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by psd1 2y ago
GDP is a crappy measure of a nation's wealth. It's a passable measure of the financial class's wealth, which is not the same thing at all. The use of GDP as the headline number in demagoguery is a psyop
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by psd1 2y ago
You're pushing my buttons like a pro. It looks deliberate. Let the record state that this account got into my inbox in the seconds between my reply and me blocking it. Zero time spent in reflection. If there's a human behind that
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by psd1 2y ago
I agree but also don't. I crave authenticity. I recognise the creativity and talent in digital painting, but it lacks authenticity. I hardly feel I'll like AI art more. Not all art needs to be high art, of course. I've bought
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by psd1 2y ago
Worse than that: https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by psd1 2y ago
This is not a new thought to me or my gen x /millennial cohort. However, it made some amorphous thoughts crystalise. Economics doesn't understand Maslow's pyramid. I don't give a snotty fuck if stonk go up or we have mor
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by psd1 2y ago
I don't know, or care, how the fuck you got that. Please block me.
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by psd1 2y ago
Yep. Or Australia, where all providers are private but most are free at point of service, should you choose, or if you pay out of pocket you can claim a rebate. I went as a young man. I may have misunderstood how it works. I don't know
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by psd1 2y ago
Irony. Consensus today is that the earth is 4 billion years old.
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by psd1 2y ago
It's perfectly valid. The word you're looking for is "reliable". If we were discussing the virgin birth, I wouldn't put any stock in the Bible. The gospels were written after the fact, by people who weren't the
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Oops. I've spoken enough already in the thread, but I do want to thank you for the correction. In my defense, I'm attempting to perform data operations on a kilo of fatty grey meat from a savanna hominid. I've been meaning to
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by psd1 2y ago
user fldsk means to say 6000 year history, of course. But I'm willing to come down on that, since Genesis is a bit of a chronological hand-wave. I'm relying on whatever Synod counted the ages of people in the talks and arrived at
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by psd1 2y ago
No, let me instead tell you about my healthcare experience in America. I wanted to get travel vaccinations in New Orleans. In my ignorance, I just looked up a clinic and went. Apparently I don't understand the coding for black clinic.
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by psd1 2y ago
I was asking about Switzerland, since you brought it up. It's a fascinating place, I'm keen to hear your observations. Don't conflate bankruptcies. _Purely financial_ bankruptcy is recoverable, given good health and time. (No
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by psd1 2y ago
Is medical bankruptcy common in Switzerland? 600chf sounds like passable value for money, as long as you get excellent care and as long as that's all you pay. But my concern is always what happens to the poor. Yeah, yeah, the Swiss are
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by psd1 2y ago
Well, that was interesting. What I'm unclear on is whether "health spending", in this analysis, is defined as money paid to care providers such as hospitals and dentists, or money paid by citizens for healthcare. Because you&
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by psd1 2y ago
That sounds a bit like "VAT can't be too bad because we can just not apply it", which I don't find convincing. I agree that it's an easy tax to collect, and I think that's very important. I fundamentally disagr
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by psd1 2y ago
Yes, I suspect I've made a distinction without a difference. You're right.
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by psd1 2y ago
VAT is regressive. Poor people spend a higher fraction of their income on vat-applicable goods. I'm against it on that basis.
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by psd1 2y ago
> Washington, New York, Miami and Stoke It's about time Miami got some international recognition.
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I'd say he wrote that just after reading Snow Crash in about 1998
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by psd1 2y ago
You're new to HN, right? We don't behave like this here. I'm referring to the pugnacious tone, but the certainty in the absence of evidence is also a bit gauche. So you know, chazza banks with coutts. I reckon he could draw m
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by psd1 2y ago
The reg article suggests not: > ...then the next planned feature is wireless display support. At present, you can't dock the phone and use it as a PC with a keyboard and mouse, which is a shame. Apparently, the IO lines needed for a
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by psd1 2y ago
Are you suffering from burnout? There's an undercurrent of despair in your comment. Don't do it to yourself, you only get one brain. Help us available. DM me if you want.
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by psd1 2y ago
Alternate explanation: the copy was bashed out late at night by an engineer in crunch mode. Don't parse "covfefe", discard it.
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by psd1 2y ago
Agree that it's not cheap for a mobile phone, but it is cheap for a low-volume custom phone. To get under €150, you need volume and bundling.
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Alternative conjecture. People give more consistently in more pro-social societies. But those societies are poorer, with lower percentage of computer ownership and programming skills. So they give things like care and food. Trying to spin t
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by psd1 2y ago
Games lay out one game. Document readers lay out every possible document.
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by psd1 2y ago
Hmm. Maybe for a model that attracts hobbyists. But they have to cross the manufacturer's moat, and those guys do not want you to repair your own shit. Superfastmatt on YT put a 50s jag on a tesla drivetrain. But, IIRC, he took care no
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by psd1 2y ago
Powershell doesn't care about line endings, and hasn't since 2006 when v2 was launched. I have never seen v1 installed but
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by psd1 2y ago
I think we need the word "postdiluvian". You wanted "ante", not "anti", btw

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