bachbach

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by bachbach 8y ago
This is meta, but I know you enjoy meta dredmorbius/Cat with the Glasses. All the debates we have are internal debates. We are Westerners. They have three schools of thought in politics. The Left, the Right and the Liberals. These ma
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by bachbach 8y ago
I've said the same thing several times in the last month on this website.
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by bachbach 8y ago
Fortunately I didn't even read the article :)
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by bachbach 8y ago
Conversations with Tyler.
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by bachbach 8y ago
There is a lot of rubbish out there - I probably spend as much time looking for gold as I do listening.
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by bachbach 8y ago
NPR is, there are mixed feelings. I think they take themselves and their ideas too seriously. For all the world NPR (Radiolab, Hidden Brain) are like one of those friendly Christian persons who assumes you're one of their co-religionis
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by bachbach 8y ago
No, shut up, I love podcasts. The best ones are Audio Dramas like Uncle Bertie's Botanarium and The Lost Cat podcast or The Stuff of Myth. The Mysterious Secrets Of Uncle Bertie's Botanarium: http://rss.art19.com/t
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by bachbach 8y ago
I realize money is an abstraction - what I'm saying is that the model - its mapping onto real activity is questionable to people besides hippies. Usually when a small town or community provide their own currency there is an surge of ec
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by bachbach 8y ago
Ironic, I'm registering to pay tax in Ireland. Oh suffering! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKyb_3gBmj4 Only AAPL understands.
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by bachbach 8y ago
You mean in person or by telephone? I don't live in the USA. If you want you can send me an email with your thoughts (address in profile info field) and I'll reply, whether I've anything of substance to contribute remains to
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by bachbach 8y ago
This is meta but... The author was wondering why this specific instance kicked something off because it isn't obvious why it would when better tinder exists out there. It's a good question. Scott Alexander has a brilliant explan
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by bachbach 8y ago
You're right of course - but there are so few young people in the trades that the average age of a plumber in some US states is now 60. The cost of maintenance and construction must be going to skyrocket in the next ten years.
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by bachbach 8y ago
It's about a migration model for jobs I think. You have two jobs, one in the city at weekends and another in the suburbs. You're out of the way for commuters and don't need to commute for long hours. In the suburbs you might
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by bachbach 8y ago
I was big into the Tiny House movement for a time and you're right. The problem is Land. Western countries need Land Reform v2.0 because despite only moderate or even negative population growth - the median person cannot afford to buy
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by bachbach 8y ago
It was called Dueling. An elegant way to select for the most violent young men and has genuine advantages over prison.
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by bachbach 8y ago
Give us an example of an external thought. Are you excluding cognition which is part of the environment - a legacy there by other humans? That's real, demonstrable and often not obvious - like the Orders in architecture.
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by bachbach 8y ago
Cryptocurrencies are not used directly in the purchase of stock, real estate or consumer transactions - this isn't an attack on them - just an observation that private banks used to issue money before central banks existed - and those
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by bachbach 8y ago
Can you outline a scenario in which there exists no central bank? While everything you have said is true, I feel as though there exist giant icebergs gliding silently past your watertight steel hull.
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by bachbach 8y ago
The check list is a second example of a humble and effective tool - although I know it has got more coverage on this forum.
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What is something unsexy that you should do?
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by bachbach 8y ago
Of course! Seem to be a bit dim today. I'll blame it on the weather. It is raining and the sky doesn't have a colour.
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by bachbach 8y ago
Not sure why that's set to private and don't see an option to make it public. Here's the address: delete-username-dashes-only-i-n-t-e-r-n-a-u-t@internet-mail.org
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by bachbach 8y ago
That is true, and partially as a result it will shortly be that blue collar labour will earn higher wages than white collar labour. That and many important tasks will remain unaccomplished like people having houses to live in or clean envir
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by bachbach 8y ago
Oh and sorry, but remove the dashes - from the email address username.
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by bachbach 8y ago
That is presently true but it doesn't have to be. A Silicon Valley business could start paying millions of people to perform tasks for it - like babysitting a semi-self driving car.
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by bachbach 8y ago
No.
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by bachbach 8y ago
See my HN profile.
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by bachbach 8y ago
There are no young new workers in the construction trades. Average age of some trades is now 60 and these are not trades typically performed by older generations. Wages are rising but I believe there exist opportunities to use AR to transfe
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by bachbach 8y ago
You should try rereading Gene Wolfe novels. Different book every time.
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by bachbach 8y ago
> " “By 2050,” he writes, “a useless class might emerge, the result not only of a shortage of jobs or a lack of relevant education but also of insufficient mental stamina to continue learning new skills.”" Society places a lot

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