akramachamarei

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by akramachamarei 8mo ago
Confounding variable: the presence of your wife may be aiding your sleep more than the noise.
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by akramachamarei 8mo ago
> If you desperately need something, but a rich guy kinda-sorta wants it, rich guy gets it if he's willing to pay more. I share this concern about access to scarce goods, though I'm not sure what these scarcity catastrophes loo
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by akramachamarei 8mo ago
Can you explain what it means for capitalism to "serve money"? That sounds exactly backwards to me; money serves capitalism, that is, it is the breath expelled when people speak the language of prices to understand each others&#x2
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by akramachamarei 8mo ago
People may be downvoting you because they think you're not speaking in good faith. But I think this touches on an important issue which is the credibility of politicians when it comes to bringing the science hammer down (in the form of
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by akramachamarei 8mo ago
Ever admitting the positives of autocrats for their apparent efficiency disqualifies surrounding suppositions. And that's not an ad hominen, that's just Bayesian.
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by akramachamarei 8mo ago
It's also worth distinguishing uncoordinated markets from ungoverned markets. Markets exhibit vast and sophisticated organic coordination without state prodding. I don't just mean to pick at this word "uncoordinated" but
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by akramachamarei 8mo ago
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by the "far-right", but you seem to be implying this 'every molecule' quote (or more charitably, the goal) is of the "far-right" in the U.S. In reality the quote is from
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by akramachamarei 8mo ago
It's a strange kind of concept creep that "scam" came to mean "bad deal", or "suboptimal deal", or "worse deal" to some users, instead of deception. Not clear what is fraudulent about the listed
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by akramachamarei 8mo ago
This is not what "crony capitalism" usually means. Crony capitalism is where businesses are in bed with politicians. Getting regulations passed to inhibit their competitors, and such like.
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by akramachamarei 9mo ago
If the neighbors of these lots care to maintain their vacancy, they ought to do so the more naturally legal way: by collectively buying and owning those lots.
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by akramachamarei 9mo ago
I don't think so. What you're saying is that kids (and maybe adults) don't have enough agency over their own usage of social media; that these social media are so addicting and harmful that we cannot trust users (in concert w
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by akramachamarei 9mo ago
This is an interesting, valuable article. It should definitely be shared widely, especially with parents and teachers. I would love to see ISPs (including cell carriers) sell content control mechanisms to customers so parents and teachers c
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by akramachamarei 9mo ago
Very shocking that you're being downvoted on HackerNews of all places, where I'd expect people to be tech-literate and aware of the harms of internet age verification law etc.
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by akramachamarei 9mo ago
I think many people would disagree with you that the primary responsibility of government is to protect people from themselves.
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by akramachamarei 9mo ago
I think it says we need more time in the evolutionary oven. With how fast tech and education have accelerated we're running Ubuntu 24 on the Enigma machine.
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by akramachamarei 9mo ago
Sounds like an increased demand for game critics. Or perhaps the same thing that has happened with web search will apply (at least in my experience)--less clicking on search results, more going directly to trusted sites. Less trying out new
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by akramachamarei 9mo ago
None of those three cases have to do with bribery, at least not receiving bribes for official action. Here's some nuance: Kelly concerns retaliation, McDonnell concerns whether hosting meetings and events amounts to official action
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by akramachamarei 9mo ago
That's not actually true, though, is it? Or is there some other HN legal document besides https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ?
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by akramachamarei 9mo ago
What does fascism mean to you, exactly?
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by akramachamarei 9mo ago
2/3 of those articles are tech related, the other not obviously so, and the current not at all. Of course, the HN guidelines don't state "only tech news." They say submit stories which "gratify one's intellectu
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by akramachamarei 10mo ago
Wouldn't that be a more loose definition of fraud? It's not clear how the behavior you described has any relation to fraud whatsoever.
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by akramachamarei 10mo ago
Entertaining and apparently useful, though of course not infallible. Given https://github.com/DGoettlich/history-llms it yields the title "Training AI on 1913 data to avoid 'woke' bias (and hygiene)&quot
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by akramachamarei 10mo ago
Just for the record, you are advocating for racism and nationalism as attributes of good rulers?
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by akramachamarei 11mo ago
Who or what will provide the services and how do you incentivize them or it?
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by akramachamarei 11mo ago
> Or society could decide that people shouldn't have to pay for [healthcare] Society has already basically decided that: it's called health insurance. Having a "single" "government" payer where claimants act
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by akramachamarei 11mo ago
It's not clear if this is meant to be a serious thought experiment, but nonetheless I would ask why you equate expenses ($6.8T) with revenue ($4.9T)? I suppose it might not make a big difference, but it's a strange decision (withi
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by akramachamarei 11mo ago
Could you elaborate on what you mean by "pop-capitalism" and which "libertarian tracts" you are referring to? Because in the expressions of major libertarian(/-adjacent) thinkers (Friedman, Hayek, Smith), the free m
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by akramachamarei 11mo ago
On the contrary, the study you cite found no significant effect either way for either group. From the last page: "we find that gifted grouping does not help or hurt the achievement growth of gifted students nor does it help or hurt th