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by thesagan 10y ago
I'm with you on almost all those points! Getting older I realize more and more the importance of realizing the energy "the fight" has taken out of me, and opening up grounds for others with energy reserves to carry on the int
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by thesagan 10y ago
I'll rephrase: I'm asking for less speculation on the [malicious] intent of someone with whom one may disagree on HN. Poisons the discussion even worse.
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by thesagan 10y ago
A trap most of us will fall in to is to assume intents of the anonymous strangers with which we talk on these message boards. In serious academic-ish discussion, I think we should stick as closely to the topic at-hand and avoid pointing out
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by thesagan 10y ago
Except that those issues were an un-exaggerated mess, originally. The emergency steps they took after launch pretty much proves the point.
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by thesagan 10y ago
Just went back to paper and pen this last December. I like the immediate access to pen/paper and I use it to get "salient" thoughts out of my brain and onto something safe. I always keep it nearby. (As long as I remember!) Me
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by thesagan 10y ago
I wonder if community was more central to life back then. With the world being so large I'd speculate/imagine that "place" and the people in that place were more unique. Maybe more intimate at times.
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by thesagan 10y ago
Now that you put it that way, man... things have changed. I can't help thinking about further back, too. Just imagine how it felt to live around the turn of last century! Planes, [newer] trains, and automobiles! Electricity, plumbing,
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by thesagan 10y ago
Thanks for the link! Sounds like at least one rating agency has some concern.
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by thesagan 10y ago
On the lender side: I wonder if somehow auto loans are packaged and resold like some other loans, thereby hiding/moving the risk away from the originating lender and into more unsuspecting hands? Not sure how that might work. If it doe
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by thesagan 10y ago
Thanks, I appreciate your view! That's how it strikes me as well; that Google provides unparalleled sticks and carrots towards publishers that will end up undoing those same publishers, while they (publishers) volunteer to go along and
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by thesagan 10y ago
Controversial question: At what point would Google start to be considered an antitrust issue? I know the EU has made some noise about it, but I'm a bit surprised I haven't heard more about it here in the U.S.
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by thesagan 10y ago
True, good point!
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by thesagan 10y ago
I think it's an honest question, even though it's controversial and attracts downvotes. (I noticed your question is in gray right now.) In my mind, it's a question of a "big enough difference" in a day-to-day-like m
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by thesagan 10y ago
Agreed. Also, some economists/researchers are claiming that subprime lending wasn't alone in triggering the crisis, but that it was also a prime crisis as well; that debt levels were already unsustainable, more generally. Not to s
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by thesagan 10y ago
I don't know. He might have had a choice between two shitty options, and took the less-shitty-but-still-shitty option. Many people don't want to go that far from home, friends, and family unless things need to immigrate for... tou
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by thesagan 10y ago
Absolutely. In Michigan winters, and in most other circumstances, I definitely want to be the one driving if I'm the one that's at risk of [and has great incentive to minimize] crashing my automobile. I really don't want to o
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by thesagan 10y ago
Agreed. Adding to your point: If this were NASA, memories of Apollo 1 "go fever" would be a fitting analogy of our present circumstance. "Nothing we did had any shelf life" was one of the core problems identified by Gene
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by thesagan 10y ago
I'm with you on that one. The current patterns of human consumption are too slow to change in the face of the type of climate change we are looking at. Even simple things like the obscene volume of packaging used for marketing and anti
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by thesagan 10y ago
Adding to your point: Many of the Mercury-Gemini-Apollo astronauts were originally farm boys who enjoyed tinkering.
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by thesagan 10y ago
I get what you're saying, but I'm originally from the Great Lakes area – and boy – I feel like rubbish when I hear this type of talk. It feels like "reverse bigotry", to me. (I know, I shouldn't take it personally.
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by thesagan 10y ago
Maybe it acts as a bank for special interests, but with different reporting/legal obligations? I mean, that's just one of many intents I could speculate that large foundations could potentially realize. ('Speculate' bein
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by thesagan 10y ago
That one did kind of hit me, too. Wow, we're almost into the second decade of this century. Huh.
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by thesagan 10y ago
Reminds me of Gene Kranz's "Honest and Competent" speech he gave to his Mission Control team after the Apollo 1 fire in 1967. One thing he said in that speech has always stuck with me: "Nothing we did had any shelf life.
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by thesagan 10y ago
You're the one providing "authoritative assurance" and it's very transparent (obvious) to me. Especially in a thread about the very thing you're mimicking.
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by thesagan 10y ago
I think those are what determines permanency. But let's not be pedantic.
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by thesagan 10y ago
Being from the midwest, and working from within and without, there's been definitely been a growing anti-midwest sentiment coming from the coasts. As if it's dead and now should be written off. Abandon the place, like Detroit. Go
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by thesagan 10y ago
This is where Fred McFeely Rogers found his calling; when he saw how kids were being affected by commercial television he found is career. Recently I'm having an extremely strong urge to ask the same questions he did and do something a
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by thesagan 10y ago
Also, the people making loud, direct calls for censorship are mostly journalists, writers, and opinion-makers. Seems like great fodder for views and clicks. Perhaps there's much for them to gain by whipping up drama (and potentially al
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by thesagan 10y ago
I think a lot of voters didn't take her as seriously on the proposal.
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by thesagan 10y ago
Related to this: I've also noticed that the word "so" is used a lot to terminate a sentence, maybe as a hesitation to stop speaking, or to (intentionally?) leave the final "point" somewhat ambiguous. E.g.: "You

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