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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
"The government regularly spends more than it takes in from taxes by issuing bonds. [...] That in turn lets the government spend money, which ultimately makes its way into the economy as a whole" This is straight up nonsense. All
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
Real time sucks, but I'll have to at least check it out.
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
It's not hard to get that data. The tax rates are public knowledge. Cook county has just over a 2% per year property tax. https://www.cookcountyclerk.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/201...
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
If deforestation is still occurring (net result that we are cutting down more trees than we are planting) then cutting down more trees doesn't solve the problem. We do in fact need people to just start planting trees.
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
IMHO, this is a failure of the copyright model. All information required to build software should be required to be escrowed at release.
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
"it almost invariably winds up with smart programmers insisting that these have to be simple problems that would be easily solved if only we were using the right API" Because they are. Make the common case fast. There is no reas
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
"Countless websites were broken because they used popup windows." I fixed it for you.
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
"The world would probably enter a depression worse than the 1920s as revenues severely tank because companies are not allowed to advertise their business." Nonsense. I'm not going to stop buying food or soap because I don&#x
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
So what service do I subscribe to so that I never see ads at all? Ads are pollution, and need to be treated as such. Information providers need to develop business models which do not depend upon advertising revenue. (foundations, Patreon
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
Revenue is an obsolete concept at the Federal level. Currency issuers are not dependent on taxes to fund spending. Taxes have other roles, like controlling inflation. All currency issuers can always pay any debt denominated in their nativ
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
"What are your thoughts on this?" We need much higher taxes on millionaires.
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
"Not too many places will straight up ghost candidates that have done on-sites, that's pretty unusual." It's probably at least 50% of my interviews. Roughly 1/4 of my interviews have any kind of follow up at all. I
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
When I worked as a stock trader, all of our chats were logged as a matter of legality.
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
Sieve of Aristothenes + induction seem most likely to me. "For every binary sequence of length X, the Collatz iteration ends at 1. Adding more zeros clearly does not change the result, therefor adding more ones is the only path which
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
Technically possible maybe, politically possible no. Any ISP could force unencrypted traffic through a deep packet inspection system that looked for this kind of malicious behavior. That would be widely seen as a betrayal of the "big
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
"I saw a way out, computers, and I took it. I was able to pivot to a better career by building skills in my free time." So clearly, everyone can follow that same path, right?
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
... And the AMA is lobbying for that increased funding?
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
"It would be hypocritical for Westerners to criticize them for it." I'm not fully convinced. When you know better, you do better. And we now know better. "A did a stupid thing to achieve X result, therefore B must be a
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
And yet a ten year timeline is obviously nonsense. When these reactors were built in the 1970s, groundbreaking to power production was often 5 years. Why is the process much worse now? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zio
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
"The sort of interesting thing is it's really hard to be objective about this," And beyond that, words do not mean the same things over time. The following quote from the 1972 Democratic Party platform would be read quite dif
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
Perot pulled roughly evenly from across the political spectrum. There is no reason to assume it would have changed any result. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2111651?seq=1#metadata_info_tab...
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
"whoever gets the most votes wins, end of story." That seems to be a really bad idea if you want minority representation. How would this play out in a racist 1950s scenario?
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
"Building nuclear power plants takes longer than that." So fix that broken process. This is a nonsense result.
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
"How is the intermittency gap actually bridged. Tell me. I WANT to know." There are several different ways. Demand response is significant. Large users are already paid to reduce their usage during times of tight supply. It shou
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
Two things that I've found are helpful for me. Always make your comments about the policy and not the person. Try to reference principles which give context to your comments.
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
+1
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
"Is inflation really never going to show again?" What causes inflation? Inflation is too much money chasing too few goods and services. When populations are growing, you need to expand the money supply to avoid deflation. What ha
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
Because debt can be valuable. The Federal government has a unique ability to guarantee that you will hold a certain number of dollars on a certain date. That should sound a lot like "escrow" to you. Federal debt lubricates a numb
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
Modern Monetary Theory tells us that the important limits are "when you run out of Labor" and "when you run out of resources". So what nations are facing low unemployment, and what nations are facing resource shortages?
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
"But of course you have to borrow to roll old debt." Not if you have your own currency. Currency issuers never need to borrow. It makes no sense to even suggest borrowing something that you can create at will.

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