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by gottorf 3y ago
There's a philosophical question here, which is that as science and technology get better and our ability to measure things improve, the hidden externalities become less and less hidden. Nobody told Grok the caveman not to burn sticks
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by gottorf 3y ago
There's really not as much discrimination as people imagine. I'm a visibly nonwhite ethnic minority who moved from a major coastal metropolis to a small city in a Deep South state; so deep and far south that my friends in my old c
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by gottorf 3y ago
What gives you such a special insight on what kind of work should be valued and remunerated at precisely what levels?
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by gottorf 3y ago
> pursuing production for use, not profit Profit is a much-misunderstood concept. Private profit is the best way discovered so far to align incentives for those who produce. As Adam Smith said, "it is not from the benevolence of the
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by gottorf 3y ago
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ 1970s, of course, is when the dollar started being backed by nothing more than "full faith and credit".
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by gottorf 3y ago
> not understanding that nowadays it is impossible to own a home unless you inherit one. My barber, who neither went to college nor inherited anything, lives on a 10-acre property with his wife (who works as a teacher) and two children.
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by gottorf 3y ago
> It's about purchasing power; not just real wages. Real wage means purchasing power parity, or it should. These two statements cannot be true, if they are using the same definition of inflation: - Real wages have risen over the pas
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by gottorf 3y ago
> The average person can burn that many calories walking a mile or mile and half. If you take your phone and answer emails while walking you’ll get there. I think most people who are in jobs where they have to answer emails would be bett
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by gottorf 3y ago
I am aware of the Ainu, though I'm certainly not an expert on the topic. Wikipedia suggests that there may be 25k to 200k Ainu people in Japan, which would be 0.02% to 0.16% of the population; and supposedly the language is nearly exti
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by gottorf 3y ago
That sounds like a hilariously bad decision.
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by gottorf 3y ago
> That is an uncomfortable conversation because it’s not true but they pretend it is. Of course, every group of humans is further divisible into smaller groups, so no group larger than the individual is a true mono-anything. But when the
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by gottorf 3y ago
> with modern, fast, Internet speeds, it's like you're in the same room as the other person. I've been working remotely for nearly as long, and like anything else, it has its advantages and disadvantages. But this assertio
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by gottorf 3y ago
> It is pretty beautiful how such small, centuries-old traditions seem to abound in Japan, where the condition of the west seems to be a state of persistent impermanence. Japan is a monoethnic nation. Much of the West isn't anymore
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by gottorf 3y ago
> drip coffee (french press and cold press are fine for some reason) That's so wild. If anything, you'd expect it to be the other way around, since French or cold press methods have the bean/grounds touch the water directl
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by gottorf 3y ago
It's also dishonest to not include an answer for personal transportation. "Public transit" is a handwavy answer, since obviously if personal transportation means are removed, more public transit will be needed, meaning more v
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by gottorf 3y ago
> This can’t surely have been happening when we were hunter / gatherers! Or it did, and those people died and we no longer have any record of them. That's entirely possible, I suppose.
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by gottorf 3y ago
No cars on the roads works for short periods of time, but with 15 million people living in e.g. the London metro, you need something to move 15 million people's worth of living logistics (food, goods for sale, garbage removal, etc.). T
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by gottorf 3y ago
I'm not sure where you're located, but here in the US you can build the building you're describing (a square house with a gable roof, without eaves if you want the roof to terminate at the wall) pretty easily with regular dim
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by gottorf 3y ago
That's awful. I assume you didn't remove yourself from the class action, because you didn't have or want to invest the time and resources into suing them yourself? $625 is a laughable amount of money for the amount of bullshi
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by gottorf 3y ago
Does the CDC still recommend them? I don't know what their official policy position on masking is now. In any case, you'd have to ask them why; they also recommend that all children 6 months and older get vaccinated against Covid[
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by gottorf 3y ago
> "doing statistics" to hide their delays "Lies, damned lies, and statistics." The older I get, the more true this becomes!
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by gottorf 3y ago
As someone who used to be very into photography, there are two other artistic advantages of a disposable camera or film cameras in general. One, that you cannot see the photo you just took; it makes you more careful with your framing (simil
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by gottorf 3y ago
Did your friend exclude situations where the previous king had no sons?
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by gottorf 3y ago
The concept under description is effectively Bagehot's "dignified" vs. "efficient" parts of government. The head of state being the "dignified", the personification of the nation, and the head of governmen
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by gottorf 3y ago
If you have the means, perhaps a civil suit against TransUnion for their tortious actions is appropriate. Of course, it's a gigantic hassle.
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by gottorf 3y ago
What's the point? As far as I'm aware, no randomized controlled trial has shown that masks that people commonly wear (cloth or surgical) reduce infections or spread.
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by gottorf 3y ago
> Sitting on this kind of capital is easy, sprinkle it in enough places during good times and you'll get good results. It's easy when you're talking about someone's 401k with half a million dollars in it. With one cli
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by gottorf 3y ago
> keep it in cash under their mattress Even that would be a conflict! They are Federal Reserve Notes under that mattress, after all.
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by gottorf 3y ago
> since his monetary policy effects the dollar's purchasing power Kind of wild that one man* has the ability to change the dollar's purchasing power, which affects literally billions of people, isn't it? *: Actually twelve
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by gottorf 3y ago
I think the contentious point is not that "Fed Chair Powell Has Upwards of $11.6 Million Invested with BlackRock", it's that concurrently "the Firm that Will Manage a $750 Billion Corporate Bond Bailout Program for the F

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