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Here is the pattern: 1) Establish a false dichotomy ("All vaccines are good, all vaccines are bad") 2) Come up with a pithy slur for the other side ("Antivaxx") 3) Emphasize the lo…

Are there cranks, nutjobs and trolls in this sub? Yes. Are there reasonable people with valid concerns and perspectives worth considering? Also yes.

The practical lesson here is, as always: be extremely wealthy. No matter what you do, people will think it is profoundly smart.

OK. Did LA? Portland? Seattle? Seattle rebounded the fastest, what did they do? (Of course this is a pointless question, it was a completely different time and the data here is imp…

Gah, I got it wrong. I'll update parent.

That's an impossibly certain statement given the evidence you have offered. The linked article does not say that the cities locked down, only that they implemented what they call N…

EDIT: Big Oops. This is Foreign Policy, Not Foreign Affairs (the CFR publication). :/ That explains why they would mention a debt jubilee. Foreign Policy is the main outlet for the…

Always worth reading through all the Worse Is Better essays: https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html Good example of someone who is smarter than you, dear reader, and can arg…

A simple alternative would have be to quarantine the at risk people (60+ and pre-existing conditions) and let the rest of the world create the wealth necessary to help keep the at …

That's a false dichotomy. We could have locked down the vulnerable (60+ and those with pre-existing conditions), and anyone with a temperature, focused our healthcare efforts on th…

If we tolerate any of these plans, we get what we deserve. Louis CK's "OF COURSE... but maybe" skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLGzFQg_1xc

The best thing that could happen to the United States would be an amicable divorce. It is ridiculous to have national elections matter so much at the local level and come down to a…

An elite globalist thinks that more globalism is the answer to issues caused by globalism. OK.

I suppose it's a worthwhile concept. You can certainly look at professional politics, corporate messaging and the financial crises, basically all elite-preservation systems, throug…

HN seems pretty close to what it has always been: a technology oriented forum with occasional politics flare ups. Comments outside the technocracy consensus are nuked with downvote…

Daily reminder that congress looked into the JFK assassination and found: "Scientific acoustical evidence establishes a high probability that at least two gunmen fired at the Presi…

Archived: https://archive.is/cyItf Kissinger should be regarded as the elite spokesman and what he says should be taken very seriously. "Addressing the necessities of the moment mu…

I'll say it again: We get it, we are going to have to shut down the main street economy for months, and potentially on and off for years. OK, we aren't rioting yet. So, elites, wha…

Wall street, elite wall street, is licking its chops right now. They have direct access to the virtual printing press, and can manufacture money (debt) whenever they want. The more…

Intercooler might be a good choice. You can use it to incrementally add functionality to your exisiting web apps without a huge up front cost.

Not that I'm aware of. The main trade-off is that you aren't going to be able to so something hyper-interactive stuff like a game. If you try to push it too hard it will end up bei…

The insanity is that people pushing to reopen the economy are being called shills for wall street. Elite wall street doesn't care when the economy reopens. They are gonna get baile…

> Marx wasn’t interested in drafting any exact plan for a post-revolutionary society. And look what we got. Maybe that was the mistake.