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by gozur88 9y ago
While it's true you can't have 0% unemployment in a free market, going from, say, 8% to 5% is a big deal that helps in a lot of ways. 30% unemployment, the way it's normally defined, means 30% of your population are looking f
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by gozur88 9y ago
I think unemployment is more politically significant. The followup question for anyone reporting a rising GDP is "sure, but what does this do for job growth?"
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by gozur88 9y ago
That's what they used in the US when I was a kid. There are some legitimate-sounding reasons to switch to GDP instead, but I think the real reason was GNP turned negative.
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by gozur88 9y ago
It's difficult for me to imagine they won't get sued over this, and in a big way. Imagine if you're Amazon or Microsoft looking at a 30% reduction in salable CPU resources. Plus a huge class action suit from consumers based
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by gozur88 9y ago
Plus security. It's always been a skill in relatively high demand, but in the last ten years or so companies have been willing to pay whatever it takes to avoid getting hacked. My company brought in all sorts of consultants just afte
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by gozur88 9y ago
The clear thing would have been to use the full date.
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by gozur88 9y ago
>It is not, after all, the employee's ability to pursue his own self-interest that makes him free rather than a slave. Actually, yes it is. I'm sorry you feel let down, but your side of this discussion is frankly indefensible.
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by gozur88 9y ago
You had to stretch so far for that it's meaningless. You can't equate physical restraint, corporal punishment, and complete lack of self determination in your personal life with... the risk of losing your health coverage. That&#x
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by gozur88 9y ago
I don't understand why it didn't affect the stock price more. This is a big deal.
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by gozur88 9y ago
I'm amazed the extent to which investors are willing to shrug off this kind of news when it comes to Tesla.
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by gozur88 9y ago
That's a pretty murky grey area, though. I remember the articles about aspects of loot boxes making them like gambling, and how that could make them illegal. It's really difficult to say that's not true, and by throwing th
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by gozur88 9y ago
>The difference between keeping slaves and having employees is one of degree, not of essential quality. No. It is one of essential quality, because your employees are working for you by mutual assent and your slaves aren't. Empl
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by gozur88 9y ago
Say everybody has ten acres of land, because we've taken all the land and divided it out among the world's population. Let's leave aside, for a moment, that's pretty much impossible, since everybody will want beachfront
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by gozur88 9y ago
Yes, yes, we can do all that stuff. But why would we? What justifies the expense?
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by gozur88 9y ago
We had bombs before the space race, too. That doesn't mean it wasn't, in essence, a military competition.
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by gozur88 9y ago
Sessions is, after a year in office, looking "very hard right now" at marijuana enforcement policy, which is bureaucratese for "don't hold your breath". He also said he thought the idea some people have put forward
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by gozur88 9y ago
No it wasn't. The War on Drugs was an attempt to take disparate anti-drug efforts and combine them into a more coherent whole. It was no different from the War on Poverty. Were there people attempting to use drug policy to attack oth
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by gozur88 9y ago
>That's like going back to the 17th century and decrying the exploration of the New World because you're not certain just how much gold there may be and you can't predict what the New World economy might look like. No it i
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by gozur88 9y ago
Yeah, except that Nixon just gave it that name. Drug prohibition in the US started when Nixon was learning to walk. This "drug prohibition is about racism" is all post hoc ergo propter hoc stuff.
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by gozur88 9y ago
What is Sessions doing that Lynch didn't?
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by gozur88 9y ago
We would never have done it the first time if not for military competition with the USSR.
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by gozur88 9y ago
>Doing anything ambitious in space would require a lot of material, which has limited our ambitions since the 1970s. We go to the moon because materials are cheap because... we want to build what?
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by gozur88 9y ago
Different class of drugs.
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by gozur88 9y ago
I remember when astronomers started using lasers for distortion canceling. A buddy of mine had been working on spy sats for a decade and said the government was using the same technology (though in the other direction) when he arrived.
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by gozur88 9y ago
Ah... I misunderstood. I thought you were sending them notes on your impressions of the candidates themselves.
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by gozur88 9y ago
On the contrary, there have been several high profile incidents where police radio traffic was used to demonstrate ill intent. It's difficult to use a tool day in, day out like that without getting complacent. Open radio also makes it
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by gozur88 9y ago
>Basically, we condense our notes about the candidate down to the most important points and send it to them. This is an excellent basis for a lawsuit.
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by gozur88 9y ago
Yep. I've never worked for a company where we told people why they didn't make the cut. Heck, the person who delivered the bad news didn't even know - we selected the candidate we wanted (or none) and told HR to make the re
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by gozur88 9y ago
It's a cynicism born of experience when it comes to crowdfunding.
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by gozur88 9y ago
Yep. If cops break into your house and point guns at you, you need to suppress your natural tendency toward modesty. Add it to the lawsuit, later.

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