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by heylook 2y ago
> because they are always less effective than private enterprises. I think this is one of those ideas that has been spouted for so long that we don't really stop to think about whether it is true. Private and public entities (and em
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by heylook 2y ago
I've seen it, sighed, fixed it, and ensured the necessary accounting adjustments assigned the loss to the business instead of the customer. Seems that last step, which is the most important one, wasn't followed here, which is the
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by heylook 2y ago
> Meanwhile, Alex Jones is calling a hearing next week to accuse the bid process of being rigged https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1857223561754059168 Alex Jones is not a reliable source
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by heylook 2y ago
> Not a mention that Taiwan and TSMC might have a secret "what we will do if China takes over" department. There's no "might" or "secret" about it. They advertise it widely on purpose. https:/&#x2
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by heylook 2y ago
And in that circumstance you are allowed to maintain your health insurance (COBRA) or buy a new plan ("qualifying life events," which also includes things like marriage and moving). The comment you're responding to was alludi
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by heylook 2y ago
From Wikipedia: The public health insurance option, also known as the public insurance option or the public option, is a proposal to create a government-run health insurance agency that would compete with other private health insurance comp
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by heylook 2y ago
One party agreed to pay the other party close to a billion dollars to stop the lawsuit from continuing. Why did they do that?
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by heylook 2y ago
> Crime is a function of inequality I think the prevailing attitude is more like, "Yes, crime is a function of inequality, but it's also a function of X, Y, Z other things, and leaving them out does more harm than good to the d
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by heylook 2y ago
I think you either replied to the wrong comment or are maybe confused. Telegraph Hill is quite far from Haight Ashbury (as much as anything can be far apart in a 7x7 mile city).
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by heylook 2y ago
At the margins, more people would have more ability to try to work around the market power of landlords. More time for political advocacy to rollback NIMBYism, or loosen zoning, or to build their own home, or to make an additional purchase
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by heylook 2y ago
> But inflation should have been limited to the amount of money injected in the economy. I'm curious to hear more about why that would be the case. Money swaps hands constantly and we have explicit ways that a single dollar can beco
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by heylook 2y ago
Ding ding ding. We have a winner. It also really matters which people get the money. For example: we printed gazillions of dollars after the 2008 financial crisis, but "inflation" was super low that whole time. What happened? We g
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by heylook 2y ago
I'm not convinced you would need to. "Students" cease to be students immediately after graduation, so they wouldn't really be "students" anymore, right? So "none of the downsides to bankruptcy really apply
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by heylook 2y ago
In fact often the most efficient, effective, and long-lasting value creation has nothing to do with money at all.
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by heylook 2y ago
> Abuse is always highlighted (or minimised) because of ulterior motives, not because of the abuse itself. That strikes me as almost tautologically untrue. It simply doesn't seem possible that every decision about how much to highli
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by heylook 3y ago
Sure, but like, that's not what we're talking about. OP says western society is "outsourcing the job of perpetuating the population," as if there is some shirking of responsibility going on, or we all need to care about
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by heylook 3y ago
> My point is that that morality is impossible to justify in a godless universe. You say that, and it's good that you did because the arguments you're making don't work together to prove your point in the way that you thin
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by heylook 3y ago
> Permissive western societies are outsourcing the job of perpetuating the population Why does the job of perpetuating the population need to be done at all? At what levels? Why those levels? Does it matter where that population lives or
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by heylook 3y ago
> But essentially self-interest takes over completely. Orrrrrrrr... maybe... it doesn't? Maybe even when we're all alone and have to figure things out for ourselves we can come to understand ourselves in genuine relation to tho
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by heylook 3y ago
>> Pretty insane that Sam Bankman-Fried decided to plead not-guilty. >Would easily bet that was his decision. That's a tautology. His decision to plead not-guilty is literally his decision.
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by heylook 3y ago
wait, what exactly gives you the impression that Fetterman isn't all there? this is an interview he gave within the last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qldqgtCYMs0
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by heylook 3y ago
Only if you assume there is no regulator or shared protocol.
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by heylook 3y ago
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
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by heylook 3y ago
Seriously? I think "AWS exists" is self-evident enough to almost be a tautology. It's a hugely successful business whose business is making tools that make it easier/faster/cheaper to build and scale software and in
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by heylook 3y ago
Many many senses. First, it's already been built. Now people now how to build it. In fact, many of the people that actually built it have left the company and could presumably help to build it again. Second, the toolchain has matured i
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by heylook 4y ago
> Get ripped off from a foreign supplier can require a lawsuit if available to you in an unfriendly legal system. Cryto can solve these trustless entities problems. Pardon the ignorance, but, how, exactly?
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by heylook 4y ago
From "Rick and Morty": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m1s2NFOGyg
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by heylook 4y ago
> A major driver of inflation is Baby Boomers retiring. What's the mechanism here?
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by heylook 5y ago
> I already work too much. That’s your problem. Repetition, mindlessness, boredom, flow are different facets of the same phenomenon. When your ancestors needed to build a shelter, they spent hours and hours chopping, hewing, digging, etc
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by heylook 5y ago
> If you were in a burning building you would save a jar of embryos over an actual baby? Is that what you are saying? > If that is true you are a sociopath. Just wait til you hear what rubyist5eva thinks.

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