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by burfog 7y ago
If you're going to apply the adjective "far" to Fox News, then you'll also need to apply it to the New York Times. According to Pew Research, that is more to the left than Fox is to the right. I think "far" sho
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by burfog 7y ago
Pew Research has determined that the Overton window has barely moved at all for the right-wing, but has moved quite a bit for the left-wing. This means that what you perceive as nudging may in fact just be trying to hold it in place. We can
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by burfog 7y ago
On political topics, Wikipedia is extremely untrustworthy. Paid political workers are writing things like that. Lots of definitions have been changing over the past decade or two. Fascism and also Nazi would not normally have included &quot
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by burfog 7y ago
Rupert Murdoch is somewhat a foreigner to you, having gained US citizenship in 1985, but he comes from Australia. He was born there. I don't know if you recognize dual citizenship, but if you do then it seems he is still Australian. Hi
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by burfog 7y ago
There are far bigger reasons to doubt it, so the "liberal media" issue is moot. Not that "liberal media" isn't a fine reason, but Jeff Bezos is literally the owner of the Washington Post. He also runs Amazon, shippi
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by burfog 7y ago
If that supposed $900K comes from Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post, I'm OK with it. In that case, he alone is worth a hundred thousand jobs. I can see why his newspaper might be complaining.
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by burfog 7y ago
Taxes on transactions, such as tariffs, are almost never paid only by one side. The side with less flexibility is going to pay most of it, adjusting prices as needed to make this so. China has less flexibility. Idled factories are a huge pr
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by burfog 7y ago
Months ago, I saw an analysis done by a European financial firm. The burden of the tariffs is 83% paid by China. This is very well aligned with his example. The burden we do pay isn't so bad. It can substitute for other taxes. We used
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by burfog 7y ago
For that, we just need to coordinate things. This could be solved by a few designated rescheduling days. They can be the 2 times when we currently mess with clocks, or we could have 4 of them. On such days, all government functions (schools
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by burfog 7y ago
These are babies and toddlers with rapidly growing brains. Much larger drops are observed in slightly worse daycare/orphanage/foster situations, so a drop of 16% isn't surprising to me. In the bad situations, brain structure
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by burfog 7y ago
Only the affluent kids get worse. Below-normal kids are improved, and normal kids are not affected. It seems daycare pulls kids toward the middle, wiping out the advantage or disadvantage of the family situation.
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by burfog 7y ago
It looks like Betteridge's law of headlines is beaten for once. Daycare is bad for affluent children. The effect was huge. It was a drop of 0.5% of IQ per month. Not accounting for compounding, that is a drop of 10% in 20 months. Dro
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by burfog 7y ago
Not much can beat a sky burial. Tibetians sometimes still do it. If you search around, you can find a photo sequence documenting it. The only notable modernization is plastic aprons for the workers. They strip and slash the body, then step
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by burfog 7y ago
We got the robber barons because we hadn't learned to break up monopolies and because transportation was poor. We may be headed back in that direction. We keep adding required functionality to cars, driving up the cost. We keep allowin
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by burfog 7y ago
If they still outsource, tariffs will stop it. It's only been about a century that we've had an income tax. Prior to that, we funded the federal government on tariffs. It built the nation. People who buy local goods are unaffected
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by burfog 7y ago
It was pilot error to try landing with a tailwind in torrential rain.
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by burfog 7y ago
There are two seats in the cockpit. I would have informed one of the test pilot crew, the one not flying. In an emergency that person can take over.
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by burfog 7y ago
There are people, not too many anymore, who write C without even remembering how to use the bitwise operators. They can't use any of: left shift, right shift, bitwise and, bitwise or, xor, complement. They may use unions or pointers, b
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by burfog 7y ago
Yes, dramatically so. Cancer now has a 70% survival rate. HIV is not a death sentence. You can get a heart valve installed without cutting apart your rib cage. That stuff doesn't come free. It would be kind of neat to offer the option
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by burfog 7y ago
I've done C firmware. I disagree about these problems. C did not have a rigorously and formally defined memory model until 2011. We did C for almost 40 years before we got that. Go read what Linus Torvalds has to say about "volati
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by burfog 7y ago
That ("anything other than spiteful") sounds like dehumanizing an opponent. Are you sure that you yourself are willing to consider trade-offs and account for externalities? Consideration would include the possibility of "no r
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by burfog 7y ago
Dismissing your opponents as "bad faith" and "completely unaware of the absurdity" and "frivolous" is a good indication that your own beliefs may be so. You are completely blocking out any consideration of your
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by burfog 8y ago
They mention laws. It's infuriating that we're legislating in a requirement for noise pollution. The driver is already responsible for not running people down, including deaf people and people listening to music.
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by burfog 8y ago
There is an increase, but it is delayed and diminished. The city budget is not 100% salary. The city may buy water, textbooks, fire engines, fencing, sod, bleachers, asphalt, diesel, and so many other things. Rent and mortgage payments don&
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by burfog 8y ago
One can read a lot into that chart, depending on one's own bias. For example, if jobs get better, then families can live on one income. This is good. We're still way above the workforce participation of the 1950s, which generally
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by burfog 8y ago
Unionization is well beyond freedom of association. It's freedom to enforce a monopoly. Can you be consistent, having no objections if others do that too? For example: Airlines form their own sort of union. (we might call it a cartel)
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by burfog 8y ago
What I find odd is that he chose to get his 0g flight by flying a parabola, in the style of the vomit comet, instead of just flying in a roll. For example, roll by 200 degrees and then raise the nose by about 20 degrees. (probably can'
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by burfog 8y ago
You touch upon a fundamental problem with the tax calculation. There is no reason for the city budget to increase by x% just because the supposed home values (could be a bubble) happen to increase by x%. It's not as if the other costs
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by burfog 8y ago
In this case, "better" might mean none at all. EU countries with lots of maternity leave are really lacking in children. Without maternity leave, of course there is a disincentive to have any children. Once you do have a child tho
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by burfog 8y ago
I was out driving in rural Kentucky one day, along a long narrow gravel road with sparse houses, and came across a church. The church had a sign advertising a get-together with shotguns. I think it was skeet shooting, possibly as a fundrais

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