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NeonPunk posted:Wtf why are they unhappy with the deal? wsws
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Jul 26, 2023 19:25
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croup coughfield posted:its fine. im going to win by showing them your posts so they kill themselves. you're doing your part eat poo poo tankies who hate posting. internet ftw
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Jul 26, 2023 19:26
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Jul 26, 2023 19:26
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I wish things did not cost so much oh well
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Jul 26, 2023 19:27
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net work error posted:I wish things did not cost so much oh well lifehack: you don’t have to pay except maybe rent, idk landlord will prob send in SWAT team if you don’t pay that.
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Jul 26, 2023 19:27
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croup coughfield posted:so if im understanding this correctly, the way to lower prices is to destroy the wealth of the middle and upper middle class This is the Fed's theory I think
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Jul 26, 2023 19:28
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Hello. I made a new thread that might interest some of you. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4037849&pagenumber=1&perpage=40
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Jul 26, 2023 19:31
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cat botherer posted:Just ran into a job posting on linkedin for a "Web3" data scientist position that's "equity only" This is great. Thank you B.
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Jul 26, 2023 19:32
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NeonPunk posted:Wtf why are they unhappy with the deal? Wsws are ultra left weirdos with a lot of insane perspectives. They can be safely ignored
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Jul 26, 2023 19:48
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sleep with the vicious posted:Lol at the people posting earlier today about material conditions. Nothing can stop this ride baby lmao at every paragraph
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Jul 26, 2023 19:50
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ArmZ posted:always has been yes but this is different. it’s more… a person will be constrained by many things, and limited by their own preconceived ideas and notions about what a thing is worth. an algorithm is maximally optimized. think about it this way. we could set a price based on rationale of the relationships of people. we could set a price based on the relationships between things and go gently caress people. this is further than that. this is setting price to solely maximize returns without even considering the real relationships of things in the supply chain. it’s the total detaching of production cost from setting price. the price is whatever the market will bear to maximize the return. it’s the same as what Martin Shkreli was doing to drug prices. except a person to blame has been removed.
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Jul 26, 2023 19:52
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you can’t do fraud if fraud was already done it’s double jeopardy. simple as
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Jul 26, 2023 19:52
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 25 BP rate hike today, as foretold. The Fed statement has a couple tweaks--apparently the economy is now expanding at a "moderate" pace.
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Jul 26, 2023 19:52
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“In some ways, it makes it more intriguing,”
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Jul 26, 2023 19:52
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croup coughfield posted:“In some ways, it makes it more intriguing,” he's right
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Jul 26, 2023 19:53
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > C-SPAM > [Doomsday Economics] he concluded it would be difficult to pull off fraud twice in such a specialized field.
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Jul 26, 2023 19:53
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genericnick posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > C-SPAM > [Doomsday Economics] he concluded it would be difficult to pull off fraud twice in such a specialized field. thats double jeopardy
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Jul 26, 2023 19:54
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Two businesses can’t be arrested for the same crime
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Jul 26, 2023 20:23
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sleep with the vicious posted:Let's double down on insane articles tonight imagine getting owned this hard and then telling people about it isnt he the dude with an egg-shaped head
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Jul 26, 2023 20:23
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nfl sunday ticket on youtube tv for only $439 wowowow
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Jul 26, 2023 20:26
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does theranos 2 also have a blonde woman affecting her voice three octaves lower
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Jul 26, 2023 20:27
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$439 and it's 30%+ ads. magnificent
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Jul 26, 2023 20:27
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quote:Lachy Groom
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Jul 26, 2023 20:31
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sleep with the vicious posted:Let's double down on insane articles tonight lol
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Jul 26, 2023 20:32
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genericnick posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > C-SPAM > [Doomsday Economics] he concluded it would be difficult to pull off fraud twice in such a specialized field. too long for thread title, sorry
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Jul 26, 2023 20:32
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Zodium posted:before that it was the office of naval intelligence (1882) lol guess who developed Tor? the (us) naval research lab
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Jul 26, 2023 20:34
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Vox Nihili posted:too long for thread title, sorry In some ways, it makes it more intriguing,
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Jul 26, 2023 20:37
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Lachy Groom? The names this season are stupid and distracting
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Jul 26, 2023 20:38
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rich people are so loving stupid
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Jul 26, 2023 20:47
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I think my favorite part about the new Theranos is that no one seems to be concerned about whether the product is actually possible after a bunch of engineers and scientists tried and failed to make it work at Theranos because they flat out could not overcome the physical constraints it's just "intriguing" in some vague sense
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Jul 26, 2023 20:54
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Consolidated Ed posted:imagine getting owned this hard and then telling people about it Yes he is lmao 
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Jul 26, 2023 20:55
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genericnick posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > C-SPAM > [Doomsday Economics] too long for thread title, sorry
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Jul 26, 2023 20:56
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Well, the demand is there. The money is there. Let's do this impossible thing. No fraud this time if we fail. Just good old fashioned magic.
