Layke1123

Too much caffeine.

Decentralization doesn't stop the people with the most bots from controlling the online narrative.

This isn't about losing 1% of your wealth gambling.

This is about wealth inequality. This is about watching as resources are entirely captured for a very small few. But history will continue to teach lessons about what happens when the rich get too big for their britches.

The developers are the only ones who actually know how to do the actual work needed to teach machines what businesses do, which is why we see all the bull shit happening. Execs and managers are neigh useless in the modern world because they can't fake it anymore. Cut the middle men out!

When 9 people in a group of 10 see one person get lucky by owning more than 90% of the available assets around them and not seeing an iota of it going to them, you are about to get a lesson in how unlucky you can also be.

This isn't lucky, but besides that, no, I'm not happy when a very small percentage of our population "gets lucky". We should have 80% of this country be able to afford a home, a vehicle, have affordable healthcare, and a minimum of 4 weeks vacation in the modern 21st century.

Everything else is just a smoke screen to make "your lucky existence" justified compared to the masses who did nothing wrong except be born into this system.

This to me reads as such.

"Hey, look, just take risks, because if you don't, you'll be poor AND bitter."

You can't think of any reason people would provide productive labor without their being profit-seeking capital? Do you really, truly believe that? If you do, I have a bridge to sell you.

But shouldn't work have a minimum value? I mean without one, what's to the wage gap from getting smaller and smaller?

Who are you in real life? You don't sound like someone who works in software programming for a living or understand what poverty is like. Are you an exec? A manager?

Early America when homes were steady at about that price.

I can't imagine what it's like to live in your head. It's like you can't even grasp how what you said is wrong on so many levels.

Because it's not what the VC's who run this site want the narrative to be and do everything they can to keep tech bros on their side.

Or...the government is corrupt and used by the wealthy to write loop holes that allow them to escape paying taxes.

I'll let you take an educated guess on my position...

Is this really what people strive for in the USA. To avoid contributing anything back to the country that helped them achieve everything they've ever wanted?

Every movie and politician I see always someone has a Christian viewpoint.

That's not what this is about though. It's about sparking interest in math, and many on here are showing exactly why math people can me off putting for non math people.

Have you seen the religious right in the news lately about abortion? Oh but my movie didn't mention god...

So people do not know how to act in their own self interest. Maybe there is a way to help with that...

No, what I think he is highlighting is how people not interested in math approach a problem like this. I asked my girl friend this question on the way home from our Mother's Day dinner, and she had a very similar statement. It says something about how mathematicians could improve on their analogies, not whether he is interested in solving a math problem. I found it insightful even if it was not directly tied to the "correct" speech on Hacker News.

I hate how you are downvoted for an accurate statement. I love math, but I've come to understand from a teacher's perspective how accurate your statement can be. I liked your insight.

Why do people these days not know how to act in their self interest compared to the past? This is very telling about your thoughts. Care to elaborate on that position?

And lower teen suicide rates does not mean conservatives have that on their side. Most kids are raised religious in America these days. The whole country constantly talks about god. Maybe actually the conservatives are the main source of modern day suicide because of their CONSTANT presence and influence that people are starting to disagree with.

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> I'll leave this as homework, find societies than have ended worse than they were without any external cause, you can group by democratic, aristocratic and dictatorial societies, examples are not scarce.

I don't know, the Romans were pretty democratic so I've been told and they collapsed due to internal reasons. Lots of empires that weren't so democratic lasted much longer. Is that your point?

> Because we don't know how to solve these issues. I'm not sure what you'd like an example of.

I'd love an actual example, matter of factly.

> Agreed, my point this whole time is that what you call the solution other people call the cause.

Has there ever been a government that is completely atheistic and yet is doing well, thriving in fact? Hmmm...you may not like that answer to that me thinks.

So is this an argument in favor of letting immigrants migrate to America, or simply a flex that most people want to immigrate to America?

So which societies have adopted them and it lead to negatives? I would like an example and also an explanation for why these things aren't solved problems in America then?

> Agreed, there's no contradiction in saying the USA is brutal and one of the less brutal regimes in the world, to the point that it's the number one destination from immigrants that can actually choose where to live.

That also does not mean the USA is working and working well for people, hence the millions of suicidal teens. It's possible that no system is working.

I know I'm right because if these were the cure to society, religion would be growing, not shrinking, regulation would be decreasing, not increasing, and racial tensions would be decreasing, not increasing. How else do you explain the trends? Revolutions don't happen because things are working. They happen because things ARE NOT working. If America was mecca, we wouldn't be in this situation where thousands of teens are suicidal.

Why does it have to be in comparison? I don't have to say, well at least I'm better than that guy and pretend thats good enough. There could be serious flaws with myself that I should acknowledge could be way better than turning and pointing a finger at others.

And talking to those immigrants, the impression I have always gathered is that they don't believe the US is better, but that they have no alternatives where they come from. Lots of people immigrate to whatever country they can get to. If you sum up all immigration to Europe, you suddenly see that the US isn't quite the leader you think it is.

The reality is that most people get depressed because of the environment we are in. Modern US life is killing us because of a lot of factors people don't want to admit as the problem. Economics, racism, religion, etc. The US has been and continues to be a brutal regime, and everyone on this site pretends it isn't because that's the false narrative you want to believe.

I didn't. The comparison is that this is claimed to be cheaper than normal fuel extraction from the ground. But that relies on tech such as the permiable membrane developed from CNT, which AFAIK, no major breakthroughs have been made.

It's a bit like investment madness, in which investors are being swindled because no one is doing their due diligence to vet the tech and instead throwing money in a blind panic in FOMO.

Exactly? Did he? Looking at the site that is linked or quoted to doesn't exactly instill confidence. Is no one else drilling down and looking into all these details like me, or do they simply research it and then move on rather than comment leaving all the arm chair scientists to pontificate based on a flashy website?