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by ke88y 3y ago
I think this two-axis system misses the difference between "weathervanes" and "partisans", who sit in the same place on the two-axis system but function very differently in practice.
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by ke88y 3y ago
> literally almost everyone used to be anti or neutral about LGBT 20 years ago I can't remember any mocking for changes on LGBT issues from "anti" to "support". In fact, that movement was particularly careful t
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by ke88y 3y ago
Normally technology, wars, and revolutions are the only ways that these massive aristocracies are disrupted. And even then, many hold on. I do not see a path toward technological upheaval. If anything, exactly the opposite. E-commerce prove
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by ke88y 3y ago
Hating holders of capital isn't effective, either rhetorically or as a policy motivator, at least in the west, at least for now. I mean this in the descriptive sense, not as a moral or personal opinion. Stronger anti-trust, stronger wo
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by ke88y 3y ago
From a textbook economic perspective you are, of course, correct. And your conclusion that we shouldn't hate the player is also correct! But that doesn't mean that we can't hate the game. Capital-isms and market competition a
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by ke88y 3y ago
Yes, it's a lot like an addiction. Perhaps literally. This also gets talked about in climbing quite a bit -- people who find their path out of alcoholism or other drug use and into climbing. I'll emphasize that this is now about c
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by ke88y 3y ago
Demonizing people connecting with one another through shared pain is even worse.
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by ke88y 3y ago
> but it's also true that the lower bound may no longer seem that deep of an abyss as it appears to most. > Hence the mental equilibrium in-between being at a point that can seem somewhat alien to those who live more slow-burn
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by ke88y 3y ago
Sure. There are two types of free soloing; the former gets talked about a lot and the latter is still not something people talk about very often. Or at leas the motivation behind it. And talking about the safer type even functions as a way
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by ke88y 3y ago
> is not a deal-breaker or even all that much of a downside per se. Close, but I don't think you quite get it yet. It's not about "no downside"! That completely misunderstands. It's about a HUGE upside. It dial
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by ke88y 3y ago
>> With experience you can tell what weight rocks will hold. > As a climber, this is total hubris. LOL. IMO GP is correct on the object level ("you can free solo with zero risk of being killed by a chossy hand hold")
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by ke88y 3y ago
> for deep sea diving FWIW, I have literally never heard of a rock guide or mountain guide free soloing with a paying client...
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by ke88y 3y ago
> because it can be considered a subset of trad Yeah, this 100%. Also a very natural extension of high balling. Have you done any stupid soloing? Did it happen when you were having a particularly hard time with your mental health? Beca
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by ke88y 3y ago
There are varying degrees of truth to what you say, but the real point is about how risk management and mental health interact. Reasons that free soloing isn't necessarily suicidal-tendency levels of poor risk management: 1. Do Not Fal
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by ke88y 3y ago
Only up to $250K, and I have no problem with them getting their $250K per institution per category!!!
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by ke88y 3y ago
Haha. I don't and it's kind of gross right now. I'll take a pic and post it here next time I have a chance. TL;DR it's basically just a tray so I don't have to put the laptop on my lap... you will be disappointed :)
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by ke88y 3y ago
> that's two mistakes That's certainly fair. OceanGate and its investors should be wiped out, to the extent liability allows, and I would be supportive of a prosecutor who pierces the veil if capital was extracted. The procee
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by ke88y 3y ago
> Still feels like it breaks I'm not in love with the analogy, but agree with the underlying argument, fwiw. > Given the new analogy, proper planning would be to set policy to steadily increase Ironically, on this count, the
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by ke88y 3y ago
>=400 basis points over the risk-free rate.
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by ke88y 3y ago
That can be spread out across multiple institutions and ownership categories. Your engineer example is particularly silly. In a country with 4000 banks, there is absolutely no reason -- other than pure laziness or stupidity -- for an engine
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by ke88y 3y ago
Sure, but FDIC suffices for most normal people. If you add up all the dollars over $250K in each SVB account, it's going to be overwhelmingly VCs and their set who benefited.
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by ke88y 3y ago
> 250k is an extremely small amount for a company of any significant or insignificant size. How does this justify handing out free insurance post facto on everyone else's dime? Running a business involves taking and managing risk.
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by ke88y 3y ago
> I'm not sure what more you want. Cover $250K then stop. You know, the actual contractually obligated about of insurance and not a penny more. I don't know why this is controversial or difficult to understand! > OK but t
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by ke88y 3y ago
The analogy is stretched, for sure. I think the analogy works a bit better if you say that one apartment building houses enough people that there aren't enough hotel rooms to house everyone if the building becomes uninhabitable, thus m
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by ke88y 3y ago
> These banks are the equivalent of the apartment owner. The issue is that they ARE important enough to the economy to be considered an "large apartment building owner" (see: de facto bailouts) but were NOT regulated as such.
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by ke88y 3y ago
That would be a more coherent argument if we were discussing design and regulation financial products. But it turns out that money can't buy a do-over on life. Again, people hire guides to do things that they cannot do on their own. Be
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by ke88y 3y ago
Extremely expensive guiding services are not a new thing. And the degree of risk is often proportional to expense. So, rich people paying a lot of money to a guide service for the chance to risk their life is not new. More importantly, my
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by ke88y 3y ago
> There is something to be said about the CEO going onboard themselves... We should be allowed to take personal risk. But taking any form of consideration from others -- particularly $250K -- introduces at least moral responsibility fo
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by ke88y 3y ago
> nomad I travel for months at a time but have a "real" property to land at, so not completely nomadic. YMMV especially if full-time. > share their general setup I own a mid-sized SUV that gets 25-30 MPH. Think RAV4&#x2F
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by ke88y 3y ago
Paradoxically, self-teaching is most difficult at the "101" and "pre-101" level. Once you have the basics, self-teaching becomes much easier. Teaching yourself Calculus I and Calculus II after obtaining High School mathe

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