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by gottorf 3y ago
> And very achievable in tradfi. And where would you have achieved 8% yields in a liquid instrument, prior to the recent Fed rate hikes? From the end of the GFC (and the start of QE) until when the current hiking cycle began, 8% was basi
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by gottorf 3y ago
While I agree with you in principle, the state has an interest in preventing anti-competitive activities, and what the GP described seems to fit.
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by gottorf 3y ago
> Species are currently going extinct at a rate orders magnitude greater than the historical average Nobody has a good idea how many species there are currently, let alone how many there were in the past and how many of them went extinct
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by gottorf 3y ago
It's unhelpful to link to Google searches as sources; the first page of results is usually just news or blog articles very thin on facts. The risks to health of natural gas stoves (basically, just the production of NO2 and particulate
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by gottorf 3y ago
> racist truckers Come now, really? Cooler heads[0,1] disagree with that assessment of the trucker protests. [0]: https://www.thefp.com/p/what-the-truckers-want [1]: https://www.newsweek.com/stop-cal
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by gottorf 3y ago
A first-past-the-post system ends up in a two-party system, which means a big tent progressive party and a big tent conservative party; which in turn means nobody is fully happy with either option. This isn't to say that multiparty dem
907.
by gottorf 3y ago
Very few countries have the historical, legal, and cultural background that favors freedom (in many senses of the word) over authoritarianism as the US. Maybe Switzerland is another example. See Australia for another Commonwealth country th
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by gottorf 3y ago
That's quite the romantic view of nature. My view is that nature is indeed red in tooth and claw, and that almost every species regard almost every other species as pests. Homes, human or otherwise, are virtually defined by the absence
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by gottorf 3y ago
We should be, but we end up treating cats and dogs differently than we do rats and centipedes.
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by gottorf 3y ago
Real estate has the disadvantage of there only being a fixed amount of land in those spots.
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by gottorf 3y ago
> It turned into a list of chores I need to do to make them money. Agreed. It really irks me when a vacation home that I rented for a lot of money hands me a list of chores at the end of the stay, then has the gall to charge me a cleanin
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by gottorf 3y ago
A more awful UX for a multi-ton driving machine, I cannot imagine.
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by gottorf 3y ago
What we have currently is the other way around, unfortunately: the larger you are, the more efficient it is for you to be "compliant" with various laws and regulations. The same way that a billionaire wouldn't mind paying hal
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by gottorf 3y ago
> I had one tech tell me to have a "tree trimming accident" and just cut the line, as they wouldn't replace it otherwise Just mind-boggling! Maybe you should have had that accident, after all.
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by gottorf 3y ago
> Constitutions are meant to last for centuries, right? Apparently, according to a study[0], the average life expectancy of a constitution (I presume it means a written, codified one) since 1789 is around 19 years. So while I'm sure
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by gottorf 3y ago
The fact that bad people commit crimes with cash doesn't mean that there isn't a public interest in keeping cash widely available as a means of transaction. I don't suppose many HN readers would be in favor of banning encrypt
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by gottorf 3y ago
> If you expect corporations or government to just Do The Right Thing It's not just corporations or government. Any system of organizing multiple human beings that depends on an unbroken chain of Good People Doing The Right Thing is
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by gottorf 3y ago
pg has written about this dichotomy years ago: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
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by gottorf 3y ago
> it is a little surprising to see such political news on HN In my experience, currencies have been of consistent interest in HN. At least, if you consider cryptocurrencies as such ;-) > But this is a none-issue > is meant to be a
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by gottorf 3y ago
I certainly would not mind similar provisions in law in the US.
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by gottorf 3y ago
The very existence of something affects its environment. Even the caveman burned sticks for warmth; would you say he is the "cause" of "the problem" of increased carbon emissions? Because unarguably he did release carbon
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by gottorf 3y ago
Everything in life is a tradeoff. There are no "solutions" to problems, because every solution must be accomplished using scarce resources that have alternative uses, and may carry unintended consequences. > Banning DDT resulte
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by gottorf 3y ago
To bring a counterbalancing perspective, in Europe at least, there are an order (or two, depending on the country) of magnitude more deaths from cold than from heat[0]. I'd imagine the US, being a primarily northern latitude country, h
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by gottorf 3y ago
> There is a very large embedded industry if you want that. I'll second this. Embedded programming will probably only get bigger from IoT, and a large chunk of new coders entering the job market these days don't really understa
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by gottorf 3y ago
Puzzlah Towah, Hahvahd Squah
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by gottorf 3y ago
As pg said, "do things that don't scale".
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by gottorf 3y ago
Of course it's too early to tell with lots of confounding variables, but labor productivity has been taking a steep dive[0]. So perhaps in the aggregate, WFH is resulting in less work being done. I say this as someone who's been f
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by gottorf 3y ago
> at this point we already need cooling A colossal volcanic eruption could do the trick, and those seem to happen rather unnervingly frequently.
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by gottorf 3y ago
> empirically compatible with long-term human civilisation Empirically observed, atmospheric CO2 went from ~320ppm to ~410ppm from 1970 to 2020[0], during which period the human population more than doubled from ~3.7B to ~7.8B and yet de
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by gottorf 3y ago
About time! > "This hadn’t been done in this country from start to finish in some 30-plus years," Chris Womack, CEO of Atlanta-based Southern Co. said Monday in a telephone interview. IIRC, scientists are working on Gen 4 react

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