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by nostromo 3y ago
There is plenty of blame to go around. The writing for new shows is predicable and boring. Actors are featureless blobs that all look the same. Movies and shows seem to be eye-rollingly preachy and talk down to audiences. The whole indu
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by nostromo 3y ago
The article mentions habitat destruction and agriculture as the driving issue, not climate change. > The hardest hit were grassland birds, down by more than 50 percent, mostly due to the expansion of farms that turn a varied landscape in
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by nostromo 3y ago
Not really, finance is global now. Money printing in the US can and does drive up prices in China, and vice-versa.
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Rich people don't hide wads of cash in their mattress and aren't hurt by inflation. Poor people do live paycheck to paycheck, and often their paychecks lag inflation. And that's why inflation usually hurts the poor first an
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by nostromo 3y ago
Jerome Powell himself admitted they overdid stimulus, massively contributing to inflation.
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by nostromo 3y ago
Both were the problem. The Federal Reserve buying up 1.5 trillion dollars of mortgages around 2020, for example, surely contribute to housing cost inflation. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WSHOMCB
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by nostromo 3y ago
> Does the Fed deserve credit for handling the situation "correctly" despite lots of potential criticisms both ways? Probably. Fed causes massive problem, and then eventually stops it from getting worse... Hooray? Inflation is
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by nostromo 3y ago
Central banks need to have a very focused mission: a stable currency. They shouldn't get into the game of picking winners and losers. But if the government itself wants to tax or borrow in order to subsidize loans for housing, that&#x
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by nostromo 3y ago
The effect magnitude seems about the same as that between obesity and long Covid, sever Covid, and Covid mortality. I wonder if this gene is also associated with higher BMI.
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by nostromo 3y ago
But they shouldn't assume that. I just had this exact experience because my phone was irrevocably ruined, so I needed to pick a replacement up the same day. The Apple Store was a very poor experience with a sales agent I knew more than
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by nostromo 3y ago
Can you name some models or providers? I've been frustrated with OpenAI's constraints and would love to know my options.
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by nostromo 3y ago
The solution is to never have the agency giving the fine benefiting from the fine. The best solution (and, no, I'm not joking) would be destroy all funds raised in government fines, nationwide. Send the fines directly to the Federal R
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by nostromo 3y ago
I don't think we need silly stories of Musk and Zuck sending dumb memes to each other, challenging each other to a cage matches, or bragging about signups every fifteen minutes. This isn't HN-worthy.
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by nostromo 3y ago
It’s easy to be mad at Facebook, newspapers, Pinterest, Discord, etc. for locking the internet away behind a login or paywall. But it’s also the result of Google capturing all the value from the free internet. The end result is companies t
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by nostromo 3y ago
Intuition seems to me to be the point at which you really understand something - and it allows you to make progress and predictions about other phenomena. For example, I don’t think anyone has an intuitive understanding of quantum mechanics
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by nostromo 3y ago
I wonder what the chain of custody looked like for this card, from the printer to the store. I'm reminded of McDonald's Monopoly contest and how the person in charge of security for the game pieces was later found to have stolen a
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by nostromo 3y ago
Here's a much simpler approach: use the Brave browser on iOS and use the YouTube website. It blocks all YouTube ads, allows background playback and picture-in-picture, etc. You also get all of your regular YouTube features, like recomm
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by nostromo 3y ago
I prefer my husband's company when he's a bit tired because when he's well rested he can be "too much" -- his energy level, his anxiousness, his sense of humor, are all amplified, sometimes to an annoying degree. I&
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by nostromo 3y ago
I’m curious then if you also oppose Brown and Obergefell?
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by nostromo 3y ago
The whole point of a supreme court is to set precedent, as they have with many other decisions that you probably like, like Brown v. Board of Education and Obergefell v. Hodges. Besides, laws matter. If you want something done, you have to
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by nostromo 3y ago
This is false. Congress continues to pass a record number of bills, and often does so with broad bipartisan support. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acts_of_the_117th_Unit... The current situation is not at all
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by nostromo 3y ago
They also certified them prior to those fatal incidents.
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by nostromo 3y ago
Same here. I was swimming in a local lake last summer when I heard a faint voice from my watch. I look and it had unhelpfully called 911 and I was being asked what my emergency was.
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Companies were also seeking to maximize prices in the previous decade of record low inflation.
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Inflation is caused by monetary policy. Did profits increase? Potentially, yes. But they couldn't have increased without the enabling condition of massive money printing. Companies were trying to maximize profits before 2020. That h
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by nostromo 3y ago
I welcome people having a healthy fear of orcas. If you see orcas, you should move away from them and leave them alone. Some states, like Washington, are passing laws requiring that you stay a certain distance from them at all times.
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by nostromo 3y ago
> where a voter is entitled to vote by ownership of two (2) or more parcels of real property, that voter shall be entitled to only one (1) vote. This is the part that says that even if you own multiple (2 or more) LLCs, you can still onl
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by nostromo 3y ago
The bill seems to say that if 1,000 people own a parcel of property with a corporation, the corporation would get one vote. Also, if an individual owns many llcs, they only get one individual vote. So the absolute maximum votes would be cit
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That would be quite the loophole! Except it’s specifically outlawed in the bill. This also isn’t for Delaware the state, it’s for a small town in Delaware called Seaford. And remember, each llc has to own property in Seaford to vote in city
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This isn’t about all Delaware corporations, it’d only allow corporations that own property in the tiny town of Seaford to vote in Seaford.

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