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by jlmorton 6y ago
Because the dollars have not been permanently pumped into the economy, and the world has faith that the Fed will shrink its balance sheet. Printing money and lending it out, and then burning the money when it's repaid, is very differen
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I have to admit I skimmed the parent and didn't read the comment correctly. I have to take back what I said.
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That would certainly help to stop the spread of Covid, but if everyone followed your advice, we would very quickly find ourselves with an entirely new set of problems. You can't optimize only to stop viral spread. You have to strike s
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I agree with you, I supported the lockdowns in the United States, and I think, for instance, the SF Bay Area did a good job. But it's still an interesting data point.
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Because the outbreak slowed without any strong controls. Sweden had a light response to the pandemic, and it quickly found itself with a major outbreak, and a high rate of deaths. Yet without implementing any major controls, with significa
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I can actually get behind a lot of what you say, but you go too claiming the death count is inflated. It is not. You can look at excess mortality all around the world, and there are large, otherwise-unexplained spikes in mortality everywhe
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Sure, and I'm not saying they shouldn't fix it. But in terms of what we should be outraged about, this is pretty far down the list. Each and every well-maintained, perfectly-functioning coal-fired power plant in this country is w
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The entire article is about residents in the area breathing in the methane. There is no danger to them breathing in the methane, even in very large amounts. It does nothing to you. It's a potent greenhouse gas, and of course we shoul
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It seems like the implication is that this is toxic pollution, but methane is safe to breathe even in large quantities. It's biologically inert, and not thought to be a carcinogen. I'm not sure I understand the outrage. Methane
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Do you have an example of an objectionable email to share?
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> Perhaps there are multiple factors involved. For example the IPCC email scandal There was no scandal. What happened is that the University of East Anglia was hacked, and the emails of the Climate Research Unit were stolen. Climate sk
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One big reason is that America controls the SWIFT network for settling international transactions. If you hate American commercial bullying, perhaps the biggest thing to be excited about is Europe's SWIFT-alternative, INSTEX. The worl
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The number you're citing for Stockholm is from April, well before the outbreak became severe in Sweden. Cases in Sweden continued to grow after that, and didn't peak until late June, when daily case counts were 3x higher than in
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Here's [0] a write-up from NPR, with links to several studies comparing the life cycle costs of plastic and alternative materials, and noting that from a climate change perspective, plastic comes out ahead in most analyses, but that pl
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> hauling millions of bottles around the world If it's a 1:1 transition from plastic bottle to glass bottle, it would be 35 billion bottles annually, in the US alone.
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Is this a good example of the fundamental attribution error? Given the equally-plausible explanations that the link worked-when-submitted, or that OP submitted a 404 page which was up-voted on title alone, why would we assume OP submitted
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Done. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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I'm going to tell you a secret that maybe you don't understand - unless the third party country is turning the tomatoes into pasta sauce, that would be an illegal diversion through transshipment. This is among the sort of thing t
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The linked article is making an assertion that cloth masks protect the wearer by reducing the viral dose, leading to many more asymptomatic cases. It is saying that mask wearing alone is enough to reduce your risk from coronavirus. That is
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Because it's wet in the winter, and hot, dry and windy in the summer. Everywhere with this weather pattern sees frequent wildfires. California used to have more acres burned annually a hundred years ago, but the amount of land burned
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There's nothing to repeal. The aberration is not Citizens United, which has always been the law in the US. The aberration is the McCain-Feingold Campaign Reform Act, which Citizens United overturned. The relevant law is the First Am
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What? This happens every year - always.
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Much of the bailouts you're speaking of are loans, not grants. The very large exception is the Paycheck Protection Program, which will in most cases become grants to small businesses. Given the need to institute social distancing, thi
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You don't have to prove active collusion. Tacit price fixing is still anti-competitive behavior.
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Competitive? It is an oligopoly with tacit collusion on price fixing. This is the exact reason why anti-trust legislation exists. A competitive market would be one in which the platform providers were forced to divest from the app markets
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Well, it's not at the top of the page, but they did include a short proof-of-concept video of the Simpsons at the bottom of the page. https://files.vectorly.io/demo/v0-2-simpsons-250kbps/index.h...
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Monday Morning RCA: "We pushed out some routine code updates, but this really weird thing happened causing a resource utilization spike on our DNS systems. Because of this other really weird thing, this affected all of our global infr
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It's also hardly a surge in building. It's still well below the pre-pandemic rate. It's just an increase from the sharp decline caused by the pandemic.
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It appears they revised the estimate: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2017-2018.htm > Can you explain why the estimates on this page are different from previously published and reported estimates for
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My point is not that society should take no effort to reduce preventable deaths. Society should do whatever we collectively want to do. Rather, my point was that it's hypocritical to argue that anyone that does not want to continue ma

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