cynicalkane

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by cynicalkane 3y ago
As a former math-head, let me chime in. The parent poster is probably not looking for an explanation of what exchange operators are, which are rather abstract and uninteresting in a physical vacuum, but rather how they are related to physic
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by cynicalkane 3y ago
> I know for a fact there are FAANG employees that do it today. The fact that many companies are risk-averse and don't allow it doesn't mean it's not legal. Like I said, at least one FAANG (maybe more) is fine with its emp
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by cynicalkane 3y ago
There's digital nomads everywhere, and it's not hard to do legally under tourist visas. I know for a fact there are FAANG employees who do it today -- companies who would certainly shut that down if it was illegal. There are legal
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by cynicalkane 3y ago
I suspect you actually found good factual critiques, but decided to label them "quibbles". The Fed issues the modern world's most important debt instrument, and has a structure and purpose that Graeber gets fundamentally wron
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by cynicalkane 3y ago
This isn't why. You can always use a convenient Taylor series to approximate cosine anything to arbitrary precision. For the three-body problem, small changes to initial conditions diverge into incalculably chaotic behavior.
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by cynicalkane 3y ago
I think this is also interesting in the direction of the OP's opinion. The new Zelda, for all its AAA chops, has in its main storyline the writing and directing of a bafflingly terrible anime. Incongruously, the story concept itself is
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by cynicalkane 3y ago
I think this harmoniousness operates in more subtle ways, too. I'm playing through the new Zelda game, Tears of the Kingdom, and it's a lot of fun, but there's something that doesn't quite click... like the UI is a behav
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by cynicalkane 3y ago
In my experience, conspiracy theorists don't have a lot of interest in these. Unprovable conspiracy theories are more interesting because it affirms their sense of paranoia, identity, feeling special, entitlement to the truth. Conspira
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by cynicalkane 3y ago
Standard SLAAC only uses 64-bit prefixes. This is a problem if you want subnets and have an uncooperative ISP handing out 64-bit prefixes. Or maybe you have a /48 or /56 but want a nice readable hierarchy of subnets. You don'
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by cynicalkane 4y ago
This entire comment is a lie. Terms like "motherboard" are readily findable on Google's internal search. I could not find anything referencing a banned non-inclusive words policy in the employee policy guide. I have never hea
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by cynicalkane 5y ago
I actually followed the Graeber-DeLong argument when it broke, and found Graeber to be quite unhinged. In one tweet I found memorable, he accuses DeLong of "war crimes" -- presumably for supporting free trade or neoliberal economi
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by cynicalkane 5y ago
The point is issuance of American debt, and the Fed's role in it, is not privately controlled, neither in fact or in essence. Saying otherwise is an obvious lie in both senses.
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by cynicalkane 5y ago
American debt is issued entirely by Congress and the Treasury, and its monetization controlled by the Fed's Board of Governors, which is appointed by the government and independently operated. There's no means of control over thes
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by cynicalkane 5y ago
To name just one of Graeber's essential lies: he makes the claim that Federal Reserve issuing American debt is privately controlled and weaves an extensive chapter based in fundamental ways on this misapprehension. This is a lie that
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by cynicalkane 5y ago
I want to add to the above comment. Graeber's lack of integrity and disregard for facts should cast a shadow of mistrust over his other work, not to mention his explosive reaction on being called out for it. If you can't trust som
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by cynicalkane 5y ago
Assuming this is sarcasm, you realize Google has a massive userbase all over the globe from all walks of life, right? Does it make business sense to accidentally exclude certain people? Or ethical sense?
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by cynicalkane 5y ago
I kind of disagree with this. For the post-Beethoven era, sure, but the standard way of playing Beethoven and before tends to be heavily biased towards an uninformed modern idea of what classical music "should" be, which is stodgy
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by cynicalkane 5y ago
Spoilers. There are a few parts of the book, according to the translator, that are done in the manner of a Chinese folktale, which he tried to translate to a different style in English. I'm no expert, but I got the impression the sopho
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by cynicalkane 5y ago
> You can cite 100 studies, when you start to argue that women drop out of high stress jobs because they're neurotic you might as well commit seppuku. I mean, you could characterize this as a problematic presentation , but I'm
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by cynicalkane 5y ago
The system giving these rules is set up so the two are indistinguishable. Some people can't even tell the difference. Others can, but they keep quiet so their career isn't destroyed.
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by cynicalkane 5y ago
Real estate has a powerful lobby and many property owners are well-connected themselves. A lot of people own property and don't see it as free money. They empathize with property owners. Though it's easier money if you're pol
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by cynicalkane 6y ago
Tolkien both claimed that LOTR was allegorical and that it wasn't. Probably he was using the common definition of allegory in one context and the literary definition in the other. When Tolkien said he disliked allegory, he meant he dis
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by cynicalkane 6y ago
It's your claim that it's "tech"'s job to solve these issues, rather than the city government, the people whose actual job it is to solve these issues? Flush with extra cash from the taxes paid by "tech",
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by cynicalkane 6y ago
You have to tell your employer where you live for tax purposes. You can lie, but that’s called tax fraud.
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by cynicalkane 6y ago
That may be true in many times and places, but to be German, in the East of the country, through the period of the 20th century in which he lived -- politics was rather thrust upon you. And the politically literate and illiterate alike had
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by cynicalkane 6y ago
[1] sounds like a good quote, but keep in mind that the author of that quote was a tacit supporter of Leininsm and Stalinism, and initially supported East Germany's murderous repression of union labor. In practice many people who &quot
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by cynicalkane 6y ago
I don't think this is exactly it. One can try -- and try fruitfully, for these theories have been useful in practice -- to match 'money' and 'inflation' and 'debt', in their macro senses, to everyday exper
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by cynicalkane 6y ago
This is correct. If some given set of landlords can get away with charging $50 more per month, they'd already be doing it. Some individual landlords might be irrational, but as a whole property isn't a market where people leave mo
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by cynicalkane 6y ago
That's deeply disingenuous. It's not like this guy was telling the truth everywhere else. The lies were numerous. That's what Gell-Mann amnesia is, really: we believe what we want to believe, and forget the quality of the sou
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by cynicalkane 6y ago
I feel like there's some form of Gell-Mann amnesia here. Why say a book is right about a lot of big things when it is frequently wrong about those things which can be verified?

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