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by jariel 6y ago
I'm not defending shenanigans. I'm saying populist shenanigans don't really defeat banker shenanigans.
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by jariel 6y ago
This is about as exciting as a mob of 10000 people rushing a restaurant at the same time to 'save it' and then forgetting it the next day. Unfortunately, there is no more new math here. Even worse, it looks like stocks may become
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by jariel 6y ago
I'm sorry but this is a possibly irresponsible take for at least a few reasons. The populism on this issue is completely out of touch with reality. 1) As the stock pops due to irrational upwards pressure - the hedges funds might lose
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by jariel 6y ago
No, in the end, it will be the mob who will lose money, and it will invariably go into the pockets of more institutional vested interests who end up picking up the pieces cheap. Really Roobinhood is feeding fish to whales, over time.
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by jariel 6y ago
It's hard to know who is good, and in the banking business apparently being famous matters. The guy from Shark Tank, Kevin O'Leary can raise a fund just by virtue of that, being a known brand. He seems like a person with good inte
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by jariel 6y ago
It has benefits but also obviously drawbacks. Ambien is not available in Canada for example. One of the things about hard negotiations is that sometimes the other side will call the bluff and walk away. And of course in rationed systems you
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by jariel 6y ago
So this is the root of cancel culture, right here. Those that disagree with you are 'uninformed stupid bigots and must be suppressed'. Take a moment consider why a very progressive person, of enormous goodwill and who's done
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by jariel 6y ago
"Mention the name AOC favorably, and you will be shut down." No, this is not remotely true. They'll downvote you into obvlivion on 'Fox News' comments - but this is not cancel culture. Nobody is 'losing their j
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by jariel 6y ago
"when the 'Experimenter' appealed to the necessity of science, compliance rates where highest. When the Experimenter appealed to pure authority and gave direct commands, compliance rates were low." This is maybe the most
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by jariel 6y ago
The laws regarding importation from other countries are odd, but they are not what you think they are. In effect, it's about 're-importation' of drugs, not so much regular import. The Government of Ontario negotiates drug pri
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by jariel 6y ago
Sadly, those piling on are much more likely to have their shirts lost than the short sellers who will take a loss and move on. When it crashes, it will be the RobinHooders left holding the bag and many of them stand to lose a lot to make a
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by jariel 6y ago
Those are good points. I think however, cancel culture in particular, is a phenom of the Left right now. Weaponizing conspiracy (QAnon, Elections, COVID) is a culture of the Right, no doubt. Both sides are fully aware of what they are doing
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by jariel 6y ago
Ok, yes - except that with Rowling it's 100% cancel culture - and it has to stop, now. Rowling's views are not 'dated' (that's your opinion) - they are thought out, and reasonable. They are controversial, possibly.
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by jariel 6y ago
Taking a snap of a worker on the train eating their sandwich an posting to Twitter was obviously a questionable thing to do at minimum.
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by jariel 6y ago
So this is a good comment - however the term 'hysteria' may not be correct, I suggest that the reaction is ultimately hysterical to the point of overreaction. I think frankly it's driven a small group of unimportant people,
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by jariel 6y ago
Over the perception of their actions, not their actual actions. Nobody anywhere would care a single bit were there not mass hysteria. Also it's not necessarily harassment to call out people if they are not doing their jobs. It's
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by jariel 6y ago
There is no chance they would have quit were there no hubub about it. Zero. They quit likely because they are in a rep-based business and their boss is stained. The 'mass outrage' is to some extent, outrage on them by virtue of tr
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by jariel 6y ago
No, this is upside down. The entire point of the situation is that the nuances are not hugely relevant in the big picture. Moreover, the nuances are never catered to in cancel culture anyhow. Nothing remotely significant happened in this si
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by jariel 6y ago
The problem with 20 minute rule, is that there is just so, so much arcane knowledge embedded into systems we really should not make everyone spend 20 minutes or more each time. So many little things especially - it's the job of the peo
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by jariel 6y ago
Well, most of the world's best thinkers would disagree, to the point wherein they had to get together to make a public point that 'cancel culture exists and is a problem' [1] Which is of course, not to say that perpetuation o
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by jariel 6y ago
Most groups operate with some kernel of legitimacy, with which the more radical elements tend to use to interpret everything. When one group does something unassailable bad - like raid capitol hill - it embolden radicals from other groups,
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by jariel 6y ago
I wonder if there is a way to award points for 'effort' and 'ingenuity'. Maybe PhDs should be able to give out points there to offset the fact that most experiments aren't going to show much. Maybe there's a co
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by jariel 6y ago
We're not talking about murder. We're talking about a different kind of crime. The law states someone has to 'knowingly try to interfere etc' but the challenge is that you'd have to prove that Trump knew he lost. If
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by jariel 6y ago
Where is the 'Proof' that Joe Biden was born in America? I mean, anyone can forge a birth certificate. Where is the 'Proof' that he's 82 and not 87? So you're having a difficult time accepting that for many thi
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by jariel 6y ago
That's not the defence though. The defence is 'I legitimately believed the election was stolen in Georgia, therefore, pressuring state officials to investigate said issues' doesn't itself constitute a crime. It's en
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by jariel 6y ago
This is such an interesting point that it really throws the era of 'fake news' a judicial curveball. The same question came up with Trump's phone calls to the Georgia AG when the President was essentially threatening the AG t
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by jariel 6y ago
"And why doesn't anyone want to prove Biden won?" There's an election process with many layers of oversight, that's the 'proof'. Just because there are what might appear to be opaque elements to us plebes,
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by jariel 6y ago
Actually, this isn't true. First - SF was not 'tech' until the mid 2000's. Some people - yes. But no HQs. The Silicon Vally was where it was at. Also - up until the 1990's at least, the Valley was just a burb, mostl
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by jariel 6y ago
Oh yes, sure I don't doubt there isn't much there in the US. But certainly in Finland, Europe etc. there is.
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by jariel 6y ago
I think there are generally accepted to be 2 categories - those that fall out temporarily and the long term homeless. Your situation is more the former. It's really common and that's what basic safety nets are for. The longer term

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