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by rank0 4y ago
The majority of Americans do not have a college degree. You should read the article!
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by rank0 4y ago
Dismissing an opposing view as “lacking nuance” doesn’t really add much nuance to the discussion. The fact of the matter is most Americans do not have a college degree. You can perform all the mental gymnastics you want but at the end of th
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by rank0 4y ago
The higher education system we have is broken. We are pouring money into a system that apparently doesn’t enable graduates to pay off their loans. Your answer is to subsidize further? Colleges will continue increasing tuition and pumping ou
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by rank0 4y ago
Yes exactly like living in a HCOL area. Why on earth should blue collar workers pay federal income tax so graduates can better afford their insane NYC or Bay Area rent? It’s regressive and does nothing to stop tuition and housing inflation.
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by rank0 4y ago
Why we would want to subsidize more expensive lifestyles? College graduates in HCOL areas are very far down on my list of people who need government assistance.
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by rank0 4y ago
We weren’t doing QE until 2008 and the scale of the deficit is quite a bit different. CPI is such a wack metric. It doesn’t really measure so much the value of the USD as it does “prices of certain things”.
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by rank0 4y ago
5% annual return on an investment will take 20 years to break even regardless of the underlying instrument (or ~15 years if compounding). With bonds or equities you will either be paid the face value of that bond or still own shares that ho
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by rank0 4y ago
Oh I think I get it. If everything is just served by Adsense then you only need to pay a single monthly bill to Adsense rather than individual sites. Fascinating idea indeed!
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by rank0 4y ago
So this seems feasible for site that you visit frequently. But how would you handle the random one off articles? There are plenty of domains in my history that I’ve only visited like 1-2 times.
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by rank0 4y ago
Oh I see that’s an interesting idea. But you’ll still need a way to send very small sums of money without an outrageous payment processing fee.
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by rank0 4y ago
It’s kinda like Brave right? I wish this were a reality but it’s gonna be a tough battle. Micro transactions are a tough problem…and I definitely don’t want to have to buy some silly crypto token. You’re gonna need a team of engineers, lawy
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by rank0 4y ago
This is insane and these people are clearly not interested in charity. They’re selling an “investment” with no legal guarantees. You don’t own anything like equity or a bond which are contracts with regulatory oversight. What’s the lifespan
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by rank0 4y ago
My comment isn’t a hard rule or anything. Sounds like you have the opposite problem! You’re probably in the minority here. Also it’s not just the technical implementation that I’m talking about. Creating a business is hard.
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by rank0 4y ago
Ideas are cheap. Implementation is the hard part!
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by rank0 4y ago
It’s longer term. CPI just measures a weighted prices of a basket of goods/services. In reality, the purchasing power of the dollar moves quite a bit outside the CPI basket because people absolutely spend their capital outside that bas
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by rank0 4y ago
Full agree. The article touches on my main complaint: Manjaro comes with an AUR helper but does not use Arch repositories. Think about how silly that is. One of your distros main selling point is automatic AUR access! The AUR packages depen
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by rank0 4y ago
I think it’s easy to miss some of the very real pain lower income folks are experiencing right now if you’re not in their bracket. Inflation causes excess capital to flow into assets, which the poor don’t have and HN commenters do. The infl
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by rank0 4y ago
How do you detect curl | bash server side?
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by rank0 4y ago
What the fuck. I’m a big time crypto hater but this is absurd. Are we really moving back in this direction? Let’s just ban math because criminals use cryptography.
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by rank0 4y ago
> Because a lot of price hikes haven't been because of inflation. They've exceeded inflation. Another word for that is "profiteering" (or "price gouging"). It's the reason why it's typically iellga
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by rank0 4y ago
How on earth is a windfall tax supposed to reduce inflation? Adding taxes makes goods/services more expensive. You would be removing the incentive to produce more oil. Why would an energy company invest enormous amounts of time and cap
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by rank0 4y ago
Yup! They operate independently and congress has no authority over Fed actions. Although the President does appoint the chairman. Most of the time nobody wants to rock the boat…so for example both Trump and Biden selected Powell as the curr
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by rank0 4y ago
Here’s how it happens: 1. The annual congressional budget has a massive deficit every year. Our government is currently ~30T in debt. 2. In order to make up the difference between tax revenue and spending, the treasury sells bonds. 3. The c
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by rank0 4y ago
It is absolutely uncommon. What percent of senior engineers do you think make 500k?! Maybe if you do some funny math with assumed stock option prices and price in value of PTO, etc you might get a few percent…
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by rank0 4y ago
If you subscribe to game theory the end game means that you MUST develop this technology in case your adversaries are doing the same. Humanity will never hold hands and sing kumbayah together.
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by rank0 4y ago
Anyone looking for a pleasant systems language check out Nim. It’s the most fun I’ve had programming in a long time!
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by rank0 4y ago
Excellent work Justine! You consistently create interesting high quality projects and it’s turned me into a fan :) Keep it up! I’ll be upping my sponsorship in the hopes that you can continue doing this full time.
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by rank0 4y ago
Are you serious? Go look up the federal budget. The majority of our spending is for social services. We’re $30T in debt. We can’t even afford what we’ve got now.
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by rank0 4y ago
I would love to hear your explanation for that claim. They have publicly entered legal battles over compliance with LE requests. The government doesn’t have the resources to compromise every online service. There’s money on the line for ent
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by rank0 4y ago
After seeing the market’s reaction to %1.5 interest rates I’m terrified for %5.

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