hl5 | 8 years ago | on: Wall Street Banks Warn Downturn Is Coming
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hl5 | 8 years ago | on: European Union Debt by Country
Lower interest rates cause people to wait for a lower rate, higher rates cause people to take out loans before the rate goes up again. CBs did the worst possible thing with no historic evidence it would work, as usual.
hl5 | 8 years ago | on: 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse
I wonder if the "privacy" features in Win10 play a role here. Seems like some extra process accounting could cause delays not present in previous versions.
hl5 | 8 years ago | on: America’s new tobacco crisis: The rich stopped smoking, the poor didn’t
Perhaps you could share your easy three year get out of poverty plan with the poor people you know and gain an informed perspective on your position.
hl5 | 8 years ago | on: The world’s biggest problems and why they’re not what first comes to mind
Because housing has a long lasting effect on improved health. There are a number of studies that have drawn this conclusion.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/how-hea...
hl5 | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What job did you leave IT for?
Depending on your location and political views, a marijuana trimming job could work out.
hl5 | 8 years ago | on: The world’s biggest problems and why they’re not what first comes to mind
That home then passes on to their offspring, giving them one of the primary tools for staying out of poverty -- a safe place to sleep and store things like food and clothes. People who don't have the safety a home offers are forced to plan for the moment and not for the future.
My explicit argument is $75 billion for healthcare to the poor goes in exactly which pockets? That's always been the scam: Help the poor pay your friend.
hl5 | 8 years ago | on: The world’s biggest problems and why they’re not what first comes to mind
What good is healthcare if you have no home and no stability? The problem with reducing poverty is the people trying to reduce it have never been in poverty so all they are doing is guessing, or worse, exploiting.
hl5 | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: How best to model a government programmatically?
Conway's game of life
hl5 | 8 years ago | on: Lessons I Learned from the Dotcom Bubble for the Coming Cryptocurrency Bubble
Where are the victims?
hl5 | 8 years ago | on: Too many prisons make people worse
Steal. It's your only way out for convicts in this system. You too don't need to be compassionate and can freely ignore anyone's desire for safety, as you have been labeled as not deserving of either.
hl5 | 8 years ago | on: Too many prisons make people worse
The better way is to reduce poverty. You can build whatever "rehibilitation" program you want, but if the future holds no promise, why follow the rules?
hl5 | 8 years ago | on: Chrome Won
i guess it's more awesome to have a bunch of talented developers working on a dead product :/
hl5 | 8 years ago | on: Chrome Won
how awesome would it be if mozilla forked chromium?
hl5 | 8 years ago | on: Scientists find 7.2M-year-old pre-human remains in the Balkans
The problem with these scientists is they are far too young to have played Ultima II and thus missed out on the opportunity to learn about Pangea.
hl5 | 8 years ago | on: Sick of Myself – Algorithmic identity is a means of control and consolation
One conclusion could be that inescapable despair is an indicator of globalized psyops. Depressed individuals will rationalize overspending.
hl5 | 8 years ago | on: A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to $1750 per month
So the sudden 7000% cost increase is just the normal course of business due to a bug? Wow, great business plan -- tell them the first one's free ..then they pay.
hl5 | 8 years ago | on: Basic Income in a Just Society
If your favored solution is to increase poverty, I don't think you can fairly call it a form of support.
hl5 | 8 years ago | on: Basic Income in a Just Society
UBI decreases productivity because fewer people will choose to work.
UBI decreases government efficiency because now it has to process sending out checks to every citizen (and some non-citizens, and some dead ones, and some fake ones).
UBI increases taxes because citizens will pay for it.
UBI increases poverty because fewer people will choose to work.
UBI increases crime because more people are impoverished.
UBI increases socialism because that's what it is -- income redistribution, formerly known as theft.
UBI increases the risk of tax revolt.
hl5 | 9 years ago | on: How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural language analysis
In a very limited sense they have since the ads you end up seeing are targeted towards your culture based on your browsing history.
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exhibit B: macro human behavior never changes, we pretty much all desire and react the same way.
exhibit C: history repeats because too few learn from other's mistakes.
exhibit D: it has never ever been a good idea to trust anything a bank says. they don't love you and are at war with you. they are counting on you to fall in love with the wrong girl, again.
exhibit E: 100 years of data is not enough.