Aunche

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by Aunche 3y ago
>it is clearly not, hence the "universal" Yet nobody has ever proposed a version of UBI that is truly universal. It's always limited to a certain in-group. This incentivizes the in-group to stretch the most out of their UB
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by Aunche 3y ago
The only people who claim that wages are driving inflation are strawmen based on out-of-context Federal Reserve quotes.
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by Aunche 3y ago
Looking at the transcript, I barely see any mention of California, and when it's mentioned there is nothing about their policies. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1112270/3883985-homelessness
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by Aunche 3y ago
I'm not sure why people are so obsessed with executive compensation. Just because it's lower doesn't mean that the savings will be passed to the workers. That money is more likely to go to the shareholders.
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by Aunche 3y ago
Stealing alleviates one's personal duress at the expense of someone else's. If they instead worked a real job, they would at least be providing at $18/hr, SF's minimum wage, of services to their community. SF already spe
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by Aunche 3y ago
Interesting how you're characterizing enforcement of property crime as "beatings", and not stealing things as "morale".
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by Aunche 3y ago
A few of my friends also got the vaccine much earlier than they should, but they aren't rich or well connected. They merely lied about having preexisting conditions.
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by Aunche 3y ago
Would you prefer if they ended the blockades through more forceful means, even if that would escalate into violence?
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by Aunche 3y ago
They did bomb the largest military factories. That's why they moved their production to the cities.
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by Aunche 3y ago
GDP doesn't count all "economic activity." Otherwise, HFTs would cause GDP to explode. It doesn't account for the cost of construction either because that's an intermediate cost. Even home sales aren't counted
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by Aunche 3y ago
> If I own a house (outright) and live in it, I pay nothing, and no impact on GDP This is not true, at least in the US. If you're a homeowner, they estimate how much it would cost to rent your own home and include that in the GDP.
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by Aunche 3y ago
> Total exports in terms of adjusted cost _has_ stagnated This doesn't seem to match what you'd get by multiplying their figures of inflation-adjusted GDP [1] with their figures of exports as a percentage of GDP [2]. > Case-
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by Aunche 3y ago
> This is largely due to global trade being flat for the past 10 years People are consuming more international goods and more domestic goods, so trade as a percentage of trade relative to GDP has stagnated, but not volume of trade. Sin
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by Aunche 3y ago
The 1/100 chance is assuming that students choose all answers with equal likelihood, but supposedly these answers were obviously wrong. If the probability of accidentally choosing the obvious wrong answer drops even by a few percent, t
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by Aunche 3y ago
I don't think the honeypot is necessarily unethical, but giving a take-home multiple choice final exam for a philosophy course seems like several levels of bad pedagogy.
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by Aunche 3y ago
The reason we have billionaires is because they (or their parents) provided a service that other people wanted. Societies that went out of their way to prevent purge potential billionaires, were even more willing to sacrifice the environmen
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by Aunche 3y ago
Believe it or not, the small handful of people in charge got to their position by serving people to a certain extent. Any substantial reduction in emissions is going to cause substantial economic deadweight losses, which would be politicall
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by Aunche 3y ago
Student debt is so large and burdensome because the government has been handing out unconditional money to colleges. Student loan forgiveness increases people's willingness to pay for college, which means even more unconditional money
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by Aunche 3y ago
If you look at literally any point in history, you're going to see what seems like "infinite problems". Even if you're 100% right that we face an unprecedented number of problems, this take still doesn't make any se
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by Aunche 3y ago
>My guess is he'll bounce back and forth from jail to the street until he dies. You're acting as if poor people are inherently helpless and incapable of following basic rules. Most people are going to have friends or family tha
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by Aunche 3y ago
If the purpose of prisons was to torture prisoners, then they would beat all prisoners with moderate severity rather than a few prisoners with heavy severity. The system that's working intended in your examples are unions protecting ba
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by Aunche 3y ago
> What's the end game to VC subsidies? I don't think VC's give a damn about long-term profitability. All they want to do is to trick later investors into buying them out. I can't think of a single one of these types o
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by Aunche 3y ago
What do people get from making up narratives like this? Bloomberg literally writes thousands of articles a day. This topic is just one of the few that HN happens to care about. The main audience of Bloomberg aren't executives who need
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by Aunche 3y ago
> preservation demands they must be rested for 3+ years between viewings Does the act of resting help the ink last longer or are they simply rate limiting the amount of light that the print receives?
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by Aunche 3y ago
Then do the good things and don't do the bad things? Externalities are something you learn in the second day of Econ 101.
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by Aunche 3y ago
GDP growth is a positive metric, so economists want it to be positive. That's different from them wanting number to go up for the sake of numbers going up. As your link points, one of the goals is "Accelerating economic equity – E
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by Aunche 3y ago
Who exactly are the boogeymen who are tunnel visioned on making "numbers go up"? The vast majority of people's political beliefs instead come from narratives that resonate with them, which is how you get ridiculous ideas such
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by Aunche 3y ago
Hot take: one cause of depression is people telling you that you should feel anxious about something for validation on the internet.
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by Aunche 3y ago
One problem is that virtually all dash cams use the same sensor that kind of sucks. You're usually not able to make out people's license plates.
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by Aunche 3y ago
By invasive technologies, do you mean what is alleged on the Reddit post? My point is that the Business Insider article isn't evidence of this. The article refers to standard monitoring that every financial institution uses to catch fi

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