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by greenail 5y ago
Things must be pretty good if folks can choose to retire before the age of 54. That also seems at odds with folks quitting due to "slave wages". Which is it? No hope of professional advancement and higher wages seems unsupporta
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by greenail 5y ago
UI subsidies may only be a contributing cause, I would guess there are multiple factors. What do you think is causing the terrible participation rates?
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by greenail 5y ago
Can you site a source? The current employment participation rates would seem to indicate that the unemployment subsidies have a big effect. The participation rate of males 25-54 is near all time lows back to 1960. https://fred.
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by greenail 5y ago
The point of the article is that ideology has broken the Times. This is problematic for "the paper of record" particularly when what we need is more honest journalism not more ideology.
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by greenail 5y ago
I would argue that the conservative economic view is not that poor people are stupid or lazy, rather government subsidy incentives (welfare/UBI) can motivate people to act stupid or lazy which ultimately only promotes the need for more
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by greenail 5y ago
I don't see how that title is problematic for this article. Many would agree with the idea that "woke media" is undermining democracy but how is that relevant?
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by greenail 5y ago
"If you want to know what makes America’s educated liberal elites emotional, you only have to open the Times. Judging by the coverage of recent years, two things make them more emotional than anything else: Trump and racism." I&#x
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From Kansas to Kandahar (And then back again)(tinkzorg.wordpress.com)
2 points by greenail 5y ago|0 comments
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by greenail 5y ago
The point is to demonize you and gain popular support for more wealth redistribution. It isn't about inherited power, just look at how 2nd and 3rd generation communist families tend to have so much power in China.
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by greenail 5y ago
The book's title full tells you a lot: "The 9.9 Percent: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture." No examples of policy, law, or any specifics how this group is "entrenching inequality
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by greenail 5y ago
'All current performance gaps show "racism," if you just redefine racism to mean "current performance gaps."' -Wilfred Reilly
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by greenail 5y ago
Do you think lower rates for long term capital gains incentivizes investment? With the current proposal a windfall of inheritance would not be taxed but a unicorn founder would. if the goal is to grow the economy so everyone can see the g
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by greenail 5y ago
The cycle for servers is 3 years, the cycle for the building is 30 years. What I'm trying to say is that if you can deliver more widgets per watt per sq ft by replacing the server than you go for that. If you can't why not keep
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by greenail 5y ago
the substation has a limit, so do all of the power distribution systems.
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by greenail 5y ago
Maybe we should get rid of the payroll taxes? The operating assumption underlying all of your arguments is that bigger government is better. I do not agree. It seems to me that government has passed the tipping point where it's prim
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by greenail 5y ago
AFAIK it comes down to some degree to a tradeoff between the projected density and power efficiency gains of newer gear vs the cost savings of keeping older gear around and in the racks. Some datacenters simply can't support higher de
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by greenail 5y ago
The top 50% of earners already pay 97% of all the income taxes. The US has one of the most progressive tax systems in the world. How much more progressive of a system do you want? Unrealized capital gains are imaginary. It is just like
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by greenail 5y ago
Assuming it would stay limited to billionaires (that is unlikely) this would have a chilling effect on investment.
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Ask HN: Why are you not outraged at the capital gains tax proposal?
7 points by greenail 5y ago|44 comments
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by greenail 5y ago
sure, existing customer using OCI is a natural fit but why would an existing AWS or M$ customer move over there without any legacy?
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by greenail 5y ago
I wonder what folks think of OCI? Does it have a chance to compete against AWS and M$ ?
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by greenail 5y ago
It would suck if you were interested in the Polish efforts to decrypt enigma and you searched for 'bombe' but you get redirected via the spelling correction feature into government surveillance. How likely would a spelling correc
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by greenail 5y ago
Yup! There is something hypnotic about the videos. The titles also help... "Sharpest Aluminum Foil knife in the world"
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by greenail 5y ago
An interesting link exists between Richard Feynman and "Thinking Machines Corporation". There are some good videos of Feynman explaining basic computer science ideas in his own special way. The connection makes me wonder what ot
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by greenail 5y ago
"It wasn't all magic" by "Colin B. Burke" is a very interesting read and details early efforts starting with MIT's Vannevar Bush in the 1930's and going to a bit past WWII. Developing a punch that wouldn&#
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by greenail 5y ago
this reminds me of "圧倒的不審者の極み!" or "kiwami japan" youtube channel. I also wonder if this channel was the inspiration for "howtobasic"
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by greenail 5y ago
The foregone conclusion doctrine also is something folks should know about. "while the content was itself not protected, the act of production could be testimonial irrespective of the content. The court reasoned, “[t]he act of producin
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Putin at the 18th annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club(youtube.com)
3 points by greenail 5y ago|1 comments
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by greenail 5y ago
I never thought I'd hear Putin quoting Martin Luther King. His critique of wokeness is pretty on the nose. here is the transcript: https://valdaiclub.com/events/posts/articles/vladimir-putin-...
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by greenail 5y ago
> So people who find themselves at odds with the proposed new norms would be wise to read these foundational texts to understand where their adversaries are coming from. I strongly agree but none of it is easy reading and I doubt the ave

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