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by kmonsen 6y ago
Norway (partial lockdown, schools still mostly open) compared to Sweden (little lockdown and talks of herd immunity): https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1327230581143465984 Note that Norway has seen less econ
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by kmonsen 6y ago
It is by design though as the government drops a lot of money to prop up the stock market instead of sending it to normal people to spend with stimulus checks.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
I just posted the same as you. Just a minor comment, I do not believe this is inefficient, but their target is not the economy but the rich. There is no way an economist does not know what you said.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
I mean all reasonable honest economists know this. The goal of the current program is to subsidize the 1% by making sure the stock market it stabilized and keeps growing. If you want to actually help the economy you helicopter drop stimulus
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by kmonsen 6y ago
Your point is perfectly true, but there is also one more thing to consider. It is possible for the health care system to get overworked like they did in NYC and North Italy. There are signs it could happens in other places in the US now lik
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by kmonsen 6y ago
Pretty sure Google is ensuring employees to give money to EFF.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
In a pandemic where people can’t eat out.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
Didn't this happen once before?
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by kmonsen 6y ago
There was no nagging, never asked the user to leave a review. They really used it as a dating service all on their own.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
Oh yeah I forgot that. I keep hitting the chrome back button in the touch bar all the time. In the beginning I was not sure what was happening then I realized it was the touch bar.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
It was a 25% raise across the board. Some of that was converting potential bonus into salary, but still that was a good day.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
I got one of the MBP with the touchbar this year after holding out for many years (changed jobs so had to change laptop). Man it is so much hard to do the volume changes, and there has so far for me been zero benefit.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
There is a different reason as well, most of these stores highlights reviews of 1 and 5 star. Some people (well I guess all people that leave reviews) like to be highlighted, so they only leave 5 or 1 star reviews. This was a pain when I wa
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by kmonsen 6y ago
I guess the best way of making sure Google has a cheap phone is to buy them and hope that makes a difference? If nothing else you had the phone you wanted for a while, who knows what the future will bring.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
I guess Norway was just really safe, anyway Eastern Europe is not safer on average than Western Europe from what I could see?
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by kmonsen 6y ago
True, but when I worked on this recruiting was mostly an in person thing. For example for Muslim terrorists it was in a radical mosque. You can still radicalize with writings on the internet, they just need to make the first step in person.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
Western Europe is still incredibly safe, and in my quick overview safer than eastern Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention... My home country is Norway, it looks safer than all of Eastern
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by kmonsen 6y ago
I think what you are alluding to is the key, life has gotten so good that people get into extreme loss aversion. In my opinion the key to a decent life is to take calculated risks and if that goes wrong, then oh well that was unlucky. There
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by kmonsen 6y ago
It is trivial to create an app using encryption to send messages between two users. On Android you can sideload so no need for app store. You can also solve this with a webpage, this way it can be used on all devices. The point is that crea
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by kmonsen 6y ago
I think Americans will super liberal or progressive policies, but not the labels that come with them. Socialist, atheist and defund the police is still not how you get elected in the USA.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
I’m curious why you think that is so, and why is for example alcohol and cigarettes (or even sugar) included as drugs? Certainly many medical drugs should be included. There is a reason people use all of these and for example marijuana is n
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by kmonsen 6y ago
Totally agree, this is a corner stone of any democracy. It’s hard to think one can exist without good protections for citizens.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
Also he is a sitting president with a decent economy. It takes a lot for an incumbent to not win re-election at that point. Somewhat sane coronavirus response and Trump would have an easy victory.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
They grew fat, probably acquired a lot of middle managers not contributing. And they were so far ahead they were not thinking about the customers and innovation but doing market segmentation and squeezing out more money. They thought they w
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by kmonsen 6y ago
I think this is an important reason, being down and hungry can do wonders for focus and quality. On the other hand doing well over many years means that wrong people got promoted and stay around and grow a big middle management layer that i
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by kmonsen 6y ago
I’ve had tons of issues with amd graphics drivers, and it seems fairly widespread. I think they said it had been a focus this generation.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
Both you and your parent can be true, just because Adam Smith wrote the book on capitalism doesn't mean he was 100% for it in all forms. I guess the real answer is what is capitalism, and the first answer I could find is: "an econ
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by kmonsen 6y ago
That is simply not true, if we take the fact that 60% of search traffic in USA comes from iOS that is all from WebKit and not Blink. Even Chrome and Firefox on iOS uses WebKit.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
Because there is no clear line between saving and not saving. It's just degrees of badness the longer we wait. I heard there are some inflection points when it becomes warm enough for methane to escape from the tundra in Siberia.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
That’s because the price is not allowed to be cheaper even if you post with “cash” like debit cards on the internet so of course consumers will use 5% credit cards when the price is the same. In Europe there is quite often a fee for credit

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