echopurity | 4 years ago | on: I almost got banned from Hacker News
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echopurity | 4 years ago | on: /r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrification
"Sanewashing" is a highly biased slur.
It's usually called "reformism" by people who support actual change.
echopurity | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is HN becoming more an existential crisis echo chamber?
HN is a complete echo chamber that quickly bans viewpoints opposing the dominant techbro ideology which is hollow and induces existential crises upon the briefest reflection.
echopurity | 4 years ago | on: Mathematicians Transcend Geometric Theory of Motion
It's unfortunate that they omit Floer's suicide. Nobody wants to talk about the negative effects of a career in mathematics.
echopurity | 4 years ago | on: Uber and Lyft don't save money, time, or the planet
The fact that destroying the planet and ruining people's lives is "good business" is a major part of the problem.
echopurity | 4 years ago | on: Infinity Category Theory Offers a Bird’s-Eye View of Mathematics
All of math education is bad like this. We're taught the "ladder myth" that math is a linear subject leading to like multivariable calculus, not even real analysis.
It's a terrible waste of people's time, interests, and talents.
echopurity | 4 years ago | on: El Salvador’s new Bitcoin wallets could cost Western Union $400M a year
People generally do not go from $0 to $50,000 playing roulette either.
echopurity | 4 years ago | on: El Salvador’s new Bitcoin wallets could cost Western Union $400M a year
>El Salvador’s new bitcoin wallets could save Salvadorians $400 million a year
FTFY.
echopurity | 4 years ago | on: California aims to ban recycling symbols on things that aren’t recyclable
The whole movement to recycle plastic was an industry scam to knowingly profit from destroying the planet.
echopurity | 4 years ago | on: Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone (2016)
Capitalism is anti-science and anti-progress. People are evolving around it.
echopurity | 4 years ago | on: Major Quantum Computing Advance Made Obsolete by Teenager (2018)
>Kerenidis and Prakash proved that a quantum computer could solve the recommendation problem exponentially faster than any known algorithm
That's not a proof. It's a few hopeful examples.
The current proof only appears stunning to those who were formerly satisfied with weak evidence.
echopurity | 4 years ago | on: How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to everyday life?
HN claims to be ideology free but every third article is this kinda nonsense from The Economist.
And they shadow ban anybody who dissents. Tech bro culture is the worst.
echopurity | 4 years ago | on: The Winners of Remote Work
Going out of business isn't the same as losing at working from home. Going out of business is usually not working.
Otherwise this article would just be the fairly obvious statement that people who kept their jobs are "winners" over those who lost their jobs.
echopurity | 4 years ago | on: Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Central Banks
Have you ever seen a historical chart of bitcoin versus paper? I dunno which week you're talking about, but Bitcoin is generally not the one falling.
echopurity | 4 years ago | on: Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Central Banks
"Hold this paper from the your local politicians rather than using an open ledger based on international cooperation and modern technology."
echopurity | 4 years ago | on: Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Central Banks
>New research suggests that ... the drop in interest rates has been caused by changes in population structure and by shifts in the distribution of income.... In most economies, baseline interest rates are “set” by central banks.
No need for quotes here. People at central banks literally set the baseline interest rate. There's not much evidence for attributing this straightforward bureaucratic process to vague trends in population and income.
>Central banks can impose any level of (local currency) borrowing costs on the economy that they want, which is why some say that “interest rates are a policy variable.” But central banks generally avoid exercising that power arbitrarily—and for good reason.
Wow bankers have reasons? It seems like this article is not just assuming market efficiency but also banker efficiency. Neither is a good assumption.
>the trends in inequality that have retarded growth and have pushed down interest rates were choices that can be changed.
This is a radical claim about cause and effect for which there is almost no empirical evidence. AKA pseudo-science.
echopurity | 4 years ago | on: The Winners of Remote Work
It's got to be clickbait. If there are winners, then how many workers are losing by working remotely? It seems obvious that the vast majority of people win big by not being forced to commute into a full day at an office where they would rather not be.
echopurity | 4 years ago | on: Launch HN: Lemonade Finance (YC S21) – Digital Bank for the African Diaspora
It's a very hot area in crypto.
- https://www.stellar.org/learn/stellar-for-remittances
- https://tracxn.com/d/trending-themes/Startups-in-Cryptocurre...
echopurity | 4 years ago | on: Launch HN: Lemonade Finance (YC S21) – Digital Bank for the African Diaspora
>Africans can pay up to 30% more than the global average to move money abroad
What gives Africans this amazing ability?
echopurity | 4 years ago | on: Climate change will alter where many crops are grown
Stage 5 climate denialism: "It's too Late!"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...
Isn't HN an "ideology free" zone? Why do they allow nonstop ideology from The Economist? Not to mention the paywall.
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