david927

> It would cause a global financial crisis That's coming in any case. The water is out for miles.

But if you make depositors whole, we'll have to switch to banks as custodial accounts. These private companies can't make huge profits off of deposits in good times and be, essentially, ins…

Someone in this thread wrote this: "California Universities just had the most applications in history. UCLA 145k applicants, UCSD 130k applicants. Respectively they are both down now to about a …

Rubbish

I don't want to interrupt your strange missive against the Swiss but they took Jewish refugees during WWII and it provoked Germany. Hitler called Switzerland "the mortal enemy of the Third …

Princeton University Professor of Economics Alan Blinder said literally the opposite on Bloomberg today.

> for no reason For reason. This is far from over.

The brakes have to match the accelerator on the car, or you're going to be in for a hard time -- even if that means the car will go slower. You have to figure it out differently. Things will go…

If only we had thousands of years of history showing that this happens every time. Every. Single. Time.

Well, it's now a multi-polar world between NATO and BRICS countries. Certainly people can believe (realize?) that a proxy war is going on, but to say so as a nation, and to assign the provocateu…

These people wouldn't have a Nobel Prize if they followed mainstream ideas and were, like so many of us, sycophants of what has hitherto existed. Most of the points of "disease" (with n…

Objective journalism is a necessary component of a free and democratic society. Without it, "availability cascades" and "rumor mills" are pervasive. Some of the cited examples ar…

Nicely said. Alan Kay talks a lot about this.

Have your text pulled from a database table and then key it by chosen language.

I expect it between now and summer.

I try to do one of these at the first of every month. It's hit-and-miss but you can look for Ask HN on the first of the month. It goes back a while.

I don't see how Paris is the best example. I would nominate Zurich. Strangely, I live with my wife and daughter in Boise, Idaho and we don't own a car. The high school, my work, grocery st…

He's generally overrated but Taxi Driver is not good cinema, it's great cinema.

"Debt: The First 5,000 Years" by David Graeber shows how debt is a unique tool in its ability to control people and, in this case, countries. I'm excited to hear that Brazil and Argenti…

I'm using a browser and also getting redirected to Google.

Wait... are you saying Jara Cimrman did it first?!

When I was living there, I was told that you could go to a rug store, see a beautiful say, Persian Carpet worth thousands, and they would say, take it home and try it out. If you liked it, you came b…

I agree. Things fall into existing grooves. Your band comes up with a new sound and people say, "That's kind of like Mazzy Star," and now you point it more that way. It falls into th…

Much, much more vulnerable

Well, it had been slowly shifting around northern Canada for the hundreds of years we have records. Lately, though, it's been moving quite quickly towards Siberia: https://upload.wik…

Searle's Chinese Room is becoming very relevant. Personally, it's how I've been describing to non-technical friends the difference between ChatGPT and AGI. It's fascinating how ear…