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by cultus 7y ago
Flew them once. If I never do it again it'll be too soon.
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by cultus 7y ago
Every DMV experience I've had has been excellent with fast service.
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by cultus 7y ago
You're really contracting nearly every public healthcare expert here.
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by cultus 7y ago
I'm not sure how this will affect the current strategic balance. It's safe to say that China will recover faster, but they are so export-dependent that their economy will still be crippled by global lower demand. However, I think
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by cultus 7y ago
It's really not sustainable or realistic to rely on altruism. Taking a huge pay cut to work on awful systems nobody wants to deal with exceeds how much nearly anyone is willing to help. Just giving a frigging UBI for at least the durat
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by cultus 7y ago
What makes Americans in particular so much more special than other humans? This kind of American exceptionalism is ridiculous and should have been put to bed decades ago.
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by cultus 7y ago
This is such an insane post. Do you literally have no idea how much things cost?
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by cultus 7y ago
Sure, a few people will be hired. But it is absolutely delusional to think that any significant percentage of people laid off will be able to get a new job anytime soon. There simply aren't enough jobs. Everyone really, really wanting
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by cultus 7y ago
We want people to be staying home and not working right now. Other countries are smart enough to encourage this. Only the US seems to be missing the entire point of this whole exercise.
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by cultus 7y ago
People have been saying Clojure is dying for years, but there's plenty of people using it to great effect. I'm more productive in Clojure than in any other language, and I have access to a wide array of Clojure and JVM libraries.
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by cultus 7y ago
There's no such thing as political legitimacy, at least in terms of the philosophical concept existing in reality. Legitimacy in practice just means that there are not enough people opposed to a regime to take it down. It's just r
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by cultus 7y ago
Oh sure, there's very serious problems with orthodox Marxism. It gets somewhat of a pass because all historical communist regimes have started far before capitalism had run its course (which even now it hasn't necessarily). Howeve
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by cultus 7y ago
If we are going to start tallying the body counts of economic ideologies, I think you will find capitalism and its inherent imperialism to be very much in the lead.
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by cultus 7y ago
A more updated version would be that neoliberalism is the opiate of intellectuals. Much (but certainly not all) of Marxism has held up rather well in retrospect (especially teh critique of capitalism), especially in the conditions we face i
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by cultus 7y ago
The time to oppose Orban would have been a few years ago. I'd like to think the EU would take strong action over this, but the unanimity requirements for situations like this make it a total non-starter. The EU structure greatly remind
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by cultus 7y ago
I never understand why people go to all this work of developing and even marketing major libraries or languages if you aren't going to at least give some doc examples. Jeez, just copy and paste some unit tests and put some prose explan
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by cultus 7y ago
Often things like this are tax related.
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by cultus 7y ago
Well, we are currently running a global experiment to find out whether it is better for the economy to be negligent or have a robust public heath response during a pandemic. We'll know soon.
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by cultus 7y ago
Hospitals will be overwhelmed much more, and there will be far more deaths if we don't "flatten the curve." In addition, workers will stay home anyway (which many are already doing), collapsing the economy regardless. It is i
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by cultus 7y ago
No it is exactly how the issue should be characterized. Besides, it is a false dichotomy. There will be an economic collapse either way.
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by cultus 7y ago
Boy that's news to me.
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by cultus 7y ago
There's always certain industries that do well in every recession. That doesn't mean it's not a recession. North Dakota had something like a 1.8% unemployment rate in the depths of the Great Recession because the high oil pri
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by cultus 7y ago
This is not true, and is why the markets are crap. Everyone is buying much less. This means there is less demand still. Thus the economy contracts like dominos. This is literally how every recession in history has worked.
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by cultus 7y ago
So you think that even tens of millions of deaths would not be associated with a depression? That is incredibly preposterous.
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by cultus 7y ago
That's so plainly a much, much smaller cause of death. I'd encourage you to examine evidence more in the future. Besides, mortality rates actually tend to decline during recessions. While the causes of this are still debated, it h
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by cultus 7y ago
Are you just militantly unaware of the news or something?
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by cultus 7y ago
You are making the very false assumption that we have a choice between deaths and economic collapse. Like it or not, we are seeing faster growth rates than Spain. With our awful response, we could be easily heading for 2+ million deaths if
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by cultus 7y ago
The government can print money, and buy back the debt. Excessive inflation only occurs when the combination of private and public spending is chasing after too few goods. We've been deficit spending like crazy for years and the inflati
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by cultus 7y ago
It's absolutely insane that the US isn't even guaranteeing sick leave in all this, let alone a significant portion of lost income. I guarantee you it is cheaper than a depression.
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by cultus 7y ago
They actually banned them after SARS, but then legalized them again after it all wound up being sold on the black market anyway, but with worse safety.

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