throwawaynumber

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by throwawaynumber 5y ago
Inheriting a house is inherited wealth, your baseline assumptions for wealth are completely divorced from reality.
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by throwawaynumber 5y ago
trying to build my values on truth makes it impossible for me to reconcile any such built values with things like liberalism, equality, egalitarianism, religious beliefs of any kind, etc. Basically pick all the dearly adhered to values of t
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by throwawaynumber 5y ago
I don't know those people. I would like to own a car and maybe a house one day so perhaps that influences my own perspective. I would rather my descendants were able to inherit property in an industrial society with a severe climate cr
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by throwawaynumber 5y ago
while I ma be histrionic, the only time I ever encounter any climate science denial is when it is brought up as an insult in a "oh those people who beleive this nonsense" way. I have never encountered it "in the wild", s
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by throwawaynumber 5y ago
you can add anti nuclear environmental activists to that list of being responsible for the destruction of humanity.
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by throwawaynumber 5y ago
I never see those objections, instead I see the objections "I literally cannot afford the cheapest electric car and will be homeless and starving without a vehicle", "I need to heat my home to keep it habitable in sub zero te
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by throwawaynumber 5y ago
he's paid more than almost all tech workers and developers in the 1st world, who also typically have .... zero passive income. You live in an elite bubble full of rich Americans I suspect.
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by throwawaynumber 5y ago
Like most of hacker news, I think you vastly underestimate really how replaceable smart and skilled people really are. There are literally millions of them, most with far lower pay and conditions than offered by FANGS.
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by throwawaynumber 5y ago
Monopolies don't need to be as competitive.
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by throwawaynumber 5y ago
Conversely I think most people who were the most vocal cheerleaders of the anti virus measures were so vocal precisely because it didn't require them to change their life - stay at home introverted shut ins basically.
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by throwawaynumber 5y ago
This seems like nonsense to me. I can visualise things with great detail in my minds eye, and yet I saw nothing but an annoying flashing screen with this.