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by slg 6mo ago
>What proof do you have that there is a difference between the Team Red and Team Blue...Framing this as a Left v Right, is at best, naive. You're responding to a comment that explicitly said I wasn't doing that. This is not Le
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by slg 6mo ago
Maybe we should approach this from the opposite angle. If it isn't military spending, what do you think the differentiator is between the US and those "social democracies" that OP mentioned? Do you think Americans are inhere
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by slg 6mo ago
This is actually a good example of this not being a partisan issue. A congressional stock trading ban is one of the few issues that doesn't break down by party lines. Both Republicans and Democrats have put forward bills to ban it an
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by slg 6mo ago
>I think the people that believe in a more efficient welfare state should look to reallocate the money. No one would complain. Are you simply calling the entire government a "welfare state" or do you believe that something like
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by slg 6mo ago
>It is not realistic to believe that we can become a nice wholesome European country if we just raise taxes a bit. This feels like a strawman. I can't recall ever hearing someone advocate for raising taxes and not changing a single
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by slg 6mo ago
No, I was commenting on the current administration's corruption. I don't think most previous Republican administrations would have tolerated the type of insider trading we have seen from people close to the administration. It go
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by slg 6mo ago
“If you commit insider trading on Kalshi, that can and will at some point be a federal crime. It is a federal crime, I actually do expect the DOJ to prosecute some of these cases”. I'm guessing that “some point” is sometime after Jan
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by slg 6mo ago
I can’t help wondering about the categorization. For example, we spend more on “agricultural subsidies” than “NASA & space” or “EPA & environment”, but for some reason the former gets hidden under the “all other” category while the
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by slg 6mo ago
I’m not sure what specifically you think you’re disagreeing with me about because I don’t see what you’re saying as incompatible with what I said. Communication with oneself or the rest of the art world is still communication. What makes P
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The element of creation is central to art. A painting or a photo of a sunset can be art, but the sunset itself is not art. In addition, the communication doesn't need to be explicit or intentional. It can be communicating something an
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by slg 6mo ago
I have been thinking about this painting a lot more in recent years because it always comes to mind when someone mentions AI art. It's arguably the most important piece by arguably the most important artist of the 20th Century (the &q
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by slg 6mo ago
>That is, if some person or entity who Circa knows to be a profitable professional better puts down a large bet in a certain direction, Circa will move their line in that direction. Well that's the source of our confusion then. I ag
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by slg 6mo ago
That first link is not relevant to the point of my comment. I was not complaining about paywalls. The comment also doesn't address whether paywall bypasses would be acceptable for non-text links. Regarding the second link, I'll
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by slg 6mo ago
It is interesting that sites like HN have existed for decades and still don't have any real solution for this sort of problem. Is providing a way for us to all bypass paying for this content that cost money to produce actually the mos
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by slg 6mo ago
These are all reasons supporting my point as they would make sports betting platforms less efficient meaning it would be easier to find arbitrage in their prices (at least temporarily, until you're booted for being too successful).
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by slg 6mo ago
>If you had access to all the tips and data and insider information that sportbooks operate with Can you give an example of what you're talking about here? Because it sounds like you're accusing these large publicly trade comp
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by slg 6mo ago
I can't recall a piece of technology in which the age distribution of the people embracing it was similar to what we're seeing with AI. In the past, this stuff has almost always been picked up by the young first and foremost, but
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by slg 6mo ago
>Bookmakers price purely based on facts and statistics. Their pricing isn't affected by excitement nor by how many people are betting a certain way. If this were true, lines would never move unless there was breaking news, but we se
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by slg 6mo ago
This all really depends on the efficiency of the market. I think these prediction markets would claim that is their goal, but even Wall Street isn't perfectly efficient. I would also guess that sports betting sites like DraftKings or
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by slg 6mo ago
Fair enough, I assumed the exclusion of sports with a deliberate decision rather than one forced on the project due to the technical details of the platform.
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by slg 6mo ago
It's interesting that this is explicitly for non-sports markets because I see no reason why this would be less applicable there. Sports betters have long talked about that the winning strategy is usually to bet the under (i.e. the no)
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by slg 6mo ago
Not in this instance. People don't stop being people when they join an organization. If we can recognize that getting ignored, suppressed, or met with hostility "discourages people from posting", why can't we recognize
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by slg 6mo ago
It's funny that the (seemingly) right leaning people in this thread are criticizing the EFF for leaving Twitter while also simultaneously saying they will leave HN for the exact same reason, just "on the opposite side of the polit
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by slg 6mo ago
I can't definitively give you a top three and honestly don't see any value in ranking them like that. I would simply describe them as the ACLU for technology and the Internet in that they fight for general civil liberties. X and
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by slg 6mo ago
You discussed two distinct groups: "certain ideological concerns" and "the kind of stuff we tend to think the EFF primarily cares about". I think you're getting this type of response because many of us can't s
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by slg 6mo ago
This is legitimately one of the strangest responses I have ever gotten on HN. You brought real wages into the conversation. My complaints weren't a non sequitur, they were a direct response to you. Now you're criticizing me for
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by slg 6mo ago
>If you have a credible source that shows declining real wages since 2000, I'd love to see it. My original comment was about growing inequality and my second comment was describing why the metric you cited and median real wages in g
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by slg 6mo ago
I wonder why this post is worthy of staying on the HN front page but all the articles about Trump's threats that "A whole civilization will die tonight" got flag killed. I guess the president making genocidal threats isn&#x2
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by slg 6mo ago
And by "real wages" you mean "Employed full time: Median usual weekly real earnings: Wage and salary workers: 16 years and over". You chose a number that specifically factored out the negatives like dropping participati
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by slg 6mo ago
>Cash is also capital. It's funny you say this and also this: >You’re conflating income and savings. You're doing the same thing. The problem I was hitting on is that large portions of our population don't have any inve

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