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by caeril 5y ago
What was the homicide rate in the depths of the Great Depression? What is the current homicide rate of rural rust-belt America, with lower per capita incomes than poor urban areas? Poverty isn't the cause. Sorry you've been wastin
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by caeril 5y ago
Yes, it's weird that infringement of the fundamental right to self-defense is taken more seriously than things that are not fundamental rights. Weirdest thing I've ever seen. Those wacky Americans and their crazy belief in liberty
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by caeril 5y ago
Brilliant. Yes, we're facing a consumption catastrophe, so let's distribute more funding toward more people so they can consume more. This is almost as fantastic as the HN zeitgeist of: 1. OMG there's a climate apocalypse com
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by caeril 5y ago
If you're talking YoY numbers, which we are, this would actually work against home buyers because rates are higher now than they were a year ago.
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by caeril 5y ago
> Creditors take inflation into account when making loans No, they do not, because they typically only hold the note for a few days before it gets securitized and sold onto a market that is pinned by a very large, inflation-agnostic play
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by caeril 5y ago
> why that methodology is incorrect A lot of people take issue with hedonic adjustments, substitution threshold, etc - but the specific methdology used is far less important than the fact that they're simply lying about the data. Fo
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by caeril 5y ago
> 65% of realtors are women, but in commercial real estate it's only 35% women. The cynical answer is that attractive women with large breasts influence the decisions of men making largely consumerist purchases (let's be honest
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by caeril 5y ago
Not sure you can call MR a "game shop". Pretty sure it's just Casey, with Anna on contract.
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by caeril 5y ago
> How does it compare to XXH3? XX is a slightly better hashing function, meow is slightly faster. Take your pick. Life is about tradeoffs.
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by caeril 5y ago
Valid point, but I'd note that it's backed off significantly since WW2, when top tax rates were close to 90%. Tax rates seem to more closely track actual government funding requirements than they do any sort of moral justificati
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by caeril 5y ago
Yeah, this is an excellent idea, especially for the environment. Let's penalize urban gardening co-ops, dog parks, arboretums, and anyone else who thinks preserving some semblance of nature in urban environments is nice to have. Let&#x
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by caeril 5y ago
You forgot the most important one, which is, has been, and always will be: 6. The inability for a central bank to print gold. I understand the various arguments for fiat money in advanced economies, and many of them make sense, but the one
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by caeril 5y ago
> Natural immunity confers with it resistance to a number of different covid-19 viral proteins, not just the spike I am personally closer to the antivax group than the provax group( at least in terms of mandates, because abrogation of bo
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by caeril 5y ago
I have an open question that I've never been able to find the answer to: What are the limits to the memory of our immune system? Surely there are limits, to the extent that our blood can only carry N number of Memory B cells, and tho
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by caeril 5y ago
Strongly agree. In fact, I suspect the accident rate, even unadjusted for work done, is higher with manual tools. All modern power tools have very well thought-out safety features included. This is particularly true for some of the more dan
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by caeril 5y ago
It's economically rational in a world filled with the moral hazard provided by universal healthcare and insurance. Why eat right or exercise when 99.8% of my $500k quadruple bypass surgery will be paid by other people?
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by caeril 5y ago
> IMO the responsibility for those deaths does not fall on him specifically. While this is true, you're not allowed to criticize the flawlessly angelic Intelligence Community on HN. Holding up the CIA as a bastion of virtue whilst d
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by caeril 5y ago
> He is AGAINST legislation for trans rights. Anybody who is FOR legislation of "rights" predicated on a non-falsifiable self-proclamation is almost certainly an idiot. I don't dispute that gender dysphoria is real, it mos
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by caeril 5y ago
> wholly accurate & backed up with the latest scientific evidence. Much of the problem comes down to the fact that the "science" changes quite frequently. When new evidence appears, which updates our Bayesian Priors ( airbo
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by caeril 5y ago
Yes, I got my child tax credit early. Moving application of a credit I normally get anyway up 6 months is exactly the same thing as UBI. Good point. I'm sure I'm going to appreciate this April 15th 2022 when my liability is much l
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by caeril 5y ago
> Most retail and institutional investors in crypto are already KYC Indeed, because they're there for speculation, not value or utility. > there's scarcity (Bitcoin), utility (ether), Defi/staking, NFTs, the metaverse,
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by caeril 5y ago
Fundamentally, cryptocurrency is an end-run around the ridiculous and absurd SWIFT sanctions, KYC, and AML regulations that weigh down banks around the world. There's nothing innovative about it beyond this. We've known how to do
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by caeril 5y ago
> hanging out with a bunch of people wearing white nationalist apparel and holding a sign that references a racist meme Getting a rise out of the easily-offended is as old as time. Your Mom jokes go back centuries . Satirizing those who
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by caeril 5y ago
Pretty rich, coming out of an organization that assaulted and chased Vincent Canfield out of CCC for . . . . owning trollish domain names. I'm sure the presenter doesn't necessarily share the Congress's values, but it's
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by caeril 5y ago
s/Chinese/any government representing a material amount of their revenue/ Don't be deceived; the San Bernardino case was a very intentionally public op to convince us that they will "fight" for our right to pri
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by caeril 5y ago
They're still around, most of them having landed in the Rationalist/LessWrong community along with Yudkowski. And then some of them, like Anissimov, et al, moved onto the Post-Rationalist community, with a small percentage of thos
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by caeril 5y ago
LD doesn't help learn any of this. The time constraints force most entrants to use Unity, GameMaker, or some other framework/engine that abstracts learning about any of this stuff away. If your object is to learn, better to try ou
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by caeril 5y ago
> community bonding, money laundering and genuine experimentation To be fair, the real-life art auction world is basically all money laundering, too.
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by caeril 5y ago
I think we/they have to. I'll don my tinfoil hat for a moment. A combination of initial vaccine effectiveness estimates having to be downgraded, and variants reducing effectiveness further, along with the infectiousness data of va
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by caeril 5y ago
> Unless your dog burns fossil fuels Cattle only burn fossil fuels to the extent that transporting water and feed, fertilizing that feed, and manufacturing and transporting fencing materials, antibiotics, etc, use. Guess what? Your dog h

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