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>>The media only ever amplifies what it finds

You mean likes: the media only ever amplifies what it likes and wants more of. There's like 1m people at the pro-life march each year that get zero press.


Tens of Thousands Pack March for Life 2020 Event with Trump

Tens of Thousands. This was well before quarantine and for the first and only time with a president in attendance.

https://heavy.com/news/2020/01/trump-march-for-life-2020-cro...


edit: on video it looks like 100k, but not 1m.


Great, what else you got? A majority of Americans support abortion. Only a minority yell loudly about it.


That is entirely different from the fabrication of stories. There is a reason CNN is different from say the Enquirer.

As for the pro-life marches, its telling the something like Fox News doesn't even cover them huh there bub? Your bias showing through?


Men in prison are also massively stronger and build shanks out of everything. If you do have a fight break out, hopefully its segregated by sex, otherwise the woman has no chance in the supermajority case.



Range, charging stations, self-driving, self-parking, accident-avoidance, voice-recognition interface, 5g bandwidth, work-from-car-mode, face-recognition to start vehicle, automatic police recording, insurance-integration, { any software thing you can think of }


What is the state of 401k fees? Is it 1% AUM? The PBS doc "The Retirement Gamble" made 401ks look horrible.

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Making some reasonable assumptions about a worker with 30 years to retirement, the 1980 version of the 401(k) tax deferral was equivalent to an additional investment return of 9.2% per year, an extraordinary incentive to save for retirement, even without an employer match. Using today’s numbers the benefit comes out to 0.6%, considerably less than the 1% to 2% in fees investors pay in typical 401(k) plans. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-07-21/401-k-...


Many 401k plans have 0% fees and tiny fees on plan investments. I'm paying 0% fees on my 401k plan and absurdly low fees on the Vanguard Institutional Plus funds within it: .01-.04% per year depending on fund. (No that is not a typo.)

It all depends on the plan provider. The big ones like Vanguard, Fidelity, Schwab, etc., are all rock solid.


>>or 52,255 hours of watching Youtube

1 billion hours of YouTube are watched per day... so Bitcoin is ~20,000x greener than YouTube consumption?


The layout is a bit confusing, but that's the amount of energy used for a single transaction.


Simultaneously shouting 'just build your own platform' and 'there is no censorship' is a neat trick.


American cities are not that great, crime is way up in my area (Minneapolis). I want to live in Tokyo. Can afford a house, don't need to own a car, can walk everywhere, kids can take public transit and no one bats an eye, low crime. I guess I should move and stop dreaming.


Block the site for a while and go make a pizza from scratch, go skiing, or do something outside. The arguments don't change from one deplatforming thread to another, you won't miss anything.


That phenomenon is called counter-signaling, which I first ran into listening to Dan Jurafsky making the point that if a menu uses the word "fresh", its a low-brow restaurant. A high-brow restaurant would never use the word "fresh" -- the freshness is implicit in the other signals.

https://kelley.iu.edu/riharbau/cs-randfinal.pdf

"People of average education show off the studied regularity of their script, but the well educated often scribble illegibly. Mediocre students answer a teacher’s easy questions, but the best students are embarrassed to prove their knowledge of trivial points. Acquaintances show their good intentions by politely ignoring one’s flaws, while close friends show intimacy by teasingly highlighting them. People of moderate ability seek formal credentials to impress employers and society, but the talented often downplay their credentials even if they have bothered to obtain them. A person of average reputation defensively refutes accusations against his character, while a highly respected person finds it demeaning to dignify accusations with a response."


Discovered this very early in life when I found out that the more adults tell kids that something is "fun", the less it's true. If it really was fun, it would be obvious and wouldn't need to be said ;)


This is why I love HN. Learnt something new again today :)


Ah yes I always see cheap food packaging that says “gourmet” or some other obviously unfitting epithet. Words printed on packaging are free and somehow folks who market cheap foods think stuff like that helps.


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