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by boc 3y ago
US-based here. Here's my strategy: Hook up credit cards to bank and setup auto-pay on full balance and treat them like debit cards. Pay for everything with the credit card that gives me the most points in that category (aka 4X on din
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by boc 3y ago
This seems less efficient/more dangerous than simply asking for mailed statements and then auto-paying the full balance. They'll deliver you a physical statement in the mail for you to look through/digest, and you aren't
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Responsibly afford
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We’d have already seen a massive spike in cancer if it was true.
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by boc 3y ago
I’m begging HN to stop assuming they understand economics before dismissing the entire profession.
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by boc 3y ago
I would agree if A) Threads didn't just add 100M users overnight, and B) if Twitter wasn't a spam-filled shitshow. It's undeniable that Twitter is a failing product. Their advertisements are literal basement-tier garbage... I
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by boc 3y ago
Once people realize that they just need to go follow their Twitter follows on Threads (instead of just their insta followers), Threads starts feeling like a way cleaner version of Twitter. And that's before they add most of the feature
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You’re on the English-speaking internet when the only other countries awake are Canada and Australia/NZ. You’re in an America conversation thread, whether you like it or not.
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by boc 3y ago
Beat-up Toyota T100s are still the landscaper vehicle of choice out west. Large trucks that are taller can still be useful for tossing bikes and recreational toys in the back, but they are a pain for loading/unloading unless you'r
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by boc 3y ago
I think you’re confusing transitory inflation causes with entrenched inflation causes. I’m definitely not arguing that wages triggered our current bout of inflation. I’m arguing that wage increases are required to sustain and entrench infla
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So when the government printed trillions of dollars continuously from 2000 until 2019 yet we had record low inflation... was that just a fluke? A multi-decade rebuke of your theory?
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I mean I'll take my downvotes but it's not a controversy within the economics field that broad wage gains perpetuate inflation. It's also not just something "taught in academia". Concerns about wage growth is a prim
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by boc 3y ago
Which is a good thing if you want inflation to eventually fall. Wage growth is the primary sustainer of inflation, which leads to the classic wage/price spiral wherein employees negotiate automatic increases in salary to keep up with p
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by boc 3y ago
What are your opinions on Peter Attia’s podcast? They seem similar but it’s impossible for a lay person to judge if they’re trustworthy.
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by boc 3y ago
Yeah agreed; at least heroin sales don’t directly fund nuclear weapons programs in North Korea, enable gigantic ransomware attacks on innocent civilians, or generate massive carbon emissions+e-waste in order to continue existing.
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by boc 3y ago
Degrowth is not a solution. Geo-engineering is our only way out of this mess.
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by boc 3y ago
I have a 14yo reddit account, and was a Digg user for years prior to that. While there were scandals like the HDDVD code stuff, ultimately the user-hostile Digg v4 redesign killed it for me- the day they forced it on everyone I never went b
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by boc 3y ago
Not even factually true. BTC was at ~$540 in May 2016 (7 years ago today). It's 27K today. That's more like 5x... nowhere close to 100x.
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by boc 3y ago
Source? Growth rates in China have slowed significantly in the past two years, and demographic collapse is going to render their economy stagnant in the coming decades. Some analysts are reversing their expectation that China will ever pass
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by boc 3y ago
The debt ceiling "debate" is farcical. The House GOP is arguing we shouldn't pay our bills, even when the laws and actions that generated that spending were passed legally through Congress. I'm of the opinion that the WH
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by boc 3y ago
Over a dozen scientists were arrested at various times in the past year, but three additional scientists were arrested and charged with treason this month after the failed attack. Using some critical thinking, we can see how this was a dire
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by boc 3y ago
Your source is from May 5th. Subsequent Kinzhals were confirmed shot down much more recently. > On May 4, 2023, Ukraine used a U.S.-supplied Patriot battery to down a Russian Kinzhal missile, which Russian President Vladimir Putin had an
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by boc 3y ago
What are you talking about? Russia launched Kinzhal missiles as part of a larger saturation attack on Kyiv earlier this month and they were all successfully intercepted by the US Patriot system, operated by Ukraine. One piece of debris hit
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by boc 3y ago
In the English language America, American, Americans all refer to the country and citizens of the United States. I don’t know why people from other continents think it’s some sort of gotcha to say otherwise. It’s incorrect.
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You’re paying for healthcare at a tech company? Usually your company provides this as a benefit. Same for commuter subsidies.
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Russia using a "dirty bomb" on Ukraine makes zero sense. The whole strategic interest in occupying and conquering Ukraine was to access their resources. If you irradiate everything it's gone for generations on all sides.
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by boc 3y ago
What are you talking about? You need to cite sources about people in the US getting “vanished” for simply using a VPN. This is sounding like agitprop.
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Government employees and contractors
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You're telling me the VC that went hog-wild on NFTs and Crypto is fomo'ing into AI without any DD? I'm shocked.
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IMO they are two separate things. Pushbacks are countable in the context of a debate with both parties present. It’s fine to say “I have two pushbacks on this proposal” because those are specific, countable, contained arguments. There’s als

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