vearwhershuh

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by vearwhershuh 6y ago
Here is the pattern: 1) Establish a false dichotomy ("All vaccines are good, all vaccines are bad") 2) Come up with a pithy slur for the other side ("Antivaxx") 3) Emphasize the looniest people on the other side, ignore
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by vearwhershuh 6y ago
Are there cranks, nutjobs and trolls in this sub? Yes. Are there reasonable people with valid concerns and perspectives worth considering? Also yes.
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by vearwhershuh 6y ago
The practical lesson here is, as always: be extremely wealthy. No matter what you do, people will think it is profoundly smart.
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by vearwhershuh 6y ago
OK. Did LA? Portland? Seattle? Seattle rebounded the fastest, what did they do? (Of course this is a pointless question, it was a completely different time and the data here is impossibly corrupt and old.) Are there other variables inv
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by vearwhershuh 6y ago
Gah, I got it wrong. I'll update parent.
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by vearwhershuh 6y ago
That's an impossibly certain statement given the evidence you have offered. The linked article does not say that the cities locked down, only that they implemented what they call Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). They didn&#x27
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by vearwhershuh 6y ago
EDIT: Big Oops. This is Foreign Policy, Not Foreign Affairs (the CFR publication). :/ That explains why they would mention a debt jubilee. Foreign Policy is the main outlet for the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), which is one of
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by vearwhershuh 6y ago
Always worth reading through all the Worse Is Better essays: https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html Good example of someone who is smarter than you, dear reader, and can argue either side of a technical argument conv
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by vearwhershuh 6y ago
A simple alternative would have be to quarantine the at risk people (60+ and pre-existing conditions) and let the rest of the world create the wealth necessary to help keep the at risk groups alive, focusing our healthcare attention on the
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by vearwhershuh 6y ago
That's a false dichotomy. We could have locked down the vulnerable (60+ and those with pre-existing conditions), and anyone with a temperature, focused our healthcare efforts on them and let everyone else go about their business with m
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by vearwhershuh 6y ago
If we tolerate any of these plans, we get what we deserve. Louis CK's "OF COURSE... but maybe" skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLGzFQg_1xc
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by vearwhershuh 6y ago
The best thing that could happen to the United States would be an amicable divorce. It is ridiculous to have national elections matter so much at the local level and come down to a few counties in a few contested states, remote from the vas
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by vearwhershuh 6y ago
An elite globalist thinks that more globalism is the answer to issues caused by globalism. OK.
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
I suppose it's a worthwhile concept. You can certainly look at professional politics, corporate messaging and the financial crises, basically all elite-preservation systems, through a kayfabe lens. On the other hand, I think everyone
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
HN seems pretty close to what it has always been: a technology oriented forum with occasional politics flare ups. Comments outside the technocracy consensus are nuked with downvotes, but trolls are pretty effectively moderated (thank you d
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Daily reminder that congress looked into the JFK assassination and found: "Scientific acoustical evidence establishes a high probability that at least two gunmen fired at the President." and "The committee believes, on the ba
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Archived: https://archive.is/cyItf Kissinger should be regarded as the elite spokesman and what he says should be taken very seriously. "Addressing the necessities of the moment must ultimately be coupled with a globa
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
I'll say it again: We get it, we are going to have to shut down the main street economy for months, and potentially on and off for years. OK, we aren't rioting yet. So, elites, what's the plan to keep people from starving and
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Wall street, elite wall street, is licking its chops right now. They have direct access to the virtual printing press, and can manufacture money (debt) whenever they want. The more distressed properties become, the better for them. Indivi
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Intercooler might be a good choice. You can use it to incrementally add functionality to your exisiting web apps without a huge up front cost.
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Not that I'm aware of. The main trade-off is that you aren't going to be able to so something hyper-interactive stuff like a game. If you try to push it too hard it will end up being a mess. OTOH, the closer it is to a tradition
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
The insanity is that people pushing to reopen the economy are being called shills for wall street. Elite wall street doesn't care when the economy reopens. They are gonna get bailed out by the Fed no matter what, and the worse it is o
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
> Marx wasn’t interested in drafting any exact plan for a post-revolutionary society. And look what we got. Maybe that was the mistake.
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Interesting history and background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Aron It appears that traditional marxism has been largely coopted by identity politics, as an intentional strategy by the corporate powers that
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
> While Honda’s decision to return to physical controls will be popular with some - including, no doubt, its ageing owner base in the UK - the predicted move towards more voice-controlled actions in cars could eliminate the debate aroun
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
I wasn't clear: they should be tax advantaged, particularly for companies, relative to capital gains. If you tax capital gains at the marginal tax rate + 10%, they are unattractive in relative terms in most cases, even when deferred.
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
> Yeah so you lose me here. I don't see the justification for this. Investment is typically in already-taxed dollars. You pay taxes on the gains over the initial investment. Why would where the money came from matter?
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
“What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.”
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
It is time to make dividends, rather than capital gains, tax advantaged. They should be deductible against the companies income (akin to LLCs) and shouldn't incur payroll taxes but otherwise should be taxed as income. This would make
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by vearwhershuh 7y ago
Because faith without works is dead. You are conflating Christianity with a particular flavor of protestant evangelicalism.

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