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by burkaman 3y ago
Why do you say the start date is pre industrial revolution? This article says the ocean began warming around 1860, which is well after the end of the industrial revolution.
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by burkaman 3y ago
Thanks for mentioning this, I already have a Fidelity account but didn't realize they had this feature.
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by burkaman 3y ago
> would that mean they are already worse off Yes. I agree that forced labor is not a tipping point, I haven't seen it described that way but I wouldn't agree with someone who said that everything we do up to forced labor is fin
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by burkaman 3y ago
I don't want to have a semantic argument about the definition of "slave", maybe we can agree on the term "involuntary servant". Prisoners should be denied as much freedom as is necessary to protect the rest of socie
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by burkaman 3y ago
Prison labor has no impact on recidivism, so it can't be considered rehabilitative in its current form: https://mn.gov/doc/assets/Effects%20of%20Prison%20Labor%20on... , https://www.ojp.gov/ncj
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by burkaman 3y ago
Please read the article, it addresses all of your points and should help you understand.
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by burkaman 3y ago
I would rather have them choosing whether or not to work so they aren't slaves.
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by burkaman 3y ago
No they do not have the right to refuse, and can be punished if they do. The text is pretty clear: "involuntary servitude" is permitted as punishment for a crime. > More than 76 percent of incarcerated workers report that they
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by burkaman 3y ago
Might be referring to these bills: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-joint-re... , https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-joint-res...
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by burkaman 3y ago
You are right for tax purposes, but for this Personal Income metric I'm not sure. Looking at this: https://www.bea.gov/system/files/methodologies/SPI-Methodolo... > Personal income as defined by BEA d
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by burkaman 3y ago
Well something like 50% of working age Americans have some kind of retirement account, and taking money out of that usually involves capital gains. Two thirds of households own their own homes, and it doesn't matter how nice the house
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by burkaman 3y ago
Yeah anyone who retires with non-trivial investments or savings will probably be a "dissaver" for the rest of their life.
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by burkaman 3y ago
Not just borrowing against the value, the Personal Income metric "does not include realized or unrealized capital gains or losses." So even if you sell stocks or a house or something and make money on it, that income isn't pa
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by burkaman 3y ago
None of the above, it is evidence that the US Bureau of Economic Analysis Personal Income metric "does not include realized or unrealized capital gains or losses." So for example if you sell some stocks for a profit and then spend
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by burkaman 3y ago
No, it might be common in economic circles but I've never heard it either.
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by burkaman 3y ago
This headline is pretty misleading, to me at least. "Bottom 80%" implies the poorer 80% of Americans, but it is actually referring to the bottom 80% strictly in terms of (apparent) savings. > Personal Income isn’t the only sour
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by burkaman 3y ago
They also don't have file a form 990 or provide any information about their operations, and there is no requirement that they benefit their community or society in any way. Both of those are unique to churches.
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by burkaman 3y ago
It's not just landlords using the same algorithm, they're using the same company that tells them all to set the same artificially high price. In other words, RealPage isn't saying "average rent around here is $2000 so th
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by burkaman 3y ago
See Figure 15 on page 8: https://web.archive.org/web/20200618202007/https://www.dynam... The egg is constructed of four distinct arcs based on four different points, plus two of them mirrored.
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by burkaman 3y ago
All (non-paid) Twitter accounts are now rate-limited, which makes a shared Nitter instance untenable. It's probably still possible to host a personal instance for yourself, although they might ban your account for it. https:/&#x2
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by burkaman 3y ago
Maybe this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caKj6rGEdyM . I was obsessed with this for about a week in high school.
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by burkaman 3y ago
I don't think it's obvious that Canadian Goose is any less correct. It's in most dictionaries, and the scientific name "canadensis" is supposed to mean "from Canada", which is what Canadian means. Canada G
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by burkaman 3y ago
I understand what you're saying, but it sounds like a kind of sunk cost fallacy. If a parking lot has been sitting empty for years and nobody has any plan to do anything with it, maybe it's time to tear it up. The bad decision to
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Balanced Geoengineering Information Has Little Effect on Mitigation Engagement [pdf](econstor.eu)
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by burkaman 3y ago
> But surely there has to be some agreed meaning of words? Yes you're right, and the dictionary documents that agreed meaning, but some of those meanings will gradually change over time. It's not new, and it certainly isn'
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by burkaman 3y ago
It just doesn't match any dictionary definition of "get" I can find (but it is defined as an idiom https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/get%20right ), and idioms generally come from colloquial non-s
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by burkaman 3y ago
I'm pretty sure "getting something wrong" is an idiom that started with people using the verb "to get" wrong.
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by burkaman 3y ago
I think it's just because it's a relatively rare word ( https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=nonplussed%2Cb... ), and it's often extremely difficult to figure out what it means from context (&quot
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by burkaman 3y ago
It wouldn't be legitimately useful, but it can be abused by intelligence agencies. You can imagine a machine learning algorithm trained on the shopping history of terrorists and associates, which then scans the entire database to ident
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by burkaman 3y ago
It does mean that now, because most people don't know the "correct" definition: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonplussed Similarly, the definition of blasé has changed since Lord Byron first

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