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More that, almost all companies are expected to perform worse when you elect an economically incompetent government.
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He can just make money insider trading on Trump's policies before they're announced. Short some industry just before tariffs are introduced that will hurt them.
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Halfway to WALL·E
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"Why are both establishment dems and reps both anti tariff? This is collusion! I'm going to vote for an outsider who really appreciates tariffs" one economic crash later "Oh, maybe that's why the establishment i
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I'd be more worried the results are something like "1% chance of saving your life and 0.001% chance of exacerbating autism symptoms" and RFK focuses entirely on the latter as an excuse to ban vaccines. We know vaccines can ha
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> Maybe one less nuclear power isn't a bad thing? Let Russia de arm first. They are the ones using their nukes as cover to steal land from other countries.
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Like how the USSR studied Lysenkoism? "Cook up some data to prove our hypothesis or you're fired"
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100 years of friendship thrown away by a demented Russian asset president.
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If tariffs are such a great idea, should California slap tariffs on Florida oranges to protect its domestic orange growers?
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Heck Trump himself negotiated USMCA his last term and is now apparently reneging on his own agreement? "A Trump never keeps his word" "A Trump never pays his debts" I don't know if it's dementia or if Putin has
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Foundations of Geopolitics(en.wikipedia.org)
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There is a plan being realized here: Putin's. Trump is doing everything Putin wants.
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You're trying to sell this as the USA dividing and conquering Russia and China against each other. But it looks much more like Russia dividing and conquering the USA from the rest of the democratic, human rights supporting West.
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> it makes sense for the US to ally with Russia against China Economically and population wise Russia is tiny compared to the West (Canada, EU, etc) It makes no sense to trade our alliance with the West for alliance with much weaker and
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Amazing that disposable drones can get fiber internet while residents of Silicon Valley can't!
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I think it's more evolution that produced intelligence. Evolution also produced capitalism. Capitalism is just one environmental variation that evolution can run in.
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Great public transit. Affordable housing. Huge variety of delicious food. Low crime. People who care enough about the social good to wear masks in crowded places during a pandemic.
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Anders Hejlsberg was chief architect of .net after creating both Turbo Pascal and Delphi.
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Georgism stipulates that it doesn't matter who owns the land so long as they pay a tax on it that goes back to the people. You could say that the people really own the land and call it "land rent" instead of "land tax&qu
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Well music is arguably its own language. You wouldn't expect a monolingual English speaker to speak fluent Chinese. In the same way you can't expect a musically untrained person (or model) to "speak music". But if you to
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Henry George wrote about this a hundred years ago in Progress and Poverty! His solution: a tax on land (not buildings) to encourage building up. Economists say it's one of the most efficient taxes possible.
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> patient's own stem cells > immunosuppression would not be required I don't think that's how Type I Diabetes works. People get Type I Diabetes because their immune system attacked their own insulin producing cells in t
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I'm telling you folks, we're talking fantastic Russian assets! The best assets, the greatest assets. Tear down US hegemony faster than you can blink. Russia's going to be winning so hard, you'll be tired of them winning
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But apparently it's possible for anyone to learn mental math with very large numbers with practice, which suggests either the working memory can be extended, or at least specialized for numbers.
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Proportional representation as used by many parliamentary democracies solves gerrymandering.
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"Don't half ass two things instead of whole assing one thing."
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"That's why we're working on an AI to hear about AI for you, so you don't have to!" - someone probably
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True of most research as reported by the media https://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174
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Limiting the scope of the government restricts the scope of possible government corruption. But there's still corporate corruption. Corruption among charities. Corruption among churches. Etc. There are trade offs everywhere. If you m
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Increased transparency might help, together with empowering voters to get rid of corrupt politicians. Unfortunately right now the opposite seems to be happening, Trump funneled US taxpayer money (and foreign government money) into Mar-a-Lag

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