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Who Will Fact Check the Fact Checkers?(corbettreport.com)
7 points by aww_dang 5y ago|1 comments
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by aww_dang 5y ago
>No, they won’t send you to a labor camp or come after your family. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54007824 "The arrest of a woman in Australia for promoting an anti-lockdown protest online has drawn
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Perhaps these walled gardens erected walls because they wanted to become gatekeepers. Those demanding censorship were largely the same partisans who set the tone for the fact check narrative. I don't see them as victims of demands for
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Feels like these problems mostly relate to the tech-wizard elitism theme. By all means use the help features and GUI menus if that's what you need. I believe when you run these commands via GUI you also get feedback explaining the equi
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by aww_dang 5y ago
It was an era of unprecedented wealth creation and upward mobility. There were also robber barons, who preyed upon government largess. The irony here is that the Fed was created at the behest of one of the greatest robber barons of them all
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by aww_dang 5y ago
>a pretty legitimate reason to shut a service like that down to me Meanwhile physical cash is preferred for criminal acts. Would you similarly blame the issuer of cash for these crimes? What about footwear? Most criminals wear shoes or b
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by aww_dang 5y ago
I'd go even further than that. The mismanagement of markets by central planners set the stage for cryptocurrencies. We're living in an era of speculative mania. Savings accounts have a negative real interest rate. This currency mu
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Yet this era was also known as the "Gilded Age". Literally covered in gold. I'm not detecting nuance in this take. The Fed has created boom bust cycles and is hardly a bastion of price stability. The great depression and the
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by aww_dang 5y ago
>... hn says its all speculation and fraud and needs to be made illegal. This is the part that confuses me. What is the theory of value here? If you don't like it don't buy it. If you're not interested, don't buy it.
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In search of the successor – An-2 for the 21st century(afterburner.com.pl)
1 points by aww_dang 5y ago|0 comments
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by aww_dang 5y ago
The US wants to sell itself as a free and open society and set a contrast to their portrayal of the CCP's system. High profile investigations by intelligence services, FBI, secret police or whatever you prefer to call them do a disserv
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by aww_dang 5y ago
On the other hand, belief in success is often a prerequisite to putting effort or resources towards a goal. Failure can teach important lessons to those willing to learn and adapt. Probability can be an interesting tool for approximating co
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Not only is modeling ridiculous in the context of human action, the model itself is loaded. It only allows individuals to receive payments which are a fraction of their existing balance. Therefore, under this model individuals wouldn't
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Monetary Policy, Asset Price Inflation and Inequality – Louis Rouanet [pdf](contrakrugman.com)
2 points by aww_dang 5y ago|0 comments
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by aww_dang 5y ago
>the over-concentration of capital that develops naturally in unregulated capitalism... In such an unregulated capitalism system the producer would only obtain wealth by freely trading. It is the state intervention which creates the cond
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by aww_dang 5y ago
The incentive for lobbying would remain and turn more deeply to black markets. To end lobbying you'd need to remove the incentive for lobbyists to seduce lawmakers. Instead, remove the power of lawmakers or reduce/decentralize the
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by aww_dang 5y ago
The author makes an important distinction between state enabled cronyism and market activities. Comments here seem to be missing the point. Regulation is the pretense which enables cronyism. I enjoyed his appearance on the "Economics f
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Isn't that one of the problems with the pessimistic lament at the top of this thread? Conditions are rarely if ever static for extended periods of time. The entrepreneur must adapt to the opportunities presented. The popular idiom is,
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by aww_dang 5y ago
The intent is irrelevant. The Internet delights in this nonsense. Invoke fear all you want, we're practically living in a cultural fear buffet. A killjoy is still a killjoy.
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by aww_dang 5y ago
This flavor of debunking reminds me of mocking someone who is deliberately engaging in self-parody. Of course this isn't Atlantis, but perhaps the purpose of these videos is to stimulate the imagination. Perhaps in another time these c
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Perhaps HN could use WIP "Work In Progress" threads?
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by aww_dang 5y ago
This is a politicized issue.
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by aww_dang 5y ago
There are theories which dispute the underlying premises of econometrics. Economics is sometimes referred to as "the dismal science". Experiments cannot be constructed in the same way as the natural sciences. Dressing economics up
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by aww_dang 5y ago
Let's not forget the endless bloat. Multimegabyte sites, spinning loaders and that's before the 3rd party resources are loaded.
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by aww_dang 5y ago
>You do realize that that implies that it would be less fascist if the government could force a private company to publish falsehoods and propaganda, right? No, I do not. How do you figure?
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by aww_dang 5y ago
It is a classic set of false alternatives. It isn't necessary for either side to dominate the other. More than that, there is obviously a wider breadth of preferences than the binary presented in the article. It is worth asking why thi
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by aww_dang 5y ago
>And it’s not inaccurate to use the F word... >It's really amazing that the political faction obsessed with deploying a union of state and corporate power to silence their political opponents has somehow convinced itself that the
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by aww_dang 5y ago
It does seem a bit alarmist, but here we are. The theme is being previewed throughout the mainstream media. Why should individuals be compelled to stay in a dysfunctional relationship? If the political opposition is as intolerable or deplor
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Technocratic Keynesianism: a paradigm shift without legislative change(tandfonline.com)
2 points by aww_dang 5y ago|0 comments
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Why Every Entrepreneur Should Study the Austrian School of Economics(entrepreneur.com)
3 points by aww_dang 5y ago|0 comments

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