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by sc68cal 4y ago
We have been overproducing for decades, and have had many opportunities to decrease the amount of overproduction. Certainly the government should buy surplus milk when the market fluctuates to support the industry, but I think at this point
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by sc68cal 4y ago
Not really. It's a government subsidy for factory dairy farming, they are being paid to overproduce and then it just sits in storage going to . If we don't consume it, don't reward producing it.
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by sc68cal 4y ago
love to see HN brain in full effect, where someone gives the correct analysis, but because it runs against the HN libertarian groupthink, it gets downvoted
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by sc68cal 4y ago
Lehman Brothers was "not the most important player" and yet, look what its failure triggered.
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by sc68cal 4y ago
> And so the LFG bought a bunch of Bitcoin and promised to use it to defend Terra’s peg to the dollar. If one Terra goes down to $0.90, instead of turning Terra into Luna and selling them in a death spiral, the LFG can buy Terra for $0.9
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by sc68cal 4y ago
Netbox
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by sc68cal 5y ago
How many people realistically go into COBRA. Have you seen the premiums? For family coverage it can easily be thousands per month.
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by sc68cal 5y ago
That exists, it's a plan called medicare for all.
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by sc68cal 5y ago
Ansible won out because Puppet had scaling issues. OpenStack infra at one point was using Ansible to orchestrate puppet pulls, until everything could be re-written in Ansible
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by sc68cal 5y ago
Not really, because Modern Monetary Theorists on the political left have been advocating for people to be given accounts at the Fed for universal basic income
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by sc68cal 5y ago
The majority of US money is already digital, it exists as "digital balances held by commercial banks at the Federal Reserve" This paper just is adding a new shiny coat of paint to an already existing mechanism, just with new terms
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by sc68cal 5y ago
You don't think eventually the same dynamics won't happen in web3?
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by sc68cal 5y ago
Development requires demand. You can't just build houses willy nilly and then have them sit empty, because then nobody is paying the property taxes and the infrastructure that was built for those empty houses requires maintenance. So,
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by sc68cal 5y ago
American suburbs are constantly attempting to develop new land, to pay their financial obligations to maintain existing infrastructure. Eventually, they will run out of land to develop. https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth
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by sc68cal 5y ago
IBM can't do cloud. https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/ibm-lost-public-cloud Source: I was part of "GC" in that article.
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by sc68cal 5y ago
Citing a blog post by the Brookings Institution is very funny to me. They were one of many think tanks in Washington that built the intellectual groundwork to justify the expansion of NATO in the first place.
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by sc68cal 5y ago
Absolutely. and this is a view shared by prominent US national security officials, that it is the United States that has caused this crisis. https://theanalysis.news/is-nato-for-security-or-aggression-... Remember, it was t
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by sc68cal 5y ago
> Everyone who is on-call or working support during the holidays needs to be given mandatory additional time off and should receive holiday pay. Companies don't want to do that. That costs money. So instead, they developed the idea
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by sc68cal 5y ago
You can also take a look at our country's airports. They are all worn out. I spent a lot of time in airports and they are all aging. There's been work to rehab some of the insides but many of them are too small, and what money the
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by sc68cal 5y ago
https://infrastructurereportcard.org/cat-item/bridges/ We are depending on infrastructure that was built by the WPA during the great depression and right after WW2. The rot is deep.
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by sc68cal 5y ago
County's infrastructure is falling apart but we had plenty of money for that piece of shit
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by sc68cal 5y ago
Desalination would be more effective, if energy is not a limitation.
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by sc68cal 5y ago
But it's basically layered on top of Amazon AWS https://cloud.gov/docs/technology/iaas/#the-infrastructure-u... So, no I don't think it really fits the bill because underneath it's using a solu
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by sc68cal 5y ago
It's not going to take 15 minutes to understand WebPack and Parcel. Let's be a little more realistic. Sometimes you don't have the luxury of time and tools that you already know are going to get used, instead of new tools you
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by sc68cal 5y ago
Don't forget that Argentina's economy was the brainchild of the right wing in the United States, and specifically the Chicago School of economics. They overthrew a democractically elected government and installed a military dictat
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by sc68cal 5y ago
If your programming routine is causing someone to go on short term disability because it has caused them significant mental impairment, why was there never a discussion about perhaps too much of a good thing is now damaging our workers? Lik
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by sc68cal 6y ago
Very cool. I looked into this myself a couple years ago and the fact that the transaction data was in PDFs and that across years and representatives the format of the PDFs was all over the place, I gave up. Great to see someone else took it
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by sc68cal 12y ago
Yeah there's a couple ads on there that are a little odd...
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by sc68cal 12y ago
Here's some more information about the plutonium dust in Spain - there was a mid-air collision between a KC tanker and a B-52 which was carrying nuclear weapons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_cr
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by sc68cal 12y ago
IPv6 provides temporary addresses and privacy extensions - check your operating system for support.

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