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by yterdy 3y ago
An important addendum is that the government/finance revolving door must end, because what is sitting at the confluence of the rent-seeking you describe and the regulatory capture I just alluded to is our current paradigm, where the pu
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by yterdy 3y ago
The silent downvotes are funny, mere weeks after getting into it with HN commenters about how Google-related posts are astroturfed.
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by yterdy 3y ago
It's a fair point. The one detraction I would mention is safety. I wish there were ways to retrofit for better crash protection like there are to electrify an older vehicle.
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by yterdy 3y ago
As with most Google Search features, it seems to have been degraded/nerfed over the years (as has competitor Shazam). I'm starting to think it's purposeful and on account of limited compute: devote a lot on launch to convince
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by yterdy 3y ago
Having grown up with a father that did the opposite of all of these points, I recognize that this is also good parenting advice.
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by yterdy 3y ago
>It's mostly homes that are between occupants. Citation strongly needed. >It's also homes in depopulated town where there are not enough jobs anymore. I'm not sure I need to explain what happens when people move to
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by yterdy 3y ago
If only Google had an arm of the company dedicated to convincing politicians to do things it wants to see done legislatively.
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by yterdy 3y ago
Google could give it to schools with no heat or AC and outdated textbooks. Or help solve homelessness. Or fund fixing the country's bridges. "Sorry we really don't have the funds for more heads or ridiculous raises we're
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by yterdy 3y ago
I would argue, all four.
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by yterdy 3y ago
I buy this. I would just argue that there's been a "surge" in the campaign of late, as it were. It's also more public and panicked than in the past. When it happened in the mide-late Oughts, things just went away quietly
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by yterdy 3y ago
What in God's name are you talking about?
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by yterdy 3y ago
Conspiracy theory (well, SAC theory): The people who own everything made a bunch of bad bets over the past few years, essentially on margin. Payments are due. They're squeezing everyone who will put up with it because the alternative i
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by yterdy 3y ago
I was not particularly fond of Jezebel, but I do think it's an interesting mental exercise to compare how one reacted to this news to how they did/would react to, say, the demise of Rush Limbaugh or Howard Stern. (Or, wrt the comm
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by yterdy 3y ago
It's part of a broader cultural purge across media outlets that has seen the cancellation or destruction of works that appealed to marginalized people, including minorities, women, and queer folk. Belligerents include large companies l
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by yterdy 3y ago
>and so much of the development knowledge will be lost to the sands of time This is when you put on your Assange mask and start saving documents to leak later. Capitalism is going to eat itself, along with all of our technical and instit
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by yterdy 3y ago
Cory Doctorow has talked about how "they" test these kinds of things on captive "audiences" - mainly children and prisoners - before expanding to the rest of us. I tend to add marginalized groups to that list. Even when
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by yterdy 3y ago
You've given it the most unflattering interpretation in order to support your preexisting notions. In other words, it's warped. The supplementary courses were provided by the school system, by the way. I would have taken them, but
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by yterdy 3y ago
I think it would be more responsible to speculate a little about how, exactly, weight loss would be helpful in this case. I imagine that it is, but we need to move away from it being treated as a "regardless of what form it takes"
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by yterdy 3y ago
How convenient.
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by yterdy 3y ago
No, I just read https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/basket_of_goods.asp and https://www.bls.gov/cpi/additional-resources/historical-chan... and note all of the opportunities to manipula
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by yterdy 3y ago
I'm saying that the issue gets characterized (wrongly) by detractors as pulling down the smart kids so that the other kids won't feel bad, when it's actually a matter of pulling resources for a smaller (parent-driven) "g
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by yterdy 3y ago
I've never seen proof of this, nor why it's any different for wealthy school districts where cost-per-student is nominally lower (parental investment notwithstanding). But that's beside the point, because the notion is always
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by yterdy 3y ago
Every time this line of thought comes up, I wonder where these people think the money is going. Perhaps to teacher salaries in very high cost-of-living areas? Perhaps to providing basic services to students (like breakfast and basic therapy
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by yterdy 3y ago
This reeks of a purposeful misinterpretation of a hot-button incident, and a dogwhistle.
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by yterdy 3y ago
>Going full Volcker is not called for. Inflation hasn't been building for nearly two decades; it's been nearly nonexistent for nearly two decades. Inflation hasn't reached 14%, nor anything close. It's actually abou
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by yterdy 3y ago
>How are multibillion dollar companies accountable to shareholders and other owners willingly giving away money for some nebulous principle such as having the "right" people make money. Because of the specter of the alternati
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by yterdy 3y ago
Well, the jury's still out, but the important thing to consider is what credible threat is keeping Powell from going full-Volcker and slamming on the brakes. I wouldn't say that we're on the verge of an inflationary crisis
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by yterdy 3y ago
You're right, it's a holistic rather than analytical argument. I would at least say that part of the "proof" is in the fact that it's trying to explain what's in the article it's responding to, which we&#x
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by yterdy 3y ago
Correct. The people we're talking about - Ivy League alums, the children of professionals, immigrants, and people who want to be like them - are much likelier than the average American to drive their wealth into assets and savings. Hou
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by yterdy 3y ago
My "Crack Theory That Everyone Is Going To Hate": the tech industry as we know it arose out of the Great Financial Crisis and was a way to ensure that people with the "right" educational and professional pedigree were ge

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