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by jpadkins 3y ago
shaping gold into jewelry doesn't consume it. One of the reasons its been currency for 5k years is because you can melt it down and re-use it as coins or other jewelry etc. Gold isn't consumed, for the most part.
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by jpadkins 3y ago
the things you cited are like 2% of the budget, and I fully agree. For the other 90% of the budget, I still am very skeptical that its GDP positive (our defense budget is mostly about blowing things up, which destroys wealth instead of cr
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by jpadkins 3y ago
Are you staying that fed taxes are positive sum for the economy? That's a pretty bold claim, as most people would have trouble citing $3 trillion in real value the fed gov creates each year.
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That's because the USG (CIA, fed reserve, banking sector) are really good at propaganda. The best propaganda is the one you don't even realize.
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Compare Canada to Vermont, NH, Wisconsin, Montana and Idaho and see if your difference still holds. USA is a big place, with very different cultures and outcomes. Once you compare Canada to states that are culturally like Canada, your uni
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by jpadkins 4y ago
thanks, that wasn't clear at all. But even among Midwest states, that is not true. (KS, MO, SD, ND, NE are all more republican) https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/midwest.htm
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by jpadkins 4y ago
> ... It's become the most Republican state now This is easily verifiable as false, so it makes the rest of your comment suspect. https://wisevoter.com/state-rankings/most-republican-states/
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by jpadkins 4y ago
your response presumes that lobbying / citizen action can only happen at the federal level, which is not true (in fact citizen movements are at a large disadvantage in big $$ federal politics). NORML and the marijuana effort shows tha
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by jpadkins 4y ago
Net Neutrality advocates were always going after the wrong solution. They never focused on the root of the problem, local competition. Specifying a quality ISP service in a dynamic market over a long period of time is a hopeless endeavor.
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by jpadkins 4y ago
The biggest conspiracy theory is that the government cares about you, or is responsive to public opinion. There is no evidence supporting this outlandish theory.
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by jpadkins 4y ago
Alphabet cash on hand for 2022 was $113.762B, a 18.54% decline from 2021.
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the nytimes link is /opinion/ which is held to a different to a different standard than standard news. I'm glad they at least label it as opinion. I think people reading opinion as news is part of the problem.
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by jpadkins 4y ago
> I think this means most people will be out of a job. That's the goal. Post scarcity society. No one works, everything is provided to us. The path of human progress has been making everything easier. We used to barely scrape
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by jpadkins 4y ago
Not everyone has the same skills and capabilities. Also the poverty line is a moving target. People with streaming TV and video game consoles are technically in poverty in the US. In the 1960-70s, access to those items would be only for ul
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by jpadkins 4y ago
Did VC investments actually increase a lot in 20-21? Did Twilio issue more stocks? I get that Rich people were buying new assets, but I don't see how that is new funding for hiring. I thought it was more of an increase in asset price
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by jpadkins 4y ago
> funding for public health programs Why do you believe the solution needs to come from tax collected revenue? If you had a way to make people live healthier, don't you think people would pay you for it?
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by jpadkins 4y ago
revenue != profit https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/ebit...
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by jpadkins 4y ago
Central banks don't say a lot about what they are / are not trying to do. Ask the reverse question: What do Central Banks say they are trying to do when lowering interest rates? They only really make vague statements like &#x27
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by jpadkins 4y ago
He was sr director when he left google first time, so more like 800k+ He was probably making > 1.5M in his second stint at google. His big break was heading up mobile search ad revenue task force at the time mobile traffic was growing l
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by jpadkins 4y ago
US FTEs were paid 6 months. We will see, but DE will probably get as much.
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by jpadkins 4y ago
Can you cite you or anyone making specific claims in 2020 or 2021 that the online growth rates are temporary and not a shift? I was skeptical until mid 2021 when everything in person was opening again, but the shift to online frenzy wasn&#
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by jpadkins 4y ago
AccessibleAI is probably a more accurate name than OpenAI. But not as snappy.
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by jpadkins 4y ago
> I know a lot of that acculturation used to happen by osmosis and people working next to each other. I used to think this too, but I think we need to be cautious of magical mechanisms for knowledge transference. I think the real mechan
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by jpadkins 4y ago
energy and raw material per unit of GDP has been going down for a few decades (basically digital economy is more resource efficient). Sorry I don't have a citation handy. Your other assumption is we are going to stay on one planet, wh
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by jpadkins 4y ago
It's where they were founded / started up. And the cost / benefit of leaving US jurisdiction has never been high enough for them to relocate. There are a lot of benefits of being incorporated in USA / Delaware.
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by jpadkins 4y ago
Look at the most recent republican immigration bill - it was basically canada's or australia's immigration system. The electorate very much wants to keep skilled, legal immigration going.
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One confounding factor: In a true free market(tm), limited liability corporations wouldn't exist in their current form. So employers can be a lot larger, and gain more bargaining power over employees because of a government interve
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by jpadkins 4y ago
transaction costs & bundling effects. Basically non-compete negatives for the worker don't outweigh the costs & downsides of forming a union -for just this issue-. Forming a union, negotiating, membership, etc all have transac
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what do you think will replace salaries or negotiation?
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by jpadkins 4y ago
> The vaccines are orders of magnitude less likely to cause cardiac problems than the virus itself, for fairly obvious medical reasons. Do you have a citation or evidence for that statement? Estimates for cardiac vaccine injury are in th

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