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New comment by mortenlwk in "Preparedness Paradox"

mortenlwk — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 05:44:32 +0000

This assumes exact knowledge of an alternate reality. It is not a paradox in any way.

New comment by mortenlwk in "The UK Online Safety Bill Attacks Free Speech and Encryption"

mortenlwk — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 06:19:48 +0000

This is truly terrifying

New comment by mortenlwk in "Why the Market Is Bouncing"

mortenlwk — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 06:15:19 +0000

Is the Nikkei back yet?

New comment by mortenlwk in "Constructive and obsessive criticism in science"

mortenlwk — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 19:08:37 +0000

This is a condition of human social life. Tribes protect their area of interest, the domain in which they dominate is what provides them bread, butter, and prestige. But it is more than that nowadays, it is the primary identity marker for many. In some sense this is needed in a civilization to enable the scientific endeavour, but I feel like the gravitational pull that reverts to mean, has always, well yeah, reverted, is a function of the cost of information movement. Today crazy ideas can gain traction in days, rather than decades, and I fear that some of these narrative bubbles are beyond pulling back in.

New comment by mortenlwk in "Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws"

mortenlwk — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 18:49:10 +0000

Very troubling. It was recently brought up in Danish politics again and I have been more or less agnostic about it my entire adult life. But I made a choice this time that I am against it, and it is for these exact reason described in this article. Bureaucratising power over life and death in that way can only lead to non-desirable places.

New comment by mortenlwk in "Is this the end of social networking?"

mortenlwk — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 21:23:44 +0000

Nice way to describe your taste in bubbles.

New comment by mortenlwk in "Ask HN: Folks who were around the 2008 Recession"

mortenlwk — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 09:07:04 +0000

I had just bought an apartment in 2008, but I didn't care about it at all. No one I knew bothered with economics except having enough money for rent and hedonistic activities.

I think the same applies to the general public today. Most people in the west have enough, and have seen the markets go up and up for so long that they have forgotten, or never experienced, severe downturn. I think it will blow up worse than 2008.

New comment by mortenlwk in "Even parental leave in Europe could be better"

mortenlwk — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 01:09:03 +0000

That sounds like a shit system

New comment by mortenlwk in "California aims to make its own insulin brand to lower price"

mortenlwk — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 23:50:48 +0000

Find the person that wants to mimic the Greek healthcare system and not the Danish.

New comment by mortenlwk in "California aims to make its own insulin brand to lower price"

mortenlwk — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 23:16:07 +0000

It would not work. At all. No where in the world does it work, nor has it ever worked.

It is just politics... Semi communist statements like that can gain traction in California, so they are uttered. It will not happen, but will spur another round of talks about how great state is, and what ifs

New comment by mortenlwk in "California aims to make its own insulin brand to lower price"

mortenlwk — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 23:12:55 +0000

This is not how Europe works... Misconception no1: Denmark has no minimum wage. We rely on market forces.

It is truly terrifying to see how the narratives about Europe, and especially my home country, have infested the internet to a point where young people in Denmark actually believe random foreigners online know more about Denmark than their parents.

New comment by mortenlwk in "After inflation, people making US minimum wage are earning less than 60 year ago"

mortenlwk — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 16:49:41 +0000

Denmark has no minimum wage. Just stop importing cheap labour and let markets work, that is how we do it.

New comment by mortenlwk in "Oregon’s decriminalization of drug possession is proving disastrous"

mortenlwk — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 05:13:31 +0000

Most of the comments here are a product of arrogance. You have no idea what it's like to be a drug addict and you should keep your book arguments to yourself

New comment by mortenlwk in "Tehran’s Red-Light District"

mortenlwk — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 10:33:19 +0000

Yeah the Shahs rule was a paradise for regular people...

New comment by mortenlwk in "A Canceled Teen"

mortenlwk — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 22:07:05 +0000

As harsh as it sounds then I somewhat agree. Feeling sorry for him will just create new abuser / victim. I used to teach maths in high school and this is typical stuff that can easily be solved, but it requires a more old school style

New comment by mortenlwk in "Thirty-Six Methods of Mathematical Proof"

mortenlwk — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 06:14:33 +0000

Proof by meditation/introspection.

I have done this following a lot of handwaving in an introduction to a chapter.

New comment by mortenlwk in "Internet Filtering in Canada: Rogers' NHL Blocking Order"

mortenlwk — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 13:01:52 +0000

Let's not be naiive here. The courts and the government are not totally disconnected. Everyone has at some point observed court rulings that they thought to have been impacted by political discourse. Instead of indulging myself into a loquacious sesquipedalian treatise on the nature of ethics and origin of judicial and political systems, I will, paraphrasing Hemingway, let go of my dick and just tell you what is there. The system is man-made and man controls every aspect of it. It is corrupt and everything is connected. This is obvious to anyone willing to step away from their ivory tower and just apply common sense.

I believe that last paragraph to be an observation that is obvious to most people.

New comment by mortenlwk in "The rise and fall of Cathie Wood, controversial Wall Street investor"

mortenlwk — Mon, 30 May 2022 04:58:20 +0000

He said that Metromile was going to be his GEICO, thus implicitly comparing himself to Buffett. Those SPACs did turn out to be garbage, but I still find them somewhat interesting at least when viewed as a financial innovation.

New comment by mortenlwk in "Unsolved problems in economics"

mortenlwk — Wed, 18 May 2022 09:07:17 +0000

The most common misconception of Denmark is that we are socialists, something that could not be farther from the truth. Take a look at COVID restrictions and compare to the individual states in the US. When speaking to young Danes that have been indoctrinated by non-danes online about how we are I usually go with the following examples: liberation of porn; Christiania; abolition of slavery. Porn was set free in Denmark to remove it from the black market. Initially CP was legal as well, and the idea was to set everything free and then regulate minimally if needed. Christiania is where weed is dealt in Copenhagen. It is an old military area that the bz movement broke into and took. We had observed the severe problems it had created in other European cities, and it was decided to take a laissez faire approach and try to contain in that area. Slavery was abolished gradually in Denmark. It had been observed in other countries that it could politically dangerous to keep it going. Thus we made a gradual move away where it was made illegal to acquire new slaves, but those already in slavery were not freed. The reason it was a gradual process over a period of years, was to make sure that the slaveowners had time to build a slave population that was self sustainable from breeding. Only acquiring new slaves was illegal.

Edit: I forgot the most important one. We have no minimum wage in Denmark.

New comment by mortenlwk in "Unsolved problems in economics"

mortenlwk — Wed, 18 May 2022 08:45:34 +0000

Is that not anarchy though?