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by fosk 3y ago
Clinically, what causes the urge to have an addiction? Like in your statement, replacing food with gambling. I would assume that these are fundamentally two different reward systems for the brain, or maybe not?
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by fosk 3y ago
Wouldn't there be another word for this effect? It's not that water per se is toxic, is that eventually if you have a lot, your body "overflows". Being toxic is not an intrinsic property of the element, but is being deri
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by fosk 3y ago
Resume student loan payments and inflation goes down in a couple of months.
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Linux Network Scripting with Lua [pdf](legacy.netdevconf.info)
18 points by fosk 3y ago|1 comments
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by fosk 3y ago
That’s because you should switch to Vim, then you would have more friends.
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by fosk 4y ago
San Francisco has the notion that drugged up people out of their mind have the ability and the right to live in a civilized society.. Rule by common sense, not ideology.
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by fosk 4y ago
Check out the open source https://insomnia.rest/
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by fosk 4y ago
Just wanted to point out that the US profited from selling oil to Japan so they could invade all of Asia, and they profited for a very long time.
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by fosk 4y ago
I think he is saying that FDR stopped selling oil to Japan, in such a way that Japan was provoked to attack the US. That’s why they attacked Pearl Harbor in the first place: to neutralize the US navy threat in the Pacific while seeking for
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by fosk 4y ago
Defense spending more than doubled from 2000 to 2019, from ~320B to ~730B, while inflation grew on average 2.10% per year during the same time period. It is true that defense money gets redistributed across the population and into the econo
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by fosk 4y ago
The US is the largest market for almost any vendor, so more demand in the US will drive lack of supply elsewhere. That plus...the supply chain bottlenecks were real, and affect the whole world. Supply chain was the focus of the Fed until la
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by fosk 4y ago
> It was a problem for a lot of people who either got priced out of the housing market or have huge student loans.. It may have been, but that was not reflected in the CPI, and we are talking about inflation as it is officially recorded
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by fosk 4y ago
Defense spending doesn't contribute not even a little bit to how inflation (CPI) is being calculated, because the DoD is spending money on stuff that doesn't affect the general population. Unless everyone is trying to buy an F22,
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by fosk 4y ago
I don't disagree with anything that you are saying. The parent topic is about inflation, and throughout the least 13 years, inflation has not been a problem until - in my opinion - faulty fiscal policy during Covid. In other words, had
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by fosk 4y ago
> Increasing wealth inequality has tangible negative effects on the economy and effectively functions as a reverse tax. I am not sure I understand what you are trying to say. Inflation either spikes up because of increased of demand, or
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by fosk 4y ago
Housing prices were going up because of supply/demand and not necessarily because of systemic high inflation. By the way just with regular <2% YoY inflation, a $1m home in 2005 was worth $1.3m+ in 2019 (before covid and the current
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by fosk 4y ago
When you give to 300+ million people extra cash to spend, you have inflation, yes. I am not arguing that “before” it was better for the “little guys”, I am just making an observation. You can affect the economy with fiscal policy (what our
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by fosk 4y ago
As long as the regular Joe doesn’t get extra money to spend, inflation will be check. Banks won’t go buy eggs anytime soon. We had close to 0% interest rates for almost a decade, and inflation was in check. It’s not the Fed that caused infl
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by fosk 4y ago
It’s really mind boggling how much money Meta spent on this thing.
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by fosk 4y ago
Our deposits are liabilities for the bank (the bank needs the infra to secure the money, make it available everywhere at every ATM, bank tellers and so on). Banks invest the money (and give loans) to both pay for these costs and also make a
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Watch Relativity attempt the first launch of its 3D-printed rocket Terran 1(cnbc.com)
1 points by fosk 4y ago|0 comments
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by fosk 4y ago
It’s Serbia. They will take the bribe, and then still capture him to take the bounty. Double prize.
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by fosk 4y ago
You don’t advantage them. A creative track is probably as infuriating to a non-creative person as the current system is to creative ones. Creative tracks should still have outcomes. It’s like trying to cheat your way into professional sport
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by fosk 4y ago
There should be two categorizations for students: highly creative students should be placed on a different path to adulthood, everybody else could use the current system. Highly creative people are more likely to be successful dropouts. To
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by fosk 4y ago
That’s because you are trying to have a nuanced conversation about this, but “hot takes” are the most valuable currency on social media these days.
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by fosk 4y ago
Romans used to call the Sahara region on maps with the phrasing "hic sunt leones" (which translated from latin literally means "here lie the lions").
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by fosk 4y ago
Somehow we have grown a whole generation of people that thinks they are entitled to live wherever they want, when that has never been the case in world’s history. I too want a penthouse in Manhattan, who do I need to mail to demand I am giv
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by fosk 4y ago
Tricks me every time. Also the hotel name signage is disproportionately huge, which from a distance make it seems like the hotel is close enough for a walk, but turns out it is not.
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by fosk 4y ago
Radar is not exactly “new” technology, to your point I wonder why airports are not equipped with one. Shouldn’t break the bank. Plus don’t militaries have radar anyways for air defense? How is it possible that no radar from multiple countri
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by fosk 4y ago
And yet somehow SF manages to spend $1.1B on homelessness: https://www.hoover.org/research/despite-spending-11-billion-... Many wallets are being filled here, and there is no oversight on where the money is going and i

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