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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> so USAID made up almost 2% of all the US' federal discretionary spending! So, tiny; a fraction of what we spend on much less useful things like the Iran war or huge gifts to ICE. 30 years of that level of USAID funding would only
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
"SpaceX will be worth more than the rest of Earth if we accomplish our goals" is a lie.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> That's about a thousand people a year. Eh, maybe. Some of those may be hospice-style scenarios, where starvation is technically the cause of death at times. https://www.ccjm.org/content/ccjom/70/6
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> It's crazy to believe that stopping the funding of US backed NGOs directly kills people. Why? Have US-backed NGOs never saved a single life with their spending? You can argue it's not worth the spending, perhaps, but you
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
I'm sorry, but if you think public calls to burn down occupied buildings during unrest ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_riots ) aren't a threat, I'm not sure there's a discussion to
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
"They say they're going to cut a finger off every time you hang up."
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> I mean something that's factually incorrect, not just optimistic. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2075291102324641925 At what point does the optimism become a lie?
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> Then just don't buy the pump-and-dump… I feel like you're unclear on what information asymmetry means. This is "just don't get murdered!" style advice. > Why didn't I buy the SpaceX IPO? Because I think
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
The link seems to make the opposite point you intended. Criminal threats with appropriate punishment, and regular old hateful speech is ongoing.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
At some point, the scam evolves to a live video of a gagged loved one being tortured. "Stop wasting my time or they lose another finger." People aren't prepared for this shit.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
Are you sure that link's the one you meant to share? > The former childminder from Northampton, who is married to a Conservative councillor, had posted an abhorrent message on X, calling for people to "set fire" to hotels
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> A free society doesn’t arrest someone for saying “I’m going to burn down so-and-so’s house.” I feel like it's a significantly freer society when others can't threaten to murder me without consequences.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
NASA.gov for many years lacked a no-www version. IIRC it had something to do with the no-www being important internally at the time.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
A pump and dump is information asymmetry writ large. It’s how it works! A pump and dump scam doesn’t care if valuation goes down as long as they can exit profitably.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> They don't take responsibility for stock valuation. Nice strawman, but that's not what I said. They can, and do, intervene in things like lying to investors to inflate valuations.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> You are ignoring things like lockup periods, vesting schedules, and other general machinery that specifically exist to prevent day 1 or short-term dumps of shares. No, I am not. That’s the “it plunges to $50/share before I can off
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> You can't make an informed decision on it unless you do your own research… Most retail investors suffer from significant information asymmetry. We have regulations, in part, to mitigate this fact. > Just because you think somet
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> And you can just not buy the shares. It's very straightforward. Sure, but the SEC exists, in theory, to make that decision one you can make an informed decision on, because con artists don't typically put a disclaimer in th
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> Then don't buy it at the IPO price? I think you're getting lost here. If I invested $0.50/share, I know my company is worth realistically $10/share, and I can convince you to buy at $100/share, and it plunges t
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> The flaw in your thinking here is that you’re assuming these greedy people that you are creating in your head would prefer to lose half the value of the shares instead of doubling them. The flaw in your thinking is assuming it's a
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
Nah, they tried the invulnerable thing. They tried really, really hard to avoid the "chaos in the White House" firings from the first term. Noem wrecked it.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> If the shares tank, the valuation of the company goes down and locked up shares lose value. "Oh no, my $10B became $5B!" They'll still be happy. > If individual investors are buying shares and getting blown up, that’s
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
The administration isn't fully immune to public opinion yet.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> my vehicle got an OTA update to use Gemini G. A. H. edit: Y'all downvoters want genAI in your cars?!
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
They'll use their purchases of TikTok and Paramount to campaign for a bailout.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
My CLAUDE.md has "don't talk like a Hacker News commentator". It helps a surprising amount.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
The humans are bristling because they wrote like that first. It's where Claude got it from!
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> The entire point of putting the police under the authority of a democratic public is because the alternatives are all much worse. Yes, I agree. I just think we're in that "much worse" scenario now , with police unions,
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> The solution to police committing crimes is police oversight… Yeah, when we try that, they… commit more crimes. Riots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrolmen%27s_Benevolent_Assoc... Doxxing the mayor's kid:
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
An in-the-wild example of https://x.com/dril/status/831805955402776576 .

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