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by floor2 3y ago
What lives did he ruin? The USA has an incredibly robust, tightly monitored and regulated financial market. The SEC, FDIC and associated regulators and auditors carefully control bank reserves, prosecute insider trading, prevent and insure
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by floor2 3y ago
We've all secretly been benefiting from the dreaded "trickle down economics" which has shifted as interest rates have increased. What percent of HN users salaries are actually paid by the revenue from the customers of their b
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by floor2 3y ago
This headline is infuriatingly backwards and offensive. Extending the government-enabled monopoly power of the establishment media to prevent new art, technology and creativity from competing should not be treated as a good thing or as &quo
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by floor2 3y ago
Your last paragraph makes no sense to me. There were plenty of places which published long, complex, nuanced data and explanations about ivermectin. But lots of people are unable to understand complex writing or statistics. And most people
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by floor2 3y ago
Taxes should be used to pay for government services, not as arbitrary attacks on people you don't like. Also, raising taxes just raises costs for renters. The solution to housing affordability is building more housing. Align the market
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by floor2 3y ago
Daily reminder that the term "ultraprocessed food" is a label meant to encompass the complex set of unhealthy things in modern, mass produced food products and not literally about "amount of processing". I can't nev
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by floor2 3y ago
I'm not sure who the "we" is in this comment, and I can't think of any group I know in real life that it aligns to. Because everywhere I've lived and every community I've been a part of, "we" absolute
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by floor2 3y ago
Hurray I get to spread some good news today. The issue you're describing was fixed by the 2022 "No Surprises Act". See this for details: https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/no-surprises-unders..
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by floor2 3y ago
That often quoted (or misquoted?) study was wildly misleading and became complete misinformation through the retelling. People who said they'd pay using a credit card got reported in the media as being "unable to afford" the
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by floor2 3y ago
Limiting opportunity is directly causal to a higher social mobility index though. Preventing people from earning high wages or accumulating wealth will directly increase that metric. A country where everyone is in extreme poverty could have
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by floor2 3y ago
"Social Mobility Index" always seems like a particularly weird metric to me. Not just in the usual issues of vanity metrics or gaming the system or whatnot, but also because, I'm not sure that maximizing it is even a desirabl
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by floor2 3y ago
> We need people who are interested in the science, not those who (pretend to) do it for money. In the US, the problem is mostly the opposite. Lots of people would rather do science, but it's hard to choose using your skills for rea
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by floor2 3y ago
Weird Al does not do covers. His albums are a mixture of parodies and fully original pieces. The parodies often use the same melody as the source work, but with original lyrics. Sometimes the music is itself parodied, and performed using an
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by floor2 3y ago
> What am I even supposed to do with this info? Seems like a weird question. Are you a researcher in a related field? Then maybe incorporate this finding into your models for how things work or tweak your future experiments based on this
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by floor2 3y ago
> Everyone, even the staunchest libertarian believes in equity What? No, not even slightly. You've just listed off a bunch of highly contentious and often unethical things and then acted as if they're unassailable. Farm subsidi
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by floor2 3y ago
> youre not here to decide what problems to solve, youre here to solve the problems the product team wants solved they get all upset and moody Please be very up front that you hold this view when recruiting, it will be better for everyon
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by floor2 3y ago
Huh? We already have taxes to fund spaces for teens to hang out. Taxes pay for parks, libraries, nature preserves, swimming pools, schools (with after-school sports, musicals, various clubs), museums and galleries. Many local organizations
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by floor2 3y ago
It looks like you've been misinformed about American high school- biology and chemistry are standard required classes for graduation. It's a bit of an apples to oranges comparison between countries. Americans' concepts of equ
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by floor2 4y ago
It seems to me rather, that you are using a definition of "capitalism" that is distinct from and perhaps at odds with how other people are using the term. The definition you're using seems to be clearly a far-left, anti-capit
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by floor2 4y ago
I think the critical difference between US and EU here is that the regulators in EU who are supposed to protect people actually work to protect people. The regulators who are supposed to protect people in the US work to set themselves up fo
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by floor2 4y ago
But SVB was solvent and basically fine long-term. If VCs hadn't panicked at herd-mentality stampeded $40,000,000,000 out of the bank in a day, forcing it to sell 10 year treasuries at depressed market rates, it would have been fine. SV
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by floor2 4y ago
Or, they are exactly what they say they are: people more focused on effective altruism than feel-good or look-good acts. If you were trying to run an orphanage, hospital or refugee camp and someone donated money that was going to let you sa
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by floor2 4y ago
I think your statement "We call people who do the farming 'farmers'" is accurate to my usage as well, perhaps with then some nuance to what work is "farming". I didn't mean to imply that land ownership was
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by floor2 4y ago
This is a deeply flawed premise. Tech sector grew headcount by like 100% over a couple years, and then did layoffs of 5-10%. They still have massively more employees today than they did pre-covid. People are significantly overreacting to th
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by floor2 4y ago
> Also farmers are disproportionately immigrant labor Huh, this statement is so weird to me that it was a "lightbulb moment" about what words mean to different people online. I wonder how much misunderstanding this causes. I&#x
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by floor2 4y ago
What an offensively stupid article. Completely ignores the costs "granny" is forced to bear when her house floods or burns from every increasing severe hurricanes and wildfires. Ignores the costs to "granny" when an enti
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by floor2 4y ago
We've had calculators that can do arithmetic for decades but we still teach kids how to do math. Also, ChatGPT in particular is a terrible "source of truth". It gives plausible sounding answers, but they may not be factually
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by floor2 4y ago
That's kind of shocking to me. The normal narrative is about how much better the European model is for healthcare, but then you're saying it's missing one of the most fundamental and effective aspects of healthcare (preventat
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by floor2 4y ago
> If they haven't figured out how to turn a profit now will they ever? The corporate entity Spotify will never turn a major profit, but that's by design. Spotify made a deal with the devil to come to terms with the record label
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by floor2 4y ago
Literally everything on this list is supported by publicly available, peer-reviewed papers that could be found by 30 seconds of googling, but people downvote instead of being curious and learning something. Here's a layman-friendly art

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