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by kepler1 4y ago
I hesitate to speak an unpopular (in many senses of the word) position, but there is a stark truth if you are a scientific/economic/objective observer that as long as people are willing to sign up for jobs under these conditions,
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by kepler1 4y ago
I am curious too. Why is SBF not being treated like a Bernie Madoff? Paper trail non existent or too complicated? It's odd how softball the NYT etc are treating him. There's a meme where they count the number of times "
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by kepler1 4y ago
Lucky you -- I don't get more than a week before I'm told my work is useful, but we've moved on to other things and won't need it any more!
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by kepler1 4y ago
I mean, setting aside the emotional aspect of the issue for a moment and just being analytical, can't we also acknowledge that there is a type of observation bias here? When you're talking about thousands of people getting hired a
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by kepler1 4y ago
Oh fucking hell. I've never read an article that so made me want to slap the author. For having blinders half on, and making me read a story that has a headline about one thing and then completely turns it into another thing.
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by kepler1 4y ago
Funny how even if your position (you believe) is relatively secure, this news sucks the air out of the working environment and everyone has it in the back of their mind even as they continue holding meetings, etc. Specific info (1st hand kn
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by kepler1 4y ago
I'm curious, what kind of endgame was he planning, if any? How do you launder and benefit from even any of the coins, if you know you're a wanted man and everyone is watching to see where the coin pops up?
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by kepler1 4y ago
Where do our free speech rights say that you are entitled to publish an opinion / statement on a particular channel or someone's private media outlet? Somehow the notion of rights is being expanded as a catch-all of various hopes
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by kepler1 4y ago
Isn't it interesting how the social or traditional rules of a people, the software, if you will, are a big factor in whether the country will be successful or not?
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by kepler1 4y ago
Funny how quickly a company that invents something that enabled people to do things never before possible, gets accused of crushing people's dreams like it's a human rights violation, all based on a percentage.
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by kepler1 4y ago
I would add that if you are a fan of courts protecting minority rights not subject to the whims and abuses of majorities, you should be grateful that judges are not democratically elected.
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by kepler1 4y ago
And consensus failure means that we should codify into the basic law what you believe is the consensus on that topic? Or change the rules to reflect the lack of consensus? How odd. A change to the Constitution isn't going to save yo
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by kepler1 4y ago
Please say what about voting has been fundamentally attacked at its core that rises to the level of amending the Constitution? That voters are required to (gasp) verify their identification, once every 4 years, if certain conditions aren&#
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by kepler1 4y ago
I wish people (of both sides) who declare "the system is broken" etc would seriously ask themselves, is it because your particular issue didn't go your way? How would we run a stable country if that were the principle to f
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by kepler1 4y ago
On what issues are we going to reach a breaking point that calls for Constitutional change?
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by kepler1 4y ago
Wow, I think you're so attractive... to mosquitoes.
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by kepler1 4y ago
I mean yes, I'm not trying to be cruel or unsympathetic. We should help and minimize the harm to people who are being left behind. But equally, gasoline used to cost $1/gallon. People used to communicate by mail and have to use
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by kepler1 4y ago
> Does cashless society discriminate against the poor and elderly ? Of course it does. But so did society that started adopting the telephone, or automobiles, for people who didn't have money to buy telephones or cars, or didn&#x2
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by kepler1 4y ago
Under a democratic (or let's say, public-opinion-based) system, who is rewarded for trying to uphold some kind of standards, when it doesn't benefit the majority to do so? I'm just commenting aside from the pandemic-related
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by kepler1 4y ago
I see, so all the stats about how many business fold and go bankrupt, how most startups never get to success -- those are all just fake news I guess? Business is just rolling in the money, risk free, huh?
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by kepler1 4y ago
Sometimes union expectations are as ridiculous as what corporations try to get away with. In some ways of course, they're the same motivation -- trying to remove yourself from the normal rules of economics and what you can bargain for
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by kepler1 4y ago
Some assembly may shift to India but the manufacture of the key components sure as isn't, correct? You've just shifted a part of the chain, not one of the critical steps upstream of it.
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by kepler1 4y ago
In the short-term, the factors well described by others above. In the longer-term, is it the slow accumulation of a thousand cuts? -- Brexit -- Stagnating physical output of UK industry (aside from finance + healthcare)? -- Aging population
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by kepler1 4y ago
I feel the same way about your personal belongings, socialismisok . What does it hurt if someone steals your catalytic converter once in a while, or smashes your window in, or mugs you. Small inconveniences, oh well. They probably nee
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by kepler1 4y ago
Really, you don't think there's organized crime around those items too? And even if not that particular case, it's just ok to do that? Yeah, why do we have prices on those things anyway. Ok, "socialismisok"...
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by kepler1 4y ago
So basically, you do want to be "that guy", but you want people to think that you don't enjoy doing it so you can beg some social excusal to do it, rather then just outright do it with no apology and clearly be "that guy
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by kepler1 4y ago
What does the expression "not to be that guy" mean?
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by kepler1 4y ago
I guess the government were upset that the new constitution didn't pass, so they thought, "well we have to cause chaos somehow !"
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by kepler1 4y ago
This doesn't go far enough! If you really believe in equality, we need to have a flat tax on everyone. Each person should just pay $1000 per year, and that's it. That is truly fair. /s
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by kepler1 4y ago
How will the UC Berkeley administration prevent its head from exploding from cognitive dissonance, if they start requiring people to successfully complete lower courses to get into the program? Think of all the injustice and inequities th

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