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by khriss 4mo ago
What makes this appalling is that the current situation is entirely the result of deliberate choice by the president. I know there will be a lot of commenters rushing in to breathlessly claim 'Inflation was worse under Biden!'
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by khriss 4mo ago
The worst part is that the 4.2% number is a floor on the actual inflation numbers. The US CPI has been lagging retail inflation for quite some time now (see 'hedonic regressions' by the BLS).
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by khriss 4mo ago
Agreed, but wouldn't you also say that being in prison has an arguably greater impact in later life?
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by khriss 4mo ago
> That should stop. Throw those fuckers in prison. And yet, if I look at your comment history, you seem hyper focused on discrimination in admissions. I don't see a single instance where you even attempted to advocate for broader el
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by khriss 4mo ago
> Can you show me where the “mediocre white men” are on this chart? I think you will find that they tend to be at home, according to this graph https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/2023-demograp... . F
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by khriss 4mo ago
> the german with a middle management position is however, because quote "they are only hiring other Germans". Good to see (in a sad way) that some biases are constant across humans.
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by khriss 4mo ago
This is the real endgame, and my biggest fear of the war on privacy. That in the future, even trying to assert your right to privacy will be grounds for suspicion.
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by khriss 4mo ago
> Google and Berkshire got to be the only special babies with multiple classes of stock for a few years. Wasn't this after their entry into the index?
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by khriss 4mo ago
A lot of comments here are saying that the impact on the S&P would have been 'minimal' since the S&P is float weighted. So SpaceX would have been ~0.3% of the index. The point isn't that the impact would have been min
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by khriss 4mo ago
The bulk of the gains (~70%) were in Leisure and hospitality (+70k) Health care (+35k), and Social assistance (+12k) Not exactly great news for the medium to long term.
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by khriss 4mo ago
When the market turns (and it will regardless of how loudly AI cheerleaders proclaim otherwise), I just hope engineers as a whole remember this despicable behaviour by Zuckerberg. The silver lining(If you can call it that) of the latest slu
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by khriss 5mo ago
'A republic, if you can keep it' Reply by Ben Franklin, when asked about what kind of govt the newly independent United States should have. The words seem particularly fitting in current times.
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by khriss 5mo ago
> Public funding should be guided by public oversight, not career bureaucrats. Isn't congress the elected, public oversight body? Or are you proposing that each and every employee of the federal govt be elected to prevent the horr
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by khriss 5mo ago
Because Trump is a new, and (hopefully!) a one time phenomenon. He is unique in that he seems to have absolute control over the Republican base which makes all internal party checks fail. The rest is provided by a hyper polarized media land
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by khriss 5mo ago
I can understand why this change happened. Even if American equipment is superior, there is a lot of value to not depending on a supposed 'ally' which * Arbitrarily slapped high tariffs on all goods from Canada while exempting Rus
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by khriss 5mo ago
Seems very similar to the Indian concept of 'Chalta Hai'!
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by khriss 5mo ago
The performative cruelty is the intent, I guess. At this point, seems like the only practical thing to do is to wait the lunatic out. However, the big question this will leave for future immigrants is 'What if this current administra
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by khriss 5mo ago
Unions aren't just about protecting jobs. They play a critical role in job conditions as well. The most obvious example is the unpaid overtime we all are forced to provide (on call, weekend work to meet crazy exec deadlines etc) simply
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by khriss 5mo ago
> even though they seem to largely be little more than daytime homeless shelters and free internet for perverts And, of course you know this to be objectively true and hence can produce a valid source for your claim?
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by khriss 5mo ago
You mean smart things like going into a war with zero plans beyond the first day, bombing girl's schools, then being forced to run away by a country whose entire GDP is less than your military budget?
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by khriss 5mo ago
As opposed to the orange clown who changes his stance daily and sometimes hourly? Yeah, of course.
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by khriss 5mo ago
And how exactly is SpaceX going to make any meaningful ROI on getting Mars orbit capability? It's not like people and govt's are raring to get there. Scientific organizations like NASA would jump on a Mars Starship in a heartbeat,
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by khriss 5mo ago
> Elon has control and optimizes for cool shit and going to Mars This trope needs to die. SpaceX has no plans to go to Mars. Elon meanwhile regularly says forward looking stuff to attempt to justify the lofty valuations of his compan
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by khriss 5mo ago
> self driving Aren't we still waiting for that?
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by khriss 5mo ago
If you read my comment, I asked if Americans are happier than people in developed countries. How many million Europeans, Canadians or Australians are risking their lives to come to the US? Sure, if you're from say, Haiti, even the US
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by khriss 5mo ago
> its no accident that the U.S. is the number one economy Sure, it's the largest by GDP, but how much of that GDP is filtering down to the regular people? Are Americans, on average happier and have better life outcomes than other de
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by khriss 5mo ago
The worst part, simultaneously soul crushing and apocalyptic rage inducing is that we get these outcomes after spending more per capita on healthcare than pretty much any country on the planet.
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by khriss 5mo ago
Ahh, so you mean the bases are fully functional and all personnel are back there?
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by khriss 5mo ago
> Russia doesn't benefit from this energy spike, No? https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/11/iran-war-russia-putin-t... > Data suggests that Moscow has already made billions of dollars of addition
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by khriss 5mo ago
No, this is what the madman in the White House failed to anticipate, even though he was explicitly told that this would happen.

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