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691.
by viburnum 7y ago
That’s not actually true. There more demand for liquidity than there are actual investments. That’s why government debt helps the economy. Same way poker chips help a casino.
692.
by viburnum 7y ago
Not really. It’s possible for women to say, “I love your earrings,” and be best friends ten minutes later. I dare you to try that as a man.
693.
by viburnum 7y ago
There’s a pecking order for men. Nobody likes the guy at the bottom of the hierarchy.
694.
by viburnum 7y ago
Can’t find it right now, but I recall some research showing that friendship for men is basically with whatever other men you’re around the most. If you’re a man and want more friends, you probably need to get a new job. Or make a long-term
695.
by viburnum 7y ago
Last time I took Amtrak, all the dining car had were stale plain bagels. That was twenty years ago.
696.
by viburnum 7y ago
When Norway’s labor movement started it was a desperately poor country, so poor that roughly half its population had recently emigrated to America. Some scholars think that the capitalist class felt it had to concede a little to labor or it
697.
by viburnum 7y ago
Nordic social democracy isn’t magic, it’s just what you get when most workers are in a union.
698.
by viburnum 7y ago
Could just build more houses, though.
699.
by viburnum 7y ago
Gah the best thing about VWs is their boring and traditional interiors.
700.
by viburnum 7y ago
The only thing most kids learn in PE is that exercise is awful and sports are only for jocks.
701.
by viburnum 7y ago
If it takes your therapist four hours for you to feel comfortable opening up, they are a bad therapist.
702.
by viburnum 7y ago
There’s a kind of talk therapy that’s more of a literary exercise than a treatment. It can be interesting but the risk is you’re just digging yourself into a deeper hole.
703.
by viburnum 7y ago
Rebuilding the world for the comfort of cars was probably a mistake then.
704.
by viburnum 7y ago
Some problems are better addressed collectively than individually. Work stress in particular.
705.
by viburnum 7y ago
Most therapists are well-meaning but have no idea what they’re doing. You’re just paying somebody to be your friend for 50 minutes a week. A competent therapist should help you get results in 6-8 sessions, faster if they really know what th
706.
by viburnum 7y ago
I had forgotten how bad it was back then, and why it was such a relief to leave windows for Linux and mac.
707.
by viburnum 7y ago
Banning adtech would be a good start.
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To decarbonize we must decomputerize: why we need a Luddite revolution(theguardian.com)
35 points by viburnum 7y ago|58 comments
709.
by viburnum 7y ago
Yeah, that’s the problem. They should be separated.
710.
by viburnum 7y ago
Failing a rescue from a central bank, you could have a bank run. I still don’t know why the ordinary payments system has to be coupled with hedge funds and derivatives and whatnot. It should be completely separate. It’s like having your car
711.
by viburnum 7y ago
It's completely normal and human to want to be productive and contribute. About half of the work that gets done is paid work. The rest, parenting, diy, housework, cooking, volunteering, creative work, is not. This work is done out of a
712.
by viburnum 7y ago
The moment you suggest an activity, you’ve taken all the fun out of it. True for adults as well as children.
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by viburnum 7y ago
The is the flip side of the green revolution, which basically bred plants to grow big and fast if you dump a lot of fertilizer made from fossil fuels on them. More carbs and less of everything else. I know people love Norman Borlaug but not
714.
by viburnum 7y ago
A philosophy education teaches a lot too. The discussion here is about what markets value and why that matters and why it doesn’t. I think trying to align education with private gain is the wrong approach. Society should promote human flour
715.
by viburnum 7y ago
How many people reading this right now make a very good living writing software without a “computer science degree from a top 25 university”? To what extent are those degrees also just for sorting?
716.
by viburnum 7y ago
What you’re getting at makes sense — the benefits to education are broadly distributed but there’s uncertainty to who exactly will receive them. It makes sense to diversify those risks. But where do W2 earnings come from? The old boy networ
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The Dangers of Meritocracy(newstatesman.com)
3 points by viburnum 7y ago|0 comments
718.
by viburnum 7y ago
The idea was, "hey, there are a lot of people whose lives are too hard, but college grads seem alright, so let's make everybody college grads." But the actual situation was that there were only so many good lives to go around
719.
by viburnum 7y ago
Placing some bets on nuclear make sense (France gets 80% of electric generation from nuclear) but counting on nuclear is risky because nobody can make nuclear plants cost efficiently anymore. America should probably keep trying on a small s
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by viburnum 7y ago
I listen to a lot of the New Books Network podcasts. Usually the interview is better than the book, but the interview wouldn’t exist if the author hadn’t put the work into writing the book. But yeah, life is too short to see how everybody w

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