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by gbacon 9y ago
“Health” “insurance” under the American model is indeed perverse. There is a lot to unpack here. Buckle up. Bona fide insurance is a paid transfer of risk. With your auto insurance, you pay set premiums to Progressive, say, in return for
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by gbacon 9y ago
Great point. Compensation is a vector of which job security is a component. Sales: extreme volatility, excellent pay for the survivors . Engineering: medium to high volatility, strong pay. Education: near zero volatility, low pay.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Something like the New Economy stocks from the late 1990s?
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by gbacon 9y ago
But healthcare is an example of dirigisme — regulated at every conceivable turn — not the market left to itself.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Ah, Keynesians, singing the praises of a bum who never had a real job while U.S. government debt surpasses $20 trillion. “It’s not the size of the debt but its structure ,” the hucksters insist. tl;dr Print more money.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Everyone praises Karl Marx and Keynes … Speak for yourself.
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by gbacon 9y ago
u partisan bro?
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by gbacon 9y ago
You are describing legal tender, a positivist concept. Real money need not be propped up with such measures.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Please apply the principle of charity[0], friend. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
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by gbacon 9y ago
What are potential benefits to power pilots? Have you considered approaching, say, ForeFlight about licensing and integration?
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by gbacon 9y ago
Is it your position that elected officials; appointed clerks, ministers, and magistrates; and academics are entirely impartial with zero self-interest? Are we ruled by detached philosopher-kings?
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by gbacon 9y ago
tl;dr: Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Google was created by a couple of grad students, a demographic not generally able to overcome hurdles of high fixed or startup costs. Attempting to slap the “natural monopoly” label on Google shows that the term is either meaningless or jus
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by gbacon 9y ago
I am just a random know-nothing Internet guy. Leonard E. Read, who started the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), has better credentials. “Left” and “right” are each descriptive of authoritarian positions. Liberty has no horizontal r
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by gbacon 9y ago
Left and right are flavors of authoritarianism. Far right and libertarian are not synonymous.
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by gbacon 9y ago
In the open field, American football players will attempt to sidestep or “juke” defenders. Between the tackles and other close quarters situations, running “north and south” or “downhill” is the best strategy. From early ages, coaches will
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by gbacon 9y ago
What are the constants hiding inside that 𝒪(𝑛)?
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Recognizing when two arithmetic expressions are essentially the same(blog.plover.com)
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by gbacon 9y ago
Apples and oranges. Haskell is defined by a language specification, not an implementation.
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by gbacon 9y ago
[citation needed]
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by gbacon 9y ago
This alleged assumption that in fact I did not make would contradict the principle above. If the market were always and everywhere at every instant of time efficiently allocated, there would be no valid complaints.
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by gbacon 9y ago
It's capitalism. If you have a valid complaint, it can be rephrased as a business plan.
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FAR 25.303 requires a substantial safety margin for structural loads. § 25.303 Factor of safety. Unless otherwise specified, a factor of safety of 1.5 must be applied to the prescribed limit load which are considered external loads on
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by gbacon 9y ago
> nothing you can do temper someone's fear of the situation (short of sedatives) Also known as the B. A. Baracus approach. I fly a nice stable Piper Cherokee Six, so my calibration is probably out of whack for what a hang glider c
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by gbacon 9y ago
Even better: become a pilot! https://www.aopa.org/training-and-safety/learn-to-fly/how-do...
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by gbacon 9y ago
The no-kidding roughest parts of thunderstorms can cause airframe structural failure[0]. The captain and first officer were almost certainly attempting to bring levity to a stressful situation, not recklessly endangering the lives of everyo
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That time I met Erdős(blog.plover.com)
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by gbacon 9y ago
I’m hoping to fly to a clear-sky airport in the totality path, possibly SRB[0], and will be watching the weather as the day gets nearer to improve the odds of a good viewing. I have heard Carbondale[1] may see more than 200 airplanes. With
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by gbacon 9y ago
The old saw from too many bad Westerns of “I’ll see … and raise …” is an invalid string raise . Poker actions must be atomic.
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(+)Stephenson has learned how to write a good 600pp book (-)Seveneves is 900pp(blog.plover.com)
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