RhysU

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by RhysU 3y ago
> ...very serious illnesses where you can't continue to work. In the US, if possible, carry long term disability insurance to mitigate this risk.
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by RhysU 3y ago
How exactly is economic power divorced from political power and vice versa? Power is power.
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by RhysU 3y ago
This analysis ignores that the $500K person gets one vote like the $500 people each do.
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by RhysU 3y ago
My brother-in-law somehow took great care of his family during this period of time via the non-existent employment of which you speak.
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by RhysU 3y ago
If I kill a car's engine or kill the music or kill this conversation do you understand what I mean? The executive branch killed the coal industry. It was a swift action to bring something to a close. That people in this thread can&#x27
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by RhysU 3y ago
Clearly, I am morally equivalent to child labor and thalidomide by attempting to correct that coal mining didn't collapse on its own but rather it was explicitly killed by executive action. </sarcasm> Next.
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by RhysU 3y ago
I am not arguing about any greater good. Killing is killing. My favorite joke here (SMBC?) is that the robbers that killed Batman's 2 parents did not save N-2 people because Batman saved N people.
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by RhysU 3y ago
Wow. No one remembers even the NYT coverage of this exact thing https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/16/us/politics/obama-coal-mi... . I am not saying anything not agreed to by both parties at the time. T
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by RhysU 3y ago
Heh, this family is in Western PA which I left in the early 2000's for greener pastures outside of PA entirely. I love the area and the people, but pretending things are economically rosy in Western PA in the extraction areas undercuts
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by RhysU 3y ago
I am making the point that Obama's energy policies were a deliberate, concerted disaster for coal mining far in excess of any gradual market changes. Anecdata, but this was common knowledge in the region at the time. Retroactively, the
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by RhysU 3y ago
If I defenestrate a frail 80-year-old that they were eventually going to die naturally is not a murder defense. If a robust 80-year-old lived next to the frail one it is also not a murder defense. If the frail one was a stubborn old mule it
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by RhysU 3y ago
As someone brought up in Appalachia with family who made good money via coal mining, I believe the phrase is "...after coal mining was killed" [1]. [1] https://www.rpc.senate.gov/policy-papers/obamas-war-on-co
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by RhysU 3y ago
If the alternative is that unsavory, just show up. It works for literally millions of people.
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by RhysU 3y ago
> avoid man-made degeneracies will be extremely difficult or impossible in a matter of decades So move now to somewhere you expect to be long-term viable before the crunch...?
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by RhysU 3y ago
I agree pollution from the industrial revolution started long ago (i.e. King James I) and it's killed people recently (i.e London 1952). I agree the correct rate is non-zero. There should be some average rate that approximates whatever
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by RhysU 3y ago
What was the incremental taxation rate that should have been assessed throughout the industrial revolution to price in then-present and then-future externalities?
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by RhysU 3y ago
What were the total emissions to make the Prius vs the motorcycle? MPG is only post-production.
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by RhysU 3y ago
> ...we all have to change the way we live... It is negligently irrational to believe the entirety of the human race can be convinced to do, in perpetuity, what you suggest. The conclusion to accept is the cat's out of the bag. Two
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by RhysU 3y ago
Apply for a credit card and tell them to write "First Last, PhD". You will get it. Source: A buddy messing with me partway through my grad school days.
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by RhysU 3y ago
Awhile back someone* here recommended the book "Days of Rage"* about US domestic terrorism/bombings in the late 60s and 70s. Weather Underground and their ilk were entirely a bunch of morally smug bastards fuelled by exactly
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by RhysU 3y ago
The original text provides a bound not an equality: "The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand...". They didn't want too much direct representation but apparently didn't worry about too
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by RhysU 3y ago
Why was 1 in 30K correct? Also, https://www.census.gov/topics/public-sector/congressional-ap... is more subtle than I expected.
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by RhysU 3y ago
It's like a middle school dance. If you ask enough people, someone will dance.
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by RhysU 3y ago
Yeeeeech, I can't handle "the poors are addicted" narrative. Smoking was high-class fashionable awhile back. Then the lower classes caught on as disposable incomes rose and factories made tobacco products within their reach.
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by RhysU 3y ago
That's funny, because when I see someone from that same social class not be condescending about people's personal choices I think "What's right with you?"
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by RhysU 3y ago
I now want a short story where killer AI is stopped because it can't reach a Google Salesperson to increase its quota.
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by RhysU 3y ago
Are there ETFs that allow easily taking either side of the remote-or-not bet on better, long-term shareholder value?
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by RhysU 3y ago
Was Copilot a largely riskless copycat effort because TabNine had previously proven the technology was feasible, TabNine had previously proven the business fit, and Copilot was backed by a gorilla of a company? Technology-wise, I have a Dee
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by RhysU 3y ago
I am a former resident of this building, recommend it and the neighborhood highly, and they have a one bedroom for $4K. No broker fee last I knew. https://www.equityapartments.com/new-york-city/upper-west-si... Richie

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