarDores 7y ago
Why does direct democracy confer legitimacy? Does the Supreme Court not have legitimate authority? I don't see a correlation.
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by WarDores 7y ago
This exactly. If the issue is people feeling/being disenfranchised, changing how we elect the President isn't going to help. It just reinforces the idea that we're a monarchy and the job of the rest of the government is to do
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by WarDores 7y ago
I'm not sure what the correct answer is. Winning a national contest is always going to be about coalition-building all said and done. Trump changed the calculus on the traditional GOP coalition (going after unions -- once considered a
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by WarDores 7y ago
The issue I'm having is that Nvidia driver 418 doesn't support my HDMI out (still haven't figured out why), but 390 has atrocious power management. So when I'm mobile, I switch to 418 (restart), and at my desk back to 39
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by WarDores 7y ago
That's the literal point of the Senate, though, to be fair.
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by WarDores 7y ago
Swing states shift, though. California was basically solid red from the 1950s through the 1980s. Until 2016, few people would have called Wisconsin or Michigan "swing states" judging from their voting in the past few elections. Pe
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by WarDores 7y ago
It's not about division of power between rural/urban or big states/small states. The Electoral College is about buffering purely democratic power. The President doesn't represent "the people." He/she repre
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by WarDores 7y ago
This. The Nvidia drivers are getting there, but they're nowhere close to Windows. Tend to mess with audio, have to restart to use a dual monitor setup (yes, I've googled). It's a real hassle for anything but a basic setup.
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by WarDores 7y ago
It's false ideas like this that lead to the "we need to bubble wrap our kids" mentality.
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by WarDores 7y ago
Alternative take: More people are able to start their own small businesses providing services because of increased total wealth. The wealth not only provides clients, but also provides increased access to capital to start said businesses.
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by WarDores 7y ago
Agreed. The stock market is seen as a sure thing right now. It's a buying frenzy out there, even for companies that have zero fundamentals.
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by WarDores 7y ago
Anecdotally -- take my experience for what it's worth, small sample size warning -- some/a lot of boomers are behind in saving for retirement, and are trying to catch up by riding the asset boom.
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by WarDores 7y ago
Traditionally, anything above ~350% has indicated a bubble. With the housing bubble, we saw a peak of 473%, and the dot-com bubble was 429% at its peak. Essentially, yes, wealth will be a multiple of GDP, but the multiple has been fairly co
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by WarDores 7y ago
The question is, what is the bubble? I'd argue the entire stock market is the bubble right now, with boomers throwing everything they have into the market to get some of that free money before they retire. Once they start pulling back
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by WarDores 7y ago
"Number of people in the city", yes. But the relative percentages of tourists to locals, no. Which tends to be the problem. Tourists spend money differently and create different logistical issues than residents.
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by WarDores 7y ago
I agree that replacement technologies are the way forward. The question is (and it's a legitimate question, I'd like to know), is China _using_ the replacement technologies? Or are they using fossil fuel-based industrial supply ch
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by WarDores 7y ago
Lots of first world countries (including the United States, although admittedly not as fast as we could) are cutting emissions by either market forces or government fiat. By "No country", we're really talking about China and
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by WarDores 7y ago
Awful taste on the part of Wired to work in a pun on an article referencing two tragedies that ended in the loss of 346 lives.
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Bingham Canyon Mine(en.wikipedia.org)
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by WarDores 7y ago
Makes going anywhere there's going to be more than a handful of people incredibly tiring. That's probably the introvert in me talking, but it's got to be possible to be an extrovert without giving every outing a frat party vi
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by WarDores 7y ago
One just opened near me, but you can't go to just enjoy the music because most patrons see it as "just another bar" where they can loudly gab with their coworkers, sometimes even yelling to one-up each other. It's super

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