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by lesuorac 1y ago
And many of those tea importers/smugglers happened to be prominent figures in the future US government. A coup was just good business.
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by lesuorac 1y ago
I always wonder if they somewhat right. Using the chart from the article we have large spikes in margin debt at a bunch of years that initially were followed by a crash but now are possibly followed by money printing preventing the crash. S
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by lesuorac 1y ago
I'm not sure that's exactly accurate. The US was borrowing based on nothing and eventually people figured that out and wanted to trade the nothing for gold which prompted the US to "fix the glitch" and stop gold redempti
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by lesuorac 1y ago
Probably the best outcome of "click-to-cancel" being blocked. Instead of requireing the "same" mechanism, now the FTC is just going to care about "simple" via the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act [1]. T
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by lesuorac 1y ago
Well, I like the concept but it's not like the government gives me a passport for free to travel through federally ran checkpoints or a drivers license for free to drive on federally funded roads. I wonder at what point they'll st
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by lesuorac 1y ago
Sure people can change their mind but when your opinions are changing at the same time as popular opinion it doesn't sound like your mind is changed. It just sounds like you want to be popular and that's dangerous to me as a voter
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by lesuorac 1y ago
Uh, there's no requirement to use placebos or a control group. For example, covid just uses a treatment group and considers the rest of the world as control. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9124157/
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by lesuorac 1y ago
Sure "not all" but it's a lot. Biden voted to make same-sex marriage Illegal [1] and later for legalizing same-sex [2]. A bit interesting that his running mate neglected to legalize it and instead just didn't defend it i
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by lesuorac 1y ago
Tbh, as long as you make the mail obviously not placed by them they'll take it. (as in don't need to use a flag). Like they always shove (or drop) it into the mailbox so when there's letters that are obstructing the box from
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by lesuorac 1y ago
> Surely there's a "control" shipping lane somewhere that was cleaner to begin with or never cleaned up. Isn't the shipping lane the "treatment" group and everywhere else in the world the "control"
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by lesuorac 1y ago
> “Invest like the 1%,” > Klish told CNBC. “I lost $400,000 in Yieldstreet. I consider myself moderately financially savvy, and I got duped by this company > To do so, it gathers funds from thousands of investors such as Klish, who
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by lesuorac 1y ago
It has been a problem! Even paper ballots have been a problem! Jimmy Carter has documented his own first hand account with it. > We asked John Pope, a friend of ours, to go to the courthouse to represent me. When he arrived he was dismay
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by lesuorac 1y ago
Lawyers would tell you that water isn't wet it's just slick if it'd help them win their case. I don't see any fix for the news cycle besides slowing it down. Even if enough happens to fill 24h in a day there isn't e
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by lesuorac 1y ago
It's pretty hard (impossible) to make the deportation quotas as required legally. Unless you can figure out someway to remove the quotas CBP is going to continue to falsify evidence so that they can make their quotas. There's a si
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by lesuorac 1y ago
> It's still pornography, okay, sure, and..? And..? That's the point. Many people don't like pornography. So much so that they've collectively grouped together to demand payment processors make changes.
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by lesuorac 1y ago
half-joke. The difference is that it's not "seeing" a murder. It's committing a murder vs watching pornography. Killing somebody in a video game isn't real murder. Seeing a nude character is still pornography.
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by lesuorac 1y ago
Well yeah. It's a video game, nobody actually dies. If you show a nipple, somebody actually sees a nipple.
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by lesuorac 1y ago
It's probably a reference to the twitter files which showed coordinated efforts between Trump term1 and Twitter.
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by lesuorac 1y ago
I didn't know Ross ran USPS. It is a bit unfortunate how much Trump gets a pass for not solid decision making.
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by lesuorac 1y ago
> Every single cost mentioned in the article is passed to the renter in one way or another. That's not how markets work. You can only charge in rent what the market will bear and if it's between renting a place out for a net lo
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by lesuorac 1y ago
How are we on buy vs rent for like the third time this month? There are a million calculators out there and I've linked 4 in a previous post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44794529 ). The math just works out in f
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by lesuorac 1y ago
> it being portrayed in public media. I'm not sure why the media would more accurately depict vampires than a blacksmith.
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by lesuorac 1y ago
Well, I think the general counter for a "cure-for-cancer" is the same as electric cars. The Big4 never wanted EVs with there being a documentary [1] on how much they hated them. However, a company that isn't the big-4 has no
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by lesuorac 1y ago
If you raise taxes on people with a lower marginal propensity to spend and transfer it to people with a higher marginal propensity to spend you'll have a stronger economy. We were running surpluses at numerous times across the past 100
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by lesuorac 1y ago
> The top 1% pay 30-40% of all the taxes and have done so for decades. That's kinda the problem. We've been running a deficit for decades because the top tax rate has been cut.
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by lesuorac 1y ago
To piggy-back, the economy runs on the re-circulation of money and the reluctant to spend/lend money in 1929 contributed to why it was so bad (This is what Bernake got a nobel prize for showing [1]). So you really want the government t
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by lesuorac 1y ago
I see two easy ways to get around this. 1. It's a fee and not a tax. 2. Require the chips to be claimed as shipped from DC or another non-state. And the more practical way. 3. Just don't ever hear the case challenging it.
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by lesuorac 1y ago
Public funds are our money. They are literally our tax dollars. Also, "removing" books means the money was already spent. So it's just about whether we should waste money or not by tossing items in good condition.
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by lesuorac 1y ago
That's just because the roads are built out by the Department of Transportation no? Like if you had to drive on toll roads built underground then nobody would ever drive (see Hyperloop). I think the big mistake being made is people are
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by lesuorac 1y ago
> They've already made AMD and NVIDIA give a cut of sales (which is crazy). Imagine if you as an individual had to pay 15% of your income to the government! Oh, you already pay much more than that and you want to pay only 15%?

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