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by jellicle 11y ago
Every user who has been around for a while has a "flag" option for every story, to be used for stories which should not be on HN, such as spam. Your posting briefly made the front page, then was flagged off of HN by people clicki
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by jellicle 11y ago
It is extremely difficult to write any kind of book or movie about finance which is a) accurate b) comprehensive (covers more than a tiny slice) and c) NOT boring as hell and extremely confusing to the lay audience. Lewis does as good a job
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by jellicle 11y ago
> There is some good, but there is a case that non-profits such as the Red Cross, churches, food banks, are more accountable and do more good. There isn't any such case, if approached realistically. Government agencies spend trilli
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by jellicle 11y ago
Automation doesn't necessarily create a single second of leisure. Automation creates more productivity. The results of that, if well distributed among the population, could create leisure. But there's no reason it must be wel
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by jellicle 11y ago
This article was, of course, flagged into oblivion within minutes of being posted, despite having 27 upvotes, because Silicon Valley is quite sure that there's no sexual harassment problem.
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by jellicle 11y ago
If the internet is to be believed, the Iridium network has a total capacity of 172,000 simultaneous users (if every satellite worldwide is fully utilized). There are many figures citing 5,000 planes in the air over the United States at any
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by jellicle 11y ago
This is the "if you didn't want to get raped and murdered, you shouldn't have left your house" defense.
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by jellicle 11y ago
And then you can also donate much more to the various party committees, and you can do it as a "directed donation", so that the money is credited to Politico X and the party committee immediately forwards the money back to Politi
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by jellicle 11y ago
The argument between the two of you is baffling. It is incontrovertible that the U.S. is using electronic data gathered right now by itself and by private technology companies to screw with people. Literally billions of dollars will be sp
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by jellicle 11y ago
It is vastly less hassle for doctors to have to deal with a single entity for all reimbursements. No hiring collection agencies to hassle patients, no mysterious nonpayments, no switching networks, one set of rules to learn and that is it.
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by jellicle 11y ago
The difference between slaves and workers is that dying or becoming too wounded to work is an expense, for slaves.
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by jellicle 11y ago
Just like the 1950s, which we all know were a disastrous time for US industry?
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by jellicle 11y ago
Twitter deletes tweets for almost any complaint, doesn't have to be copyright or state any cognizable theory. They don't notify the original tweeter either. If someone tweets something you don't like, just complain to Twitte
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by jellicle 11y ago
I don't believe that getting recognized as a religion by the IRS gives you the right to receive grants from a private company that are awarded on a competitive basis. Google will happily refuse your ad or your business for a very large
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by jellicle 11y ago
Well, unless Amazon blocks your access to your account. Have you accounted for that in your failure rate calculations? Ask Bernie Sanders about the cloud and the implications of losing access to it at the whim of the cloud provider.
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by jellicle 11y ago
Ugh. For a person with $1,000,000 in assets, the difference between +/- $100 in marginal utility is almost zero. Yet all the psychological studies will show that said person HATES losing $100 much more than they like gaining $100. It
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by jellicle 11y ago
Nobody honest does. But I do agree with you that any economic opinion, no matter how nonsensical and contrary to evidence, can be purchased.
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by jellicle 11y ago
There are a vast number of situations where the individual decisions about how to spend money/take action may be the best for the individual, but bad for the society overall. For each and every one of those, it's better for socie
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by jellicle 11y ago
Way to illustrate the comment you are responding to.
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by jellicle 11y ago
Because that, long-term, is the only thing that drives people to Facebook? "Come join Facebook and get some auto-playing video ads in your face, but no actual content from your friends will be shown!" is not a compelling value pro
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by jellicle 11y ago
Alternately, it may be that people didn't have any money to buy stuff.
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by jellicle 11y ago
Yeah, pretty much. The likelihood of a student at a private, conservative, Oklahoma, evangelical, religious school going up to the school president/religious leader after a sermon and making a supposed left-wing, liberal, "I&#x27
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by jellicle 11y ago
I'm trying to understand what your comment has to do with mine, and failing. Did you mean to make this reply to some other comment?
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by jellicle 11y ago
You're being generous to the author. I'd be amazed if anyone at all had complained to the university president about their sermon. "The complaining student" is now a trope along the lines of the cab driver who always sp
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by jellicle 11y ago
I'm going to translate from teacher-ese for you: "While my students normally exhibited a substantial amount of distraction in our class, I was pleased to discover that since they were all artistically-oriented students, an impromp
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by jellicle 11y ago
I am a member of a credit union and support them whole-heartedly. And I think it's great that we scrutinize new wanna-be banks and make sure they aren't a pump-and-dump fraud scheme. Because in the absence of such regulation, som
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by jellicle 11y ago
I know. I was just writing about the general impossibility of getting compensation for unseen internal damage to the vehicle. The renter can ride the clutch for two hours until it starts making a gravelly, clanging noise, hand the car bac
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by jellicle 11y ago
How are you possibly going to get compensated when the transmission falls out a week after you rented the car out?
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by jellicle 11y ago
Just because the loss hasn't been realized yet doesn't mean it isn't real. Among other things, prior commenter can't move to a different house because s/he no longer has a downpayment and won't be able to refi
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by jellicle 11y ago
>Self-Driving Car Maker XXXX Adds Technology To Limit Where Its Machines Can Drive

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