cultus

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by cultus 7y ago
This name really isn't the greatest.
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by cultus 7y ago
That's really not a concern in recessions. You'd really have to go out of your way to get that result. I expect deflation due to demand destruction.
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by cultus 7y ago
It doesn't end. Plutocracy breeds more plutocracy. There's a positive feedback loop because more money buys more governmental influence (i.e., rent seeking), which then gets more money.
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by cultus 7y ago
The thing is that this is inevitable with capitalism. Money will always end up influencing government power, leading to a plutocracy who make their money through anti-competitive rent-seeking behavior instead of innovation. That's prec
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by cultus 7y ago
I would be quite surprised if this doesn't turn into a depression. The Fed has essentially already exhausted their options, and we're only a week in to this. Fiscal policy is the only real policy remedy, and capitalists hate that.
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by cultus 7y ago
This behavior is being systematically reinforced more and more with every recession. Is there anyone outside of the mainstream of the two US parties who thinks that modern capitalism is desirable or sustainable?
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by cultus 7y ago
Farming subsidies for food systematically cause overproduction. This is problematic environmentally for land use and climate. It also accelerates soil depletion and salinification.
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by cultus 7y ago
recaptcha v3 works invisibly in the background. There's buttons or pictures or anything. https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/v3
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by cultus 7y ago
yikes. That's about the most insane exchange I've seen on Github.
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by cultus 7y ago
The states have effectively been going it alone this whole time.
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by cultus 7y ago
Great, we'll just have tens of millions of new homeless then.
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by cultus 7y ago
It actually may drop around Greenland and Antarctica, as well. The reduced mass of ice causes the water level to drop despite the overall sea level rise. This of course means higher rises elsewhere. Surprisingly, this didn't occur to a
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by cultus 7y ago
Can you get fired now for buying IBM?
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by cultus 7y ago
Sea level rise will accelerate. Either you are being deliberately obtuse, or you are completely uninformed.
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by cultus 7y ago
Very cool stuff. I really think that versioned, functional-ish databases are the future.
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by cultus 7y ago
It's either that or the actual possibility of millions of excess deaths. Either way, things will be quite fucked.
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by cultus 7y ago
Resume assistance in this situation; that's just insulting.
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by cultus 7y ago
Sanders is actually proposing reforms that would actually reign in the financial sector, but that ship has sailed. There is no comparison between him and Trump or Biden.
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by cultus 7y ago
It'll be the same thing after 2008. Some piddling reforms that do nothing to solve the enormous political and economic threat that our bloated financial system poses.
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by cultus 7y ago
This is certainly a difficult time to be a libertarian.
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by cultus 7y ago
The specificity (true positive) and sensitivity (true negative) do not solve the problem I am describing. If something is rare, it has a low base rate. That even means a test with excellent specificity and sensitivity could still be wrong
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by cultus 7y ago
We should all be thankful for these scraps we have been generously given.
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by cultus 7y ago
One fallacy that seems universal with healthcare folks is they think the false positive rate is the chance that a given positive result is erroneous. If an illness is rare, a positive result in a test with a 1% error rate might have an over
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by cultus 7y ago
It's common practice to hold even low level offenders for a year or more to extract a confession. NYC has been particularly infamous for this.
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by cultus 7y ago
I sure hope she leaves the country after this. This will keep happening for the rest of her life. You really don't want to run afoul of the security apparatus.
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by cultus 7y ago
They all got kicked out of where they live, and paid to live. It's not entitlement to be upset about that. I think the main problem is that you are not making any attempt whatsoever to empathize, instead just bringing out knee-jerk can
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by cultus 7y ago
No, just pointing out the rampant hypocrisy of the free-speech brigade.
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by cultus 7y ago
Reputation of a source matters. An anti-vax publication would rightly get a negative reception here too. This is Hacker News. People shouldn't be posting garbage like this. Go to Reddit.
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by cultus 7y ago
These kind of bans are never about "one thing." I'm sure this is just the straw that broke the camel's back, especially given ESR's history.
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by cultus 7y ago
You really are pretty mistaken on the music (I'm 35). I'm guessing you are just exposed to bad pop acts like Mylie Cyrus. Keep in mind that most popular music in the 1960's and 1970's sucked too. For every Beatles there

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