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110,919karma·51,749submissions·October 26, 2011
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"We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them."
In life, everything is a wager. Whether you realize it or not, you are constantly making implicit and explicit predictions about the future state of reality. To live is to predict.
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China's population is declining while building and operating the largest fleet of manufacturing robotics in the world. The US population is not declining as quickly while having limited capabilit…
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Any interest in connecting me with someone there so I can attempt to obtain a copy for the Internet Archive?
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Inability to access items does not mean deleted. In the case of PBS content, it is unlikely access would be lost. I cannot speak to your use case, but the Patron Help Desk can confirm if an item is re…
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It's incredibly frustrating. The Internet Archive offers a Vault product, where you pay $2-3/GB one time for perpetual storage into the future of your collections, items, media, etc. This pr…
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Saudi Arabia needs oil prices at ~$86.60/barrel to balance their budget, per Bloomberg. It is not the marginal cost to pump a barrel, but what a country needs to support their sticky spending fro…
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45915211
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Report: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6777c52f82e5471a3732ea25/... Mentioned in College Grads Struggle to Find Jobs. Non-Grads Are Giving Up - https://www.bloom…
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Total nuclear generation capacity in Hungary is 1.92GW as of this comment (per entsoe.eu capacity data). Current production is ~400MW sustained due to cooling limitations. Forward looking is hotter an…
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Related: Trump sued over Truth Social advance access sale - https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/12/trump-truth-social-lawsuit.h... - August 12th, 2026 Complaint: https:…
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https://archive.today/0XZzC
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Binance. https://archive.today/1Tuxi
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https://archive.today/Q0jnX These are the same water groups that sued the last federal administration to not have CISA compel water utilities to improve their security posture and hyg…
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That's the spirit!
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"Up and not crying." as the Norwegians say.
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https://archive.today/DybiV
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You’re entitled to your opinion, HN is a small slice of the electorate and arguably in no way representative.
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Apple Intelligence? I mean, you're only processing for the time your "AI|browser|agent" is acting as a firewall between you and Meta. Cache locally after processing and filtering. Use a…
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Very high value comments throughout the thread, thank you. What consequences, if any, could the CFTC face for this?
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People always have to sell, jobs, divorce, death, etc. Mortgages originated at today’s rates to buy those properties are what govern today’s prices. These sales will, over time, be the comparables tha…
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When will that deliver? Years from now, maybe, if you get started today and can maintain progress. Benchmark rate can go up today with an FOMC meeting and immediately deflate real estate asset prices.…
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As if the grades mattered in the first place. Credentials are pass/fail, employers tick a box and it is more rare than not they care about your GPA, or verify it for that matter.
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With zero interest rate policy (“zirp”) over and fiat currencies paying competitive yields due to bond markets pushing yields up, the cryptocurrency fad is potentially in its twilight with other poten…
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Interest rates must go up. It’s the only lever available to push housing prices down in the near term.