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by Aunche 4y ago
> How much less oil would be pumped with warring countries and unstable regimes? Less oil being pumped globally would be beneficial to American oil companies. > Also, oil companies largely don't pay for the environmental damage t
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> The population hemorrhage is impressive: between July 2020 and July 2021, New York lost more than 300,000 people Maybe because that was the height of the pandemic and the city was shut down? Judging by the astronomical rent increases,
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> Yeah I took a class that talked about this - most people agree that what you'd end up with is companies or individuals forcing you to disclose a hash to prove you voted the way they wanted. That's what the one-way hash is for
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Just release make everyone's vote semi-public. You can look up what you voted for with a combination of your name + position/ballot-measure + password that's passed through a one-way hash, which generates anonymous voter ID.
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> Explain to me how bitcoin is literally debt? Bitcoin is a literally a distributed ledger, so it's very much debt. Gold and silver aren't strictly debt because they also happen to be commodities that were used for their aesthe
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>What was the last popular economics meme? I'm not strictly talking about humorous memes like "brrrrr". I mean there are a bunch of ideas that loosely resemble heterodox economics except they're even less sensible. Fo
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> the tone of the mainstream media narrative around central bank actions is always technocratic. That's true, but I don't think anyone outside of finance actually pays attention to the MSM narrative around central banks. Rather
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People pay 50% of their income in taxes in states like California without rioting, so I don't see why attempts to reduce rent seeking would be any different. Any income generated from an land value tax is money that can be saved with l
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Is the M1's design really that technically impressive? The product itself is revolutionary, but my impression was that its main technical advantages is that ARM is more efficient and they had a monopoly on TSMC's 5 nm process. I
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If you read her account on Medium, it's clear that she wasn't retaliated against. Google sided with her and determined her manager to be wrong for relocating her, so the subtext is that she manages to keep her position. However,
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> But we absolutely need to drag Google people into public hearings and such We have dragged Google into public hearings. The problem is that the purpose of these hearings has always been to collect soundbytes rather than to try to def
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Macroeconomics does work though. Central banks do a pretty good job of tuning the knobs that steer GDP or inflation towards the direction where they want it to go. You just have to recognize that these aren't and can't replace s
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This is needlessly antagonistic towards economists. The majority of them are boring academics. The others are employed by the rich to whisper into the ears of politicians as you describe. This is precisely why it's important to learn e
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The Romans also didn't have paper or a printing presses, so knowledge only circulated among a relatively small population of elites.
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Why stop at Cloudflare? We need to tell PG&E to cut off their electricity and McDonalds to stop providing the calories that's enabling their harassment campaigns. /s
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I'd argue that this percentage is near-zero in high-demand places like NYC and the bay area. Rent is simply set at what the market will bear. For example, during the height of the pandemic, landlords had no choice, but to significantly
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>PROPERTY TAXES, INCLUDING BOTH TAXES ON INDIVIDUALS AND BUSINESS TAXES, ARE USUALLY SOMEWHAT REGRESSIVE. On average, poor homeowners and renters pay more of their incomes in property taxes than do any other income group They are very wr
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Mid and high density housing for the high-income earners get opposed across the entire economic spectrum. On one hand, you have NIMBYs that place strict zoning restrictions and mandate bullshit environmental reviews to stall the development
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It's not like the average taxi driver was rolling in cash either. There are plenty of hidden fees with leasing a cab and medallions as well. I have little sympathy for taxi industry because half the time they try to hustle me.
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I partially agree with you, but private school teachers often get paid less than their public school counterparts. Private schools get a flood of applications from humanities PHDs who don't have the certifications required to teach in
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What a ridiculous assertion. Either you're a carpetbagger yourself or you're simply completely ignorant to economics. We're talking about the most progressive form of taxation here that most affects the wealthy. Any revenue g
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>The 'can't put old widows out of their homes' scenario is why California's Prop 13 came to be That's the Prop 13 lobbyist's excuse. In reality, these old widows are never at risk of being kicked out of thei
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In cities, sure, but much of Vietnam still lives in rural areas, which still are very underserved. The continued industrialization of Vietnam is indeed enabling more access running water. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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Why should we have to care about American workers over everyone else? On one side, you have a American factory worker loses the ability to buy steak. On the other, a Vietnamese worker gets access to running water, the consumer gets cheaper
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If you want to decrease inequality, it would make sense for people to be compensated for reducing inequality. This is what exactly what outsourcing is.
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I don't think mandating voting really helps that much. At best, you'll get people to vote for the candidate with the (D) or (R) next to their name. What we need is for people to be more informed. Fewer than 20% of people can name
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Google's reaction was the Damore memo was that it didn't matter that Damore felt discriminated against. People felt attacked by the memo, so his opinion wasn't welcome. If they want to be consistent, they had to reject the ca
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Like I said, their only example of caste discrimination at Google is "denial of caste discrimination" and "coded conversation", which is very much subjective. A Hindu can make the same case that "denial that caste i
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Fair enough. I probably could have chosen a better example like an Asian speaker speaking out against affirmative action.
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If your platform champions people's subjective experience, and Indians at Google feel that Soundararajan is discriminatory herself, then they have a right to oppose her talk without being labelled as caste bigots.

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