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The inflection point is whether or not everyone else can convince the "most capable laborers" who are about to be cut from the "Most Capable Laborer Club" to join the Tang Ping Rebellion before real price discovery happe
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It would cause an instant liquidity crisis that would lock up credit and securities markets. The federal government would be forced to backstop large market participants as years of suppressed price discovery was unleashed, decimating balan
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The federal government subsidized a planned, massive fiber build-out almost 3 decades ago. The telcos pocketed the money and then refused to complete the build-out, complaining that the last mile was too expensive. Municipalities pull teeth
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
You're being disingenuous. You clearly meant your anecdote to be representative, at least for "Canadians like [yourself]". But I suspect that it was meant to be a broader statement, and you're only backtracking now becau
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
That's a mischaracterization of the study. The very next sentence: However, the standard deviations indicate that there is considerable variation in how students allocate their time to these activities. Additionally, their data
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
"I make $250k CAD a year, my experiences must be representative of, and relevant to, the masses," is a wild thought to have. Well, maybe I spoke too soon, because my private American healthcare turns out to also be about 8% of my
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
Semi-related anecdotes: After the Civil War, when many plantation properties became economically unsustainable, occasionally the main house would be abandoned by the owners, and the remaining sharecroppers would take up residence; one house
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
And sometimes it's not even active destruction, just neglect. Public use amenities are subject to large amounts of wear-and-tear. Sometimes a thing just breaks, from someone being careless or not knowing how to operate it. You have to
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
I was going to say, "You might not have noticed, but it has been the 21st century for a quarter-century." However, you clearly did notice, so I'm not sure why you bothered to make this post. It's like you came to a concl
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Things that are more expensive in the US for no reason: Healthcare Internet access College sighs and adds "The very act of making a purchase" At least we have cheap gas? farts
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
How hard is it for the wealthy to not smack everyone else around at every possible opportunity? What happened to noblesse oblige? (This is not a rhetorical question, I would love to hear others' take on the psychology and history of th
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
Went from 3 points up for 4 hours to 0 in the 5th. It's always funny to me how threatened the sockpuppet brigaders are by small posts like this. They really can't stomach the idea getting even the littlest bit of traction. Well, I
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
The low-end millionaires run interference for the billionaires. Regardless of who's actually at fault, if the low-end millionaires were to publicly and materially side with the remaining middle class, working class, poor, and indigent,
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
Ironically, the only way out of a volatility spiral (inflationary, deflationary, doesn't matter) is radical application of private capital to public good. Whether you're dealing with an economy that has locked up because of fallin
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M-M'
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
To what end?
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
We're nowhere near that, though. You still have to fight with image generators to make particular changes or keep parts consistent.
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
Most of the essay is pretty unapologetically Eurocentric, particularly with the talk of frontiers. I appreciated it being upfront about that.
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
This bodes well for me, as a furry who's often too weird even for the other furries. That it might actually be remunerative (economically, socially)...
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
With what money?
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
Your defense of a system, and it's arbiters, who regularly put healthcare behind a wall of hundreds of pages of legalese is, "I'm not reading all that"? Be an adult, please. >Regardless, I hope you find [...] a health
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
Can you imagine a conglomerate making up a third of the US GDP collapsing and US not being plunged into a multi-decade depression? Like, Wal-Mart shuts down and we're completely hosed. This was their AI bubble (i.e., massive and built
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
To be clear: 1) Luigi is already a folk hero*, and the people whose boots you nibble are probably thanking their lucky stars that you're not the one sentencing him, as anyone with a brain will want to avoid decades of a "Free Huey
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I'm curious what the implication of this blatantly false* statement is. *At the very least, you have to worry about Jackie Chan "borrowing" your wheels for a wacky chase scene. Based on my knowledge of Hong Kong cinema, this
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
See, that's where you're wrong. Their main responsibility is preventing a violent attack. At least, according to the people who set the agenda and policies for frontline employees. Faulting "rude" employees is futile; ev
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
Whether or not you want to face it, those events forced the institutions involved to reexamine their behavior, and the result was a handful of pro-consumer/pro-citizen decisions. Make things better for people before they get that bad
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
Ironic.
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
And, to be clear, it's a crappy job. Get up ungodly early to travel to a work site in the middle of nowhere to shepherd thousands of jumpy/tired strangers* through arcane procedure (possibly in a language that they don't exac
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There was a focused effort to "professionalize" the hobby by researcher (crank) John Forester. Thousands of cyclist deaths can be attributed to his efforts, which included promoting "serious" cycling over accessible and
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
This shouldn't really be directed at people who work at the airport. Almost everything mentioned is the fault of the people who designed the airport and the people who run the airport. The latter group are so, so happy that you a

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