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by silverquiet 1y ago
How much cheaper is a boring 3-year old Toyota versus a boring brand new Toyota? Why would the person who buys a boring new Toyota unload it for a significant loss after just 3 years of ownership?
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by silverquiet 1y ago
Keynes said something that has always stuck with me. > Anything we can actually do we can afford I find it increasingly paradoxical that supposedly, our collective economic capability routinely increases (implied by ever growing GDP), wh
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by silverquiet 1y ago
The anthropologist David Graeber wrote a book called "Bullshit Jobs" that explored the subject. It shouldn't be surprising that a prodigious bullshit generator could find a use in those roles.
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by silverquiet 1y ago
I wonder how US CEO compensation compares to global average CEO compensation.
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by silverquiet 1y ago
Fun note, Jim Farley is indeed a cousin of Chris Farley.
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by silverquiet 1y ago
I read "Airframe" by Michael Crichton probably twenty years ago, and it was around ten years old at that time. I remember that that book talked about how the planes were unstable by design and required software to maintain proper
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by silverquiet 1y ago
That was the last Trump administration, where the Secretary of Ed was married to the CEO of Amway. The current one is the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, so I'd say it's more the Pro Wrestling administration.
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by silverquiet 1y ago
Replace "immigrant" with "Jew" and you have some idea of the human failings on display here.
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by silverquiet 1y ago
Only congress can enact tariffs, but we're all paying them anyway.
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by silverquiet 1y ago
Doesn't SELinux do that (and more)?
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by silverquiet 1y ago
I recently heard on a podcast where one of the guests recounted what his father used to say about the employees making cash-handling mistakes in the small store he owned. It was something like, "if it was merely incompetence, you'
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by silverquiet 1y ago
Is it one of those things where it doesn't mean what it obviously means? I gave up studying the Bible because there were too many of those for me to follow. But it seems to me like it would be crazy hard to push a camel through a needl
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by silverquiet 1y ago
How do they do it in other authoritarian societies? I know that China exercises significant control over access to the internet, but I don't know how well it works.
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by silverquiet 1y ago
Perhaps conservatism doesn't necessarily fit into a left-right spectrum neatly. I recently saw fascism described as a version of collectivism that caters to the right.
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by silverquiet 1y ago
I doubt Kirk believed in anything, but he was happy to say whatever would get him attention and keep his benefactors happy. He wasn't particularly ideologically consistent, though to be fair, Republicans of his time weren't either
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by silverquiet 1y ago
Most people (regardless of race) prefer to hire from within their network. It makes sense that Indians' networks would consist of other Indians.
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by silverquiet 1y ago
I've seen it referred to as nut picking, and certainly it's something that both sides are prone to. I'd say the difference is that one side has chosen to elect an obvious malignant narcissist to represent them who literally d
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by silverquiet 1y ago
I don't see advocacy, I see a regretful prediction (one that I think is quite possible). The horror is being caught in this system.
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by silverquiet 1y ago
I've always thought that the middle class were proles as well, or petit-bourgeoisie at best. I don't think you're wrong, but one thing that I've noticed in my time of thinking about and discussing societal problems in th
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by silverquiet 1y ago
> And it has little to do with guns. If someone really wanted to get to the guy, one would. Disclaimer that this is early and I may be wrong, but I read that he had a security detail (which seems rather likely). I doubt an attacker with
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by silverquiet 1y ago
Net cost to a national government and GDP per capita are not the same thing. Presumably these people become more productive by moving to more developed countries; that's the general reason that people immigrate to particular places. My
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by silverquiet 1y ago
Why are the demographics of a small Nordic nation something "everyone" should understand? Whenever I've pointed to how well the social safety nets work in these countries and how they could be an example for the US, I've
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by silverquiet 1y ago
Probably generated by AI.
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by silverquiet 1y ago
I often have a hard time telling if I'm being nostalgic. For me, 7 was peak Windows, but Win2K/XP would rank pretty close as well. I suppose the question for me is what have subsequent releases given us; what can we actually do wi
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by silverquiet 1y ago
Heidegger would say that all humans are thrown into existence and into circumstances that they did not choose. In some sense, we are currently on a large spaceship, and I assume some mission chosen for us by our predecessors.
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by silverquiet 1y ago
"You're fired", was indeed his catchphrase for the farcical reality TV show he stared in portraying a competent business owner.
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by silverquiet 1y ago
> in the early 70's Calling back to a time before the middle-aged GP could even tie his own shoes is not really much of an argument.
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by silverquiet 1y ago
There is a minimum weight requirement for bikes. I remember reading somewhere that they actually add ballast to some of them because they can be made so light.
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by silverquiet 1y ago
> Anecdotally my starlink is using more power currently That is interesting info - don't phones typically use a lot of power when they're trying to find a tower?
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by silverquiet 1y ago
I think the crossover is pretty much the modern station wagon. I suppose they get marketed as SUV's but they're basically just a bit longer and taller car vs what I'd consider a "real" SUV; an enclosed truck chassis

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