TomMckenny

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by TomMckenny 6y ago
> The first thing to note is that in Japan, housing isn’t an investment. It’s a place to live. Fixing this can be a major obstacle in countries with inadequate pension systems. In countries where dependency on rising property values is t
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
Likewise as it fails, their higher fatality rate helps show what was avoided. Although most countries under lock down could not handle the peak hospitalizations that Sweden can which would mean far more deaths. And one would need to compare
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
If the top comment is a genuine question with neutral tone then so is the similarly phrased "When will Republicans start mass arrests of journalist?" I don't explicitly state a value judgement and I can follow up with "y
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
Where is the true part? I see the subjective word "overinflated" and a misdirection about what "popular websites" do. This is more a case of a press release being a press release no mater who says it.
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
I thought we were supposed to blame the World Health Organization now.
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
I'm not addressing the extremely wise decision that a government make it financially possible for people not to spread disease. Nor disputing that the vast majority of people are willing to do this under these extreme circumstance. I&#
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
Have you quit your job to collect these allegedly easy to obtain checks? Or is this character flaw exclusive to warehouse workers?
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
>Why would a government build an expensive, high tech piece of equipment, then not ensure it could X Maybe short design periods in some cases too. Either way it was not too uncommon. There were bombers with escape hatches big enough for
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
There is a great deal of complexity here. On the broader topic, breaking up Youtube, Facebook and the like is entirely desirable but would probably be pointless unfortunately. Increases in copyright zeal make a new competitor to YouTube imp
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
It's not really true vs false, it's a matter of deciding what level of evidence is convincing. One point is that we already know the approximate effectiveness of social distancing from many 1918 data points and its epidemic with s
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
It is also why this approach would be foolish in countries with less developed treatment capacity. Capacity, for example, that is already at it's limit even with social distancing.
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
If consumer buying power drops too low relative to production, you enter the downward cycle seen in 1929. Where consumer earnings come from in the future is crucially connected to how society decides who owns the robots.
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
Since the source code could not help with decryption and the file was trivial to decrypt anyway, the NSA was either playing four dimensional chess that requires making a pointless midnight phone call or it's actually fallible. Rather t
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
>that all involved are trying to minimize general death and misery Unless the anti-quarantine events are organized by a hostile power. And this seems likely since they are insanely harmfully, arose suddenly and with widespread and great
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
Government contracts can be awarded to politically supportive entities and denied to those that aren't. Of course in a nicely functioning democracy there is little reason to believe this happening. But when the head of government inter
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
As an important aside, I'm sure everyone has noticed that grocery store clerks aren't allowed to wear masks in practice. I'm sure everyone has noticed quite a few other jobs where this is so. It seems endangering the lives of
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
It's not a trial, it's the public asking their government to tell them what's going on in this matter. And the government flatly refused. From this, it's absolutely reasonable for the public to think its government is hi
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by TomMckenny 6y ago
DoD officials are barred from answering questions about White House influence on the decision owing to its assertion of "presidential communications privilege"[1]. This is, quite simply, a confession. Nothing is solved by believin
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
Poverty is also thought to have caused the diffidence in performance in the marshmallow test[1]. Poor kids learn to take advantage of the moment and distrust the future. And poor kids tend to be lower earners in later life than wealthier ki
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
I presume it's an observation, not advice. That often those who are called exceptional have some skeletons in their closest. That there are more statues of Jefferson Davis than Harriet Tubman.
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
Square bans the use of its service for debt collection. The ruling says doing so is a violation of civil rights. Does this actually strengthen rights for minorities or does it dilute those right by including bill collectors under the law? E
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
The Great Depression and the fact that vast quantities of capital were annihilated in two world wars which seriously reduced the power of those who own society. There is another point you hint at that I want to underline: nations freely us
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
As an aside, I'm not clear why tech startups and VC panicked over this catastrophe. Given their extreme flexibility, I would think this is the most promising sector to do some good stuff at the moment and do well after in any disrupted
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
The story is that tax payers gave his company money to buy our F18s from us so that he can accumulate a force of enemy aircraft. His company will also train pilots specifically as the enemy would. And while he will do this at a considerable
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
There is a difficult follow up to this. When the dust settles months from now and some 40% of the country becomes convinced none of these problems ever happened, how shall we prevent this or other fiascos next time?
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
The article is an absurdly over the top straw-man and its target audience falls for it because they don't know that. I could make an equally broad claim that Mormons believe absurd things. And when someone says I misunderstand Mormonis
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
Mainstream economics understands the flaws in markets such as panics, run on banks, imperfect information, monopolies, cost to enter a market, lag in ramping up production, transportation time and bubbles. All of which are at play at the mo
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
People started hoarding out of hysteria. Which creates shortages for no reason. Which drives the prices up for no reason. Which benefits and encourages hoarding. Which encourages yet more hoarding out of speculation. Which means resources n
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
Which might be fine for things like web cams but for critically and immediately needed sanitation products, it proves a fatal flaw in markets. The reward for quickly buying up commodities and reselling them at enormous markup always out wei
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
>If it's actually spot on, it's a miracle. Not that it matters, but I think Tom may have gotten this wrong. If his code is invoked many times faster than google updates it's video count then the odds of seeing an exact mat

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