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by skystarman 5y ago
This is a gambling addiction, full stop. We don't need to invent new terms like "cryptocurrency addiction" it's just gambling!
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by skystarman 5y ago
Not defending Amazon's behavior but the standard for government intervention in antitrust cases has for decades been how the anticompetitive behavior affects consumers, NOT other businesses/sellers. And it's pretty clear that
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by skystarman 5y ago
FUnny you leave out the part where he also said if you criticize a woman in the lab they cry... He made a terribly misogynistic "joke" and paid the consequences for it. You'd think someone with a Nobel prize wouldn't be
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by skystarman 5y ago
Comparing these personnel decisions from not only different universities and entirely different incidents but also an entirely different country seems unwise to me.
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by skystarman 5y ago
I don't think the issue is being multifaceted, that seems a really uncharitable interpretation of what he wrote. Twitter is really great for almost any niche interest. It is an absolute toxic wasteland dumpster-fire for anything relate
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by skystarman 5y ago
95% of the negative stuff and 99% of the political stuff on twitter has absolutely no bearing on what "stuff" is going on in the real world and is more likely to bias your own views than by just listening to the people in whateve
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by skystarman 5y ago
You don't have to subscribe to 3 or more services to get a "small subset" of the service's offerings. You get ALL of their offerings. The idea that you should pay less than $8 for Disney Plus because you only want to wat
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by skystarman 5y ago
We for the most part have exponentially more and better content in tv and film, and for MUCH cheaper and with more convenience than 10-15 years ago. But still people insist that they must pirate because the "studios" for some amor
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by skystarman 5y ago
You'd need to end or severely restrict local zoning. Everyone loves the idea of cheaper housing for people in theory. Once they realize it means their own property value won't appreciate as quickly, or may even decrease and then s
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by skystarman 5y ago
EVs will dominate the market at some point in the next 15-25 years or so. Tesla is priced as if it's going to absolutely dominate the automotive market. And there's no reason to believe that's true. Automotive is currently a
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by skystarman 5y ago
Amazon and Apple are WAY WAY WAY different companies than Tesla. Apple has dominated high-end smartphones for over a decade. Amazon has dominated eCommerce for that time and longer. Tesla dominates EV, which is a tiny portion of all auto sa
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by skystarman 5y ago
Hydrogen is more feasible than battery for long haul as the technology stands now. A lot of big names in commercial trucking have made huge investments in it. But it's still not there yet and likely requires some giant gov't subsi
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by skystarman 5y ago
Elon and Tesla have bet the entire farm on batteries. Something tells me he is not the most unbiased source here. passenger vehicles are a TOTALLY different ballgame than commercial long haul trucking. Even the early Tesla models could beat
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by skystarman 5y ago
Hydrogen is far more efficient. At least for long-haul class 7 & 8 trucks. The problem is the massive infrastructure investment needed to support it. All the substantial investments I've seen in commercial long-haul trucking are in
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by skystarman 5y ago
I worked in the commercial trucking EV space for a little bit and I don't know anyone in the commercial trucking industry that genuinely thinks batteries will be the solution for long-haul, class 7 & 8 trucks. At least not in the n
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by skystarman 5y ago
You're right it wasn't molestation, it was rape as defined in the California penal code where age of consent was and is 18. He raped two 15 year old girls. And likely many more that haven't came out publicly.
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by skystarman 5y ago
I'd imagine plenty of people didn't rape 15 year old girls in the '70s even if it was more "acceptable" back then. Using your fame to exploit young, impressionable women is pretty awful and was awful 50 years ago. E
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by skystarman 5y ago
Getting downvoted for pointing out the fact that David Bowie raped teenagers. Great job HN!
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by skystarman 5y ago
Yeah, this is a really great video, thanks for sharing "woke" Bowie. As you say, he ages well, except for his molesting young girls in the '70s. There's at least two 15 year olds that admit having sex with him. I'm
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by skystarman 5y ago
"rock history for newbs" is unfair. I'm in my 30s and would say I have an above-average knowledge of rock history and still learned a decent amount. Yes Payola is nothing new or unheard of, but how that played into segregatio
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by skystarman 5y ago
Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it's terrible.
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by skystarman 5y ago
This isn't what I was saying. My point was that these criticisms never acknowledge that ATVI is massively successful and the critics are always in the minority. They assume because a few hundred on a message board said something the en
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by skystarman 5y ago
Local regulation for "conservation" seems to be a net negative for society in many places. Can't build housing in cities with MASSIVE housing shortages because we need to "preserve historical character" of the laund
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by skystarman 5y ago
If this was as easy as you say Disney and other major media companies wouldn't have failed miserably at entering the gaming space. It's like thinking if you have $100 Million and the right production schedule, crew, actors, and pr
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by skystarman 5y ago
Hardcore gamers love to trash ATVI/Blizz but they are without a doubt dominant gaming developer/publisher in the business, and it's really not even close unless you count Tencent. Ask people on HN if they like CoD and they&#
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by skystarman 5y ago
The problem with this is that only wealthy people with trust funds will work in many entertainment or media fields. That's already kind of what's happening. Pay is absolute dogshit for journalists, many low level entertainment ind
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by skystarman 5y ago
I have no data on this but my anecdata tells me that if a woman is in a poor state but is attractive plenty of men will be willing to treat her nicely and not consider her "pathetic" at least long enough to sleep with her. Doesn&#
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by skystarman 5y ago
The vast majority of people who buy bitcoin are using it as an "investment" so market cap makes sense here.
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by skystarman 5y ago
This "both sides" nonsense is complete fiction. There was a BIPARTISAN senate immigration reform bill that passed the senate in 2013. THIRTEEN Republicans voted for it and every Democrat and independent did. It went to the house a
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by skystarman 5y ago
No one is here saying it's "amazing" I am here saying that, yes that paltry $15 an hour you scold Amazon for paying? Well mom and pop they drove out of business was paying about HALF of that.

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