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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
I thought that the "Spanish Flu" evolved from horses, not birds.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
As human ancestors became more adept at tool usage, one would expect any evolved skull defenses to crumble. No amount of skull reinforcement will stand up to a solid strike from a club. And even if it did, it wouldn't matter - our huge
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Google and Facebook would also be protected by the Fourth, were it actually respected.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
The Supreme Court has long ago abandoned any interest in protecting the rights defined by the Constitution.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmat
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Depreciating Capital(marginalrevolution.com)
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Piketty: A Wealth of Misconceptions(online.barrons.com)
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Google is pre-empting the coming Silicon Valley shakedown by civil rights groups.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
>>Crypto-racism from the left is a problem "Crypto"??
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
>>I expect the inequality debate to play out in a similar fashion. Many economists may agree with Piketty. Whilst "many" economists most surely do agree with Piketty's data, it is closer to 50-50 than the 98% found in c
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Is Piketty’s “Second Law of Capitalism” fundamental?(marginalrevolution.com)
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Every single first world country was either already a democracy before industrialization ("the west"+Turkey), was totalitarian until it was invaded by the US and forced to become democratic (Japan, Germany, Korea, Austria), or is
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
You're totally correct, but so is the paper discussed in the WSJ link. Different measures of life expectancy for different purposes. It's a bit like the inequality data "showing" that the US has higher post-tax&trans
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
>>No totalitarian state has ever lasted for an extended period of time. ?
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
>>Perhaps in 10-15 years, there will be predictions of India as the new number one. Already happening... http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=7402
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Actually, the US probably does lead in life expectancy... As usual, you can make the data do anything you like, but this methodology makes a lot of sense. http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/does-the-us-lead-in-life-exp...
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
How do you interpret articles which proclaim that other articles proclaiming huge shifts are overblown? Because that's what this article is doing.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
1. Automation would hit Chinese workers harder than Americans. 2. PPP incorporates living conditions already. GDP@PPP is already standard.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
"China’s demography is a disaster. About 2015, the seemingly boundless labor pool will begin to shrink. One reason is rapid aging, which presages that China will become old before it becomes rich. By 2050, China will have lost one-thir
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Phil Magness on Piketty's U.S. Wealth Data(econlog.econlib.org)
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Pretty obviously not a monopoly.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
The point of moving regulation to the states is to foment competition amongst said states - this should exert downward pressure on corruption, but how much we don't really know. Certainly we currently have some states which are more co
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What do the Piketty data problems really mean?(marginalrevolution.com)
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
It's interesting that you bring up environmental issues. Those are especially tricky, since they deal with the commons: our air and water, which are typically not privately owned and thus are legally forbidden from being handled by the
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
Unfortunately, these myths about low effective rates are rather difficult to shake. But they are just that, myths. 1) Passive income (wealth income) is taxed as regular income. There is actually an extra 3.8% federal tax on passive income.
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
The only solution is to take power out of the hands of politicians. Get rid of K Street and something worse will take its place. Get rid of Congresses ability to regulate every detail of the economy and K Street will have a lot less to lobb
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
I'm sure it's the only paper ever written on the subject. I provided concrete examples of issues which impact all wealthy people in the US. If they could get behind any one policy with some degree of unanimity, surely it'd be
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
a) We're talking about people with annual incomes in the tens and hundreds of millions. Their effective rate in a state like CA will be in the 40s or 50s. b) The low effective rates published by the GAO and others are well known to be
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
The jump is from "wealth inequality" to "power inequality." It's not clear that the former causes the latter. If one wants the reader to be concerned about power inequality, then he should focus his efforts upon thi
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by alexeisadeski3 12y ago
The problem is that the policy prescriptions he recommends are not really related to his data.

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