mmooss

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by mmooss 2y ago
Adults run through things in their heads, sometimes repeatedly, sometimes obsessively for much of their lives (in the case of trauma). We just feel too limited to act it out with toys - but why not? We'll even watch movies, plays, read
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by mmooss 2y ago
The question is, why don't you have an imaginary friend? It doesn't preclude Homo sapiens friends.
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by mmooss 2y ago
> Nor would it be surprising if he was a "spy" or even a double agent. It would be very surprising. How many spies and 'double agents' are there?
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by mmooss 2y ago
Two weeks isn't much. The government could have been working on this issue and talking to the university for much longer than two weeks.
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by mmooss 2y ago
Politics is, to a great extent, a consequence of social interactions such as on HN. HN is a community of relatively wealthy, well-educated, and influential people - not often the most influential, but people who are hardly powerless.
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by mmooss 2y ago
The Department of Homeland Security is not an undocumented immigrant, nor is the court system. They are required to document what they do.
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by mmooss 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43522519
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by mmooss 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43526555
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by mmooss 2y ago
How much velocity loss would be needed for an impact on the environment, or on some humans someplace?
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by mmooss 2y ago
I see. Communication is tricky.
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by mmooss 2y ago
That was 2008, which was an extraordinary event - many say it was the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. People are claiming bank bailouts are regular events - are there recent ones?
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by mmooss 2y ago
> animal vegetable mineral also seems to have held up okay…? It’s a culinary thing Interesting - Linnaeus (and possibly contemporaries and predecessors) were maybe biased too look at the world through eating: The hunted, the grown, and t
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by mmooss 2y ago
Two overlooked aspect of the research: First, an object of the research is pre-human ancestors' tool use: > Physical evidence of early hominin perishable tools is scarce. However, it is reasonable to assume the mechanical constraint
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by mmooss 2y ago
Where do you get that information?
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by mmooss 2y ago
That's what small government, anti-welfare political groups say about student loans (and it's popular on places like HN), but it doesn't match basic microeconomics. If demand goes up and then prices follow, then the market at
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by mmooss 2y ago
What metrics are available on these things? Is it based on a survey?
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by mmooss 2y ago
Could you give some examples?
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by mmooss 2y ago
I think there will be more with Trump in office, the Republicans controlling Congress, and as the federal government supports cryptocurrency. The FDIC's decision I think will increase fraud.
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by mmooss 2y ago
And lack of bank regulation to prevent their failures rather than just clean up after them. Even with all the tools, 2008 caused great harm.
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by mmooss 2y ago
It's the same mistake misconceiving of fraud rather than risk: The issue isn't its existance - of course there will be some somewhere - but the degree. It's like saying it rains everywhere - which is true - so everywhere is t
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by mmooss 2y ago
I understand the philosophical concepts about money, fiat, productivity, etc. I don't understand what you mean beyond that: It seems like - maybe I misunderstand - you are dismissing money as a store of economic value; a means of liqui
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by mmooss 2y ago
Parazoa (e.g., sponges), radially-symmetrical creatures (jellyfish, corals, etc.), acoelomates (flatworms, I think), pseudocoelomates (nematode parasites, roundworms), echinodermata (sand dollars, sea urchins, etc), lophotrochozoans (mollus
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by mmooss 2y ago
Edit: G. Branden Robinson (note spelling) is the maintainer of groff. https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/
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by mmooss 2y ago
CDOs allowed more finance to flow to housing, which in itself is a good thing - we need more housing. The problem was that the investments were highly risky - to the point of almost certain disaster - and regulators and most of the financia
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by mmooss 2y ago
It hasn't been going on for decades. Prior banking crises were because of holes in regulation (and of course bad behavior by banks) that were unknown to the public, regulators, and most of the banking industry. Regulators didn't g
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by mmooss 2y ago
It's the opposite. Regulated banks do not blow up - that's the point of regulation, to prevent those disasters. See my comment in this same subthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43510850
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by mmooss 2y ago
Regulated banks are designed specifically not to blow up, because they take the money of innocents, of taxpayers, and the rest of the economy with them. That was a cause of the Great Depression, the 'Great Recession' of 2008, and
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by mmooss 2y ago
What damages are the courts referring to?
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by mmooss 2y ago
It's not your own. You write mostly for others to read.
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by mmooss 2y ago
> Institute for Justice You should know who you are donating to (even if you decide to donate). Institute for Justice is a Koch-funded operation that has been focused on their agenda more than civil rights. Possibly my information is som

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