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by hnuser847 4y ago
The survey question asks about trust in “mass media,” which most would interpret as corporate media outlets. I doubt survey respondents would consider stuff like AlterNet and The Daily Wire to be “mass media,” even though they report on the
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I’m self-taught but I feel the same way after a decade of working for various startups. What’s disheartening is that all the code I wrote over the years is likely no longer running or cordoned off in some “legacy” codebase, slated for event
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by hnuser847 4y ago
Low interest rates disincentivize saving and incentivize reckless speculation. In a world where savings accounts yield 0.25% and bonds yield negative, even ordinary people are forced to consider investments like crypto, SPACs, and high grow
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by hnuser847 4y ago
> Congressional action is a major cause of this, spending trillions. And the Fed enabling the Federal government to do so very cheaply, by purchasing a large amount of the newly created Treasuries.
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It's wild. The Fed brought interest rates down to zero and created a massive asset bubbled fueled by cheap debt. Now they're cranking up interest rates to pop they bubble they created, and we're supposed to applaud them for c
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> My friends would rather play video games on discord than go and play cards in person. I hear that. I was born in '88, and although I played plenty of video games growing up, I remember playing a ton of card games with friends and
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You're telling me the demand for gas went up during the time period when people were mandated to stay home? That doesn't make any sense.
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by hnuser847 4y ago
The 12-month inflation rate was already 8% prior to the invasion in Ukraine. Gas prices nearly doubled between March 2020 and February 2022. Blaming inflation on the war in Ukraine only makes sense if you ignore the previous two years.
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> The only thing you can do (besides leave it all behind and open a taqueria) is be a voice for simplicity. What are we going to build? What tools make sense for it? I tried to do this at several companies and ended up feeling like a par
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by hnuser847 4y ago
I feel your pain. My career happiness peaked around 2014 or 2015, when I was writing Rails monoliths. I felt like I could focus 100% of my energy on business logic since the framework was so opinionated and the stack was simple. Things went
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by hnuser847 4y ago
I have to agree. Been there, done that, tried most of them over a decade ago. Tripped with friends, tripped in nature, tripped alone, read Timothy Leary and Erowid reports, went to music festivals, etc. Guess what, it didn't cure my de
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> the environment is an externality that isn't priced in, and so it's treated as zero cost. Was there ever a point in human history where this was NOT the case?
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by hnuser847 4y ago
Can you help me understand this perspective? Was there really nothing you wanted to do with your life that you had to resort to getting a corporate job to keep yourself sane? A guy a used to work with went through the same thing recently af
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> I'm not sure I understand the mechanics behind this point of view. Here's the definition of Ponzi scheme from Wikipedia: "A Ponzi scheme is a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with
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by hnuser847 4y ago
Cities are nations are currently built to support X number of people. If the population drastically decreases, the infrastructure won't automatically scale down with the population, so a smaller number of people will need to fund the m
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> By the same extension, would you consider your comment worthy of the same classification of "cringey"? No, but I think your comment falls squarely in that category.
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> Dear React.js, > We've been together for almost 10 years. We've come a long way. But things are getting out of hand. We need to talk. > It's embarrassing, I know. Nobody wants to have that conversation. So instead,
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by hnuser847 4y ago
That's the path I'm on right now, not because I love being a landlord, but simply because it's the best investment available.
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by hnuser847 4y ago
Thank you for mentioning interest rates. Any time housing comes up on HN, the main factors people bring up are short-term rentals, NIMBYism, and lack of new development. However, if these explanations had any merit, why have home values in
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by hnuser847 4y ago
Please don't give them any ideas.
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by hnuser847 4y ago
Do you mind revealing what island you live on, or at least the general region? I've always fantasized about living in a small town on an island.
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> America has a very work-centric culture. Within a few minutes of meeting someone, people typically talk about their family or work. I specifically make a point to not ask the dreaded "what do you do?" question. In my experien
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by hnuser847 4y ago
Spoiler: you can’t.
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by hnuser847 4y ago
This reminds of the dumb conspiracy stuff I used to see in my Facebook feed. Any 2D projection of a 3D surface is going to be distorted - there’s no way around it. If you want to see an accurate representation of the Earth, look at a globe.
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by hnuser847 4y ago
We give them plenty of help. What we don’t do is force them into shelters or mental hospitals, so many voluntarily choose to the live on the street. I remember one particularly cold Chicago winter where I made a couple dozen sandwiches to g
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There’s a guy in my neighborhood who literally screams at the sky. You’re telling me we just have to give him five grand and he’ll be all better?
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by hnuser847 4y ago
Maybe abundance itself makes us depressed. In the modern world you have to go way out of your way to experience any sense of sense of danger, adventure, chaos, or self-reliance. Sitting behind a screen while shoving food in your mouth might
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But the extreme ends do have similar features (hatred of certain ethic/racial groups, black and white thinking, desire to destroy the existing political order instead of reform it, conspiratorial thinking, etc.). The fact that you don’
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Because it’s absolutely exhilarating to throw stuff into the water (or off cliffs, or into holes, etc). Not condoning the behavior but you gotta admit it’s pretty fun.
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by hnuser847 4y ago
The best way to overcome that fear is to take a really long flight. I also I had an irrational fear of flying that held me back from traveling internationally for years. Taking a 14 hour flight to Seoul fixed that. I have zero anxiety aroun

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