kaonashi

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by kaonashi 7y ago
Is this just another Gates-foundation style tax swindle?
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by kaonashi 7y ago
If it were truly neutral, dogs respond to and enable the handler's biases.
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by kaonashi 7y ago
Good article on the subject: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/the-coming-boeing-bailout
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by kaonashi 7y ago
ah yea, it does say "stream" once in the entire page
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by kaonashi 7y ago
I read the page and I don't get what it is -- a store that tries to grandfather in your purchases at existing stores -- with a subscription?
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by kaonashi 7y ago
The F-35 is doing excellently at it's actual engineered purpose, which is to extract the maximum amount of money from the DoD and into the hands of contractors while at the same time being completely unassailable politically. Better t
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by kaonashi 7y ago
Just because attention is unwelcome does not necessarily mean it’s unwarranted
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by kaonashi 7y ago
qe is just overnight rate maintenance in the post-2008 world if you're looking for a 'black swan' economic collapse event, look for a lot of outstanding debt and the possibility of an interest rate spike on that debt
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by kaonashi 7y ago
The DNC came out with the story about the Russian hack very quickly; they can't possibly have known it was them with any accuracy. It could easily have been a leak, and the Russia story was simply to deflect from the content of the lea
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by kaonashi 7y ago
in the meantime, they've driven competitors out of business with predatory pricing, and are the only game in town
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by kaonashi 7y ago
Biggest problem with unions in the US is they lack seats at the board, which allows management to treat them in a very adversarial manner with no formal means for pushback.
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by kaonashi 7y ago
which will be aprox 2% of the people who buy it… and they'll be the dissatisfied ones
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by kaonashi 7y ago
controlled opposition is ineffective opposition
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by kaonashi 7y ago
It shouldn't be pseudo-privatized and should be further subsidized, the fact that it's become extractionary shouldn't be celebrated.
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by kaonashi 7y ago
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v14/n19/wynne-godley/maastricht-and-al... >If a country or region has no power to devalue, and if it is not the beneficiary of a system of fiscal equalisation, then there is nothing t
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by kaonashi 7y ago
The companies doing the extracting will oppose it, and I'm sure you'll find their voices carry farther.
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by kaonashi 7y ago
Got fed up recently and ordered a windows laptop for dev work; I'm hoping WSL will meet my needs and I can get away with a VM for osx, but we'll see.
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by kaonashi 7y ago
Not to mention that the protests were initially peaceful, then they were repeatedly attacked by gangs at the behest of the local authorities.
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by kaonashi 7y ago
You don't think young men can find young women influencing?
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by kaonashi 7y ago
You're probably correct, but what product owner is going to take the chance on purposefully chasing lower engagement?
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by kaonashi 7y ago
They engineered a marketing system that allows Boeing to price discriminate, one which artificially makes the plane worse. That should tell you everything you need to know about what's happened to Boeing's engineering culture and
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by kaonashi 7y ago
China has a peg to the USD - they can peg at any given multiplier, no particular multiplier is any more valid than another, so how can they (or any other country with a peg) not be manipulating their currency? It seems to me, the US gov&#
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by kaonashi 7y ago
Coordination on a multi-national level (outside ad-hoc corporate arrangements) is an ideological non-starter for most of the world's governments.
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by kaonashi 7y ago
> Making robberies into larcenies. Making rapes disappear. You juke the stats, and majors become colonels. I've been here before.
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by kaonashi 7y ago
They were bad ideas that were ill-founded and have done far more harm than good, but he explained them with charts, so all good I guess.
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by kaonashi 7y ago
…assuming there aren't any false negatives as well
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by kaonashi 7y ago
How much is your health and sanity worth?
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by kaonashi 7y ago
It's never ok, because once the suits get away with it once, it will be their crutch for every shitty decision that gets made.
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by kaonashi 7y ago
Had the privilege of hearing him talk a couple times. While I didn't know him personally, I will feel his absence.
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by kaonashi 8y ago
I'll buy a DLC 100 times before I buy a loot box.

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