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by jsperson 6y ago
The author Ben Carlson is one half of the Animal Spirits podcast. I enjoy and learn a lot from every episode. Highly recommended. Edit: typo
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by jsperson 6y ago
On the flip side - it also means that if we have a bad president or two in the United States, we’ll still probably be ok. With multiple branches of government there’s only so much damage that can be done in 4/8 years.
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by jsperson 6y ago
This is why I am skeptical about the long term threat/success of China. With Xi now effectively chairman for life he will put more energy into maintaining his position than governing.
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by jsperson 6y ago
Thank you for stating this. I’ve spent a nontrivial amount of time recently on self analysis. To wit: am I racist because I find the doublespeak regarding quarantine/protests to be entirely illogical. Asking these questions on social m
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by jsperson 7y ago
Ruined some people's day though - next paragraph: "We had all been irradiated, but we ignored it. Of the two crews, only three men survived- a young navigator, a military navigator and me. The first to go, a young technician, took
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by jsperson 7y ago
I realize that your question is rhetorical, but I'm not sure the facts supports your point. Democrats controlled both the House and Senate from 2009-2011 and controlled the Senate all the way up through 2015. All the while controlling
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by jsperson 7y ago
You know what really makes the world a worse place - in-app purchases. Ads meh, I can take them or leave them (I pay a lot for content), but in-app purchases show no mercy.
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by jsperson 7y ago
My number one iOS bug right now: "Hey Siri call Scott's conference line" That exact text shows up on the screen...and Siri says "Calling Don's conference line". Both are in my contacts list. I have not had this
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by jsperson 7y ago
One thing I can't figure out - where are they dumping all of the heat? AC just moves heat. Where's it all going? It's like trying to cool your house by opening the fridge. All the heat just gets pushed out the back of the fri
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by jsperson 7y ago
Check out the book... included in the coverage of the past 200 years is coverage of the last 40.
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by jsperson 7y ago
> I think that so many of the practices (like version control) have become so popular that reading an argument for their use seems superfluous. This made me laugh - not because you aren't right (in theory), but because I just took o
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by jsperson 7y ago
You should check out the book Factfulness by Hans Rosling. Rosling, a now deceased Swedish doctor, makes the case that the world has improved immensely over the past two centuries. He backs it up with copious statistics from the UN and othe
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by jsperson 7y ago
Weapons, including small arms, are best viewed as a deterrence. Evidence 1: Many videos of rabidly anti-gun folks who refuse to put a "This home is proudly gun free" sign in their front yard. Evidence 2: The US has thought twice
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by jsperson 7y ago
Your implication seems to be that we don't have that - I disagree. HN is full of folks with different backgrounds. One particular category of topics is moderated - politics. There's massive inclusion of different lived experiences
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by jsperson 7y ago
If there's one privilege that I will never feel guilty about taking advantage of, it's the ability to listen to and engage in discussions with folks smarter than I am with the overloaded concept of political belief removed.
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by jsperson 7y ago
Probably the biggest one ever - Boeing successfully protested the awarding of the tanker contract to NG/Airbus [1] [1] https://www.industryweek.com/public-policy/us-gao-upholds-bo... edit: spelling
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by jsperson 9y ago
Of course they did. It wasn't always open warfare nor does it have to be. The simple fact that the United States and her allies had a large capable military fixed a line on the map that held for 50 years until the Soviet block self-des
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by jsperson 9y ago
I always think about A Confederacy of Dunces. It's a great book that had a hard and somewhat tragic road to getting published. Then it won a Pulitzer Prize.
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by jsperson 10y ago
Offensive!? You're of course free to get offended, but pointing out that flying pollutes a lot relative to the proposed limits is certainly valid. I think the point is that there is an opportunity to take personal responsibility here.
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by jsperson 10y ago
One of the things about Amazon - they really don't make money. Actually, they are profitable, but only microscopically. All of that great stuff that we get shipped for free with 5% back costs a lot of money. The business model is to cr
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by jsperson 10y ago
I haven't found iCloud to be entirely reliable. The total lack of feedback in sync progress and errors when something goes wrong drive me crazy. More importantly, Apple charges a lot for storage and it can't be shared so each acco
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by jsperson 10y ago
It's not just music though. Stream if you will/want. I think it's a good model. But that doesn't work for pictures. I know - iCloud, but it's not even as reliable as iTunes. No way am I trusting it for the only back
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by jsperson 10y ago
I just spent an hour reading this blog. I now feel absolutely smarter and relatively dumber. What a wonderful blog. Thanks for sharing!
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by jsperson 10y ago
Just finished reading The Everything Store... I bet a "?" email went out.
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by jsperson 10y ago
I welcome alternative business models. The current trend is destroying quality news organizations and leaving consumers wanting. Another option is the pay what you want model. This would be a lot easier to implement and would eliminate the
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by jsperson 10y ago
>An ideal environment is one in which you can make mistakes but easily and quickly recover from them with minimal to no impact. This is a great attitude. Too often opportunity cost isn't considered when making rules to protect folks
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by jsperson 10y ago
Great quote. Black Swan happens to be one of my unread books. You've propted me to pick it back up. More generally, I feel there's no reason to buy books before I need to read them. Effectively Amazon has become my library. Need a
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by jsperson 10y ago
And that's why I'm sad. It's so bad that there can't be an oasis. Again, not a commentary on the author or HN, but a commentary on society as it stands right now.
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by jsperson 10y ago
I haven't been ignoring it at all. I read the news sections of the NYT almost in its entirety every day. Same with USAT and WashPost. There's a big difference between ignoring it and wishing that wishing that I wasn't immerse
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by jsperson 10y ago
It makes me sad that politics has made its way to the top of HN. I'm relatively new here. One of the things I love about the community is that it has been something of an oasis over the past few months. This is in no way intended to de

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