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by np- 3y ago
> Before the pandemic, I already made a lot more money (as a lawyer) than my middle class neighbors. Now I also get to work from home three days a week, and get a lot more quality time with my kids, while they have to go to work every da
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by np- 3y ago
> In a culture that accepts widespread card fraud, costs increase to offset it. Maybe, maybe not, but this is a very simplistic way of looking at it. If credit card fraud is responsible for X% of total charges, they can spend effort to d
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by np- 3y ago
A gamble? But who’s paying off the “gambling loss” during a layoff? Because it’s certainly not the person making the bet.
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by np- 3y ago
If foreign money decides to entirely stop spending in developing economies and only spends money in developed economies, it seems like the outcome would be even worse. As in, developing economies will never develop and developed economies w
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by np- 3y ago
You really think traffic is filled with 5 people in a car? Try looking around in a traffic jam, it’s like 95% 1-2 people occupancy. At 5 people, just paying the congestion charge starts to make sense. Also you could always split the differe
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by np- 3y ago
That would still raise a lot of questions right? Who hired the babysitter and what kind of vetting did they do? How did the fire start, was it due to poor maintenance and who was responsible for that? Why did none of the automated fire safe
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by np- 3y ago
My view is that this is entirely predictable: Once you start tying feedback to compensation outcomes, then it’s only the truly privileged who can afford to give that frank and critical feedback. Everyone else goes into survival mode and fig
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by np- 3y ago
Not gonna lie, this sounds pretty personal from the way you're trying to rationalize this. None of this mental gymnastics you're doing makes any sense at all.
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by np- 3y ago
To be clear, you’re saying that memorizing a sequence of multiple choice answers (like ABBCADADD etc…) is not “cheating” and equivalent to properly learning the material? Yeah… I don’t think you’d have many people agreeing with you there.
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by np- 3y ago
> it's kinder to say, "your hair looks like my nana's and she's been dead for 10 years" then it is to let dozens of folks think the same thing of them. I have a couple friends who would tell me the first thing --
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by np- 3y ago
All of this deduction you just did requires prior knowledge of the existence of logic tests and that written tests work like that, which is purely modern cultural knowledge. No one is born knowing that a “written test” is a thing. There was
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by np- 3y ago
Ok… but you seem to be completely missing the fact that there literally ARE actually elephants in Germany. In zoos. So if you know this fact a priori, and the test says the statement “there are no elephants in Germany. How many elephants ar
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by np- 3y ago
Is it though? It’s pretty easy to read the first line as something like “Elephants are not native to Germany” and then assume the Munich question is a trick question. In fact the person who answers 1 or 2 because of the possibility of a zoo
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by np- 4y ago
> If you care deeply about privacy, should you be online at all? Er I’m not following this logic at all. If you care passionately about something that is at odds with current society, then you are no longer supposed to be part of this so
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by np- 4y ago
Not just an American thing, try jaywalking in Germany, they consider it so offensive that even some mothers will shield their children’s eyes to prevent them seeing you do it. You must be British, thinking you speak for the world ;)
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by np- 4y ago
How do you envision that happening? There’s no big database of people’s medical conditions out there that you can use to lookup their name and address, so it’s kind of like an impossible reverse lookup that would need to be done right? Unle
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by np- 4y ago
To be pedantic, the US has never been a democracy, it has always been a republic and it was built in to give land equal or more power than individuals. Though I don’t deny that it seems to be either in or approaching a failure mode (though
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by np- 4y ago
These all seem super arbitrary - like Product development for example, who says that commercial development isn't artistic? So if there's money involved it's not art...? What about video games, I am pretty sure a lot of peopl
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by np- 4y ago
Pair programming? That’s multiple people being creative together with nothing to do with music or performance. I think there are plenty of examples of collaborative creativity.
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by np- 4y ago
To be fair, I think allowing flights a year in advance is probably far more complicated than just updating the underlying date format. Even if they were able to solve that problem, airlines probably can't easily operationally plan that
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by np- 4y ago
No, you are purely a number to them, it is very unlikely anyone cares or even is mildly interested in the full scope of the damage they’re causing. I have worked with companies like this, if you try to push them from the “guilt” angle they
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by np- 4y ago
Not directly related to the conclusion but I did find it interesting how they claimed the Mandarin study was identical but also clearly omitted some of the most initially “negatively” viewed topics like coronavirus, government, and politics
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by np- 4y ago
Attacks are a bit different than someone trying to access information, though. Much like it is illegal to punch someone in the face, unless they try to punch you first.
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by np- 4y ago
Is there really common sense though? A similarly low stakes example, when public drinking was banned in NYC in 1979, there was a direct quote from the council member who sponsored it that basically implied the same thing, that proper judgme
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by np- 4y ago
Never implied that you are a shill at all. Just that I have noticed a common theme on HackerNews where people tend to comment as if they "know it all" (and maybe you do, how do I know). I just want to make aware that this article
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by np- 4y ago
I have no dog in the fight, but I did find it interesting that the top comment on HN for the Alameda article written by this very exact author was very similar in tone completely dismissing the article and saying it's total nonsense, a
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by np- 4y ago
This does make sense that cryptocurrency doesn't necessarily have any intrinsic value, but I also feel like there's going to be a bit of a "Bart Simpson" effect. If you tell people exactly what they _can't_ do, you
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by np- 4y ago
That’s only because we have limited the scope and definition of “work” to just mean doing a job or task to earn money doing tasks for someone else’s interests. Most people probably hate the concept of a job, but I think human beings have an
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by np- 4y ago
Banning is the "easy solution"--just as easy as banning alcohol, drugs, and gambling has been in the past. What banning money exchanges will do is 1) drive it underground to money exchanges being done by unsavory characters who ha
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by np- 4y ago
Isn’t that unethical though? Preserving the right to make arbitrary decisions and favor some people over others? Most of the entire human history of conflict seems to be because of this reason of arbitrary unfairness.

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