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by lowkey 2y ago
From the article, the biggest discrepancy between CPI and true inflation is a result of a change in the formula made in 1987 that removed interst rates aka the cost of money from CPI. The CPI formula replaced the actual cost of financing ho
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by lowkey 2y ago
In modern manufacturing, identifying and understanding bottlenecks in the process is key to knowing how to improve throughput. One of the best resources to learn about manufacturing optimization aka the Theory of Constraints is a novel call
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by lowkey 3y ago
Bitcoin’s value can most simply be explained by contrasting it with a fiat money supply controlled by successive governments and central banks who are addicted to printing money. They know that this hurts consumers and businesses by stealin
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by lowkey 3y ago
I agree and would add the following criteria to identify the few rare cases where it is worth it to meet a hard deadline and where cutting scope is not an option. Specifically, if meeting the deadline is so important that it justifies unpla
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by lowkey 3y ago
This is a great article with some valuable insights. I also noticed that it is part of a larger series of articles on Software Estimation which in my experience is one of the most challenging aspects of development in any organization. Wort
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by lowkey 3y ago
It seems like the market has determined that Bitcoin is a much better store of value than it is a transactional currency. Also, I would argue that the primary force driving the price higher right now is the emergence of Bitcoin ETFs. At the
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by lowkey 3y ago
I agree that greedflation is very much a thing. When many competitors do this, it makes it easier for others to do the same. However, I find it frustrating that so many articles, economists and the government consistently fail to mention th
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by lowkey 3y ago
Respectfully disagree. Inflation is cumulative in its effects. Up 17.1% in a single year outweighs 2% annual inflation over many years in its impact on the consumer. It is much more revealing than an average figure which can bury the total
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by lowkey 3y ago
Adding some detail to your points 1 and 2, the ETFs are currently buying up over 12,000 coins per day and growing. The miners are producing 900 coins per day which will fall to 450 coins per day in 40 days due to the halving. Demand is outp
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by lowkey 3y ago
MIT's existing endowment is nearly $30 Billion. Why single out a particular private individual or his publicly traded company when you could simply pressure the institution itself to make tuition free?
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by lowkey 3y ago
There have been some concepts proposed for gravity based pumped storage that do not rely on existing terrain. I find the concept compelling as it is incredibly simple but it hasn't yet been proven at scale. https://gravity-s
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by lowkey 3y ago
Depending on the scale of your project, two excellent free options that I've used for smaller projects are: * Trello - simple and effective for smaller projects * Linear.app - more powerful and beautiful UX with similar capabilities to
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by lowkey 3y ago
I don’t think it is possible to end the derogatory use of the term conspiracy theorist universally, but I do have some hope that we can put a stop to it’s use as an ad hominem here on Hacker News. It is never used in the spirit of promoting
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by lowkey 3y ago
> I’m not a conspiracy nut I think that term has lost all meaning. A more appropriate term for someone who no longer blindly trusts expert consensus without question is an inquisitive skeptic who takes in expert opinions and applies reas
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by lowkey 3y ago
> Commercially viable fusion energy. Will change a lot of things. I would be curious if anyone with knowledge in the space could comment on whether or not LK-99 may get us closer to viable nuclear fusion? My understanding is that magneti
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by lowkey 3y ago
The primary purpose of the CIA is to maintain a continuous pipeline of endless wars to fuel the military industrial complex. All other goals are secondary. This has been true since the CIA and LBJ assassinated John F Kennedy in a coup to ov
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by lowkey 3y ago
The primary purpose of the CIA is to maintain a continuous pipeline of endless wars to fuel the military industrial complex. All other goals are secondary. This has been true since the CIA and LBJ assassinated John F Kennedy in a coup to ov
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by lowkey 3y ago
> If you listened to RFK jr on Lex recently you heard many many examples. Could you provide one or two such examples so we can evaluate for ourselves?
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by lowkey 3y ago
It’s true, RFK Jr. doesn’t seem to attract much funding from big pharma, big banks or the military industrial complex compared to other candidates. I wonder why?
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by lowkey 3y ago
> RFK Jr is a public idiot I’m just curious if anyone else finds the ad hominem attacks without any supporting arguments tiresome. If you disagree with a person’s positions or proposals, by all means cite specific critiques, but calling
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by lowkey 3y ago
Could I make a humble suggestion? It sounds like you are very knowledgeable and are actively interested on the topic of HIV/AIDS. If someone with your background would take the time to read RFK’s book on Fauci with a critical mind and
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by lowkey 3y ago
The thing that made me question the narrative on RFK Jr was a random Twitter comment that pointed out that he had written a best-selling book that went after Bill Gates with some absolutely devastating claims yet Bill Gates with all his bil
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by lowkey 3y ago
> He encouraged Samoans to stop taking the measles vaccine in 2019 I agree. When children die it is a tragedy full stop. Now let’s do the DTP vaccine in Africa. In 1979 the original DTP vaccine was introduced in the US. It was discovered
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Epistemology – how do we know what we think we know(en.wikipedia.org)
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by lowkey 3y ago
You were being intellectually dishonest by repeatedly ignoring the core point of my argument about the Indian market, even after I openly acknowledged the error about the date on the original video. I’m genuinely sorry this argument got so
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by lowkey 3y ago
> I disagree. There, proven wrong. Happy? On what basis do you disagree? What is your explanation? > Then we are in agreement that the Pfizer CEO acted fully correctly No, the CEO did not act fully correctly. In fact he lied to the wo
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by lowkey 3y ago
We agree that Pfizer choosing not to run a trial to gain access to the single largest market in the world for their vaccine is highly suspect. If you didn’t agree that this decision by the CEO was suspicious, you would have said so and expl
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by lowkey 3y ago
I will admit that when I initially posted the video I did not know when it was taken. Do you admit it is highly suspicious for a for profit Pharma company to forego the profits on a single market that is larger than both the US and the EU c
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by lowkey 3y ago
How was it misleading? By his own admission he didn’t take the vaccine. Do you agree it is fishy that a for profit Pharma company would choose to forego a market of 1.38 billion customers simply because they would have been required to do l
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by lowkey 3y ago
I don’t know when the video was taken. It could have been early in the pandemic. I saw that video and found it odd that the CEO didn’t take his own vaccine in the middle of a pandemic - that’s all. What does concern me, is the reason why Pf

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