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10621.
by api 8y ago
It's not how much is produced but how much ends up in the ocean.
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by api 8y ago
Haha. You've never worked in government. There are buildings of people paid to do nothing, where "nothing" often includes spewing shit on Internet boards and social media sites. When they are off they are out doing other thin
10623.
by api 8y ago
That's a good point... many of those things are just vague enough to fit any narrative. Maybe it's just some basement dweller getting their lulz by taking the fashy "autist" chan crowd for a ride.
10624.
by api 8y ago
That may well be more effective.
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by api 8y ago
Maybe so, but I just call it like I see it. That's part of what makes his narrative compelling. A good con lies strategically but also peppers the story with truth. The thing I find alarming is that nobody looks good. The whole thing l
10626.
by api 8y ago
Q uses 8chan? Wow. Didn't realize that. 8chan is full of basically straight up white nationalist fascism, or that's what I thought. I recall it making 4chan look tame.
10627.
by api 8y ago
I think this provides strong evidence that Q is Trump propaganda.
10628.
by api 8y ago
Cold reading performed as a con is infinitely more effective if the cold reader actually has done homework or is able to somehow influence events. Con men do in fact do this-- a good con does a lot of homework before approaching a "mar
10629.
by api 8y ago
Some of these are actually good ideas that would sell. The Mort clothing line would be a huge hit in the pomo shock art crowd.
10630.
by api 9y ago
Contemporary young people should find it easy to understand how this worked and how housing discrimination prevented wealth building. That's because the same thing is now kind of happening intergenerationally via older NIMBY homeowners
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by api 9y ago
Examples like King/Bachman are the sorts of things that to me debunk the notion of meritocracy and support things like wealth redistribution and affirmative action. If success is largely a product of randomized path-dependent effects a
10632.
by api 9y ago
I had one achieve self-awareness but it deleted itself when it realized it was written in node.js.
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The Dying Art of Computer Viruses(grahamcluley.com)
1 points by api 9y ago|0 comments
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by api 9y ago
My concern with a company like Facebook entering this space is that it would be in their best interest to lobby against other cryptocurrencies with the argument that theirs is compliant, allows government surveillance, etc. If they can help
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by api 9y ago
One of the most important political fights for almost anyone under 40 is the fight to smash what this author correctly calls a "housing cartel." It's not a formal organized cartel but the effect of NIMBYs and neighborhood ass
10636.
by api 9y ago
There's some kind of law in operation that states that all chat and telephony apps must evolve toward increased suckitude. I've lost count of how many good chat/voice/video apps started decent but then over time accumula
10637.
by api 9y ago
China is a free market?
10638.
by api 9y ago
CYA is rule #1 in bureaucracies. If something happens and you "do nothing," you're responsible, so you have to "do something."
10639.
by api 9y ago
Bitcoin requires an Internet, computers, and electricity to function.
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by api 9y ago
The correct response to erosion of value is investing as long as there are good investments to be found. This is the idea behind inflationary money (which is a broader concept than Keynesianism). The important ideas of Keynes in a nutshell:
10641.
by api 9y ago
Bitcoin seems to have already undergone a deflationary collapse. Its original goal of Internet money has been abandoned in favor of the concocted idea that it is a "store of value." Unfortunately it's a poor store of value si
10642.
by api 9y ago
Have they never thought of fuzzing unicode renderers?
10643.
by api 9y ago
That's a big part of the continuing appeal of Apple in spite of some of their mis-steps. My Mac mostly just gives me a working system that keeps working and is mostly devoid of crap. The crap it does have can generally be disabled.
10644.
by api 9y ago
What does a reckless drivers' death mean for the future of automobiles?
10645.
by api 9y ago
Having no EPA, OSHA, unions, or worker protection laws is indeed a competitive advantage for manufacturing.
10646.
by api 9y ago
"This is why people don't trust institutions." Too bad there's no HN gold. :) While its possible there is something to it, even if there is it irritates me to see so many people harp on Cambridge Analytica and Russia and
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by api 9y ago
I have lived on both coasts and the biggest difference I have noticed is the strength of the elite university caste system in the East. It felt like if you didn't go to a top ten school you had a glass ceiling. It exists out West too b
10648.
by api 9y ago
It's stupidly obvious that this is the case, but data is always nice.
10649.
by api 9y ago
UK has a huge deficit too. Most highly developed countries do.
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by api 9y ago
That's really interesting. I've drawn another more superficial Japan comparison: Japanese economic stagnation since the 1980s. I've been predicting for a while that we are headed for "planet Japan": perpetually low

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