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by _uhtu 3y ago
I hate that every discussion of reigning in abusive companies has to come with 1000 comments about how other companies are also being abusive, which should apparently make us just wave the white flag. Nah, let's deal with all the monop
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by _uhtu 3y ago
I'm honestly not sure how you could make the case that they aren't maintaining and abusing monopoly power. I mean they literally blatantly copy the designs of other companies who sell on amazon, then put their own results for thei
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by _uhtu 3y ago
If that's the case on earth then life would be impossible, no? The sun provides constant low entropy energy to the planet that fuels chemical reactions. We see this support life starting at the bottom of the food chain, plants etc, whi
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by _uhtu 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis "The prevailing scientific hypothesis is that the transition from non-living to living entities on Earth was not a single event, but a process of increasing complexity i
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by _uhtu 3y ago
"constrained by ethical concerns" glosses over "chimps that we test on die at horrific rates" pretty hard.
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by _uhtu 3y ago
Lemme get this straight, your counter to the point "companies are bragging about raising prices" is... I see a lot of people in my local mall?
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by _uhtu 3y ago
My favorite part of this whole thing is how many people are absolutely falling over themselves to say "there's no way companies took advantage of decades of consolidation and the political narrative of free money leading to inflat
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by _uhtu 3y ago
I bet you're fun at parties.
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by _uhtu 3y ago
They can buy TIPS or interest rate swaps to hedge, for example.
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by _uhtu 3y ago
Over investing in treasuries IS a risky investment. Especially when bank accounts are supposed to be the least risky place to put money. Treasuries have interest rate risk that needs to be hedged.
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by _uhtu 3y ago
Kinda weird to just go for an argument of authority huh? I'd recommend watching the video for a non-authority based series of arguments based on multiple sources and a lot of data. Anyway, the reason they wrote that paper is probably b
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by _uhtu 3y ago
Just so everyone knows, the whole "Yellowstone is a supervolcano that could erupt any minute and cause cataclysmic effects on the planet" is just not true. It was made up for TV "documentaries". Yellowstone does not pose
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by _uhtu 4y ago
Public jobs have good pensions and job security because of the unions... Even then, teachers don't make much. Come o..
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by _uhtu 4y ago
God I hate that once a week or so a far right pile of garbage flies to the top of HN due to a catchy title. This article is terrible and obviously uninformed. Scientists are overwhelmingly in agreement that climate change is a huge threat a
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by _uhtu 4y ago
I'm not sure you can say that when the market cap is still 10x car companies that deliver orders of magnitude more cars than them. Even a high growth car company wouldn't justify that valuation. No, Tesla is still very overpriced
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by _uhtu 4y ago
If the idea was to do away with the centralized institutions but overwhelmingly people use centralized institutions which frequently act like ponzi schemes, perhaps the "idea" no longer matters and the actual real-world situations
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by _uhtu 4y ago
This is one of those distraction comments that really adds nothing to the discussion. The article has real points about how crypto is deeply seeded with ponzi schemes all over and the entire currency in fact looks like a ponzi scheme, and t
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by _uhtu 4y ago
I'd say 15 years of basically completely unregulated time to come up with even a single reliable use case that even a minority of people get social value out of is enough time to decide a carbon spewing "innovation" has not b
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by _uhtu 4y ago
The users and buyers of human sex slaves sponsor the human trafficking industry, and find it worthwhile. Who is the government to say otherwise? Oh yeah, that's right, the government SHOULD actually make policies to cut down on negativ
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by _uhtu 4y ago
Because most fossil fuel burning is powering homes and factories. You know, useful stuff. Spending 3% of the world's power on sustaining a gambling addiction for a fringe group of gullible people who can't recognize when a technol
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by _uhtu 4y ago
The central issue in SF really is just that all the stakeholders with any power whatsoever are highly incentivized to minimize change, because most of the voting and bribery base (I mean, political donation base) is manically obsessed with
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by _uhtu 4y ago
My guess is he's talking about Lithium and if so that's not concern trolling, Lithium mining is very expensive and if we want to go full renewable we'll need some major storage capacity. There's obviously ways around tha
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by _uhtu 4y ago
Not the OP but dams and resevoirs is what he is talking about, I assume. Pump water uphill while the sun is out, let it feed back downhill and generate power overnight. It is century old stuff and it is very much validated to work.
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by _uhtu 4y ago
Why is the heat thing even necessary? Turn on one switch, walk down, see which light is on, process of elimination for the other one. Am I missing something?
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by _uhtu 4y ago
And a company like OpenSea can arbitrarily destroy the value of blockhain assets on a whim as well. It turns out that the problem isn't that companies like Stripe are evil and looking to screw people over, the real truth is that money
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by _uhtu 4y ago
They do indeed have established processes. And the US violates the shit out of them and illegally detains people against international law. You really think the UN established processes involve caging people without checking their credentia
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by _uhtu 4y ago
Wow wow wow what an absolutely horrible article, I can not believe this has got to the front page of HN. First of all, Roland Fryer was indeed suspended for sexual harassment. He himself admits that and has talked about the work he's d