TomMckenny

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by TomMckenny 7y ago
I wonder how long it will take for this thread to be buried by people as eager to cover for the regime's ineptitude as Kushner is.
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
For want of an equally familiar term, "trickle down" is all I had. Apologies if it is critical sounding. The crisis will end with sky high unemployment, no consumer saving but massively increased personal debt. To raise the defici
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
These two options for saving the economy: corporate bailout vs social safety net essentially correspond with belief in trickle down vs Keynesian stimulus. Stated even more bluntly, it is essentially whether you believe customers or assets a
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
This will sound odd to the vast majority but there are some who view the whole idea of their personal immortality as awful and the drive to obtain it incomprehensible. Even if it were in some harp filled cloud borne paradise let alone in th
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
The title contains the words "Marxism" and "intellectual". There are far too many anti-intellectual cold-warriors here that have access to the down vote to have a reasonable conversation on what is really just a philosop
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
The very first sentence of the communications act of 1934 says the FCC exists to regulate communication by wire, congress need not pass a law granting it[1]. And what wording could the new law possibly use that is more explicit than the exi
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
It need not be theoretical connections to the ancient past. Consider a people who's beliefs get further and further from reality and who's society can't manage to maintain, let alone build, what it used to like roads and brid
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
As you point out, competition is better than monopoly because it provides a surplus that advantages consumers. But some things we do not want a surplus of, for example river dams. Other things can not be competitive even in principle like s
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
> Why is strong moderation part of a healthy online community Membership criterion is central to maintaining the competency level of the members. And competency on the topic (along with intellectual honesty) is the single most, perhaps o
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
In principle that makes perfect sense. And it is important to note that there is another choice other than the two we are given: the one the Europeans have chosen: employee protection/compensation along with any corporate bailouts. If
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
He has actually made something rather rent seeking so there is no reason to think this is zero-sum-gain. Beyond that, his lifetime income, even assuming zero business expenses and a hyper optimistic business lifetime, is not remotely enough
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
But trends in suicide including economic causes are handled by epidemiology[1] It is great that attention is now being paid to this subject. Although the overall suicide rate has continued to _rise_ in spite of 11 years of a rising DOW, the
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
Judging from the comments, explaining the severity of the epidemic is now politically charged. Epidemiologists and the medical field have made it clear we are _under_ reacting. But apparently some politicians want to down play the problem a
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
Even before he was president, his calls for infrastructure were praised by democrats. And many on the left praised his calls for tariffs. But after leading chants to lock up political rivals and repeatedly calling the free press the "e
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
Like supporters of Oberan, Erdogan, Bolsonaro, Modi, Putin, Duterte and Maduro, any damning direct quotes will always be claimed to mean something else entirely. The larger issue is that the leader's supporters know what he is and his
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
>Are you really pretending the US, Britain, Soviet Union, etc didn't freely violate the "rules of war" also No but The US and UK are far less notorious and so are not as good examples. > Also, the nazis aren't a na
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
Another point of evidence that the author probably omitted out of politeness are the nations that freely violated rules of war yet did not make (much) use of chemical weapons: the nazis on the eastern front and wwii japan. Also another tech
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
>You're just witnessing the old joke IRL: If Trump could walk on water, the Left would complain that he can't swim. The skepticism is due to false claims like "anybody that wants can get a test" [1] But as you say, ma
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
Beyond campaign financing, the US also has gerrymandering, voter suppression and disproportionate voting like the electoral college. And fixing those things will make the nation better serve it's people by making it more democratic. Co
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
It was just a mater of time until that group decided stock values exceeded the value of life and epidemic mitigation. Note also the assumption in "unemployment = death": there will be no social safety net to prevent it.
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
A dictator has the reverse mechanism. He must spend all his effort and distribute resources to stay in power which means not benefiting the people. If he did not then he would not be the one to rise to or stay dictator. A democratic leader
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
There are powerful, influential people down-playing the seriousness of the epidemic while they unload stock. Pointlessly murder a few people by puncturing ambulance tires or profitably contribute statistically to the death of millions, ther
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
Yes, it simulates the hypothesis that future markets are unknowable. Which would indeed be begging the question. Unless of course you find that whenever you apply technical trading to a Monte Carlo market, you get the same results as applie
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
The administration would certainly order employees back to work under the Taft–Hartley Act under threat of imprisonment. While it resists ordering companies to produce critically need medical supplies on ideological grounds[1], there can be
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
Technology can been something better. But we decided to make these thing rather than something else. Or we created a system that preferred these thing over something else. So I can not blame technology for what is clearly a human/socia
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
Judging from the random yet inexplicable 42 cent bill on a free account I set up years ago, I'd say their memory is positively unbelievable.
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
There are a couple possible re-thinkings. The disturbing one is where it is noticed that we are essentially sacrificing a bit of the economy to reduce fatalities. So next time it is decided that company valuations are worth the extra deaths
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
It's remarkable that the same parties who denounce any government participation in markets will be using that government to decide which companies to prop up. No doubt with lobbyist's advice. The irony is there is a way to do this
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
True, the draft is not an ideal example. None the less, the court is hardly infallible: for example, it is odd that congress can not constitutionally require medical insurance but can institute taxes and even prohibit the consumption of any
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by TomMckenny 7y ago
The government can compel you to take up arms and risk death on a battle field. I think you'll find the constitution is entirely up to the whims of the courts which makes it far less absolute than one imagines.

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