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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
By definition, a society based on debt has a negative net worth on the books. The only people who can logically value the perpetually indebted existence of billions of people and the massive leverage that comes with that as a net gain are t
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>distruption to either of them is always measured in blood. The existence and power of both of them is also measured in blood
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>today's modern money is very much an instrument of government power A more accurate statement may be: today's modern money is very much an instrument of power over government https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>fuel an endless and hopeless war on drugs, introduce mandatory minimum sentences Also, don't forget about clandestinely supporting terrorists like the Nicaraguan Contras who were smuggling billions of dollars of cocaine into inner
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. What does it mean that success is as dangerous as failure? Whether you go up the ladder or down it, your position is shaky. When you stand with your two feet on t
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>There is a much more dynamic use of tone and they generally speak more slowly. From what I've read on social engineering[1] and communications theory a slower speaker is generally perceived as more calm, confident, and deliberate w
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Just like I hire a person to fix my car, or hire a person to fly the planes I sometimes travel on, we hire people to handle running the country for us. This could easily still be done with referendum voting, by allowing people to appoin
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>conspiracy <> secret + unconstitutional If by "<>", you mean "does not equal", then that statement is false. >Conspiracy: a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
But as you said, providing for our basic needs (food, water, shelter) does not seem to be achievable in terms of cash. Why is it that an arbitrary shortage of 1's and 0's in a computer somewhere is keeping us from achieving the en
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>The pretense in disputed elections is that the great conflict is between the two major parties. The reality is that there is a much bigger conflict that the two parties jointly wage against large numbers of Americans who are represented
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>It's kind of brilliant in a sadistic way, as if the prisons, their programs, food, and environment were designed to maximize recidivism. They are. In this Jon Oliver bit they cite a Powerpoint sales pitch from a prison corporation
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Have you ever considered that maybe both the big "left" and "right" media is itself an echo chamber?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Why does a UBI have to be cash based?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
What is mythological about it? Some of us have teams that split up different functions (i.e. front end/back end developers, DBAs) which makes one become more of a specialist on that which they spend the most time on. Other work set ups
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>"psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests". -Allen Frances, chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine and DSM-I
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Rabies is an objective pathology, so it is far more easily/accurately classified than subjective social conditions like autism.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>The only real question, IMO, is if we can afford it. Sure we can, if we want to. We've got the resources, we just don't have the desire to distribute them. 40% of food is goes wasted[1] and there are ~23 year-round vacant home
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>A friend of mine who has Native American ancestry was livid when I gave her the first book to read - there were things in there "not for the white man to know". Could you give an example or two of such things?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>the best way to think about consciousness is that it's a function of the brain, one of the organs of the body (that's pretty much a fact as far as we can test it). Using consciousness to determine the nature of consciousness..
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place, but when I click on your username I don't see an email address listed.
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Ask HN: Trying to land a 100% remote job, how risky are contract-to-hire gigs?
14 points by wu-ikkyu 9y ago|8 comments
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Um, per capita is the important metric. The true number of starving people is not an important metric?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
From my experience, the legacy rules of the classroom are a major barrier to learning to use computers. I became a better programmer in 2 months at work than I had in 2 years of university because I was simply given a computer, a team which
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
olewhalehunter said "millions" in the context of a singular "you", which is the exaggeration. Of course, collectively , all the US tax payers have paid for millions of weapons.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Millions is a exaggerating
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>There are fewer people (as a percentage) starving There are more people (in real numbers) starving than ever before. Looking at this in terms of percentages is misleading
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>bringing up one of the biggest unsolved problems of all times? Yeah. Suing the NSA is not going to solve this problem, which was my original point.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Public psychiatric institutions suffer from the same problem though, because the salaries of the employees running the institution are dependent upon a consistent occupancy.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Private prisons profit from recidivism (rather than rehabilitation) just as psychiatric "hospitals" do. Though at least in a private prison, you know how long your sentence is, it is an objective measure. When imprisoned in a me

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