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by hash872 3y ago
'Instead, paper after paper came in suggesting RCV was … fine? But mostly, it wasn't likely to change much. It had some pros, some cons. I tried to find the flaws in the papers—why were the effects of RCV so limited?'
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by hash872 3y ago
But I'm pretty sure I read a case of a guy who traded on a future acquisition and was convicted on insider trading charges. He surreptitiously overheard it from his fiance, who worked for the company. Doesn't this guy not owe a co
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by hash872 3y ago
>You can tariff items which are made by slave/subpoverty labor What are 'normal', middle-class wages in developing countries are 'extremely cheap' by US standards. You can't really solve that problem unless
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by hash872 3y ago
>Cheap foreign factories and illegal immigration drags down wages and weakens unions But you can't outlaw foreign competitors from being cheaper than you, any more than you can pass a law against the tide coming in tomorrow
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by hash872 3y ago
The Supreme Court could at any time remove the ability of individual judges to issue a nationwide injunction against the federal government. Both Thomas and Sotomayor have made rumblings that they're considering it- it's the most
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by hash872 3y ago
The US famously has the most difficult-to-alter constitution of any country. There's about 200 countries globally, political scientists generally agree we have the single most-difficult to change one. So sure, it's 'possible&
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by hash872 3y ago
I have a Master's in Comparative Politics. What you learned in high school is simplified and incorrect. I (somewhat incredulously here) can't tell if you really believe that the judiciary only interprets laws, but no, that's
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by hash872 3y ago
Respectfully, all 3 of these sentences are wrong. We do not have a 'balance' presently- the judiciary gets the final word in every situation. Your second sentence is inexplicable- literally no matter what laws the legislature pass
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by hash872 3y ago
>It's a legal maneuver that will be challenged both in another legal arena and in the court of public opinion It will not be meaningfully challenged in the court of public opinion, which is completely irrelevant to judicial decision
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by hash872 3y ago
Unpopular opinion, really strong judicial review like this (1 judge is able to strike down whatever law the legislature of Congress passes based on vague criteria) is basically incompatible with democracy. At a minimum it should take a supe
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by hash872 3y ago
Wasn't synthetic alcohol part of the Star Trek mythos? It's been a long time since I've watched TNG but I seem to remember it was part of their world, at one point I have a vague memory of someone handing Picard a bottle of &
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by hash872 3y ago
But lots of countries, including several developed ones, have legalized prostitution if the chart in this Wiki page is to be believed? If you include the Nordic model (as Maine appears to be implementing), this widens the number of countrie
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by hash872 3y ago
This is a myth that is endlessly repeated and will apparently never die. If you are caught possessing illegal drugs in Portugal, you are required to go in front a disciplinary tribunal that can mandate drug rehab and impose fines. If you re
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by hash872 3y ago
I control-F'ed 'MK Ultra' and did not consider that they would use a dash. Shame on me....
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by hash872 3y ago
So was Whitey Bulger! He went through the actual MK Ultra program when he was in prison, which sounds quite a bit rougher. (Oddly this is no longer in his Wiki page, it used to be) https://apnews.com/article/us-news-ap-
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by hash872 3y ago
I mean, I think the word 'corruption' is being over-used here. But discussions about say tax rates or agricultural subsidies follow the normal legislative process. Do you feel like these issues are being handled optimally now? It
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by hash872 3y ago
But it gets subjected to an up-or-down vote, right? How is that different from any other law? Normal legislation gets hammered out in committees all the time, in every parliament in every democracy in the world. It's not like committee
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by hash872 3y ago
If trade deals were passed like legislation in a parliament or Congress, with time in committee and lots of room for individual legislators to add their input, there would be so much more corporate abuse it's not even funny. This would
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by hash872 3y ago
On a related note, why haven't stablecoin 'eurodollars' (1) (for lack of a better word) taken off yet? In theory because the dollar is already the world's reserve currency, and in enormous demand, it should be an easy tr
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by hash872 3y ago
Being assassinated is clearly not being voted out. More importantly though, I think you've failed to consider the much larger number of authoritarians who were never voted out at all- you have to consider the counterfactual too
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by hash872 3y ago
>Getting contracts for development work with large customers can be difficult since most organizations already have preferred vendors for software development. Developing features under a support model gives you no entitlement to the tec
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by hash872 4y ago
>the limited number of employers who sponsored work visas I find the imprecise language that gets thrown around on visas unhelpful. My understanding is that a US company can try to sponsor your H1-B if you're already on OPT, but the
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by hash872 4y ago
I'm not personally on the Eliezer end of being an AI hawk, but I dislike the type of arguments Hanson uses here and find them boring & shallow. Humanity has a long history of inventing & then subsequently regulating very danger
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by hash872 4y ago
Out of curiosity (this is totally not my field)- aren't anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems a thing, especially for a technologically advanced country like Japan? If Ukraine can shoot down half or more of the missiles that Russia lo
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by hash872 4y ago
Just regarding the US healthcare stuff- life expectancy is determined by public health measures, medicine is just tinkering around the fringes of that. The US has lower life expectancy because of higher obesity rates, gun deaths, traffic de
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by hash872 4y ago
Well, medicine has its own replication problem. But the broader reason why this analogy doesn't work is that most medical treatments (medical devices, drugs, etc.) are subject to a really stringent approval & evidence of efficacy p
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by hash872 4y ago
>There are some posts there that get the science right I'm sorry, I don't mean to be uncharitable, but 'exercise science' is not an empirical scientific field like physics or chemistry. It's very difficult to con
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by hash872 4y ago
Is your contention that if I click 'no' on the GPDR nag screen it won't sell/harvest my data? The few times that I've looked at the T&Cs more closely, they simply say that some cookies are 'essential'
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by hash872 4y ago
Agreed. If Jeff Bezos started over in a non-tech industry, with no money or previous connections, is the author arguing that his chances at being successful in say a garden supply or waste management company the same as any other person? Th
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by hash872 4y ago
Debit card interchange fees have been regulated (aka price controls) in the US since at least 2011 https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R41913.pdf

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