rebelos

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by rebelos 5y ago
> Purely hypothetically, if there are string indications that parental socio-economic status influence the chances of their children. And that socio-economic status is somewhat (to strongly) correlated with previous race-influenced polic
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by rebelos 5y ago
> Thankfully, not enough to be politically relevant. Because the alternative is letting the world degrade to the point that we’re shipping that child out to a war. I think this is exactly what politicians would like you to believe. You s
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by rebelos 5y ago
There are some who believe that not even a single dollar should flow out to foreign aid so long as there is, for example, an American child experiencing hunger (and there are millions of them at this very moment).
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by rebelos 5y ago
I agree with everything you're saying save for this: > I live in a high-crime city in the northeast and as big component of my job is spending time in high-crime parts of cities all over the US (most recently, Chicago South Side, in
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by rebelos 5y ago
You raise a very important point and one that is difficult to discuss. I'm Asian and I grew up with parents who hewed rather closely to Asian culture. There are two values they championed essentially above all others, well known to mos
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by rebelos 5y ago
There are organizations dedicated to trying to ascertain the error in reported police shootings. They have found what is logically self-evident but that you refuse to accept: no reasonable suspicion of outsized error. > A recent report f
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by rebelos 5y ago
The problem is that when you sign up for a tribe, you experience an emotional obligation and social pressure to adopt its beliefs wholesale, even if that means jettisoning rationality along the way. This is an affliction that beleaguers bot
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by rebelos 5y ago
The suggestion that there is some significant number of police killings that are going unreported - especially in the environment of the past several years - is categorically conspiratorial thinking. It fails the barest of sanity checks whe
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by rebelos 5y ago
You can only believe this if you've fallen for the spin perpetrated by media outlets. The number of unarmed Black civilians killed by police each year is so small that you can fit the entire list of names and details since 2014 (31 tot
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by rebelos 5y ago
That's a pretty bold assertion when the M2 chart itself demonstrates that broad money supply has never contracted in any substantial way. Federal and corporate debt to GDP are also at historic highs, which is precisely the environment
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by rebelos 5y ago
The broad money supply has shot up by almost 33% in roughly one year: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL . Even though some prices have already gone up, we haven't felt the full effect of this yet because we&#
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by rebelos 5y ago
These are also precisely the kinds of things observed just before either (1) a market correction or (2) substantial inflation. This is not tenable.
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by rebelos 5y ago
This is the first time I'm looking closely at Clojure code and it seems wholly antithetical to the practice of software engineering. Not very readable, too many ways to create magical jank, odd coding conventions, and it looks like ref
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by rebelos 5y ago
It's also quite obvious that the net result of this will be companies preferring employees who live closer to work and bear a higher cost of housing.
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by rebelos 5y ago
HOA fees and other variable costs are usually rolled into the market price implicitly. Even in Manhattan, you see apartments with exorbitant HOA fees selling at sometimes significantly lower prices than ones without them. In fact, this can
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by rebelos 5y ago
This argument is a joke. Boudin is not pressing charges . The DA is entirely the problem here.
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by rebelos 5y ago
> Yes, but in monopoly law, the rules haven't changed from the perspective that Apple hasn't raised prices. Apple can lower them all they want, but if they raise them when they got their monopoly status so as to take advantage
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by rebelos 5y ago
> Apple hasn't changed the rules since, like, 2009 before they had the theoretical "monopoly" status. This couldn't be further from the truth. They have carved out many exceptions to the 30% commission over the years
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by rebelos 5y ago
What the hell kind of argument is this? This sounds like what the mafia would say if they were in control of the smartphone ecosystem. The free market isn't setting the fees that Apple and Google are charging because consumers aren&#x2
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by rebelos 5y ago
The real crime is that they prohibit developers from itemizing this fee for the consumer. That's what Epic et al should be focusing on. Customers would be aghast at the extractive abuse of monopoly power after having already paid (in m
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by rebelos 5y ago
So what's your portfolio breakdown?
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by rebelos 5y ago
As I've grown older, I've become more acutely aware of the tremendously unfair and largely indelible disparity that's inherent to being human. I seems like, controlling for epoch, one's parents essentially determine the
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by rebelos 5y ago
There's a sizable cabal of delusional crypto fanatics that lurk HN. And they're extra salty after this latest correction.
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by rebelos 5y ago
> payment for work generally in a currency that's not in a period of 'Transitory Inflation' And instead in a currency that's in a period of 'Transitory Panic Selloff'.
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by rebelos 5y ago
Having a high percentage of Asian Americans at your selective institution is now predictive for woke interventionism. Same thing is happening at Stuyvesant, TJHSST, etc. I'm very likely going to have my kids fudge their ethnicity to ga
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by rebelos 5y ago
Could you elaborate on this a bit? I don't have familiarity with that class of problems, so I'm having trouble understanding the obstacles. My naive instinct is that you would detect and store points of contact between the sensor
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by rebelos 5y ago
It hasn't gotten attention because they just re-centralized using exchanges and off-chain transactions. Just the latest episode of the fugazicoin clown show.
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by rebelos 5y ago
> If we narrowly pursued our comparative advantage without government investing in tech Why are you holding government R&D as mutually exclusive of free trade policy and an open economy? > we'd be just trading in furs and stu
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by rebelos 5y ago
It's getting really tired to blame companies for acting like rational agents against the natural laws of competitive global markets. Being against free trade works for an economy right up until it has fully squandered its competitive a
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by rebelos 5y ago
You forgot wash trading. You could basically use SEC regulations developed over roughly the past century as a playbook to game crypto markets.

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