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by cal5k 5y ago
Economics devoid of morality is a poor governing principle, in my view. Even if 90% tax rates could be economically justified as not impacting growth (obviously not true), it is morally reprehensible because it is tantamount to indentured s
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Top marginal income tax rates in many countries now exceed 50%, not even considering payroll tax, property tax, sales tax, etc. The question is: how can anyone seriously support tax rates that high? After a certain level, more than half you
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The difference is that the lab leak hypothesis is being vigorously debated out in the open for all to see, by journalists and scientists from multiple countries, with references cited and available for perusal. China (allegedly) has gone ou
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by cal5k 5y ago
The linked article by Nicholas Wade contains a more detailed rundown of what is currently known: https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-peop... As he mentions, neither case has been proven - but h
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by cal5k 5y ago
No Friedman acolyte that I'm aware of would actually endorse wealth transfers to the rich in the hopes that it would "trickle down" to everyone else. It's a simplistic caricature of a broad system of thinking that seeks
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by cal5k 5y ago
> From what I can tell it's all based on old-fashioned debunked economic theories in the same vain as "trickle-down-economy". As an aside, I find this (popular) sentiment quite amusing - what, exactly, is "trickle-do
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by cal5k 5y ago
Stop believing the lies politicians tell you? The best thing for the middle and working class would be broad-based tax cuts, and yet the political narrative in most developed countries continues to be unabashed "hose the rich" tri
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If you turn off autopilot and put a brick on the accelerator the Tesla may also drive into a tree! Or any car made in the last 100 years for that matter.
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If you're actively circumventing your car's safety features to use it in out-of-spec ways it's hard to argue that an accident is anything but your own fault. It's like pulling high negative G in a Cessna 172 and then bla
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by cal5k 6y ago
Nope, vision and dental aren’t part of our system - and thank god because they’re much more pleasant to deal with. I’ve experienced our healthcare system both as a patient and as an entrepreneur trying to innovate. On both counts it has bee
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by cal5k 6y ago
Canadian here. We have an extreme version of this, which includes a ban on private pay for anything covered by the public system. It's a bad system, and what's worse is that it has become politically impossible to even talk of ref
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The Pope has some 'splainin to do.
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Maybe we don't need all those PhDs, and we should stop funnelling public money into producing an excess supply of them?
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by cal5k 6y ago
But - what if the Proud Boys can drink from the same water supply? Something must be done! The American media is a fantastic machine for manufacturing a bogeyman then discarding it once it is no longer useful for narrative purposes.
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by cal5k 6y ago
While the conspiracy theorists seem to love that one, I think he meant "serve" as in "serve on your cabinet".
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by cal5k 6y ago
On a related note, Steven Rinella's book "American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon" is mandatory reading for anyone interested in the history of these magnificent beasts.
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Layer 2 seems to be the logical way forward - network fees have gotten ridiculous on the Bitcoin blockchain, and reducing the frequency with which you need to settle there would be a big win. On top of all the added functionality of smart c
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by cal5k 6y ago
> That’s why you can buy a set of knives on Amazon but not a 10 pack of Glocks. No, it's because Amazon doesn't sell guns. There's also no reason to own 10 of the same firearm - it's not like you're setting your
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by cal5k 6y ago
Ah. Well, that makes sense. When it gets down to -25 here (thankfully not all that often in Southern Alberta) I just don't spend much time outside... although -25C still isn't cold enough to necessitate plugging in the truck. It g
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by cal5k 6y ago
Cold-blooded Canadian here, so forgive me for asking - is this highly unusual?
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Also false equivocation. Twitter failed/refused to moderate content for years throughout their meteoric growth, and only now are they barely getting a handle on it - and even then they seem to apply the rules in an uneven fashion. Ex
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Or, 6) Hire a mob and storm the Federal Courthouse building in Portland? I don't blame Twitter, the company for what happened in Portland this summer, which is sort of the entire point of Section 230 protections. I don't like Tw
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by cal5k 6y ago
This also opens up a really simple attack vector for taking down a competitor. A recipe: 1) Create a bunch of accounts on your competitor's platform. 2) Post awful things using those accounts. 3) Screenshot them as proof that said comp
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I also think there's an incredible amount of cognitive dissonance from people who staunchly defend Section 230, then turn around and cite comments submitted by users as an excuse to shut down the entire platform. There's no way in
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What happens when Equinix decides to stop providing interconnect to that company for similar reasons?
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I've looked at Parler - while I don't find the content at all compelling, it doesn't seem any more dangerous than Twitter. Have we forgotten the truly odious content that was freely available on Twitter during last summer&#x2
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So AWS is now the arbiter of what actions are supposedly harmful to the fabric of democratic society? It's one thing for the courts to do this, it's quite another for infrastructure providers to decide it's now their job to p
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"Moreover, studies from Canada, New Zealand, and Australia (at least for the first post-NFA years) show that observed reductions in firearm suicides, after the implementation of these laws, were compensated by substitution methods that
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I'm a rural Canadian, and the idea of not having firearms in the house horrifies me. As does the constant push by urban Canadians to disarm rural folks (like me) who legally own firearms. It's ultimately your choice, but I'
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by cal5k 6y ago
The thing about firearms is that, unless you're actively hunting, you don't need them - until you do. You don't need them until there's a home invasion. You don't need them until someone tries to rob or kidnap you o

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