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Jul 26, 2023 20:56
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croup coughfield posted:lol at believing people have individual agency and free will
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Jul 26, 2023 20:56
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Vox Nihili posted:Well, the demand is there. The money is there. Let's do this impossible thing. No fraud this time if we fail. Just good old fashioned magic. the entirely of attempts at innovation in contemporary america is just rich people funding obvious scams
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Jul 26, 2023 20:58
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croup coughfield posted:so if im understanding this correctly, the way to lower prices is to destroy the wealth of the middle and upper middle class that's right
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Jul 26, 2023 21:03
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Bar Ran Dun posted:linear programming algorithms optimize for the objective function. The nuts and bolts of the objective function is going to be determined by “maximizing shareholder value”. They won’t use an algorithm that does something other than that. I just came across this in a book explaining why liberals are unable to write the history of Greece and Rome: “The third assumption undermining this historiography is that ‘trade’ needs to be understood in terms of the modern ideal – driven solely by the profit motive and market forces, unfettered by social or political constraints, encompassing every aspect of material existence – rather than any historical or contemporary reality. This leads both modernisers and primitivists to build arguments around some allegedly clear distinctions, the implications of which are unexamined and taken for granted: Public and private, luxury and staple, self-sufficiency and economic rationality. For example, as will be discussed in more detail in chapter 3, it is simply assumed that only trade in staple goods had real economic significance; luxury trade is regarded as intrinsically superfluous and trivial, despite the importance of non-essential items such as spices, tea and sugar in the development of trade in the early modern period. Only pure profit maximisation is accepted as economically rational, so that self-sufficiency (which may be a perfectly rational strategy) is dismissed as unproductive; the involvement of the state in any activity is assumed automatically to work against the possibility of proper economic development Perhaps the most problematic distinction is that between the economic and the social; it is certainly a valid criticism of modernising approaches that ‘the economy’ was not an entirely separate sphere of human activity in antiquity – but this is equally true of the present day. The fact that ancient trade was influenced by concerns with social status and other cultural factors does not mean that it was therefore not really an economic activity.” … “For example, the question of whether aristocrats were involved in trade or whether traders ever joined the political elite may appear tangential to arguments about the economic importance of ancient trade, but it is driven by a comparison with the late medieval trading cities of the Hanseatic League, ruled by merchant families and hence, according to Weber, the breeding grounds of the ‘Protestant ethic’ that drove the development of capitalism.” tl;dr Chicago Boys and their perfectly spherical cows have led to absolutely bonkers interpretations of the past coming out of US universities, while the morons that glom onto America as the New Rome, or America being the culmination of “Athens and Jerusalem” have created an entirely fictitious past where 5th c BC Cypriot olive merchants are imagined as Proto-Protestants. I don’t even think this counts as teleology, it’s obscene.
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Jul 26, 2023 21:04
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Shear Modulus posted:does theranos 2 also have a blonde woman affecting her voice three octaves lower this is the grittier reboot so she has to talk batman in the dark knight
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Jul 26, 2023 21:10
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At the birth of Alexander, Greece was in a state of near-revolution due to famine - not because there was a shortage of food, but because - having consolidated large estates and developed more productive methods of agriculture in the previous century - the bourgeois/aristocracy ("bourgeois" is a contested term within Classical Studies) had turned grain into a commodity. They therefore proletarianized a large part of the population, while urban industry was not yet developed enough to employ the dispossessed population. That meant they could not purchase food, which of course had its prices dramatically increase, even as total yields grew, because it was a commodity, practically a currency. Historians have a hard time articulating the kind of revolution that seems to have been imminent - just like they could not have been Protestants, you could hardly say the common people of Athens were Marxist - but nearly all agree that some sort of "kill the rich" event was on the precipice. Of course, by a stroke of luck, Alexander created mass employment opportunities, the cities of Greece emptied out as people became mercenaries, soldiers (a blurry distinction), camp followers and colonists. The much better organized and integrated economies of the near-east were integrated into the Greek world, allowing for grain to be subsidized by the Diodochi - the Macedonians had nothing but contempt for the bourgeois of Greece and undermined them by winning popular support. This provided the solution to " the reduction of the masses to indigence and the concentration of wealth in the hands of a small class; while a diminishing demand for the products of Greek industry on both the home and foreign markets brought about a gradual decrease industrial production and a corresponding decline of commercial activity.", not least because when the Greek cities rebelled against the Diodochi in the decades after, the Macedonians habitually massacred the local ruling class and distributed their wealth to the population after putting down a revolt. So the ability of rich people to destroy their society is a constant in history, but it seems that they get their comeuppance one way or the other.
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Jul 26, 2023 21:20
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Stereotype posted:The actual way to solve this is to build a high speed rail network. Trains are vastly more efficient than planes in terms of manpower required to operate per passenger. Trains also don't get completely hosed up when it rains a little, and even though they're slower you could have them service smaller communities so you don't need a trained pilot from a dwindling labor force to fly a tiny regional jet to bumfuck nowhere that otherwise would be a 3 hour drive. Every single problem / solution outlined in this would necessarily make air travel more expensive, which most people are also going to be super angry about. The only way to travel long distances in the US is by plane though, and everyone hates trains, so the status quo of pushing costs onto random travelers who get stranded for days is actually the ideal solution. lol ok let me just gather my legion of wizards and time travelers to indulge in the sci-fi tech-utopian pipe dream of "building a train". Let's just build a teleportation wormhole while we're at it.
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Jul 26, 2023 21:22
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