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You're missing the trees for the forest. The Industrial Revolution was terrible for the people who were working during it . Their jobs got eliminated and they only sorta sometimes …

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> Mickey Mouse is not handing you over a legal agreement with guarantees on the ingredients of the candy yes he absolutely is. that's literally the law.

"It seems more likely..." "It might not happen that way..." "someone does need to check..." "seems entirely possible..." "I'd want more like 5 years to be confident..." Lot of diff…

Small governments don't deploy thousands of military troops into their own cities.

> Whether or not the SovCit practitioners understand that's what's happening is anyone's guess. Probably more of them don't understand. I am very unfortunate to have one in my exte…

You tax the everloving hell out of the rich, so they can't just buy whatever policy or judiciary outcome they want or build mega "just in case, i promise uwu" bunkers.

Now you compare the all-in cost of living across salary, taxes, housing, healthcare, and everything else.

The intuition is that they are not truly independent statistical events. Each trial reveals more information about the underlying "quality" of the resume (for passing this trial, n…

> But I doubt the impacts of rent control would appear in the market this quickly, it'd take years for the market signals to be measurable. Hard disagree. Rational investors have n…

Yet another moment where Strangers in Their Own Land[0] is prescient. From an interview[1] given by the author: "I think the next most important reason they distrusted the federal …

This has been the historical cycle for as long as we have records of human history. Power begets power and greed. Eventually either everyone else reaches a breaking point and "eat …

This is the laziest, most egregious "WeLl AkShUaLlY!!!" comment I've seen in a little while. Like, really embarrassing. > According to the regulator for Ontario doctors, Jamal init…

Periscope was in closed beta when Meerkat launched. Neither was a clone of the other. Just two teams with the same idea at the same time.

This is exactly the main lesson of Finite and Infinite Games. There are finite games, in which the goal is to win, and there are infinite games, in which the goal is to continue pl…

A picture is worth a thousand words.

You're being obtuse. There's an obvious difference between "state-level actors can produce misleading films" and "anyone with an internet connection and 5 minutes can make anything…

> I don't understand what reality you're living in where this is something to defend. Hacker news has become a much more depressing place post-Covid. Musk, Zuck, the All-In guys, B…

There are plenty of places where this is the standard. Anecdote time: I joined a not-quite-FAANG in an acquihire. Some of my teammates negotiated hard on the way in; I did not. Aft…

> What's the rationale for funding those niche sports? You've been capitalism-pilled. Sometimes it's worth funding things that "aren't worth funding". Not everything needs to retur…

> It's not about "the white mans burden", whatever that means. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden I'm not reading the arguments closely enough to make a judgeme…

Focusing on "nations" specifically is a waste of effort. "Power structures" generically are enough. It doesn't matter whether it's technofascist fiefs, nation-states, the Illuminat…

Exactly. The President of the United States held up a terribly photoshopped picture of some tattoos and claimed it clearly showed membership in MS13. Half the country immediately d…

Except judges can't do anything proactively and are forced to rely on the executive to enforce their decisions and the legislative to fund them. Really, they're absolutely nothing …