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10471.
by api 8y ago
The problem is that these issues are so emotional they completely sideline any discussion of economic well being or economic issues in general. As long as they dominate attention other issues just don't come up.
10472.
by api 8y ago
I have a friend who's a bit conspiracy minded. He thinks the powers that be responded to Occupy by simultaneously pushing far-left and far-right identity politics to split everyone into tiny warring factions. I'm skeptical but reg
10473.
by api 8y ago
There's a lot of accessible potential but the market today is so fast that I feel like it amounts to something like a random casino. The window for any particular hustle sometimes lasts as little as six months to a year. Nobody can a
10474.
by api 8y ago
Does Apple still prohibit any form of downloaded code or scripting or did they finally ease that?
10475.
by api 8y ago
Can anything interesting be used on iOS?
10476.
by api 8y ago
It doesn't improve much on e.g. JavaScript or Python. That's not the point. The point is that it's a small fast zero-dependency embeddable language that could be used for e.g. scripting in games or small devices. Wren is an
10477.
by api 8y ago
A key problem with libertarian thought is the notion that it is possible to erect a hard firewall between economic wealth and the power of the state (or any other entity or combination of them) to initiate force. In practice as long as the
10478.
by api 8y ago
When you approach billionaire money probably ceases to exist in any tangible sense. You could afford literally any apex product of the entire human species to the extent that you could experience it subjectively. At that point it starts to
10479.
by api 8y ago
I knew back when everyone was worshipping Musk that in a few years everyone would turn on him. It's something we do as a culture: pump people up to celebrity status and then ritually sacrifice them (or their character at least). We do
10480.
by api 8y ago
A term I've heard in the last decade that describes this situation is "superclass." There exists a global class of politically powerful super rich that are beyond rich in the conventional sense and are more like planetary roy
10481.
by api 8y ago
Its not magic. Its just something we don't have good mental models for understanding since it doesn't resemble the things we usually engineer. I always give the following rough analogy: "Imagine a programming language where e
10482.
by api 8y ago
Definitely. I am generally unimpressed by Dawkins.
10483.
by api 8y ago
I've never liked YAML. It's one of the things that turned me off from Swagger. It's incredibly ugly and overly complex.
10484.
by api 8y ago
Having studied biology and genetics this is common sense to me. Genetic systems are probabilistic chemical systems where everything influences everything to varying degrees in parallel. They are nothing like the linear assemblies of modules
10485.
by api 8y ago
Meh. Faraday mesh hats work much better.
10486.
by api 8y ago
That sounds like two legal departments did not talk to each other.
10487.
by api 8y ago
A bit of a tangent but: take another look at FreeBSD folks. If we re-did our infrastructure from scratch we'd look at either FreeBSD or Alpine Linux. Both would offer an escape hatch from the needless bloat that mainstream Linux has be
10488.
by api 8y ago
Even if it's true I doubt the wisdom of publicizing it. It could derail any internal investigation, not to mention potentially looking like bullshit excuse-making. Industrial espionage is real. I've heard plenty of stories. Usuall
10489.
by api 8y ago
Where did I say anything like that?
10490.
by api 8y ago
As strongly as I advocate measures to combat real estate hyperinflation, I've come to think that building more real estate is only a small part of the solution. Why does everyone have to be in New York? San Francisco? LA? Boston? Seatt
10491.
by api 8y ago
This is by far the most likely scenario.
10492.
by api 8y ago
AFIAK sociopathy is now more or less regarded as just non violent psychopathy. Most psychopaths are not violent.
10493.
by api 8y ago
Problem is that also ensnares sincere people on the autistic spectrum, recent immigrants, and anyone else different for any reason.
10494.
by api 8y ago
Devil we know...
10495.
by api 8y ago
The MBA is the Western version of the Soviet "apparatchik." This term denoted a party functionary educated in party ideology who was promoted and transferred around to different posts where they would lead things they did not actu
10496.
by api 8y ago
Wow. That is by far the most realistic and rational hypothesis for this phenomenon I've heard. It's simple, elegant, and seems testable. Thanks! I think this may also offer some explanation for the appeal of the utterly absurd, li
10497.
by api 8y ago
> The short answer is her Jobs-like "reality distortion field" -- she was exceedingly good at convincing ... Considering this and the lack of substance behind her claims, I would personally bet money that she is a clinical psyc
10498.
by api 8y ago
> Bubbles and crashes will repeat again and again, and nothing will be learned from them. This is a larger scale version of the same psychological factors that power Las Vegas. Go to a Vegas casino's slots section and you'll se
10499.
by api 8y ago
Splitting LA and OC is idiotic. OC is the suburbs of LA. Of course the whole thing is fairly unlikely and not really a good idea.
10500.
by api 8y ago
It's a way of storing energy, not generating it.

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