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by vkou 6mo ago
Because at that point it's not a 'project', it is a full business.
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by vkou 6mo ago
> Meanwhile if the stuff is actually dangerous then it's dangerous in all 50 states, so the warning label should either be everywhere or nowhere according to the evidence, right? Only if other states or the federal government give t
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by vkou 6mo ago
Smoked fish is a side, wheat is a staple. Degree matters. If 90% of the raw food at the grocery were 'processed' in the same way that a smoked fish, or a french fry was, I think we'd have very valid reasons to be displeased
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by vkou 6mo ago
The US doesn't need to do 'something like this', they can just bar you from the global financial system if they don't like you. [1] Or just order another country to snatch you up. > https://en.wikipedia.org
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by vkou 6mo ago
> Why does it matter if volatility is lower than the market? Because I can trivially beat the market by ~100% by going long on 3:1 margin. The volatility is why that's a bad idea. One time out of five, the consequence of that inve
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by vkou 6mo ago
Assuming the goal is 'Advance American interests'... Not tearing up the nuclear deal. Instead, soft and hard power should have been used to leverage compliance with it. Instead, of course, he tore it up in exchange for... Nothing.
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by vkou 6mo ago
Inflation is a measure of change in overall purchasing power. What a specific purchase costs is highly dependant on the inputs, the cost of its labour (which might grow faster or slower than the average wage), and a lot of other factors. Fo
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by vkou 6mo ago
> Isn't there a difference between the models output reflecting the mean of public discourse and the active adjustment of information by the government? Not as much a difference as you would wish, as mean of public discourse is very
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by vkou 6mo ago
Ask Gemini today if the United States is trying to destroy the nation of Iran, and it will feed you the (white-washed) party line, straight from the White House, with a bit of 'some people disagree' thrown in. No mention of Americ
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by vkou 6mo ago
> It seems like it would be highly demoralizing to US soldiers that they are prosecuted for betting on the outcomes of the battles they are risking their lives for but those insider trading commanding them aren't. Why? The enlisted
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by vkou 6mo ago
> In 2025 total deaths in Canada were 334,699, totals births were 368,928. If you think that's not a problem, stop cherrypicking numbers, and look at Canada's population pyramid. And then tell me what will happen as the big fat
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by vkou 6mo ago
> Destroy your society today so it doesn't get potentially destroyed in 30 years is certainly a take. Immigrants coming in today aren't 'destroying society'. And it's not 'potentially'. It's certa
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by vkou 6mo ago
> The social safety net has collapsed _today_. It can always collapse more. Ask anyone who lived through an actual economic collapse. (As opposed to the kinds of minor corrections that the West has seen over the past few decades.) Your
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by vkou 6mo ago
Meanwhile, in a sibling thread about an accounting mistake in California, everyone is screaming for blood. Blame-free post-mortems are for me and mine, everyone else can get fucked.
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by vkou 6mo ago
And then a decade of that later, all the people bitching about immigration will be wondering why the country's demographics resemble that of a nursing home, and why the tax base and the social safety net has collapsed.
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by vkou 6mo ago
Meanwhile, nobody bats an eye when housing prices inflate $300,000 because existing homeowners are doing their fucking hardest to make sure that no new homes get built.
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by vkou 6mo ago
It's a beautiful state of affairs when owners of property can collude for their interests with almost no restrictions, but worker unions are almost entirely defanged.
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by vkou 6mo ago
Easily. Many of those people have a correct observation in that new construction is just luxury housing, which is obviously unaffordable for people struggling with rent. What they fail to miss is that for every luxury unit that's built
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by vkou 6mo ago
It paid in influence, not dollars. Billionaires don't buy newspapers or social media platforms because they think they are good businesses.
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by vkou 6mo ago
Trevor Milton received an unconditional pardon for his Nikola fraud last year. Trump has no problem selling pardons to people who stole from the rich. It's a big club, and he's open for business.
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by vkou 6mo ago
The pain was multi-trillion, but the original fraud that caused the collapse wasn't.
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by vkou 6mo ago
When the pot gets big enough, there is no difference between a prediction market and an assassination market.
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by vkou 6mo ago
> Prediction markets don't have any "natural" reason like that for excluding insider trading. No, they have a different reason. Consider the consequences of a sufficiently large prediction market bet on whether or not <
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by vkou 6mo ago
I've read through ItCP. The illustrations were wonderful, but I was rather annoyed by the typeface. ... And somewhat disappointed by the conclusions. A Java compiler (sans an overview of limitations/capabilities, but I understand
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by vkou 6mo ago
You're proving my point. The thumb was put on the scale, he public was bombarded 24/7 with self-serving false dichotomies and viola, you've just manufactured mass public support for insane bullshit. It works the same way in o
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by vkou 6mo ago
> They don’t flip people on positions. They absolutely do. On September 12, 2001, ~nobody in the United States was interested in starting a war with Iraq. Two years of propaganda later, and all of a sudden, half the population had acquir
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by vkou 6mo ago
> But that’s the intent of the system? Represent what most people want. It would be great if the media channels that manufacture wants weren't co-opted by the very people who are the problem.
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by vkou 6mo ago
> Or maybe via your insurance, which will probably increase your premium if you repeatedly engage in stupid actions that need expensive fixing? US insurers can only discriminate by age and smoking status.
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by vkou 7mo ago
If you or Google have a plan to make the federal government stop shutting down renewable projects, we can re-examine the data center question after you carry it out.
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by vkou 7mo ago
You're a fund manager. What's the alternative? Throw your hands up and tell your customers to take all their money back, you don't want to get paid anymore?

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