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by clairity 5y ago
> "1. Raise interest rates and stop printing. Crazy inflation stops, but asset prices crash and we enter a major recession or depression. The end result will likely be unrest and blood in the streets." no, blood and unrest is a
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by clairity 5y ago
exactly, just say no, firmly. most folks (retail or otherwise) would rather avoid confrontation so will opt for the workaround (that retailers institute as a backup since they typically would rather not lose business entirely). but also, ha
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by clairity 5y ago
yes, google and the like reportedly already do this, so pihole bypassing is already here. i bought a pepwave surf soho[0] a few years back, largely because it had a few other features (multi-homing, multi-wlan, robust vlan'ing, etc.) t
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by clairity 5y ago
yes, that's a concrete instance of why increasing concentration of power and wealth is bad for society as a whole. now consider that there are millions of these little mechanisms working against social cohesion and our current malaise
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by clairity 5y ago
a (full-featured) firewall is much better, especially if it can consume popular blocklists. piholes can't deal with hard-coded IPs or an integrated dns server that bypasses the pihole.
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by clairity 5y ago
walmart pioneered negative working capital for retail well before amazon existed (70s-80s iirc). it's how walmart jettisoned itself into a retail juggernaut. carrefour cribbed that part of the playbook from them to expand across france
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by clairity 5y ago
yes, internalize externalities first, starting with the most dangerous and egregious. most other ‘solutions’ are apologist distractions from this primary mitigation.
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by clairity 5y ago
interesting, i didn't know about the racial angle, but it's thoroughly unsurprising to hear.
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by clairity 5y ago
yah, immunity from bankruptcy is the original sin of student loans. it’s literally what drove hyperinflation in higher ed.
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by clairity 5y ago
as an aside, the seeds of the military-industrial complex started with WWI (from observing japan and germany), not WWII, though it didn’t really get going until the impending second war impelled it into overdrive via the reconstituted war p
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by clairity 5y ago
while the parent poster indeed made an unsubstantiated assertion, it's not that hard to understand the perverseness of giving money to already well-off people. i personally think we should make federal loans highly progressive, both in
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by clairity 5y ago
apparently washington was also generally a bad military strategist and tactician, racked by uncertainty and indecisiveness. he happened to get lucky in a couple crucial battles, otherwise we may have had no idea who he was. so luck strikes
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by clairity 5y ago
usc is a money-oriented pay-for-prestige institution, and most folks know it, which is why it always lags ucla (and others) in prestige outside of the cinema school (even that has been bought, by old-money hollywood). other programs, like e
974.
by clairity 5y ago
that would be a waste of resources. in my area, it's the cars that need more enforcement. every single day i see multiple cars brazenly running stop signs and sometimes even stop lights. they don't even slow down. that's pote
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by clairity 5y ago
not really, though socal on the whole is a sprawl. greater LA is decentralized into a bunch of blended edge cities[0], but the city itself is basically split into the LA basin and the san fernando valley. within these sub-regions, it's
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by clairity 5y ago
i'd personally like to see two policy changes (especially in a city like LA that's perfect year-round for biking): 1. convert curbside parking into dedicated and protected bike lanes (not everywhere, but extensively) 2. require bi
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by clairity 5y ago
why not take bart, especially anywhere near market? it's roughly $10 to either sfo or oak and pretty reliable. in LA, the flyaway is affordable and relatively reliable too, if your destination is near downtown, or on the red or orange
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by clairity 5y ago
yes, but that’s a non sequitur . tax evasion via cash-only businesses is likely a rounding error on national receipts, and most of those businesses are straight up illegal (fencing, drug/weapons/human/sex trade, etc.), so ju
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by clairity 5y ago
how many common crimes are you committing for that to be your primary concern? sometimes you just don't want to share every single bit of purchase data with hoarders like visa, chase, kroger, and google.
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by clairity 5y ago
yes, never use your debit card and use only credit cards online, but cash is better for non-major in-person purchases as it's inherently private and anonymous. it's also better for the payee (hopefully a local retailer not a mega-
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by clairity 5y ago
no, that’s a defeatist position promoted by polluting industries. eliminating the top 5%[0] of the most polluting power plants would make a significant (but not wholly sufficient) dent in the emissions problem. that’s on the order of changi
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by clairity 5y ago
yah, i use cmd-drag sometimes too, usually for smaller adjustments, using my pinky on cmd. it's not quite as reliable (for me), as i lose the drag occasionally, having to go back and pick it up again.
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by clairity 5y ago
> "...three-finger drag aspect, though. That is the only way I drag windows..." i drag via single-finger force-click on the title bar. it's even easier (to me) than 3-finger drag (requires slightly less finger coordination
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by clairity 5y ago
what you're dancing around is linear independence, which is the idea that two functions can't be described as a function of each other, which also means they can be used to specify every other function in the intervening function
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by clairity 5y ago
yes, note that nearly all of our thoughts are subvocal/subconscious. some folks have a more active and/or efficient surfacing mechanism than others though. and a few folks have an overactive vocalization system where most of their
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by clairity 5y ago
that's completely missing the discretion refs have in calling fouls. if they didn't employ discretion, you'd have a foul every 5 seconds, rendering the game unwatchable/unplayable (e.g., the rule changes that the nba mad
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by clairity 5y ago
having built, and partnered with other, marketplaces, i can appreciate the product ambitions but am also a bit skeptical. in my experience the matching optimization problem is idiosyncratic (per market segment), and is likely beyond machine
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by clairity 5y ago
as happens so often, basketball provides a microcosm. fouls are called (and varying penalties assessed) for illegal moves that lead to an unfair advantage. implicit in that is that intent matters . many times, a foul isn’t assessed for an
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by clairity 5y ago
as hinted at in my sibling comment, there’s a natural gradient toward the consolidation of power, propelled by individual actions to that end. we’ve reached a tipping point in the past 40–50 years where enough consolidation has happened tha
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by clairity 5y ago
we’ve been oligarchic since at least the 90s, so it doesn’t really matter that there are two major parties. in fact, having two parties has been an effective shield against criticism and activism, keeping us distracted (see every comment on

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