camgunz

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by camgunz 2y ago
I think reasonable people can disagree about this. Trump is pretty good with the "flimsy excuse", like "look I said 'stand back' as well as 'stand by'" or "hey I said 'peacefully and patriot
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by camgunz 2y ago
I might be misusing bad faith, but honestly I don't think so. I felt like trying to equate the Hunter Biden Laptop letter with the Iraq War was way too polemic to be good faith, designed solely for gotcha purposes rather than to contin
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by camgunz 2y ago
> We must be the exact same age. See I knew there was something I liked about you haha. Hopefully this doesn't come across as deflecting or whatever (HRC has a lot of takes I disagree with, I think she would have been a very good pr
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by camgunz 2y ago
I'll mea culpa: I try pretty hard to not backseat campaign manage. My defense is I was posting after midnight and wine and I'm trying to find a balance between not suffering right wing talking points and offering olive branches. I
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by camgunz 2y ago
I mean, you can't expect me to paste multiple paragraphs as a quote here. If you think Trump's clumsy ersatz nod to "Fortunate Son" contextualizes putting Liz Cheney in front of a firing squad, OK then. If you can find e
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by camgunz 2y ago
Haha well, I think we're in the same cohort? I was a senior in HS when 9/11 happened. I've worked in Democratic politics in some capacity for over a decade, although I recently took a break to have kids. I know Russia's
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by camgunz 2y ago
Maybe, but I think we're all subject to the temptation to make bad arguments to get one over on people we disagree with. I can respect some things about someone and not respect other things. I guess this comes from being low-key terrif
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by camgunz 2y ago
Here's the full quote: "She is a radical war hawk. Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face."
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by camgunz 2y ago
I wanna try and weight my reply right. I like a lot of your posts and learn from you not infrequently. I also respect the way you think. Sometimes though, you toss out a very Fox News talking point, which confuses me! Before Trump's re
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by camgunz 2y ago
> That suggests this is part of a coordinated misinformation campaign. It wasn't, it's 1 article that maybe 4 people retweeted. Dems are low energy right now, but not that low energy. Also, Republicans run deliberate misinforma
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by camgunz 2y ago
Man, you're a smart guy. Just once I want you to like, do the reading and argue in good faith. I'm sure a lot of people on HN respect you, including me! Let's say that any donation to any Democratic campaign makes you a Democ
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by camgunz 2y ago
There's not an equivalence between post-Cold War Democratic and Republican administrations manipulating intelligence. My evidence is the Iraq War and Valerie Plame.
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by camgunz 2y ago
My last job had a strong "no query builders or ORMs" policy, but of course then we wanted composability, so we had in-house, half-baked implementations of both that were full of injection bugs and generated incorrect queries with
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by camgunz 2y ago
Wow that's wild, hmm OK might reconsider.
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by camgunz 2y ago
I would use HA only to get off limited/bad "smart home" apps, but we've been using it in my home for ~6mos for a handful of things and we love it. Probably gonna go ham this year: switches, sensors, the whole thing. I th
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by camgunz 2y ago
> Saying "no" is the easiest job in the world It depends on your motivation. Probably a lot (many, most?) committees can just sit pretty and try to do as little as possible. But a lot of software projects exist by getting atten
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by camgunz 2y ago
This is a lot of things, but it's not evidence.
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by camgunz 2y ago
wtfhappenedin1971 has approximately 17,000 graphs showing wage suppression. I will 100% eat shit on this if you can show real evidence that QE (printing money, whatever) is the main cause of wage suppression.
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by camgunz 2y ago
To belabor this petty point, they're 4th in nominal and 5th in PPP. Ugh. > And they'll keep going down. Yes, because of population issues. Not because they'll be overtaken by powerful non-fiat economies (both the ruble and
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by camgunz 2y ago
> The US printing money doesn't allow it to export its inflation, but rather exporting inflation allows the US to print far more money than other countries without comparable consequences. I didn't see this dynamic outlined in
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by camgunz 2y ago
Sorry I maybe followed what I thought was your argument too far. I thought you were saying fiat currencies create a moral hazard in monetary policy where regulators will be motivated primarily by short term economic growth at the expense of
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by camgunz 2y ago
You won't catch me defending ZIRP, but other than that and a weird dip in the 90s, M2 seems to track the value of the US economy pretty well. Why didn't things immediately go to shit after Bretton Woods? Why did it take 40 years a
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by camgunz 2y ago
> The problem is, prices didn't fall (mostly due to corporate greed - corporate profits exploded in comparison with inflation [1]) Sure, but again this is a political problem. I don't the WH was promising prices would fall; I t
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by camgunz 2y ago
I read the top 10 articles from that link, as well as a study on the magnitude of the effect. None of them provide any evidence that printing money in the US (which is inflationary, i.e. it weakens the USD) creates inflation in other countr
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by camgunz 2y ago
I like the Japan example because they are a modern economy that is absolutely maniacal about inflation, yet their quality of life is very high and their currency floats. Fiat hawks can't countenance this, and have some Rube Goldberg ex
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by camgunz 2y ago
I don't doubt inflation moves between economies. I just don't think there's any evidence that US monetary policy causes the negative outcomes you're outlining through that movement. I think you can do a China, but the US
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by camgunz 2y ago
> No, fiat currencies are backed by the belief that the government will not abuse their ability to print money. That's part of their value, but not their backing. This is one of the reasons something like a gold standard is nonsensi
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by camgunz 2y ago
The only real problem the Japanese economy has is their top-heavy population, which isn't a result of monetary policy. By your own metric of Japan's failure (stock market value), the US economy has excelled tremendously since 1971
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by camgunz 2y ago
> It has been democratized in one angle, that of the technical ability to use the internet being taught and disseminated wide enough that people can use it. The platforms work really hard to make it seem like you're using them, but
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by camgunz 2y ago
I was born in 83, and yeah this drives me nuts too. My cohort will be like, "I hate social media; it's done bad things to kids, society, and me personally, but I have accounts on all the major platforms, I spend at least 2 hours a

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