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by resters 8mo ago
For the sake of friendly discussion (I realize this is tangential), my (unusual) take on China is: Authoritarianism doesn't emerge for its own sake—it emerges when a population is politically engaged enough to threaten state control. C
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by resters 9mo ago
Excellent points. You've perfectly described the brutal, interest-rate-driven VC cycle -- capital floods in, risk gets mispriced, and the market eventually corrects with Darwinian force. That's the "blunt instrument" in
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by resters 9mo ago
Proven businesses can always borrow at fairly low rates. When capital gets really cheap it starts to incentivize greater amounts of risk taking because investors actually want risk. If you are starting a dry cleaning business, you have a co
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by resters 9mo ago
How many rights can Trump trample in one year? This is a big deal. I realize most of the problems started with the patriot act (most members of congress are culpable for that). We should all have zero tolerance for the erosion of our righ
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by resters 9mo ago
This is the first political story that HN hasn't killed in a while. Well done! Time to wake up to what is happening.
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by resters 9mo ago
Just as Youtube finally "cracked down" on piracy after riding it to massive market share, Amazon has done the same with counterfeit goods. Does this business model have a name?
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by resters 9mo ago
As someone who eats whole fruits and vegetables, some meat and fish, etc. already, I would like to feel more confident in the following: - there is no way that any of the fish I am eating was from polluted water or contains any harmful chem
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by resters 9mo ago
So rather than free market capitalism where AWS would have actually lowered prices after investing heavily in a new datacenter-focused line of Huawei GPUs, the US government took steps to stop capitalism and competition, gave NVIDIA lots of
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by resters 9mo ago
it's truly incredible the harm that the psychological need for "strong man" leaders has on the world. What's even more strange, in my opinion, is that the bumbling and incoherent stuff Trump says is actually viewed by an
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by resters 10mo ago
Not true. The article asserts that immigration policy is a big driver of "stay rates" for immigrants. Also, I did not assert that either party is "good" on immigration. The US should relax restrictions and allow many mor
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by resters 10mo ago
It's the second (so far bc he hasn't ruled out a third) presidential term for a strongly anti-immigrant / anti-immigration president who has a lot of support domestically. Immigrants are being chased out of the US in record n
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by resters 10mo ago
His "arguments" on the All-In podcast are always purely persuasive/emotional and never substantiated by fact or logic. Most of it parrots GOP talking points and in my opinion he's a major threat to Silicon Valley legitim
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Petition for David Sacks to Self-Deport(form.jotform.com)
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by resters 10mo ago
Like most of what Trump does it's 1000% emo and also very stupid. It's proudly anti-democratic and fundamentally disrespectful of American values. People fall for it because fear of foreign rivals, frustration with a regulatory
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by resters 11mo ago
Yes, it’s extremely complicated. I gave up on fire base for one project because I could not figure out how to get the right permissions set up and my support request resulted in someone copying and pasting a snippet from the instructions th
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by resters 11mo ago
they do not have to be. People who seek an idea bubble end up finding one.
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by resters 11mo ago
is there by any chance a robot simulator for various kinds of robots so those who don't actually have hardware can explore software aspects?
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by resters 1y ago
The people who support him love that about him.
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by resters 1y ago
He probably feels powerful harming businesses (in the US and elsewhere) with his tariffs. His inheritance performed worse than the s&p by a large margin under his stewardship. He’s not a business man, he’s someone who inherited $450M in
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by resters 1y ago
I cancelled over it. Not worth it to support a company that is willing to profit from ICE.
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by resters 1y ago
It's a tradeoff. Suppose you are relegated to trading once per minute and you need to allocate $x per trade to make a profit. If you can trade 100 times per minute you need $x/100 to make a profit. Or, maybe your strategy doesn&#
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by resters 1y ago
Not at all. I respect that people accept religious authority, the authority of trusted elders., etc., as part of their decision making function. But in my view it should be considered largely an aesthetic preference, much like a favorite co
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by resters 1y ago
While it's impossible to completely avoid beliefs that are effectively from authority, we do have systems such as science (scientific peer review), capitalism (economic freedom) that give credibility to certain ideas or patterns. Not m
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by resters 1y ago
check out reason.com ... that's pretty much all they are talking about.
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by resters 1y ago
> Sadly, the whole culture around SV is based on libertarianism, so regulation isn't even considered. Thiel actively supported one of the least libertarian candidates in US history. Whatever reputation he has for having libertaria
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by resters 1y ago
Yeah it's pretty amazing. Not sure if a lot of HN readers are MAGA or if someone wrote a bot of some kind, or if dang and the crew are suppressing it to avoid retribution of some kind from Trump toward YC.
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by resters 1y ago
Have you ever used TikTok? It responds rapidly to your engagement (likes, skips, etc.) and very quickly starts showing you mostly the kind of content you enjoy. Not sure what you mean about it not being relatable to a worldwide audience. I
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by resters 1y ago
The administration's theft of TikTok is absolutely unacceptable and we should all be horrified. Entrepreneurs built a great business with an algorithm that is still -- years after it launched -- head and shoulders more entertaining and
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by resters 1y ago
Which moral doctrines/strictures do you think it violates?
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by resters 1y ago
Probably fear of retribution or Garry being politically conservative himself. Garry has repeatedly called for more authoritarian policing in the SF area.

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