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by jmeister 4y ago
She did publish her criticisms: https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys4079 https://twitter.com/skdh/status/1574341154757279746 There is not much market or political pressure for self-correctio
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by jmeister 4y ago
Precisely the opposite. Usually "grit" means they're willing to hire hustlers who are eager to pick up new skills than established entitled slackers.
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"The fact that real estate in FL or TX has melted up over the past 2-3 years is not evidence of succeeding to build a better model than California, it's evidence that they are becoming like California." -- Peter Thiel at
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Yes it’s much narrower in scope than GP’s sweeping claim, but the prior should be that there are general differences in data between US and EU owing to lack of universal IT systems and differing attitudes towards privacy.
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From a reputable demographer: https://twitter.com/lymanstoneky/status/1555923442112815105 "what's going on here is that the US is actually reporting "pregnancy related mortality," a formally se
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by jmeister 4y ago
This is refreshingly old-school. Thank you!
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Thanks.
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No, it’s a scathing indictment of NS’s audience: mainstream economists cynical about crypto(the hostility between the two groups is mutual).
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Videos. Tiktok. Video calls. Zoom.
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by jmeister 4y ago
Thank you for these informative comments.
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>Facebook was created to connect people and ended up facilitating genocide. Throwing out the baby with the bath water here. How many lost friendships were recovered through FB? In my network of immigrants and refugees: countless. >Br
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Thanks!
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I didn’t know the history behind the pejorative usage. Thanks for pointing out. EDIT: I'm a recentish immigrant, so help me out with this inconsistency: Why Democrats and not Democratics? Why Republicans and not Republics?
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by jmeister 4y ago
This is wrong and out-of-date for multiple reasons. 1. Corporate spending in politics has had negligible impact after Citizens United: https://www.nber.org/papers/w30352 2. These days, the ostensibly pro-business party
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by jmeister 4y ago
This was always known, only recently have we started to hold "heroes" to bourgeois moral standards. "being capable of rape can make a person better qualified for greatness" https://www.washingtonexaminer.com&#
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by jmeister 4y ago
The entire universe is discussing T's affidavit and his underwear 24x7. It's ok. HB story has a tech and alphabet agency angle, both directly relevant to HN readership.
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A paper on love by French physicists that doesn't reference Stendhal? He got there first, mon freres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallization_(love)
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by jmeister 4y ago
Did you read the article before slinging mud yourself? The whistleblower has been communicating with DC way before EM entered the picture. Media only got its hands on the leaked material now.
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by jmeister 4y ago
He gives detailed calculations about how it is better for him financially(and for creative freedom) to publish on Substack. John McWhorter did something similar, wrote out the chapters of his recent book as separate essays on substack. Neit
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by jmeister 4y ago
Here is that pattern in meme form: Hard times create strong men. Strong men create autocratic dynasties. Autocratic dynasties create supernumerary bureaucracies. Supernumerary bureaucracies create eunuch castes. Eunuch castes create drama.
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by jmeister 4y ago
Noted. Thanks dang, this is still the best moderated forum around.
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The resentment on HN is repulsive
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It’s not actually. What is the point of this comment?
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> It isn't envy some feel when they can't afford medical care for themselves and those they care about. This applies to a lot of things in additional to medical care. When people say “inequality isn’t a problem” they mean it is
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by jmeister 4y ago
At the time I wrote the comment, almost all of the other comments were criticizing and mocking common-sense pro-productivity values that were worshipped here 10 years ago. EDIT: Also gone is the value of charitable reading. This is not spec
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by jmeister 4y ago
I cannot believe the comments here so far. It’s just sad to see the decline of culture be reflected in Hacker News too. I thought Nietzsche’s “inversion of values” happens every few thousand years, little did I know..
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by jmeister 4y ago
Funny, automated reasoning was to AI, in the good old fashioned days, what deep learning is today, in terms of perceived significance and hype.
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It’s the job of the legislature to fix the laws and make them aligned with your idea of justice.
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by jmeister 4y ago
/u/failingknife, I cannot reply to you, but thanks for making only relevant comment on this entire thread.
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by jmeister 4y ago
They could raise prices, reduce volume and turn profitable.

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