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by hayst4ck 1y ago
Pedantically, it would be a second dimension, but I don't think that it is orthogonal, I think it's an aberration of the result of "truth as authority." As the authority figure deviates further and further from reality,
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If I am willing to pay 10% more for a locally made product, then a 10% tariff has no effect on me assuming that the local company has non colluding local competitors, likewise if I am not willing to pay an 85% tariff, then an 85% tariff,
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Can you explain what that means and its implications?
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The greater context is tariffs. Tariffs make foreign products more expensive. If everyone is willing to pay 1% more for the benefit of their own economy, then a 1% tariff probably wouldn't be very unpopular, it might even be responsibl
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This article is completely non-rigorous and doesn't mean anything, but it shows what "simple" thinking about problems leads to. They would have had to gather enough data points to determine the price that people would pay t
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It is a liberal value/value that curious people hold to take people they disagree with in good faith and treat what they say as true/treat it as if they honestly believe what they are saying. Unfortunately, once someone proves the
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We already have it to some degree, it's not easy to own foreign currency in the US and for the most part it must be bought in the form of "futures." Foreign banks have special reporting requirements for US citizens and many f
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Regardless of what you think about the issue directly, the whiplash and chaos of back and forth news is not a good way to nurture businesses or allow them to make plans, nor is it conducive to foreign businesses doing business with American
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It's wrong to call him a wannabe. He is very smart and very skilled, no joke. He is enacting a fascist revolution against the constitution in America successfully and barely resisted. While he took his foot off the pedal in order to pr
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IP is supposed to protect innovation, yet china is not just building our own innovations, but exceeding them. In China there are places you can go and get almost any electronic device, tool, component, or equipment you can dream of immediat
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In the US corporations have supreme power, the government answers to corporations (cemented into real law with the citizens united ruling). In China it is the government with supreme power, where corporations answer to the government. China
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There are two fundamental belief systems about truth. One is based on reason, where people look for contradictions (like you're doing right now) in order to better understand truth. The other is based on authority or faith, where peopl
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A social movement where everyone decides not to pay any form of debt has a higher chance of success than getting congress to act, especially act in the interest of people rather than the interest of bankers, corporations, or oligarchs. We d
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Just like social media is the cigarettes of our generation, student loans will be the "preexisting conditions" of it. Student loans are an odious conflict of interest. People will hold themselves in disbelief that we offered preda
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Caffeine is the classic. As others have said, the sugar without fiber is probably net bad for you and most of the things that benefit your life probably aren't dietary. There is no greater thing you can do for your physical health and
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I've rarely had my hate spiked so highly so quickly by a comment. Many of these loans are handed out predatorily to people classified as children, 6-8 years before their higher level thinking pre-frontal cortex fully develops, with no
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This is a big deal. This is even bigger than the tariffs. People like Ray Dalio are saying that we are risking the collapse of the US dollar, not recession, not depression, potentially "something worse than a depression". Elizabet
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Timothy Snyder also recorded a 15 minute talk about oligarchy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biZVrh821RA I believe Lawrence Lessig also, in all but direct language, explained how citizens united was a revolution against t
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If everyone runs, there will be nowhere left to run to. Europe might look safe now, but a successful coup against the constitution here will embolden those who think they may be able everywhere else. AFD in Germany is emboldened and Le Pen
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The counter argument is that forces that are working on society at large are attacking the core value that hacker news is founded upon -- curiosity. Much like a CEO who only cares about next quarters profits and violating the companies miss
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by hayst4ck 2y ago
Honestly, and I am being this direct because you say you are a professional which means you understand exactly what it means, but also understand the consequences of it being as it appears... your explanation sounds like you are experiencin
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No. No this is completely wrong framing. Law needs to be enforced. It's not enough to be against, that's what the Iranians did and it created a power vacuum filled by people worse than what they had. You must be for something. The
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George Floyd protests happened and they were significant enough to get the second in command of the US military and Americas top military advisor to both say trump is a threat to the constitution as well as achieving the goal of justice in
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Yep. Social programs and taxes were reduced under Reagan to prevent "welfare queens" from abusing the system. Many of the "poor whites" would have also benefited from those very same social programs. Rich people who were
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They absolutely thought about it. They plainly stated it in the country's founding document: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Righ
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Cyncicsm is the belief that you don't think there is anything worth fighting for. Cynicism is an admission that you prefer to submit than fight. Most of the world looked at Ukraine and cynically said that Zelenskyy would flee and Ukrai
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> Lawyer here - the true consitutional crisis will likely come when the judge holds someone in criminal contempt, and trump pardons them. This already happened in Melendres v. Arpaio : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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If you're in a building, when should you pull the fire alarm? When you smell smoke? When you see smoke? When smoke bellows? When a door is hot to the touch? Only once you see flame? If an arsonist threatened to burn down your house, sh
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Without rule of law no other issue matters. You think you are a citizen today because you've always been a citizen, you have papers to prove it. It's never even been questioned. What if those papers get destroyed? What if the offi

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