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by erentz 7y ago
> advertising is a social good I’d say it’s a social negative because it makes people unhappy. E.g. https://hbr.org/2020/01/advertising-makes-us-unhappy
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by erentz 7y ago
It is a shame. But what’s interesting about this is that even the manufacturing base we do have could be scaled up quickly to meet more of the demand, yet it’s not. So why does it save us to have manufacturing base if you won’t scale it to
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by erentz 7y ago
Why is it inherently a good thing that a larger company survives the pandemic and a smaller one doesn’t? That seems like a negative to me. And in part it may only happen because of the $4 Trillion fire hose of cash pointed at large companie
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by erentz 7y ago
True it does. Maybe it’s useful as a final tool to encourage break up such as now, when whatever tools were meant to be discouraging consolidation fails. Saves years of hearings and court battles trying to use legal means to do it. Still ne
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by erentz 7y ago
Consolidation of our economy has been disastrous. Is this a good argument for a straight revenue tax on companies over a certain market cap? Incentivize then to break themselves up? E.g. companies over $100b pay a 5% revenue tax. Over $500b
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by erentz 7y ago
There is a surge in support for economic nationalism due to this pandemic citing lack of medical supplies as the reason. However while if everyone had their own factory meeting their own regular needs that would mean everyone gets a fairer
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by erentz 7y ago
Lots of people need to be fired once this is over. This has been known for a long time. There is no excuse for it that stacks up except incompetence. You can argue about funding but being honest and factual is free.
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by erentz 7y ago
I agree. It’s not great news in that it shouldn’t have to be this way. We’ve
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Amazon Is a Breeding Ground: An Interview with Christian Smalls(jacobinmag.com)
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by erentz 7y ago
He had been complaining to management and organizing before that. Sending him, and ONLY him, home was a punishment under the guise of being quarantine. They did not quarantine any other individual that had contacted the same person he conta
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by erentz 7y ago
Non expert speculation: we are printing money like no tomorrow. We are giving $4 trillion in free money to large corporations. With how easily they agreed to that there’s reason to expect they’ll do even more. There’s a huge demand for USD
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How many jobs can be done at home? [pdf](bfi.uchicago.edu)
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The Relief Package Ushers in Trump's Planned Economy(wired.com)
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by erentz 7y ago
Posted this two days ago but it was flagged, maybe now it won’t be? https://medium.com/@thejanellemj/please-join-me-in-wearing-a... We have made a big stumble in the US by falsely claiming masks don’t work, seemingly f
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Tote Air Purifying Respirator (TAPR)(tapr.design)
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by erentz 7y ago
Yes. The $425b that will be leveraged into $4 trillion of basically free loans to large corporations is going to make things considerably worse for every ordinary American. Increase massively the consolidation of the economy and reduce comp
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by erentz 7y ago
I hear what you’re saying :-) it is fairly easy to model once you have good data, I can certainly see if you do the modeling there may be some that find it’s worth it for their case.
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by erentz 7y ago
Everyone’s experience is different. I’ve run networks with millions of servers with single NICs and networks with thousands of servers with dual NICs. The dual NICs are a cost and complexity and outage inducing nightmare that’s totally unju
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by erentz 7y ago
> You want dual NICs and IPMI if you have more than a handful boxes. It’s more the opposite. If you only have a few servers you might want dual NICs for multihoming redundancy. OTOH if you have a lot of servers you don’t do multihoming r
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by erentz 7y ago
There’s already a long list of people and institutions that are culpable for deaths during this Pandemic. The whole mask thing is one of the more infuriating. It’s been so obvious to so many from the get go that it was one of things the Gov
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by erentz 7y ago
It’s a $425 billion fund that is to be leveraged 10x into over $4 trillion in extremely cheap loans to large corporations. This is a staggering amount of money will be used to further consolidate the American economy with all the attendant
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by erentz 7y ago
Those rules are largely for show as Section 3 gives a provision allowing the treasury secretary to simply waive the rules: https://mobile.twitter.com/davidsirota/status/12428737470962...
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by erentz 7y ago
It is true. People who think it isn't seem to think the 2% gets culled like Thanos snaps a finger, without any consequence. It's not quick, it's not clean, and when the hospitals are overwhelmed it's going to get much mo
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by erentz 7y ago
How do people have this idea that the economy just goes back to normal? That somehow you tell people to go back to work and just take the millions of dead and everybody just salutes and dutifully goes about it like nothing is happening? Tha
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by erentz 7y ago
SARS-CoV-2 is a bit overwrought. A semi official short version would be helpful. SARS was easy. SARS2 seems okay. CV19 is easy enough. So on. Officials should pick something that’s shorter and easier (but still specific) as the informal nam
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by erentz 7y ago
I also felt his push for 1 shot was aiming unnecessarily too high. I suspect his motivation isn’t so much that in developed countries multiple shots is impossible, but more for use worldwide in less developed health systems. He obviously wa
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by erentz 7y ago
I really want to hear the back story on this. Who is the distributor? Why did they end up at a Target? I'm betting the distributor tried to sell them to hospitals but the hospitals said they weren't appropriate/certified fo
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by erentz 7y ago
The whole blaming people for hoarding masks and then the "masks don't work" things have been incredibly frustrating. It is almost like authorities didn't want anyone to start asking why the public couldn't get masks
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by erentz 7y ago
No. You said that in Canada you can choose between the public insurer or a private insurer. You cannot. You framed this comparison incorrectly this way in order to promote the idea of a public option which is very different. In Canada every
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by erentz 7y ago
You’re wrong. In Canada and most countries with government single payer insurance you can buy private supplemental insurance that covers more elective or less necessary things the single payer doesn’t. I haven’t seen a Medicare for All prop

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