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The post-1945 rules-based order was already a slow motion train crash that most of the West remained in denial about until Putin wiped his behind with it in the 2014 invasion of Cr…

It certainly was to anyone who has been paying attention. I would highly recommend that anyone who thinks the tariff strategy is irrational to read through Michael Kao's substack a…

If you have a source for that I'll be more than happy to go edit my original post to acknowledge being completely wrong on this. But my instinct is that if there was an even mildly…

> Is this really worth it? For some crude which is really high in sulfur and not even that important given fracking? The US doesn't need their oil. It's about stopping China from g…

> which is what Trump wants after it was pretty much confirmed that he's a pedophile. While there's no shortage of creepy anecdotes about Trump in what's been released, there's bee…

The problem is that the mechanics are paid fixed hours for a given type of job (according to the dealership's standard for how long a given job should take). They are not truly bei…

"Up to" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.

> you shouldn't be starting a high speed pursuit over a seat belt violation, or for someone going 5 over the speed limit. That's the thing: normal people don't. Violent criminals, …

Happiness = reality - expectations

The "among our colleagues' households" is the key part. It's not generalizable to the whole of Gaza.

Voting seems like one of the few problems that blockchain is actually the solution for.

Their position is logically inconsistent. If they are worried about being eventually targeted by the Trump administration, they have done more to paint a target on their back now t…

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There's nothing mutually exclusive about non-discimination and diversity. They won't take the grant money because they want to drive a politicized agenda, to the detriment of the P…

Choosing to advocate your personal political beliefs over the interests of your organization should be grounds for dismissal.

No one has a problem with diversity as a competitive advantage. People dislike forced diversity in lieu of meritocracy.

> Trump truly has no vision for anything we do on the world stage It confuses me how anyone could look at what's happening in the world and see a lack of a plan. Trump administrati…

But the equipment is operated by a person, and the diagnostic report has to be signed off by a person, who has a malpractice insurance policy for personal injury attorneys to go af…

I generally find HN discussions pretty interesting, but this particular topic seems to just be two groups who have zero chance of changing their minds hurling misinformation and pr…

New Jersey is probably the most socioeconomically segregated state in the country, mostly based on its school districts. It has crazy real estate prices precisely so parents can ge…

I think his argument is more of the "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me" variety. At some point complaining about ethics and morality of someone who has repeate…

Completely agree with you. Which it why I mentioned measuring wealth by income shows a disconnect from what real wealth is.

Capitalism is a morally reprehensible way to distribute resources in a society, but still better than any of the alternatives.

If you're still measuring wealth by income, you're probably not in the bracket that is being discussed here. $1 million per year is an extremely comfortable income, but it would ta…