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by ves 5y ago
Manipulation by exchanges
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by ves 5y ago
We’re already in the middle of a mass extinction event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction And regarding your second point, we know it won’t do anything good, but we don’t know exactly what (nor could we
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by ves 6y ago
I’m curious: what’s the line taught against the commune?
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by ves 6y ago
HN is not a smart crowd, but there are smart people on it.
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by ves 6y ago
Ah yes, the optimal way to send money over the internet must surely involve burning up an amount of electricity which could’ve powered my house last week
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by ves 6y ago
Regarding the sentencing differential: Joe Ligon, the subject of the article, is black, while Kyle Anger, the “mastermind” behind the fatal rock-throwing incident you linked, is white.
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by ves 6y ago
> Like almost every company in the world, its a normal company. This in a thread about McKinsey settling for over half a billion dollars over its role in causing the opioid crisis, which is just one of the many, many arrows in McKinsey’s
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by ves 6y ago
Brokers aren’t fiduciaries.
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by ves 6y ago
Alternatively, Lagrawnge
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by ves 6y ago
I don’t think anyone was alleging that google should be literally landing people on the moon, so invoking the economics of moon landings specifically is hardly relevant.
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by ves 6y ago
The American far left has a long history of being squeezed out of public fora and you don’t really see them storming the capitol. They don’t debate and they know they’re right. What’s the point in keeping them?
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by ves 6y ago
The US justice system is obviously totally broken, but one would do well to remember the absolutely incredible side of the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund.
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by ves 6y ago
Thank goodness your kids aren’t black!
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by ves 6y ago
There’s plenty of quiet, uncrowded nature in the Bay Area if you spend some time exploring off the beaten path. I live in SF and don’t have a car and have still spent hours at a stretch in parks totally alone, not to mention when I do get o
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by ves 6y ago
Presumably only accredited investors (and equity holders) can participate.
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by ves 6y ago
If you’re making this much, you don’t care about cost of living, assuming you’re not going to have some crazy standard of living (mansion, supercars, etc.). A 50% increase in your food costs is a rounding error, for example.
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by ves 6y ago
If you use the service, you need to tip, otherwise the workers are screwed. If you don’t support the model, don’t use the service. Don’t be an accelerationist; real people get hurt in its intermediate phases.
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by ves 6y ago
It helps about as much as this initiative does.
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by ves 6y ago
Something need not be the pinnacle for it to not be horrid.
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by ves 6y ago
You don’t even have to go back that far; the, uh, productivity of Ghengis Khan and the mongols generally is widely discussed.
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by ves 6y ago
The classic reference, for those who want to explore on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_for_the_rich_and_cap...
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by ves 6y ago
OxyContin isn’t an unmitigated evil, but the Sacklers are quite a bit closer.
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by ves 6y ago
This comment is obviously not an endorsement of these beliefs, for the down voters.
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by ves 6y ago
> I actually tend toward the idea that people that manufacture and sell potentially harmful, but inanimate things are in no way responsible for their final use (or misuse). They're not forcing anyone to take these drugs, nor is the
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by ves 6y ago
Well, getting mad at the Sacklers may not be productive, but it’s certainly merited.
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by ves 6y ago
“The last hundred years” is an interesting frame of reference; why not use the last five hundred, or two thousand?
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by ves 6y ago
We could make some (but we won’t), and this justification would hold up just fine in that case; whether or not the laws actually exist is immaterial.
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by ves 6y ago
Why? The tone is offensive, but large and connected companies have received substantial bailouts, and nearly every executive has a cushy golden parachute.
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by ves 6y ago
Well, hold on. I’m indian american, I and my parents are lifelong atheists, our families are supposed to be vegetarians by caste and tradition and whatever but we’re not, but! though I eat chicken and fish and so on, I won’t eat beef, not b
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by ves 6y ago
Har har.

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