User23

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by User23 3y ago
Sure there’s the primary dealer figleaf/kickback. Operationally though the Fed is just buying government debt with an extra step. Also the Fed can just let Treasury run negative balances or any other number of accounting tricks.
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by User23 3y ago
The answer is already in the submission. They would gladly facilitate an option the Treasury pursues in its role as fiscal agent, since they can always claim that it was the Treasury’s decision and they had no other option as fiscal age
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by User23 3y ago
Government contracting. Those Z series mainframes are pretty much ideal for tasks like running government payroll and pensions. Including in the face of the inevitable congressional brinksmanship.
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by User23 3y ago
Wait until you hear about Dollar General.
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by User23 3y ago
I think people raise hundreds of millions of dollars to win a job that pays less than a junior SWE because they’re just so darn public spirited, obviously.
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by User23 3y ago
Consider the possibility that just because people in your bubble are fleeing it doesn’t mean that the userbase in general is.
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by User23 3y ago
> there is an underlying reality apart from that which we can never know. I'm surprised this is so unsettling for many. I feel like this life beats intellectual humility into anyone smart enough to notice it pretty much nonstop from
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by User23 3y ago
Thank you for today's shining example of "not even wrong."
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by User23 3y ago
You obviously have a lot of emotional baggage here and it’s keeping you from making much sense.
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by User23 3y ago
> You're confusing atheism for a religion. Atheism is a religion. Atheists observably claim to have achieved gnosis. It’s agnosticism that is an absence of belief.
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by User23 3y ago
I assume that sounded clever to you when you typed it, but I invite you to consider how it completely fails to follow in any way from the statement that human understanding of higher order consequences rapidly approaches absolute deficiency
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by User23 3y ago
And maybe that crumbling of civilization would have prevented a runaway greenhouse heating effect that destroys all life on Earth. Your attitude that you can understand a complex dynamical system such as the one that we live in is the truly
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by User23 3y ago
I find this line of argument to be a compelling refutation of any kind of consequentialist ethics from a human perspective. No human being ever has had or ever will have the ability to predict out the full consequences of an action througho
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by User23 3y ago
The Soviet atheists absolutely took the cake for most murder by a religious faction. What you’re describing is a people problem, not a religion problem.
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by User23 3y ago
Human beings are observably religious by nature. We’re going to worship and make devotion to something, whether it’s God, ourselves, the sky, an economic system, science, or whatever else. There will never be a post-religious age.
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by User23 3y ago
I wish would-be keyboard designers would read John Napier's marvelous book Hands , because I see little evidence of the biomechanics of the hand being considered in any sort of systemic way by practitioners.
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by User23 3y ago
> By definition the universe can “simulate” itself. A 1:1 scale map is still just a map. Simulation isn't an identity operation. > yet it’s a reasonable assumption What are the reasons for this claim?
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by User23 3y ago
> seems like a missed opportunity to evolve the 'native' speech to something new I like this. A missed opportunity to be conquered. I'm going to keep that one in my back pocket on account of I bet that sooner or later I&#x
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by User23 3y ago
> Everyone already “knows” their religion is correct and is not actually willing to challenge that because it’s scary. 1 Peter 3:15-16 literally commands us to do exactly that. But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts, being ready
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by User23 3y ago
If you were born in a hospital your DNA is already collected[1]. You may as well benefit from it too. Also, bringing murderers to justice is a pretty odd thing to object to. [1] https://www.aclu.org/documents/newborn-dn
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by User23 3y ago
The obesity epidemic has evidently warped your perception of what a normal healthy weight looks like.
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by User23 3y ago
> Pain is real, and the absence of pain is objectively better. But that’s observably false. There are persons who don’t feel pain, and they are considerably more likely to seriously injure or even maim themselves than normal persons. Tha
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by User23 3y ago
It is. Here[1] is one source. [1] https://www.elle.com/culture/a12445676/the-leftover-embryo-c...
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by User23 3y ago
Fun fact: there are north of a million cryopreserved persons in the USA alone right now.
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by User23 3y ago
Or campaign contributors expect a return on their "investment."
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by User23 3y ago
Crashed spacecraft? Oh no no, they're covering up the Ice Wall!
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by User23 3y ago
Both (emotional) trauma and suffering sound pretty subjective to me, as does psychology in general. How are we getting to "objectively good?"
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by User23 3y ago
Yes. It’s easily googled. And they look like a normal healthy weight for the early 20th century[1]. Mama there has a healthy belly. Where are you seeing concentration camp victims? [1] https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/medi
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by User23 3y ago
What do you mean by “objectively good?”
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by User23 3y ago
> I'm sorry but that's just pining for a past that never happened. In the 20th century some 100 million people died from famine. Starved to death. We're down to 200,000 deaths from hunger per year, compared to an average o

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