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by viklove 6y ago
Music is culturally contextual and temporal in many ways. Think of Floyd's The Division Bell, an album which tries to capture the feelings and emotions that resulted from the fall of the Berlin Wall. Or think of RATM's self-titled
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by viklove 6y ago
It's not a "logical error," it's an "ideological error," at least from your perspective. Banks are not parents, and small businesses are not "dependent children," so I'd say you're making a
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by viklove 6y ago
So businesses are not a charity, but the US taxpayer is? Why do we keep sending money into the banking system with no strings attached? In 2008 as well as now, banks have collected billions of dollars with no strings attached, and engaged i
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by viklove 6y ago
I started using ripgrep a few years ago and haven't looked back. It's way faster, automatically excludes .gitignored files, and just has a bunch of common sense functionality. https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep&#x
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by viklove 6y ago
I'm not arguing corps should use the cash for acquisitions instead. They should reserve the cash for hard times, or use it to reward performant employees that they want to retain. Basically anything to increase the long term value of
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by viklove 6y ago
It is racism, textbook racism. They're deciding who to let in based solely on race, that makes it racist...
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by viklove 6y ago
It's survivorship bias. Unethical companies end up growing faster because they do things ethical companies would not, and make more money for it. For example treating their full-time employees as contractors, not paying them a fair wag
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by viklove 6y ago
The difference, of course, is that the hotel owner likely has a car (or three) as well, and even if you don't drive for Uber you'll still need the car to get to/from your new job. Most Uber drivers own a car before starting
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by viklove 6y ago
Investing in a 401k does not make you a hedge fund manager. Passive investors don't make decisions and do not vote, and thus have no impact on the choices execs make. Most people just tick a box when they start a new job and never take
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by viklove 6y ago
It's just common sense in a system of capitalism. When you have people like Adam Neumann, Martin Shkreli, etc. getting filthy rich off of their non-existent consciences, then it's only natural that you'll have smaller fish li
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by viklove 6y ago
I mean, they kinda are concerned about the risk of mortality, aren't they? That's the only reason they're not going about their lives as normal. If you removed the risk of mortality, surely their lifestyles would return to no
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by viklove 6y ago
Are you trying to imply that all risk is equivalent? I'm not saying we should "forgo life," I'm just wondering why so many people are rushing to get back to driving Ubers, flipping burgers, etc. in the midst of this pand
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by viklove 6y ago
> Non-New Yorkers love to speculate about the end of New York with a passion which fascinates me What makes you say this? Looks like it's pretty much only "New-Yorkers" commenting on this submission...
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by viklove 6y ago
"I'm not leaving because of the virus, I'm leaving because because of the virus I can't go out" Strange distinction to make, isn't it?
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by viklove 6y ago
> the populace incentivizes them to act It's not "the populace," it's lobbyists that are funded by massive corporations that are trying to protect their revenue streams. What's the solution? Get the money out of
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by viklove 6y ago
It's so messed up to me that we would rather see food rotting on the shelves of supermarkets (ag output has barely slowed down at all), instead of just providing American citizens with the UBI they need to feed themselves through this
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by viklove 6y ago
Our government doesn't "move like molasses," it just has the wrong priorities. Look how quickly congress was able to band together to put together a $2T, 1400 page bailout for corporate America. It's obvious that the onl
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by viklove 7y ago
Yeah that's exactly what I'm asking for, please point me to any comments that you have responded to (like you responded to me), where the comment was defending American capitalism or deriding Democratic Socialist concepts such as
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by viklove 7y ago
It is a bit odd for a car though, you have to admit. Imagine buying an ICE car with a fuel tank that had an artificial limiter. Add 4 gallons to the tank for $x (120 miles). Would people accept that?
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by viklove 7y ago
Is there a public log of comments and users that have been banned under this policy? Just looking at the comments you responded to in those searches, they all seem to slant one direction -- stating that HN overmoderates anti-VC rhetoric. I
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by viklove 7y ago
Yes yes, I understand, it makes sense that y-combinator has an imperative to protect the narrative that VC and big corps are good for America. Thoughtcrime is a serious offense, I'll just delete my account, no need to ban me. edit: Oh.
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by viklove 7y ago
> While this is true, I would be curious of the overall economic impact. Where have you been for the past decade? The economic impact is increasingly concentrated levels of wealth, where a handful of people are vacuuming up pretty much a
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by viklove 7y ago
> I'd love to see poor people have more money, but I don't see why that's a critical feature for a plan to keep the economy running well. That kinda is what you're saying, because if poor people don't get more mo
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by viklove 7y ago
> spend their savings on things that are useful (instead of stuffing it in their mattress) People are literally spending all their money on food and rent, not stuffing it in their mattress. The only ones doing that are the ones on top, h
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by viklove 7y ago
And it would be great if we, as a society, had the capital to invest in them. But instead we've got WeWork and Bird. California has been drinking the kool-aid for a bit too long, this is just exposing the pitfalls of allowing wealthy V
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by viklove 7y ago
> but I don't see why that's a critical feature for a plan to keep the economy running well Wow, I knew HNers were "affluent," but I didn't know they were this out of touch. If the people buying the iPhone you&#x
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by viklove 7y ago
QE "works" because it keeps wealthy investors wealthy, and they're the ones funding campaigns and hiring people like Bernanke after they retire from government. It works for the people making the decisions, and the people fun
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by viklove 7y ago
That's really not that much, I would expect the infection rate in NYC to be anywhere between 10-20%, that makes sense given the numbers we're seeing in hospitals.
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by viklove 7y ago
And when 3-5 million people die over the course of a year you won't blame the government?
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by viklove 7y ago
They're not saying you can't return to your family, they're just saying not to congregate in large numbers. I've moved back from my apartment (Chicago) to the suburbs to stay with my parents until this lockdown ceases. O

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