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Ask HN: Have you overcome long-term unemployment, depression, addiction? How?
22 points by wallace_f 7y ago|12 comments
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by wallace_f 7y ago
I didn't say businesses do not have flaws, nor that this cronyism was not consistent with bribery or regulatory capture.
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Because government subsidizes kids. And a lot of meds and healthcare is made expensive by government cronyism, even if they then give you welfare to help pay for the cronyism, for example: https://prospect.org/health Edit:
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by wallace_f 7y ago
I wish this wasn't the top comment, and not because it is a bad comment, but because I caught a peak of it before I could try the puzzle without hints.
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by wallace_f 7y ago
To be fair Twitter isn't overwhelmingly better.
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by wallace_f 7y ago
My programming job was really hard, and a lot harder than grad school in econ. I personally think domain matters a lot.
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Having worked on farms, with mechanics, and with grad students, I tend to believe grad students exaggerate their misery. While not always true, most grad students I know tend to have relatively good careers, which they are comparing grad sc
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Tomorrow Georgia will execute a man who experts and evidence say is not guilty(reason.com)
11 points by wallace_f 7y ago|0 comments
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by wallace_f 7y ago
“When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on." -George Orwell Saw this on front page of reddit today: https://www.reddit.com&#
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Also what doesn't make sense is the world's plutocrats and even the top 1% being irrational enough to let the world economy, modern Western society, that they sit atop of collapse. I mean it could be the case, but what's more
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Also -- and I swear I read thid in the NYTimes, but I can't find it -- CEOs are now not uncommonly ditching cellphones and laptops before going into important meetings. In a general sense, this sort of thing seems to have the potential
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Police blow up innocent man's home. No recompense, court rules(washingtonpost.com)
144 points by wallace_f 7y ago|207 comments
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Wow, I'm so surprised.
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Economics always has been and still is very dogmatic, subservient to authority and hostile to "crackpots," dissent. That is until an honorable, respectable man like John Maynard Keynes uses elegant maths and trendy words to argue
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by wallace_f 7y ago
What does HN think of storing your backup of your pics on Google Pictures? It's free and has unlimited storage for typical quality photos. Is there any downside to this besides privacy concerns?
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Court rules officer who ran and hid, while inmate raped a nurse, cannot be sued(reason.com)
13 points by wallace_f 7y ago|0 comments
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Something about IQ which we forget is that people with exceptionally high IQ scores are not necessarily exceptionally intelligent. They are good at answering the types of questions on IQ tests. I would agree with you that it is likely true
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by wallace_f 7y ago
I think you misunderstood my comment. >The thing is, if you look at IQ and ability to pass a math class, they do correlate strongly. In fact, we actually agree here. My point can maybe be explained in a different way: So does playing che
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by wallace_f 7y ago
I did first 2-years undergrad at a CC. My calc course had _2_ people from mensa, 1 failed. Anyways, the idea in academic literature -- that some super smart psychiatrists know the Right Questions to ask which correlate with _g_ -- is aggrav
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by wallace_f 7y ago
And insulin should be dirt cheap, but is held hostage by Regulatory Capture. I don't like the ideological warfare which takes place while many times the problem is of cronyism, cheating.
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Do you really think if the internet was architected by politicians or corporate suits rather than 'some nerds with power'that it would have turned out better?
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by wallace_f 7y ago
>we've looked up at the cosmos for all of history, it seemed impossibly devoid of anything This is popularly misunderstood. We obviously don't see Type 3 civilizations, but if another of our own civilization was in our galaxy,
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Elon is also kind of like a dictator of his economic resources. NASA has thousands of stakeholders clamoring over getting a bigger slice of pie.
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by wallace_f 7y ago
>during missile alert without needing an external reference through precision gyrocompassing. Most ICBMs require an external alignment system to keep the INS in synch with the outside world prior to launch. I don't fully grasp this.
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Are you sure? Have you read human history? Or read about corruption in finance, healthcare, education, etc?
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by wallace_f 7y ago
When I was in uni this -- Industrial Policy -- was something which I remember Mankiw saying nearly all economists unanimously agreed is a really bad idea.
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Are most people are evil in this way? Most laugh and exhibit schadenfreude. Most of my friends who I played Simcity or GTA with were maniacal murderers in these games.
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Aren't most people like this, though?
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by wallace_f 7y ago
I'm sorry about these experiences. I also experienced a mix of bullying that became worse as I became an adult. I would caution you about your conclusion that it is the weak who get bullied. While this may be true many times, it is cer
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by wallace_f 7y ago
It's hard when adults do the same thing. I mean not just to the kids at school, but in all of life. How different in essence is using your power to artificially increase the price of healthcare, such as with insulin or in a hundred oth

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