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by hnracer 6y ago
While that may be true the HN moderation team does a great job of being balanced and removing all politically charged content and flamebait irrespective of the political views of the poster. They don't have an axe to grind. It's a
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by hnracer 6y ago
Which is what /r/LateStageCapitalism, and many other subreddits, do. Only it's allowed because they are not right wing. The anti-free speech claim is made not by judging the ban of t_D in isolation, but by looking at how thei
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by hnracer 6y ago
Yes I'm aware of that definition, and I still think it is a legitimate example of tragedy of the commons. The commons here is an abstract one: it's the lack of incentive within a society to perform a kidnapping, which is a shared
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by hnracer 6y ago
You are exactly right about that, not sure where the down votes are coming from.
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Apologies for the mischaracterization
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Maybe right leaning people tend to self select out of trying psychedelics, everyone I know in my personal life who partakes is left leaning
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by hnracer 6y ago
The exchange lost a lot of revenue. Trader's and investor's time was wasted, you can't just change the open time without screwing up a lot of systems. Risk management would've been an issue too, a lot of people crossing
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by hnracer 6y ago
It's a waste of time and mental bandwidth to even think about this. The impact is just too small. Better to focus finite energy, attention and political capital on things that actually move the dial.
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The hallucinogens reinforced your left-leaning beliefs and opinions. There's nothing wrong with that but it's not exactly revalatory knowledge that will be shared by right-leaning individuals such as myself. Indeed I have taken ha
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For me, saying no much of the time has changed my life for the better. I was constantly doing things I didn't want to do because I didn't know how to say no to friends and family, eventually becoming a little resentful at being dr
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by hnracer 6y ago
Do we approximately know by what percentage the calorie availability increases for blended vs regular fruit, for the average person?
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The large majority of synthetic USD trading is speculation and hedging. It's significantly cheaper to trade synthetic USD than actual BTCUSD, so 100% of traders will prefer that.
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Bitmex does accept US customers when they use a VPN.
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It's not exactly world policing. They are enforcing alleged violations of their own securities laws.
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Link?
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That's a good point, I'd like to see some research into that question.
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Small government and big government are both filled with crooks and self-serving bureaucrats. The main difference is that a small government can do less damage and extracts less from the economy.
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Is there any evidence that the sentences are longer after controlling for variables such as (1) differences in previous convictions which increase sentence duration, (2) severity of the crime? If this evidence is provided, I am happy to agr
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by hnracer 6y ago
I think Trump and the divisions in the US are a symptom of the wokeness that sprung up in the mid 2010s, and that wokeness came from the humanities departments in US colleges who proselytized to and converted a large swathe of millennial gr
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by hnracer 6y ago
Huobi and Okex synthetic quarterlies are fine. Not identical to bitmex perp but pretty much the same. Clawback is a negative but so is the mex insurance fund, specific users end up paying for it (more in aggregate because the size of the f
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by hnracer 6y ago
Their synthetic USD is perfectly fine and I would say is better than Bitmex, Bitmex has memes made about how bad their platform is. They were just the first movers/innovators who invented the financial product and now have really good
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by hnracer 6y ago
Huobi, OkCoin, Binance and many others do the identical thing (synthetic USD products - they literally copied Bitmex's business model) and have the same or more volume as Bitmex. I'm guessing nobody is going after them because the
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by hnracer 6y ago
In some cases yes, in many cases no. As someone who grew up with a small handful of delinquents (in and out of prison etc), they are not the types to be able to hold a regular job like a normal person. Often there is a personality disorder
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by hnracer 6y ago
I didn't mean that there's no way you can make a comparison in a literal sense. I mean that it takes a particularly screwed up and deranged individual to think that murder and racist thoughts are somehow equivalent on the moral sc
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by hnracer 6y ago
While that's true, there's no comparison between (a) and (b) in terms of how bad the original offense is. One is murder and the other is a thought crime.
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by hnracer 6y ago
What percentage of those drug offenses are usage vs distribution?
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by hnracer 6y ago
There is a lot of violence in public schools in developed countries outside of the US. I went to a public school in Australia in a relatively wealthy area and saw multiple gang beatings. One guy beaten so badly that he was knocked out cold
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by hnracer 6y ago
Raising good kids and protecting their mental health is contributing to the community. Throwing them to the wolves so they can become messed up is not.
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by hnracer 6y ago
That is your kids experience but it's demeaning to call it the "real world" given so many other kids have a completely different experience. My time in school was also hell on earth and I believe it did do some psychological
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I'd argue those two things are one and the same

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