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by esja 5y ago
He will lose in many respects, but even so, Moscow and St. Petersburg are not going to be radioactive craters. All evidence suggests he wants to be remembered as a Russian hero. I think he is intelligent enough to know that bringing nuclear
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With a very broad brush: The old experienced journalists (and editors, and sub-editors, and proofreaders, and fact-checkers) have been fired, and what remains are very young, cheap, inexperienced Twitter addicts, battling for your deteriora
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by esja 5y ago
Exhibit 1,029,267 in "knowing a lot about ethics does not make you more ethical".
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That may be true, or it may be propaganda.
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But the fact-checkers don’t spend that required time, because it’s too expensive.
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That's a different point than what I think the OP was making, and it's not entirely accurate either (except in a relative sense). For it to be completely correct, buying power would have to move identically with prices, and it doe
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That's only really true if you are talking about specific houses and locations, while keeping everything else unchanged. In general, houses are just as desirable as they were a few years ago when they were half the price. All that has
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That’s not the case. All the central banks and the BIS understand and use this terminology when discussing the relationship of asset prices to demand, and it’s not at all specific to the USA or even a specific time period or specific market
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Philosophically it’s the exact same thing. It is a mathematical certainty that deliberately raising asset prices gives much more money to the rich than to the general public (many of whom get nothing or indeed go backwards by taking on mass
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They’ve said this publicly many, many times. It’s quite incredible that the Left have not made the connection between the Fed openly aiming to increase wealth inequality (which is what this is) while also keeping a watchful eye out for any
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It’s not a straw man at all. The Fed explicitly justifies QE and the rest of their monetary insanity on the basis of the “wealth effect”. They believe asset price rises will create a feeling of wealth which will generate additional spending
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Speculation and money laundering. NFTs are perfect for the latter.
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Meanwhile the ECB is expanding the bubble by leaving interest rates too low for too long.
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True. I'm in Switzerland. I did find one with sunflower oil but haven't looked into it further.
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Good tip, thanks!
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I enjoy oat milk but wonder about the production process and how healthy it is long-term. For example the one I drink contains canola oil.
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I have long believed the same. I also experience this when taking a long drive to a new destination - it seems to take longer to get there than it does to return home.
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These days, anything you have ever done, however long ago, is sufficient grounds for the zealots.
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Absolutely! I often wonder whether the epistemology we are "born with" can actually be improved very much (in a general sense), or whether the best we can do is teach domain-specific techniques to override our defaults on those to
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That's the main one I was thinking of - thanks!
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It is the leading theory though, isn’t it? The alternative (zoonotic transfer with no lab involvement) still has far less evidence to support it.
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This one factor explains so many of the niche issues that have exploded into the “mainstream”. Or more accurately: they’ve created an illusion of being mainstream. This effect is so strong that some of the topics can barely be discussed any
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The stifling seems to be by design, or at the very least it's being considered acceptable collateral damage. Our modern censorship infrastructure does not see minority voices as legitimate. That infrastructure may not even be capable (
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That’s interesting - do you have some examples? I’ve seen quite a few similar memes, including some which explicitly support the scientific method, by contrasting it with what they claim to be politically motivated cherry-picking, “scient
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That’s a great explanation.
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The word being used nowadays is "equity", and it's everywhere. Almost every large institution is pushing this. It explicitly means equal outcomes, not equal opportunities.
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Actually, yes. It's had almost 13 years to prove itself as a store of value, medium of exchange, and/or unit of account. It has failed to do that in any functioning economy because despite all the hype, it's remained worse th
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by esja 5y ago
I was an early adopter and I don’t recall anyone saying the internet was bad for the environment, or that it couldn’t scale. Quite the opposite actually! And there was very little fraud or criminality - most new applications and ideas were
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by esja 5y ago
“When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do, sir?” — John Maynard Keynes
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Most people have no idea just how massive the biological advantage is. Movies and popular culture have conditioned people to think that females can hold their own against men. Individuals can, in some contexts, where the statistical distrib

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