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by blacksqr 5y ago
Yes but the article explicitly states that the vast majority of consumers don't have more cash to spend. So the cause of the inflation must be something else.
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by blacksqr 5y ago
> It's surprisingly plausible that wages would not rise and inflation would speed up. I agree entirely. But the linked article explicitly blames increased deficit government spending. The article reads like a stealth attack on sti
573.
by blacksqr 5y ago
If the stimulus money only allowed people to maintain their income level rather than increase it, then the inflation pressure can't be coming from increased consumer spending. GDP only dropped 2.3% last year [0], so there's approx
574.
by blacksqr 5y ago
If so, the solution to the problem presented in the article is simple: tax the rich.
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by blacksqr 5y ago
The article reports that 72% of respondents said their income has not increased. So whatever trillions of dollars were created don't seem to have made it to the populace. Either the respondents are not a representative sample of consu
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by blacksqr 5y ago
> Shopkick, which produced the report, is a shopping rewards company. The company provides tracking to monitor consumer engagement along the path to purchase. The company has a pay for performance model.
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by blacksqr 5y ago
Funny, I have a distinct memory that it was spelled "Mandela" effect.
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by blacksqr 5y ago
You must be fun at parties. No one would leave their job if they thought it was a good fit for them and adequately paid. Only the underutilized and underpaid would be tempted by the benefits of a jubilee unemployment year. We have a lot of
579.
by blacksqr 5y ago
I was not suggesting that all loans be forgiven, I was using the Israeli jubilee as an illustrative precedent. I was suggesting that the government offer enhanced unemployment benefits one year out of ten.
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by blacksqr 5y ago
"but small employers have to compete with the government guaranteeing a minimum of human dignity" Fixed it for you.
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by blacksqr 5y ago
> Mx. Martin wants to work with pets. They complained that "there simply weren't enough jobs that I would actually want." Restaurant work "is not in my field of interest." > > Too bad. I suggest that being
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by blacksqr 5y ago
The linked site is a wiki, so you can create your own page and write it yourself!
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Divisible by 7 (2016)(wiki.tcl-lang.org)
82 points by blacksqr 5y ago|30 comments
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Simple salinity gradient power without membranes(hawaii.edu)
1 points by blacksqr 5y ago|0 comments
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TIL: Tcl-inspired command language on top of D(til-lang.github.io)
103 points by blacksqr 5y ago|25 comments
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by blacksqr 5y ago
I can't think of any reason to worry about McDonalds food becoming less cheap. Let it compete with healthier alternatives on the basis of its total market-driven cost.
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by blacksqr 5y ago
And in exactly the same way: boring, no mainstream mindshare, but still occasionally needed to service legacy market segments.
588.
by blacksqr 5y ago
Dead as a doornail. Its corpse is sometimes put on display as a curiosity.
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by blacksqr 5y ago
As an X'er, The Weeknd's latest music does sound amazingly to me like a callback to early 80s's new wave synth pop. "Save Your Tears" could've been an OMD single. As such, to me, it's a powerful challenge
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Closures in Tcl(wiki.tcl-lang.org)
4 points by blacksqr 5y ago|0 comments
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by blacksqr 5y ago
Now do Mt. Fuji.
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Large-scale energy harvesting by triboelectric nanogenerator (2013)(semanticscholar.org)
2 points by blacksqr 6y ago|0 comments
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by blacksqr 6y ago
If you're smart enough to amass $1,000,000 in a brokerage account, you should be smart enough to know that it would be stupid to liquidate the whole account to pay cash for a house, better to get a mortgage now that interest rates are
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by blacksqr 6y ago
The article is deceptive from the very first sentence. Only the top bracket of the capital gains tax percentage is proposed to be raised, i.e. only applied to people with income over $1,000,000. But the article plays the old shell game of
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by blacksqr 6y ago
A custom-bred form of bacteria converts carbon dioxide and hydrogen into methane. Electricity is required to generate hydrogen by electrolysis of water. Company proposes to use excess electricity from renewable sources to keep it green.
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Ascend process modeling system (2012)(ascend4.org)
1 points by blacksqr 6y ago|0 comments
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Tmdoc: Markdown/LaTeX literate programming tool in Tcl(wiki.tcl-lang.org)
2 points by blacksqr 6y ago|0 comments
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by blacksqr 6y ago
They used standard acrylic paint manufacture techniques, just substituting barium sulfate for the usually-used white pigment titanium dioxide. So most such questions should be answered simply by looking at previous experience with existing
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by blacksqr 6y ago
Video definitely features a man out standing in his field.
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How to debug memory faults in Tcl and extensions(wiki.tcl-lang.org)
2 points by blacksqr 6y ago|0 comments

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