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by jl2718 5y ago
Here’s how it works: customer pays an up-front down payment, then pays two years of rent, then either buys the house at full price, or the company keeps the up-front payment, kicks them out, and sells to the highest bidder. Sorry; I’m calli
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The most aggressively right-wing person I know personally (and of significant notoriety in public as well), was also the best-prepared and most aggressive proponent of lockdown, doing mask drives etc, at the very beginning of this from Nove
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Dating is great. Everybody’s single! If family is anywhere in tarot cards, I’d recommend moving elsewhere. The majority of SF is 20 years behind their biological prime for the type of relationship they are looking for. Sort of like going to
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I inherently expect an article about education to talk about outcomes for all students, top to bottom, in an even-handed way. During the Sputnik era, the focus was clearly at the top, and then with LBJ, it shifted focus to employability of
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They have the legal right to remove problems from the school environment. That’s huge. And they aren’t beholden to ideology. That’s also huge. They can be as inefficient as they want; they can do absolutely nothing for the kids except accom
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Orders of magnitude less common than customers switching brands.
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If people believed it, it wouldn’t be newsworthy.
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“Gallup selects potential panel members using random-digit-dialing (RDD) of landline telephones and cellphones or address-based sampling (ABS) to contact U.S. households at random.” Also a bunch of weird stuff about weighting responses. Ove
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If egalitarian means teachers pick the winners and test performance is irrelevant.
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Private companies and governments can both exist without accountability.
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For every solution, there are 10 new problems created that require new solutions. It never ends. It never goes backwards. Bureaucratic parkour. Software engineers should understand this. Imagine if it was 10x harder to delete a line than wr
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There is only one thing that distinguishes the difference between government and all other social entities: A monopoly on the use of force.
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All you have to do is make oil more valuable. There are many options for that. Gold is valuable because it’s a legal form of banking reserve collateral. If the World Bank did that for oil reserves, petro states would lend reserves to banks
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As opposed to the stock market which is only propped up by the, not just pedagogically uninformed as may be the case with crypto shilling, but factually uninformed 401k and pension fund ‘investors’. Sure, many cryptocurrency investors may n
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by jl2718 5y ago
“There’s this whole world of information around the stock market and how to trade [and] what stocks to trade that’s full of terminology that first you need to learn and understand,” Hahahaha! Wow, what a sanctimonious pandering insult! So m
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by jl2718 5y ago
Oh I’m not talking about this particular incident. {{current_administration}} is obviously right, and I don’t need to know anything else. I’m talking about all the things that {{rival_party}} did. They’re terrible.
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by jl2718 5y ago
We should all consider what kinds of delusions we’ve conditioned into our brains, and how that might affect our attitudes and opinions. Maybe be a little less certain that the right way to think just so happens to be the only way that is ac
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by jl2718 5y ago
Except that torture works. Social and financial coercion works. Perceived threat to loved ones, even just shame by association, works. Forced apologies and confessions are easy to extract from anybody.
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It seems to me that there may be legitimate public interest in absolute transparency whenever agencies conduct activities or investigations of a political nature.
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Yes.
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I’m not upset that he isn’t paying taxes. I’m upset that he’s paying for leverage on other people’s taxes. But Bezos did not create this system, he’s just using it to his advantage, exactly the way it was designed. At least he’s transparent
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Yep. Skips the middle man. Kind of like buying art instead of paying for lobbyists.
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Funny to imagine. I did the opposite and spent the first 20 years of my career paying for my birth family, and only now am waking up to the idea of starting my own (family and career). This is a difficult shift in mindset. But ultimately yo
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Well the guy he’s giving it to is always clamoring for higher taxes on everybody else, so obviously he thinks that’s the best place for the money. We’ll see what he does with it.
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I think he just hired CNN for that.
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I’ve found that software, among other engineering disciplines, is uniquely managed as a manufacturing line rather than a creative art. In the other disciplines, the difference between these phases of the project is much more explicit.
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If it gets to that point, which I think it will, then the there will be no such thing as an instruction set. Computing will be reconfigurable asynchronous data flow.
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And thus it is declared, that from this day forth, if someone shall know a set of numbers X, Y and Z, such that X*Y=Z, then they shall be required to register the numbers Y and Z and obtain a license for the use of X. So it is written, and
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Every time I read something like this, the author turns out to be a regular drug user. I don’t necessarily have anything against that, but, having been sober my entire life, and having experimented heavily with natural hallucination methods
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Ergodicity is relevant here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodicity_economics At the risk of oversimplification, non-ergodicity means that you have to be stupid to get rich. A simple way to see that is gamblers rui

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