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by cynicalkane 6y ago
The "straw-man" concerns one of the most hateful, vapid and odious ideas that humanity that ever devised. Corbyn failed to confront it. Conspiracy theories, whataboutism, insults -- these are less than nothing, yet the spineless C
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by cynicalkane 6y ago
No. The "real solution" is to oppose anti-semitism with all due expediency. I don't care if it was exasperated by "saboteurs". If Corbyn can't adopt this basic moral position that all humans ought to adopt, I d
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by cynicalkane 6y ago
I hate this sort of defense-by-attack. Corbyn needed to defend Labor from anti-semitism by... eliminating neoliberals? How about by eliminating anti-semites? It's like, what are the priorities here?
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by cynicalkane 6y ago
I mean, Graeber is right in that he was being trolled. But Graeber lies when he says he tried to ignore DeLong and Graeber lies when he characterizes DeLong as obsessively harping on one inaccuracy. Graeber's fit of apoplexy wasn'
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by cynicalkane 6y ago
That reads like a post-hoc justification to me. Most people practice ignoring people by, well, ignoring them. If they don't, they will explain what's "really going on" by just explaining it , not with prolonged fits of
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by cynicalkane 6y ago
You can refer to dang's link to Graeber's flamewar with Brad DeLong on here. It begins and ends with insults sandwiching a suspiciously uncharitable characterization of the subject. This suspicion is founded: many of Graeber'
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by cynicalkane 6y ago
"He also got into flamewars on Hacker News" It's disappointing to see 'flamewar' contexualizxed after 'provoking interesting discussion'. Reading through Graeber's long, contradictory, insult-filled,
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by cynicalkane 6y ago
Consumption is the income and wealth that you end up using. Measuring wellbeing by consumption is the standard economic perspective, since it describes how much of society's goods and services one ends up using. More simply, if you sav
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by cynicalkane 6y ago
> I do know that when I confronted Cutts about the penalty here on HN he lied about it - which does lead one to wonder about his motive The preamble to this post hints of paranoia, but this is where we know for sure. There's no reas
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by cynicalkane 7y ago
The Nobel Foundation recognizes the economics prize as a Nobel prize. So, yes, it is a Nobel prize because the guys in charge of Nobel prizes say it is. It's also awarded by the guys who award the other Nobel science prizes (the Royal
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by cynicalkane 7y ago
> pushed it into an inflationary debt crisis and eventually created Nazism The hyperinflation of the early 20s has a lot of sticking power in the mind, but it was the severe deflationary crisis of 1929-32 that immediately preceded the ri
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by cynicalkane 7y ago
It's not just that. The lens itself doesn't have enough resolving power. When light passes through a tiny aperture, it becomes irreversibly blurred, enough to be detected by the micron-scale pixels in the camera sensor. Camera pho
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by cynicalkane 7y ago
> What it was was the first theme part based on a particular set of core values. That's what makes it a 'theme park'. Previous large-scale amusement parks didn't have central defining themes, though there were older e
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by cynicalkane 7y ago
Really? I'm not sure where the debate would lie; falsetto is a clearly identifiable physical voice register that, without deliberate training, sounds quite different from the usual 'modal' voice. Futhermore, there is generall
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by cynicalkane 7y ago
Property, income, and sales taxes are all part of the cost of living and doing business. Raising property taxes won't hurt the general public any more than raising the other two. Taxes aren't a menu where you need a little of colu
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by cynicalkane 7y ago
When I was a math major at U. Chicago, there was at least one professor who did this.
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by cynicalkane 7y ago
> Today's luxury apartment is tomorrow's affordable one. Moreover, today's luxury apartment turns yesterday's luxury apartment into a less expensive one.
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by cynicalkane 8y ago
A breadth-first search is a pretty basic algorithm, but even if you don't have it "memorized", the question is simply: here's a data structure, we need to traverse it in a certain order. Traversing data structures is so
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by cynicalkane 8y ago
> the economy is powered by money changing hands The economy is powered by creation and exchange of value. Money changing hands is mistaking the incentive for the act itself. Most economic schools of thought advocate stimulus during rece
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by cynicalkane 8y ago
Did you read the article? Much of it was about authorities cracking down on free speech on Facebook . The article is saying the opposite of what you think it’s saying. But as an aside, free speech is the biggest thing keeping the press ali
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by cynicalkane 8y ago
A financial lawyer should fully understand the consequences of misleading consumer financial products, especially post-2008. First, you aren't allowed to do that anyway. Second, consumer finance is one area where cleverness is virtuall
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by cynicalkane 8y ago
C. S. Lewis writes along similar lines in The Great Divorce and The Screwtape Letters , two very different books, but both of which of I'd credit as changing my life. The common theme in both is that to be damned is not to sin great
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by cynicalkane 8y ago
I’ve noticed with doomsayers it’s always deflation or hyperinflation. It never occurs to them that the Fed can do something that’s in between the two, such as what they’ve been doing for almost forty years since Volcker stamped down inflati
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by cynicalkane 8y ago
This is wrong in many ways. * Unionized workers make very good money in New York. * Unions are a primary political driver behind those expensive contracts. * There's more to unions than conductors. Construction and maintenance, for exa
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by cynicalkane 8y ago
I personally haven’t experienced any of that nonsense using Lyft. Your mileage may vary. But here in NYC, Uber’s reputation has fallen considerably.
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by cynicalkane 8y ago
Converse to this, I get a lot of bad behavior when I try to book Uber, especially late at night or in odd areas. Drivers who cancel, intentionally drive in the wrong direction to force you to cancel, who don’t wait or drive to the wrong pla
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by cynicalkane 8y ago
Nowdays a senior role at FAANG will often pay a top 1% salary, and salary growth at these companies shows no signs of stopping.
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by cynicalkane 8y ago
That's normal in a lot of cities, including New York. The answer is that the apartment above the grocery store is an apartment for someone who would have lived in a place less desirable to them otherwise.
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by cynicalkane 8y ago
The "Friedman vs. Keynes" split exists to a small extent, but the imagination that's a deep divide between neocon and neoliberal (or whoever) is almost entirely a fiction of op-ed writers and armchair economists. Both are con
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by cynicalkane 8y ago
In addition to what everyone is saying, you might be exercising too hard. The fitness industry, paradoxically, pushes the idea that exercise should be hard, perhaps because it’s an easy thing for people to believe. Hard work feels like it’s

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