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by lend000 6y ago
This really is one of the most interesting and consequential economic questions of our time. And I do imagine we will get an answer, because there is no political will to cut spending anymore. The reason that all this stimulus hasn't a
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by lend000 6y ago
Everybody in the industry is making predictions (with 0 dollars on the line) constantly, so cherry-picking different credentialed people to support a narrative is pointless. Especially in the field of macroeconomics where a few individuals
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by lend000 6y ago
> gouging workers and consumers Nice passion piece, looking to stir up some emotions with willful ignorance, and a prominent donation link. How are consumers being gouged? They are arguably benefitting the most. Just because companies be
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by lend000 6y ago
Posting the Mick West explanation is the go-to response for critics who have done the bare minimum research. And I have to give him credit -- his explanation of parallax as it pertains to Go-Fast is compelling and probably accurate. We don&
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by lend000 6y ago
16% having personally seen something seems a bit high for your logic [0]. Granted, I don't have data for the "close encounters," so most of these will be distant or unclear, short observations with prosaic explanations. I&#x2
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by lend000 6y ago
Dropbox has executed its business well. While I'm certain they are working on some things unrelated to their core business, I can't imagine you need thousands of employees to keep things running smoothly and make incremental impro
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by lend000 6y ago
Also a response to the sibling comment: at a certain point you need to actually look into it yourself/read linked articles before commenting. If you look at the truly mass sightings throughout history (that I know of), most of them hav
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by lend000 6y ago
> Whenever an actual event occurs (meteor, explosion, and so on) we have video footage from multiple angles uploaded almost immediately. There are a few problematic assumptions in this line of thinking: you assume the event is as dramati
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by lend000 6y ago
If I linked 50 videos and photos (you could easily find some yourself with a search engine), I suspect you would say something like "look how easily you could do this with CGI." Sure, it's true, but using that No True Scotsma
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by lend000 6y ago
> it's difficult to recant without losing face Not sure if that applies to this highly derided topic. I do agree the mass hysteria angle has a place in the digestion of all these accounts, but what is the mechanism? Is it reproducib
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by lend000 6y ago
Many of these are correspondences with random people with varying levels of credibility. Taken alone, we can't draw any conclusion from a single person claiming an observation of a UFO. Statistically, however, there needs to be a convi
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by lend000 6y ago
Considering that all of his wealth is tied up in TSLA and SpaceX, allowing him control (and resulting in their success based on taking risks), and considering that he reinvests most of his excess capital back into his companies, your answer
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by lend000 6y ago
If this isn't an efficient allocation of resources by a free market system then I don't know what is. Not that the current system doesn't have plenty of problems and challenges to solve, but here is the single most productive
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by lend000 6y ago
That's fascinating. It sounds like there is some overlap with hypochondria. I am especially interested in the hallucinatory angle, which seems to be outside the scope of DSM. Is there a mental illness that might explain someone having
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by lend000 6y ago
A bit off-topic but I'm sure there are some experts perusing this thread: What are some examples of mental illnesses that would result in someone making up or hallucinating an extraordinary, single, formative event in their life, and s
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by lend000 6y ago
Not to mention, if you look at inflation rates by decade, the Fed has historically done a terrible job of keeping inflation rates at the 2% target level since Bretton Woods [0]. That isn't even considering that most government inflatio
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by lend000 6y ago
I do apologize for singling you out personally. That was unnecessary, and you did nothing to deserve it. > I disagree that most opposition to conspiracy theories comes from fear of having to adjust one's worldview, or that logic and
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by lend000 6y ago
Ridiculous conspiracies are a real problem, and certainly exacerbated by social media, but are not as significant as closed-mindedness, in my opinion. Not that closed-mindedness as a human trait is really a solvable problem (nor is paranoid
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by lend000 6y ago
It's the tone, hyperbole, and dishonesty that is earning you ire. You are arguing against a point no one made to claim something obvious that goes without saying on a place like HN, and using hyperbole to make your imagined opponents s
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by lend000 6y ago
This: it's transparent and embarrassing when someone uses hyperbole to misrepresent and discredit someone else's opinion. Yet it's one of the most common forms of "debate" on the internet. I've found it's
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by lend000 6y ago
Of course, no one suggests that you accept every claim, but instead that you truly evaluate them, especially those with compelling arguments and evidence. Most people struggle to distinguish between ridiculous and taboo. There is a differen
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by lend000 6y ago
Unproven theories that threaten someone's worldview are typically met with the same reaction as an opposing political opinions, and for similar reasons. Rarely is it based in logic and consideration, since adjusting one's worldvie
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by lend000 6y ago
By your logic, the problem is not that people are willingly signing up to drive for Uber, but that the government has failed to foster an economic environment in which "poverty" is an option that plenty of drivers will willingly c
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by lend000 6y ago
The part about frequency drift was interesting to me. They covered all the possible explanations I can think of (the source of the signal was orbiting, an object accelerating toward us, or the raw signal itself had increasing frequency). Ho
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by lend000 6y ago
Anecdotally, my WFH lifestyle didn't change much at all during lockdown, but I experienced long haul symptoms, which for a few months included not being able to sleep much and waking up very early. That part seems to have improved, for
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by lend000 6y ago
A more apt comparison would be incomes vs. (GDP / size of labor force). Therefore GDP growth should always be higher than individual income if the size of the labor population is growing. However, the article is more-so comparing how t
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by lend000 6y ago
Not to mention it has double the population of Australia and 80x the population density.
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by lend000 6y ago
If geography and population density have nothing to do with it, then I suppose California isn't one of the world epicenters right now. Australia has a lower population than California, by the way. Obviously, its pop is mostly spread ov
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by lend000 6y ago
And islands. Australia may be a continent, but its low population density and lack of roads connecting it to more populous regions is certainly a contributing factor. All of the countries doing best are either authoritarian or effectively p
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by lend000 6y ago
Are these numbers inflation adjusted? The difference would be far more dramatic if not.

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