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by wormlord 2y ago
I am not an expert sleuth, but using the WHOIS lookup tool it looks like the domain registrar is Japanese. Not to call everything and anything a "psyop" but if I were to set up something like this, I would do it for financial gain
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by wormlord 2y ago
I understand the value of economics as a social science, and there are some policies that economists propose that I like. However, a lot of this stuff is either just justification for neoliberal policies, or just common sense. For example,
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by wormlord 2y ago
I get why people took issue with my parent comment, because it seems like I am just whining that economists are measuring the only things they can measure. But it's like the fish asking "what's water?". why do we pay p
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by wormlord 2y ago
> I'm also not sure why you are calling Goolsbee a "Friedmanite." The paper is from the Becker-Friedman Institute of Economics. It is literally the Chicago school. Do the authors need to call themselves disciples of Milton
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by wormlord 2y ago
> Then how would you expect an economist to study it, go to restaurants and report their opinions? Unironically yes. There are dimensions other than raw profitability that determine the health of a sector. The work that chicago school ec
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by wormlord 2y ago
Friedmanite economists lauding the "productivity increases" of restaurants, meanwhile I have stopped eating anywhere except food trucks because mid-tier dining is so bad now due to cost-cutting and loss of expertise. Yeah that tra
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by wormlord 2y ago
It was a joke.
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by wormlord 2y ago
That's an interesting hypothetical, I have another one. Imagine you're a country with natural resources. Private industries want those resources. Suddenly the US media is flooded with fabricated or exaggerated stories about the co
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by wormlord 2y ago
That too. These people aren't exceptional in interesting ways, they are however exceptionally optimized for one kind of success (getting that dolla dolla bill) in a zero interest rate tech environment. Turns out that being a good con
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by wormlord 2y ago
> Sorry but no, this is absolutely not what happened What didn't happen? I didn't provide you a narrative, I gave 2 examples of uncrewed propulsive landing which literally happened. > There is an incredible gap between the t
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by wormlord 2y ago
Yes.
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by wormlord 2y ago
He literally does do that. Top-level players of the game have called him out for it. They have tracked his time with an API. It is actually mathematically impossible to be at his level in POE-- you would have to be a top-tier player and pla
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by wormlord 2y ago
> All engineers and other professionals told him that landing rockets is bullshit Every company has some kind of mythology where someone says "you'll never make it in this town!". The reality is that uncrewed propulsive la
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by wormlord 2y ago
I care less about his "troll" posts online (implying there is a conspiracy of jews importing people to destroy America is just a troll and not an actual Nazi conspiracy guys) than his manipulation of the US government, mistreatmen
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by wormlord 2y ago
> What other person started a rocket company from scratch and got them landing? I'd rather listen to Lars Blackmore (the engineer who is largely responsible for SpaceX powered descent). Or Gwynne Shotwell who actually oversees the b
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by wormlord 2y ago
I don't know how someone could look at Dorsey/Musk/Bezos actions and still be interested in what they have to say. There's probably a lot to be learned from someone who worships money, assuming that your goal is to emula
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by wormlord 2y ago
> That's largely all anyone can do When you don't have an understanding of racism as a systemic issue, this ends up being the conclusion. Which is why "woke" people (the ones who aren't just adopting the aestheti
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by wormlord 2y ago
I always have the mindset of "its my fault". My Linux workstation constantly crashing because of the i9-13900k in it was honestly humiliating. Was very relieved when I realized it was the CPU and not some impossible to find code e
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by wormlord 2y ago
This argument is so lame. "Actually the overall structure of the USA is designed so that its basicalyl impossible to solve the crisis". You're not wrong in the fact that America is a shit country designed to intentionally to
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by wormlord 2y ago
Yes I have, I did something similar for a project naviagting in a space game. This is still technically A* if you squint. The straight line is like using a eulicdean heuristic. The "optimal point" is just an abstracted way of navi
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by wormlord 2y ago
I didn't vote for Kamala. Also I'm sorry you feel bad when people point out your callousness. Think about how people must feel when they die for want of healthcare.
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by wormlord 2y ago
> Americans aren't flying to Europe for healthcare - it's the other way around (if you can afford it) Missing in your analysis is health outcomes for the poor. Maybe you don't view them as human?
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by wormlord 2y ago
Try being honest with yourself mate, instead of pretending like you're being rational while plugging your ears saying "lalala" to confirm your biases. It's not cute.
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by wormlord 2y ago
> Some Enum features work differently (incompatible) in Python 3.11.x versions. I wasn't aware of that, that's actually insane. It's odd to me that it took so long to get f-strings and Enums right in Python, I assumed thos
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by wormlord 2y ago
> This point is reasonable and data seems to suggest that it is statistically probable. You found a random datapoint to compare to without accounting for confounding variables. That is an unserious analysis. > Yes. Can 21K deaths be a
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by wormlord 2y ago
This is becoming a circular argument. The corporations bribe the politicians because the politicians exist and have power. If the gov't didn't exist, the corporations would directly have power over you instead of indirectly. They
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by wormlord 2y ago
I like that you ignored my first point where I pointed out that your objective, rational analysis failed to account for basic variables like age and sex. 1. I don't need to prove "all workers" are slaves, that is an arbitrary
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by wormlord 2y ago
> the data suggests that OP's view is not unreasonable The data uses a relative comparison of migrant deaths to overall death rate for Saudi Arabia. You are looking for something to console you that "actually the slaves aren&#x
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by wormlord 2y ago
I am glad your life improved, but your life personally improving doesn't change the political reality.
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by wormlord 2y ago
I agree with a lot of what you're saying. I don't think private firms need to be as ham-fisted as sending cops to your door though. If Tesla wants to increase car ownership, they just need to control a few key politicians to disma

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