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by ghouse 6y ago
Maybe nobody who is an HN reader, but plenty of people are surprised that organizations like boogaloo actually exist. And by targeting ads, the people who are surprised are the people who never see the ads.
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by ghouse 6y ago
Agreed, though be careful what you ask for. If you're not a publisher (press), you can't libel. Slander, sure. But libel, no.
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by ghouse 6y ago
So, Trump now believes this is a rebellion? Didn't he say just yesterday it was a terrorist organization?
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by ghouse 6y ago
Which studies show this?
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by ghouse 6y ago
> And nothing about the pandemic made the houses themselves more or less valuable Supply and demand. If people are moving out of Manhattan (and they are), then demand went down and the house is less valuable. If people have lost their jo
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by ghouse 6y ago
We may be conflating "asset inflation" with "consumer product inflation" But for the later, it will come from the reduced value of the dollar. Which (for more than a decade) has been muted by the reserve currency status
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by ghouse 6y ago
> So it is political suicide for the government to let either drop in value for an extended period of time. Therefore, over the long term, house prices and stock prices will likely go up because politicians want to be reelected. The obit
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by ghouse 7y ago
The fed is shifting risk from the free market (which the price is set to balance supply and demand) to the tax payer. > the true dollar value will have increased. The very definition of inflation is to reduce the value of money. Can you
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by ghouse 7y ago
I consider increasing the Fed's balance sheet by 10x to working exactly against the mandate of keeping the value of money steady. How else might that action be interpreted? However, in contrast to your explanation, I understand the Fe
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by ghouse 7y ago
Buying at at all increases demand, therefore increases price. Buying at 2.3 T scale increases demand a lot.
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by ghouse 7y ago
So, the GOP is pro-free market, except when they're not? RIP capitalism?
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by ghouse 7y ago
In inflation-adjusted terms, crude prices have fallen to the lowest since the 1930s
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by ghouse 7y ago
SaaS? Satellite as a Service?
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by ghouse 7y ago
From 2011, but the message is unchanged: the US spends more than 2x per capita, but receives average results: https://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/2011/04/26/cost...
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by ghouse 7y ago
While there could be census data, this is weak substantiation and feels more like click-bait: > It seems that much of the data on the main folder might have originated from the United States Census Bureau. Certain codes used in the datab
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by ghouse 7y ago
Firsthand experience: My family was evicted from a two unit home in SF. We lived in one unit, the owner in the other unit. One unit is now listed on Airbnb.
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by ghouse 7y ago
I think this is "business as usual" (which includes the bay area shelter-in-pace) and doesn't account for the shelter-in-place order from this afternoon.
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by ghouse 7y ago
But only because we allowed them to purchase all of their competition -- letting them become too big to fail.
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by ghouse 7y ago
Doesn't "delay" the problem -- it exacerbates the problem.
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by ghouse 7y ago
That's why we (US, and much of the world) have progressive tax rates for earned income. Though in the US, we then give lower tax rates for unearned income...
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by ghouse 7y ago
Unintended Consequences. Wow -- this sets up all sorts of moral hazard for later. And unwinding this will be extraordinarily difficult.
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by ghouse 7y ago
Rent too? What about car payments? Utility bills? Student loans? That's fine, but then the banks go out of business? So, do we bail them out? How much is appropriate? And now we're a central-planned economy...
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by ghouse 7y ago
Corporations are owned by people. "84 percent of all stocks owned by Americans belong to the wealthiest 10 percent of households."[0] Bailing our corporations bails out the wealthy. Send money to everyone equally. It's fast.
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by ghouse 7y ago
Because when our social contract with each other fails, we rely on the generosity of the wealthy few to step in to assist.
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by ghouse 7y ago
Believe this is not a "law" but a "policy" Regardless, your sentiment is spot-on.
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by ghouse 7y ago
But compared to freight trucks, the F-150, the EV, and the Outback are all inconsequential.
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by ghouse 7y ago
Except no. The heaviest Tesla Model 3 weighs 4,100 lbs. The heaviest Ford F-150 (the most popular vehicle in the US) weighs 5,600 lbs.
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by ghouse 7y ago
But cost effectively? Even with free H2, seems the CH4 is expensive to produce.
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by ghouse 7y ago
US: Record Trade deficit + record fiscal deficit + record govt debt + record corp debt (all during a period when economy is supposedly doing well) = time bomb
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by ghouse 7y ago
The paradigm pendulum continues to swing back and forth between geographically centralized and distributed computing.

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