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by Apes 7y ago
Not a major deal, but the $1 in $8 calculation is a bit off, since it doesn't take inflation into account. The math still holds for the most part. Adjusting for inflation and rerunning the same calculations: * $2,600 -> $2,902.47 -&
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by Apes 7y ago
I feel like I'm going crazy here: why is absolutely no one talking about the fact that $1B is no where near enough money for 20,000 homes? That's only a budget of $50,000 per home. In an area where the average cost to build a home
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by Apes 7y ago
You've somewhat missed the point I was trying to make. Let me try to walk you through it in in a different way: * The original argument is that the US military spending is abnormally high, when considered as a raw dollar amount. Howeve
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by Apes 7y ago
You can't just choose to cut only the parts of the US budget you personally dislike. That's not how a budgeting in a democracy works. If you want a budget increase in one area, then that money has to come from all other parts of
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by Apes 7y ago
While the US does spend a lot, it does not spend more than "all other countries in the entire world, combined." Total reported military spending is $1.8 trillion, with the understanding that there are some countries (China) that a
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by Apes 7y ago
Here's some things you "overlooked" Mandatory spending: $2.841 trillion (this includes the following) Social Security: $1.102 trillion Medicare: $679 billion Medicaid: $418 billion The military budget isn't a whipping bo
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by Apes 7y ago
The things you've listed are only around 25% of the budget. You're engaged in some serious cherry picking.
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by Apes 7y ago
The thing is, in each if these lessons, it's not the engineers who have anything to learn, but the people making business decisions. Every one of these stories has an engineer saying, "I think this is a bad idea," only to be
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by Apes 7y ago
Why from the military specifically? There are other budget items where we spend more.
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by Apes 8y ago
Reduce is fine to a point, but populations are increasing faster than any policy of reduction can keep up with. Reuse is scalable, but is being completely ignored in our current disposable consumerism environment. There is almost no focus o
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by Apes 8y ago
I suspect the idea is that a VPN will provide encryption for all network traffic by default, preventing others on the local network from packet sniffing.
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by Apes 8y ago
To be fair, it's possible to make this block simpler and more readable than what you have there. The problem with a lot of bash scripts I've seen is that they just duck-tape layer after layer of complexity on top of each other, in
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by Apes 8y ago
This wouldn't bother me very much, except for the absolutely horrendous corruption, racism, and colonialism that China seems to promote. Look at what they're doing to the Uighurs and imagine a world where they're the world&#
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by Apes 8y ago
China has plenty of countries in serious debt to them that they could use as leverage. "Switch to the Yuan as your country's reserve currency, and we'll forgive some of that crippling debt we've saddled you with!"
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by Apes 8y ago
Nah, it's the 50 cent party. They get alerted on anything China related on Social Media and swarm in to push a pro-Chinese agenda. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
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by Apes 8y ago
Out of curiosity, which page in the Chinese propaganda runbook is this on?
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by Apes 8y ago
It's because we're not actually fighting the Taliban, or ISIS, or whatever other insurgent flavor is getting attention at the moment. Many, if not most, successful insurgencies through history have had extensive backing and suppor
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by Apes 8y ago
So let me make sure I'm understanding you correctly. You're positing that the proof supply and demand is not applicable to the housing market is that a private investment company has greatly increased demand beyond what the housin
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by Apes 8y ago
I don't believe your analysis. The relationship has such a high correlation, you can just look at the the graph and probably eyeball estimate the regression within 10% error. Banks and relators have such a massive conflict of interest
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by Apes 8y ago
Take a look at that date. This is an april fools joke, from what I understand. There are so many reasons why this wouldn't work.
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by Apes 8y ago
I feel Google has become a company you go to work at for the fat paycheck, and no one actually works there because the work is interesting or because they have any belief the company is going to change the world for the better.
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by Apes 8y ago
$2 billion across 1+ billion people is the $1-2 he refers to. The implication is that the additional $7,200 is purely coming from efficiency gains, which he suggests seems improbable.
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by Apes 8y ago
California progressives have a sort of "feast the beast" strategy. Provide massive benefits on loan. When those loans come due, raise taxes to pay for them. Repeat until the government fails due to overconsumption. Why can neither
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by Apes 8y ago
Did you intend for this description to also nearly perfectly apply to the United States?
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by Apes 8y ago
Interesting article. Could have really used a family tree diagram to visualize the complex family history being described.
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by Apes 8y ago
I don't have a problem with the idea of trying to stop China's unfair trade practices, I have problem with how inept and awful Trump's policies have been in trying to do so. China has really perfected the practice of massivel
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by Apes 8y ago
You just modeled a data structure that would normally take an infinite number of lines of JSON in three lines, so that's kind of neat.
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by Apes 8y ago
I feel it more likely they just had an informant.
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by Apes 8y ago
Housing is not really a positional good. As a counterpoint, consider the extremes. If a market is saturated, the value of a house remains non-zero. If there is only a single house in an area, the value probably remains low since there is no
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by Apes 8y ago
The point is that it doesn't matter who the accumulator is, only if the accumulation is to a detrimental degree. The Gini coefficient in the UK is already lower than most, and reducing it probably won't solve the homeless crisis t

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