This is often measured by researchers. It is called a "cost of living" calculation, and every one of these that I have seen indicates that this isn't the case.
>how modern work for a lot of jobs has become de facto indentured servitude...The average worker can't afford anything without taking on debt. For people from other countries wondering about the veracity of these…
I couldn't agree more and I think the road the right takes with "free speech" is purely emotional and makes no sense. What makes HN great isn't that there is free speech, it is that everyone is treated equally. The…
Well first, Twitter literally banned the President of the United States while allowing ISIS and other terrorist groups to have free reign. All this tells me is that one of your friend groups is perfectly happy lying to…
>Yanukovych decided to flee on his own What on earth does that even mean? If you watch the videos the entire city was on fire and the "peaceful protestors" were firing rocket propelled grenades at the police force. And…
>have this shitty ideology where the individual matters more than ... the collective You do realize that the 20th century gave us very good reason to feel this way right?
Forest cover has been increasing in most first world countries since 1970 https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.ZS?end=2020... https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.ZS?location... edit: also…
I remember listening to someone point out (I think it was Sam Harris) that what all ideologies and religions have in common is that they must have, somewhere, a very strange idea that everyone in the religion must…
It really says a lot about what an amazing society we have created in that here we have some people making history by revolutionizing our understanding of something that was (at least in the past) considered absolutely…
The fact that no one could possibly have a clue what this sentence means is a pretty good indication of how important this work was.
Yeah but if older you had actually told younger you to relax a bit, would you be where you are now talking about how things are going well, or would you be like OP in the linked article? Sure it is true that…
That was the case 10 years ago, but since then they have discovered that all the temperature records since 1950 were wrong, and they have been correcting them. Turns out the computer simulations were correct all along…
They definitely misinform their audience for money.
Oh believe me, every thread here about physics is exactly like this. 90% of the comments are the most ridiculous crackpot nonsense from people who clearly learned physics by watching startrek. There are usually a few…
I can tell immediately that you have never actually picked up a physics textbook. The main reason is that most physicists only have the most elementary understanding of the mathematics underlying what they are doing.…
> Why are new formats not forthcoming? oooh I can answer this one. About 15 years ago I saw a talk from a team at, oxford I think?, that had invented a way to store many terabytes on an ordinary blue ray by adding…
You seem to have a problem with the US fighting against evil, autocratic groups like the communists in South America, and Asia. That's fine, it's your opinion. But this is exactly the sort of thing the author of this…
You might have a point if it wasn't for the reality of the situation and who is pushing conspiracy theories and who is trying to crack down on them. It is always the people saying how democracy is flawed and we should…
Does firejail or any of those similar tools offer protection from this sort of thing?
This reminds me of agriculture under the Soviet Union. Stalin wanted to build a technocracy with the brightest in charge of there specialized fields, so he brought in the most famous Russian agronomist, Lysenko, and…
Probably this article from the New Yorker not the Times. https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-purges-in-putins-...
The reason no one is building expensive apartments in these areas with socialist like governments is because of things like rent control and laws that disadvantage landlords, and which make the prospect of leasing to…
Good section in there for people who think sanctions are bad for Putin >Things changed, especially after Western sanctions were introduced in 2014, and mostly because of money. Before 2014–2016, we had these oligarchs,…
What a ridiculous article. People playing monopoly are greedy when they get rich on monopoly money? Mercedes drivers are less likely to stop at cross walks (never mind they are old and have no idea what they are doing)?…
Yeah that's a good point. There is not a single person complaining about cancel culture today that wouldn't immediately join the snarling mob and try to cancel someone that argued something like "we should rape 1 year…
This is often measured by researchers. It is called a "cost of living" calculation, and every one of these that I have seen indicates that this isn't the case.
>how modern work for a lot of jobs has become de facto indentured servitude...The average worker can't afford anything without taking on debt. For people from other countries wondering about the veracity of these…
I couldn't agree more and I think the road the right takes with "free speech" is purely emotional and makes no sense. What makes HN great isn't that there is free speech, it is that everyone is treated equally. The…
Well first, Twitter literally banned the President of the United States while allowing ISIS and other terrorist groups to have free reign. All this tells me is that one of your friend groups is perfectly happy lying to…
>Yanukovych decided to flee on his own What on earth does that even mean? If you watch the videos the entire city was on fire and the "peaceful protestors" were firing rocket propelled grenades at the police force. And…
>have this shitty ideology where the individual matters more than ... the collective You do realize that the 20th century gave us very good reason to feel this way right?
Forest cover has been increasing in most first world countries since 1970 https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.ZS?end=2020... https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.ZS?location... edit: also…
I remember listening to someone point out (I think it was Sam Harris) that what all ideologies and religions have in common is that they must have, somewhere, a very strange idea that everyone in the religion must…
It really says a lot about what an amazing society we have created in that here we have some people making history by revolutionizing our understanding of something that was (at least in the past) considered absolutely…
The fact that no one could possibly have a clue what this sentence means is a pretty good indication of how important this work was.
Yeah but if older you had actually told younger you to relax a bit, would you be where you are now talking about how things are going well, or would you be like OP in the linked article? Sure it is true that…
That was the case 10 years ago, but since then they have discovered that all the temperature records since 1950 were wrong, and they have been correcting them. Turns out the computer simulations were correct all along…
They definitely misinform their audience for money.
Oh believe me, every thread here about physics is exactly like this. 90% of the comments are the most ridiculous crackpot nonsense from people who clearly learned physics by watching startrek. There are usually a few…
I can tell immediately that you have never actually picked up a physics textbook. The main reason is that most physicists only have the most elementary understanding of the mathematics underlying what they are doing.…
> Why are new formats not forthcoming? oooh I can answer this one. About 15 years ago I saw a talk from a team at, oxford I think?, that had invented a way to store many terabytes on an ordinary blue ray by adding…
You seem to have a problem with the US fighting against evil, autocratic groups like the communists in South America, and Asia. That's fine, it's your opinion. But this is exactly the sort of thing the author of this…
You might have a point if it wasn't for the reality of the situation and who is pushing conspiracy theories and who is trying to crack down on them. It is always the people saying how democracy is flawed and we should…
Does firejail or any of those similar tools offer protection from this sort of thing?
This reminds me of agriculture under the Soviet Union. Stalin wanted to build a technocracy with the brightest in charge of there specialized fields, so he brought in the most famous Russian agronomist, Lysenko, and…
Probably this article from the New Yorker not the Times. https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-purges-in-putins-...
The reason no one is building expensive apartments in these areas with socialist like governments is because of things like rent control and laws that disadvantage landlords, and which make the prospect of leasing to…
Good section in there for people who think sanctions are bad for Putin >Things changed, especially after Western sanctions were introduced in 2014, and mostly because of money. Before 2014–2016, we had these oligarchs,…
What a ridiculous article. People playing monopoly are greedy when they get rich on monopoly money? Mercedes drivers are less likely to stop at cross walks (never mind they are old and have no idea what they are doing)?…
Yeah that's a good point. There is not a single person complaining about cancel culture today that wouldn't immediately join the snarling mob and try to cancel someone that argued something like "we should rape 1 year…