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by lefrenchy 5y ago
Touché
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
I think removing embargos would help more than a volatile cryptocurrency.
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
If you genuinely think that the fight against COVID-19 is like 1984 i’m certain you haven’t engaged deeply with Orwell’s writings.
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
In the “ What the numbers really showed” you use the lack of vaccinated sample size to justify something for the unvaccinated, but then immediately use that small number to your advantage to say “if 24 people had died then the vaccinated wo
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
Yes and no, there are still workers per se but I don't think they exist with the conception of themselves as that (as much). During the 20th century when the labor movement was strong class consciousness existed and there was an appeti
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
> Rather than discovering high brow arts Some good old elitism from NYT. Worth mentioning that France has reduced prices to cultural expos for students, and there are plenty that are free! They can enjoy comic books AND art expos.
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
I mean it is, it’s not a contagious pathogen. Unless you think it’s normal that American society has more mass shootings than I can keep track of in recent memory then i’d call it an epidemic. People walking into churches, schools, concerts
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
Well it’s a good thing homicides aren’t a contagious disease then right? If not it might be under the jurisdiction of the Center For Disease Control.
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
Yeah, it's possibly true but I guess I'm just skeptical that glasses make it worse. It just seems like it would be easy to confuse the symptoms (eye elongation and axial myopia) as being caused by the glasses rather than just by w
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding here, but I don't think you should attribute the progression of myopia to your glasses. It's likely it would have happened regardless, correlation not causation.
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
Does anyone have actual experience reversing myopia? During the pandemic my eye sight worsened pretty quickly and I have glasses for the first time ever (presumably the worsening was already there but accelerated by being on my computer mor
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
I think that’s probably the right outlook, but how would you run their product through your stripe and take 3%? Wouldn’t that require the purchasers Stripe information to be a child of your Stripe account?
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
“the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” - David Graeber
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
She is one of the most powerful legislators in the country. If she lobbying and pushed for EV credits for instance, it could greatly affect the price of the stock. If she were to put up roadblocks to block inquiries into Tesla safety concer
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
We literally got to the moon before any billionaires bought joy rides to lower orbit, so what you’re saying is proven false already by history? It’s so insane to me that people honestly believe that we need billionaires to fund all their he
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
Regardless of returns, buying TSLA leap options is a terrible look and breaks down trust in institutions. How am I supposed to look at that and just trust that she isn’t influencing policy with her options trades in mind? It’s not even abou
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
I’m really not sure how trying to operate within the legal framework of a society is “surveillance” or “draconian control by propaganda” (the last two words you left unemphasized even though they change the meaning drastically). I guess sur
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
That example is entirely different, Amazon probably needs to have this functionality to process returns making it the same process for them to avoid legal ramifications. It would be Orwellian if they did it for their own ideological purpose
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
“Shutdown internal political activism”. You obviously haven’t read Orwell if you don’t think that’s equally or more Orwellian.
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
This feels like a lazy attribution of "Orwellian". This was a legal copyright issue which is pretty cut and dry, not Amazon silently deleting a book because of its ideological implications. I don't like Amazon, but this is a
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
Agreed, there will always be a lot of doom and gloomers predicting massive inflation but I think a lot of people just don't realize how much of our goods are dependent on international cheap labor (to keep prices low) and supply chains
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
I haven’t quite developed this thought but it seems to me like Bitcoin maxis want to solve what is inherently a political problem without politics. Decentralization is really just direct democracy, and without actually attacking that politi
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
Not to mention that rich people can pay the smartest legal scholars and financial gurus to find workarounds and engineer ways to make more money.
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
I think that's more directed at Electron than VimScript.
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
> With government monopolies you use their services at gunpoint I mean sure, in an authoritarian state that’s what happens. I’m just not convinced crypto is the solution? In order to evade being at gunpoint you’d essentially need all you
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
One thing that I find so confusing in the crypto maximalist sphere is the obsession with decentralization of everything but also with mainstream adoption. Coinbase is centralization, bank adoption is centralization, etc... Also if “fear of
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
If i’m correct you can get upwards of like 5-10% interest on those platforms? Can you simply explain to me where that money comes from? That just seems like an absurd amount of interest. Considering the crypto/inflation hawk intersecti
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
> Keep private life private. I kind of agree here but also feel like it could be isolating. Part of forming meaningful relationships that make you more successful is sharing some intimate things. It’s a double-edged sword of course, you
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
This is really cool! It doesn’t have much of a use case for me I don’t think, but regardless I find it super awesome. Nice work!
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by lefrenchy 5y ago
It shouldn’t just be taken at face value, that’s a really shallow commentary. It should be put in context of the working conditions that led to this kind thing.

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