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by hcknwscommenter 1y ago
Biden and Obama pardons were done by setting criteria (non-violent drug offenders mainly who got caught up in three strikes nonsense, serving huge sentences) and applying the criteria broadly. Trump is targeting specific folks who are cont
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by hcknwscommenter 1y ago
The funniest hacker news comment I've read all year. Funny because I'm essentially in the same situation. I'd bet we are legion.
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by hcknwscommenter 1y ago
Get rid of Pharma and there will be zero new drugs or treatments ever again. Have fun with that.
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by hcknwscommenter 1y ago
Sorry. You are wrong. Your first assertion was that the only difference was trump pushing different issues than Biden. And your source for this false equivalence is an example of a professor fired by a University that has nothing to do wi
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by hcknwscommenter 1y ago
What clear articulation are you even talking about? Oh that's right. There is none. It's just a bunch of BS and hand waving, but that's apparently good enough for you.
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by hcknwscommenter 1y ago
The reason you state is just not factually true. It is false. A lie. Go watch that bloomberg interview from yesterday where the reporters tell Navarro to his face that they have seen "no evidence" of any of that.
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by hcknwscommenter 1y ago
As best as I can tell, the protestors committed a trespass and used their free speech rights to espouse certain racist ideologies. Protesting against alleged (I take no position here, it's complicated is all I got) mistreatment of Pal
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by hcknwscommenter 1y ago
You clearly didn't read the article. Dr. Tao provides a concrete example of the type of funding that very recently lead to an order of magnitude speedup of MRI imaging and likely has many military uses he is not allowed to speak about
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by hcknwscommenter 1y ago
That was never true in the past. This is new.
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by hcknwscommenter 1y ago
False equivalence nonsense. If you can't see the difference between Trump's authoritarian actions and the Biden presidency, you are blinded by your own personal biases.
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by hcknwscommenter 1y ago
The source you cite is written by a man with literally zero training in economics or econometrics. He lost his job in 911 and started a blog in the GFC that gained an audience ( https://mishtalk.com/economics/uk-high-sch
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by hcknwscommenter 1y ago
Instantly more or less. Time instantly moves differently at altitude because you are in a weaker gravitational field. The time dilation effect would be noticeable after 1 (or at most a few) ticks of the clocks.
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by hcknwscommenter 1y ago
fiber optic strands are glass tubes and they bend.
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by hcknwscommenter 1y ago
That is a fundamental misunderstanding of how the judicial, legislative, and executive branches are set forth in the constitution. The co-equal branches are supposed to check and balance each other. Merely making up a "story that sou
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by hcknwscommenter 1y ago
10% is not even 100 billion. You are wildly optimistic. 100B a year is likely closer to the cost of just maintaining a mars base. The cost to actually build one is likely an order of magnitude higher.
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by hcknwscommenter 1y ago
"What tariffs do is they allow us to pay people living wages and sell expensive products and still be competitive because products from China are tariffed to be the same price." Tariffs don't do that necessarily. Maybe a tar
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by hcknwscommenter 1y ago
This entire post is so wrong, it is difficult to know where to start. The first sentence about taxes is wrong. The second statement is an entirely unsupported opinion. The final statement miscategorized "cost centers" as some s
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by hcknwscommenter 1y ago
So basically, Biden's CHIPS act plus infrastructure (energy, roads, etc.) investments (e.g., solar and wind and battery part of Biden's IRA plus additional baseload). Yeah, we had all that going under the previous administration,
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by hcknwscommenter 2y ago
Sub headline in the link says investigation "cleared" Waltz. When of course, what actually happened is that the investigation showed how extremely reckless negligent and careless Waltz was. I wish the guardian was more explicit
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by hcknwscommenter 2y ago
Most people have better things to do than individually monitoring the underlying banking of insured deposits. And they lack the expertise to do so anyway (I certainly wouldn't know how to accurately price or create a CLO, some complex
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by hcknwscommenter 2y ago
Under a central bank system that did not have FDIC insurance. You are deliberately eliding my point. Not cool. And the idea that a completely free market banking system where "narrow banks" can literally compete with the Fed mak
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by hcknwscommenter 2y ago
Yes the loose regulations of the Bush era led to the 2008 crisis. It took two consecutive presidential terms by the GOP, but they got there. Will Trump's speed run lead to even worse results? We shall see.
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by hcknwscommenter 2y ago
I don't understand what you are saying. We do have free market banking. Are you suggesting totally unregulated banking would work better? Literally we tried that, it was a huge contributor to the great depression.
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by hcknwscommenter 2y ago
"need for bitcoin" I don't get this. There is no need for bitcoin. You can have a visible record of transfers and stores without bitcoin. Heck we already do. Any old database will do. You can even write in COBOL or ALGO
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by hcknwscommenter 2y ago
There were massive bank failures during the great depression. And, no FDIC type insurance. So depositors entirely wiped out. So conservative families, not speculating in the stock market or otherwise and "safely" saving their mo
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by hcknwscommenter 2y ago
Because there is no energy efficient way to do an interbank transfer right? Right?
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by hcknwscommenter 2y ago
I would disagree with "clever", but it certainly is currently expensive. The degree of expensive can fluctuate and could be influenced. It is not guaranteed to remain expensive, and a nation state like the US could control 51% o
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by hcknwscommenter 2y ago
source?
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by hcknwscommenter 2y ago
Sounds illegal.
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by hcknwscommenter 2y ago
One Jack Rickard, RIP, who was quite an opinionated jerk imho, coined the concept of "selfish solar." The idea was that solar was on its way to becoming so cheap that one should just install enough panels and batteries such that y

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