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by creato 4y ago
I don’t know if it has been, and it would be extremely difficult to prove one way or the other. But the potential is obvious. China already heavily manipulates content for domestic consumption, and foreign information in other contexts. Why
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by creato 4y ago
> This assumes that the government is sincere in its complaint that their concern is about user's data. I watched the hearing. The main concern voiced is manipulation of content by the CCP. User data is what cranky HN users care abo
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by creato 4y ago
I don’t know. I’m not advocating for a ban, just arguing against all the moronic “but what about US social media” and “it’s because the US government can’t spy on TikTok users” takes.
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by creato 4y ago
The premise is not that, it’s that the Chinese government can influence the content that the US population is exposed to. For fucks sake, US politicians are campaigning on a platform that the CCP can manipulate.
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by creato 4y ago
It was an actuality different model from the incumbents at the time. TikTok is the same thing as YouTube, just with different tuning for profitability.
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What are the options, really? Option A is business as usual. Option B is a massive cut in energy consumption. Option A implies at some point in the future, massive social unrest due to mass migration. Option B implies massive social unrest
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by creato 4y ago
For the individual, maybe. At a societal level, at least some people are required to live in rural areas, so we can have the raw materials society requires.
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by creato 4y ago
As long as there aren't any eggs going unsold, this is irrelevant to the price of eggs. If anything, the opposite is happening: sporadically there are limits on how many eggs one customer can buy in my grocery store.
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by creato 4y ago
Assuming these scams come from foreign countries as commenters claim: the US government should threaten to cut off Nigeria, India, and wherever else they come from from all incoming calls/texts entirely to force the local governments t
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by creato 4y ago
> If all the depositors were merely semi-wealthy commoners with only $300k in their accounts, they would have only gotten $250k back. No, they would have gotten $250k + ~90% of the balance. Maybe even 100%. Annoying but I wouldn’t care e
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by creato 4y ago
That sounds nice but it’s childish, like suggesting people voluntarily pay more taxes than owed. Don’t hate the player, hate the game. It’s perfectly reasonable to follow the rules of the game while believing the rules can and should be be
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by creato 4y ago
Im not talking about startups, read the post I replied to again. And even in the case of a startup, their runway is probably longer than next payroll.
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by creato 4y ago
> giving the bankers a ski jolly What banker got a “ski jolly” here? The bankers in this case are in exactly the same position they would have been in if the bank were allowed to fail without supporting depositors.
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by creato 4y ago
> And when other business can not pay salaries because of events they could not control Can you give an example of such a company? I can’t think of a way in which an otherwise healthy (long term viable) company could suddenly be unable t
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by creato 4y ago
What greater penalty for a bank or any other corporation is there than what has already happened to SVB? The shareholders are wiped out. The only thing left would be pursuing individual executives for… something, but aside from possible ins
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by creato 4y ago
> it's something you have rolled into several different financial instruments with varying levels of available liquidity. Like… SVB
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by creato 4y ago
I can’t believe anyone would put any stock in such “evidence”. No one is going to say “yeah, I pushed the limits of tax filing and got busted, nice catch IRS”. They’re going to say “I was just minding my own business when the IRS robbed me
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by creato 4y ago
Seems like the FDIC is achieving the exact same outcome with a lot less hassle and overhead for everyone.
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by creato 4y ago
I don’t think there’s much real difference, just the twitter (and HN) peanut gallery is so much louder it’s distorting people’s understanding of the situation.
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by creato 4y ago
Nuclear has been stalled in favor of fossil fuels for at least 50 years already.
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by creato 4y ago
You proved yourself to be low information on at least one point (the waste problem). Your other points may be “true” but in a rather hollow way. We’re all subsidizing the impact of fossil fuel waste for example, it just isn’t correctly acco
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by creato 4y ago
The examples I can think of are going to be arguable, but: - Antivaccine politics (before covid) was mostly liberal. - Progressive regulation of housing construction/affordable housing policies in liberal cities are (probably) well int
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by creato 4y ago
According to the link in the parent I replied to, social security and Medicare are larger, by more than 0.7%
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by creato 4y ago
The top 3 chunks of spending are social security, Medicare, and Medicaid. The majority of that spending is payments to individuals or on behalf of individuals for medical bills. You can probably find the exact fraction of overhead for each
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It’s the same scheme that has existed for all of humanity: the tribe’s young people work to provide for the children and elders. No one was retiring by hoarding a pile of gold. The tribe is just bigger now.
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by creato 4y ago
I can't believe this theory is so widespread. There's no high level conspiracy to hire people to keep them away from competitors, such a thing could not be kept secret, and it's a ridiculously expensive thing to do (even for
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by creato 4y ago
I know what’s going on, I just don’t care that much. I’m not going to claim to speak for most people, but neither should you.
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by creato 4y ago
This is empty cynicism. The “current track record” for recycling some materials is great. I see no reason to assume batteries will recycle like household paper and plastic and not like scrap steel and aluminum.
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by creato 4y ago
Funny, I’m looking at the same picture and seeing something completely different. It seems to me that series hybrids with 50-100km electric range are the sweet spot: - eliminates a huge chunk of CO2 emissions (most daily commutes, local tra
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by creato 4y ago
There are two groups of officers described by the parent post: ones who try to fight crime, and "the worst cops". They aren't the same group. The challenge is how to protect the first group and not the second. Would you want

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