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by wormlord 1y ago
> A particular worry in the Treasury market is that a doom loop could arise from the “basis trade”. This is popular with hedge funds and has minted fortunes at some of America’s largest. It attempts to profit from the difference in price
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by wormlord 1y ago
Public health research is good. Bombing civilians in the third world is bad. Do you get it now?
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by wormlord 1y ago
China has outlined plans to reduce their environmental impact in their 5-year plan. One can say "wow do you really trust the CCP?" but at least they have a publicly available plan. https://en.ndrc.gov.cn/policies&#
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by wormlord 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine
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by wormlord 2y ago
I say plan for the worst and hope for the best. > but I'd go to war over that concentration I think this is why the US is trying to annex greenland.
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by wormlord 2y ago
That doesn't solve the environmental impacts of: tire usage, EV production, battery degradation, road maintenance, charging infrastructure, and all the costs downstream of suburban development built around cars like: - millions of mile
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by wormlord 2y ago
It took 30 years between Lenin's brother being executed by the state, and the Russian revolution. History has momentum, and the gains from the New Deal are still enough that many Americans dont feel comfortable putting their bodies on
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by wormlord 2y ago
EVs are not the solution, they just shift the emissions elsewhere and perpetuate a car-based society which is a much larger issue. Policies like NYCs congestion pricing and light rail are infinitely more impactful.
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by wormlord 2y ago
I have been using RCP 8.5 for all of my long-term decision making (where to move and buy a house, how sustainably I plan to live). Based off the downvotes I receive on here I think I'm too much of a collapsenik for the average HN poste
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by wormlord 2y ago
This was written at a time when people had lived through inventions like the internet, personal computers, refrigerators, microwave ovens, jet liners, vaccines, television, etc. While all of those inventions had negative externalities, thei
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by wormlord 2y ago
Wow, everything's computer!
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by wormlord 2y ago
> The wealthy are not trying to maintain the status quo though I agree with everything you said, of course there are factions among the wealthy. Some want to keep doing business as usual liberalism, I think others anticipate climate chan
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by wormlord 2y ago
Of course wealthy or "petit bourgeois" can be leftists or Marxists or whatever, they have typically made up the intelligentsia of most left-wing revolutions historically. But the material interests of the wealthy align with the st
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by wormlord 2y ago
This site is mostly wealthy and older who have benefitted from the neoliberal status quo. It's why many commenters can shrug off the insane shit happening like opaque deportations of random people to a fucking concentration camp in El
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by wormlord 2y ago
I don't think you mean leftists you mean liberals. Leftists ostensibly have a materialist understanding of the world, not idealist. Of course many immigrants are right-wing, the US exported counter-revolution globally during the 20th c
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by wormlord 2y ago
I just rolled my own mocked Celery objects. I have mocked Groups, Chords, Chains, and Signatures, mocked Celery backend, and mocked dispatch of tasks. Everything runs eagerly because it's all just running locally in the same thread, bu
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by wormlord 2y ago
Probably because the applications of the technology are things like automating calls for collections agencies: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/domu-technology-inc/jo... If we judge a technology by how it tra
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by wormlord 2y ago
I don't think this is a case of "Second System Syndrome" I think this is an instance of shock therapy being applied at home. When they fail they can blame woke DEI and just tell everyone they are increasing the limit on 401(k
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by wormlord 2y ago
> I have seen how dangerous it can be when inexperienced developers take it as a gospel and try to implement everything at once This book explicitly tells you not to do this. > Similarly, service layers and unit of work are useful whe
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by wormlord 2y ago
Yep basically sums it up. Enough "middle-class" people are insulated from collapse that they still defend the system even though it has already been torn up. Collapse is happening and has already killed people, it just hasn't
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by wormlord 2y ago
> Why not? Sure, they could be undone, but that's true for any law in a democracy. Not a democracy, and you just answered your own question. They can be undone because the people do not wield absolute power. They can be overturned b
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by wormlord 2y ago
There are reformist policies that work and actions that can be taken on the local level to help alleviate some of these problems. But they are not robust long-term solutions. > a few years things largely went back to normal The US is dep
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by wormlord 2y ago
> but attempts to reconcile it just moved the class barriers around instead of breaking them Sure and we have made many advancements in theory since then. But the issue still remains that you have to admit the root cause even exists befo
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by wormlord 2y ago
What is economy of scale? What is induced demand? What is return on investment? What is increased total innovation?
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by wormlord 2y ago
Probably gonna get downvoted for quoting Lenin on this site -- but he nailed this 120 years ago in "What is to be done?". We are witnessing the collapse of Liberalism in real-time. Liberalism has outlived its usefulness as a tool
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by wormlord 2y ago
Won't someone think of the poor megalomaniacal religious extremist billionaires???
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by wormlord 2y ago
I have no idea what your point is or what you think my point is. But yes, people with all sorts of different backgrounds can be fascists. Fascism is inherently contradictory, and fascists are willing to make alliances even if they have ideo
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by wormlord 2y ago
That means nothing, the ADL is willing to make an uneasy alliance with legitimate antisemites if it means furthering their settler colonialist project in the middle east.
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by wormlord 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokenism
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by wormlord 2y ago
Dude people bought the cars before Elon revealed himself to be a Nazi. Owning a Tesla does not make you an ideological fascist.

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