adlorger

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How I Overcame Anxiety(richardhanania.substack.com)
1 points by adlorger 4y ago|2 comments
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by adlorger 4y ago
Hanania: Why you are pathologically risk averse, and the problem with "mental health"
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by adlorger 4y ago
Your formatting got me to read every line of what you wrote, even though I only agree with about half of your thesies
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by adlorger 4y ago
can you clarify your case here about Apple as an antitrust or monopoly power? In what ways are they using their market power to diminish welfare or competitiveness of the marketplace?
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by adlorger 4y ago
the answer here is about the competitive space that he's in and whether his competitor is buying brand terms around his area. if not, he's probably fine and he can use his organic strength to stay tops.
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Great Celebrity Memoirs?
4 points by adlorger 5y ago|3 comments
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by adlorger 5y ago
tell me more about this hypothetical Russia+China+NK+Iran axis and why they would be so united in this particular fight?
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by adlorger 5y ago
PJ O'Rourke was my first into to a feeling that I've become more familiar with over the years - "liberal cringe" I still count myself as a liberal (more classical than modern) these days but I can't help but view a
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by adlorger 5y ago
1. Having Data 2. Using it to Predict 3. Using it to Manipulate There are major, major leaps from collection to then even having effective prediction models. Prediction is hard, especially when it comes to longer term behaviors. Manipulatio
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by adlorger 5y ago
i believe this is true but it is not reflected in the public earnings at all. User growth in the US may be flat but earnings per US/CA active user is up which implies that the value is here and growing for users in the US/CA
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by adlorger 5y ago
FB lost US about 2M users in summer 2020, but has been pretty flat since then. See FB's slide 13: https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2021/q4... The drop this round is in the rest o
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by adlorger 5y ago
where do i sign up?
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by adlorger 5y ago
Hasnt the economic story of 2020-2022 so far has not been "lets see what happens when we open up" but rather "lets see what happens when we close down"? How does 2022 so far imply to you negative evidence of "here&#
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by adlorger 5y ago
I suspect, like all political shifts of independents, that this would have a strong moderating impact on the Republican Party. Swing independents tend to be more political practical and less ideological.
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by adlorger 5y ago
counterpoint: nothing has happened to us as a society. we have always had pressures to monitize things and do things for money, but of course money isnt everything and there have always been happy generous people who are happy to make thing
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by adlorger 5y ago
the article's whole point is that this conclusion ("covid made us crazy") is the "official explanation" but that there is better alternative explanation in road design and traffic density changes
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by adlorger 5y ago
my read of the diabetes tie is that it is unlikely that covid causes diabetes but rather that the causality could be both ways, with obesity or other medical confounders making Covid experiences more severe. this doesn't diminish the i
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by adlorger 5y ago
capitalism seems like a more likely home for broadly distributed systems than government systems which are, by their nature, centralized
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Driving Went Down. Fatalities Went Up. Here's Why(strongtowns.org)
29 points by adlorger 5y ago|19 comments
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by adlorger 5y ago
What would a global plan of attack look like? Who coordinates it and who decides when they've been successful?
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by adlorger 5y ago
i think you see this rarely discussed because its an issue that is rapidly declining in importance over time. The trade off of either-this-US-kid-gets-it-or-that-Indian-adult-gets-it becomes less severe when availability of vaccines is goin
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by adlorger 5y ago
I dont think the concern for what our neighbors are doing has gone up so much as our ability to make noise about it. Dealing with conflicts between neighbors is ancient.
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by adlorger 5y ago
in the past, local voices did not have power to organize or constrict local development. its a form of social technology that has enabled this around the world over the past 80 years. when people look at urban sprawl they see the culprit as
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by adlorger 5y ago
yes. many people are vaccine hesitant because they dislike or are afraid of shots. also if this can help impact the rate of hospitalization and death among unvaccinated than it also alleviates the need for actual vaccinations to do the lift
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by adlorger 5y ago
its important to note two things; Facebook does not target 6 year olds. Many other companies do.
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by adlorger 5y ago
i continue to be highly unimpressed with the quality of criticism about facebook - but impressed by its staying power. FB made no secret of its plans to make an Instagram for Kids with added safety controls and parental controls but it was
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by adlorger 5y ago
its a lame word for sure, but the role in society is very old. book reviewers, fashion critics, the people who decide which products get premium placement in store selves.. those people all used to control the machinery of influence. Now it
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by adlorger 5y ago
prob safe to assume that almost everyone who has clicked into a HN article mentioning TC is already very familiar with MR
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by adlorger 5y ago
I have on occasion reached out to public intellectuals for personal advice and wisdom over the years. Unique among everyone, he's been invariably wise and generous with me (a total stranger). He also writes back almost immediately. The