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by creato 3y ago
> Either the market has an endless appetite for banking I don’t like it but I think it’s clear this is the case. The demand for “buy now, pay later” seems to be huge, even if it costs more in the end, even for seemingly trivial amounts o
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by creato 3y ago
I don't see the problem here. You aren't entitled to ownership of multiple houses. Being forced to sell one house in order to buy another one sounds like working as intended to me.
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by creato 3y ago
I don't see how UBI helps. It would help if home prices were low enough such that builders aren't incentivized to build, but high enough that people can't afford them. But that isn't the scenario. In the current scenar
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by creato 3y ago
At least in the case of the Foxconn plant, I don't even think anyone actually got any favors. The politicians in question (Trump, Scott Walker?) just think that the appearance of a deal like this makes them look good to their voters. T
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by creato 3y ago
> What happens to the people that vote No? I think this is what the difference between “right to work” states and not is. In “right to work” states, unions cannot stop someone from working at an employer. In non-right to work states, uni
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by creato 3y ago
In my opinion, HN comments/users skew heavily towards cynicism/negativity. It may be a tiny minority, but I don’t think it’s a tiny minority of the most vocal users.
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by creato 3y ago
I don’t think you can blame the media for this one. I heard very little to nothing about LK-99 from the news or the regular people in my life. But I heard a ton about it from my “tech” friends that spend a lot of time on Twitter, and HN.
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by creato 3y ago
I don’t know, I think this proposal means a neighborhood scale “grid” + solar + batteries is cheaper than PGE for a high income area. What happens to the grid when it’s only poor people left connected to it?
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by creato 3y ago
I think this is overly cynical. The playing field would be level with or without these companies existing. This is one of many problems where the profits are concentrated among a few players highly motivated to preserve their existence, at
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by creato 3y ago
Your post would be a lot better without the first sentence. You’re questioning the effectiveness, not the point. The point is clear, and your suggestion of the point is an obvious straw man even to people who agree with you.
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by creato 3y ago
> and (3) everyone knew the checks would end one day, but some didn't know if they'd find a job by then. It wasn't a good analogue to UBI. This will never, ever not be the case. Working age people today don’t even expect s
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by creato 3y ago
We basically just did an experiment at society scale on exactly this with COVID unemployment. What about that experiment suggested it was a success?
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by creato 3y ago
> but when someone is a repeat offender of some petty crimes, and ... This is a critical part of the comment you are talking about. Everything you say is irrelevant if you're already objectively guilty of crime. Legalization of dr
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by creato 3y ago
This basic principle is true in any political system, from communist one party states to corporate ladders. The more specific problem is that the incentives aren’t aligned, because voters aren’t capable of seeing the relevant causes and eff
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by creato 3y ago
Apparently you do, because that chart shows inflation more than anything else. The chart you actually want to make your point is this one: https://www.crfb.org/sites/default/files/Screen%20Shot%20202... Which
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by creato 3y ago
This law means nothing in practice. If you are working construction in the Texas heat, you need to drink water every 10-30 minutes, not just once every 4 hours. I can't imagine an employer lasting long if they didn't allow their e
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by creato 3y ago
His claims are all on behalf of “witnesses” he interviewed. I don’t believe any organization of more than a single person could keep a secret as big as physical samples of alien spacecraft or bodies secret for more than a few minutes, let a
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by creato 3y ago
That’s a pretty charitable summary of the issue of pressure vessel safety. I’m just a hobbyist with tools in my garage and I’ve avoided buying an air compressor for air powered tools because I don’t want to have a pressure vessel to maintai
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by creato 3y ago
When theft via lock picking becomes an issue, people will buy those locks. I doubt it will be an issue as long as bolt cutters and batter powered angle grinders exist.
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by creato 3y ago
"local company" being the problem. Local/small companies do not care at all about this kind of thing. Google's perniciousness is being about to follow the letter of the law while still getting what they want, not flagr
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by creato 3y ago
How is it ridiculous exactly? It’s not just a dick measuring contest that can just be called off on a whim, it’s serious business competition.
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by creato 3y ago
It doesn’t seem that crazy to focus on the application of PFAS that sprays it by the truckload directly into the open environment in liquid form when the other applications you cite are solid materials that seem unlikely to end up contamina
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by creato 3y ago
In all cases I’m aware of, “decriminalization” refers to legalizing possession of small end user amounts. It doesn’t legalize production or sales, so the issues you described remain. If low drug prices is what you want, we should legalize t
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by creato 3y ago
I don’t know, sorting requires a lot of moving data around, which is expensive for energy too. Maybe this will be used for vectors of small fixed/bounded size, but then you don’t get to amortize the cost of the logs as much either.
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by creato 3y ago
Yes, it does. 3:2 pulldown produces interlaced 60 fields/s. On a digital display, it must be deinterlaced, and the only "correct" way to do that is to remove the pulldown, producing 24 fps. If you just deinterlace it as if it
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by creato 3y ago
> Richmond Voyager was more than 20 miles off the coast of Muscat, Oman, and was in international waters when the Iranian Navy approached it. Not sure what you mean by “just off the coast” but 20 miles from Oman would put it ~100 miles f
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by creato 3y ago
I'm aware, but that's not the point. I went to that company's website around the time that case was in the news, and 100% agreed with google downranking it. The point is, downranking decisions by google have a non-trivial cha
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by creato 3y ago
This doesn’t make any sense. Why would you want to use 3:2 pulldown unless your display is interlaced, which AFAIK will never be the case for any modern display? And even if you did use it, it doesn’t do anything to help with the extra 1000
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by creato 3y ago
They were fined 2.4 billion euros for downranking a shitty SEO spam operation: https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/07/google-shopping-lawsuit/am... . How many of those thousand domains will result in billion d
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by creato 3y ago
This is politically impossible in the US. The electorate is too short sighted and will blame the current president for killing the economy no matter how sensible the policy actually is. Democrats maybe make a half hearted attempt at this,

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