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by long_time_gone 5y ago
> At some point, compassion has failed and incarceration is the only solution. The US has a higher incarceration rate than other developed countries, while also maintaining higher crime/violence rates. It doesn't seem to be a g
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
> Come back when you think of an excuse to trust their data without verification. Your entire premise is based on a straw man. Nobody is blindly accepting China’s data as gospel, they are saying that it’s the only data we have. You have
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
That’s a good idea. I think it still misses a needed link between productivity increases and increases to the lowest wages. Maybe loosely tying minimum wage to productivity?
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
> Why have we never had a president who went to a state school? We literally have one right now.
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
Nonfarm business sector labor productivity increased 6.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2021, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today (March 3, 2022), as output increased 9.1 percent and hours worked increased 2.4 percent. htt
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
I've had the same experience. When I start a weight-lifting regimen, my appetite grows like crazy, and I start bulking up immediately (good and bad weight).
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
Might those same cultural underpinnings impact their adoption and usage of on-demand delivery?
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
> The world's dependence on Chinese manufacturing is like Europe's dependence on Russian gas, times ten. This assumes that we won't make moves to mitigate this dependence in response to Russia's invasion. The US Innov
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
> It doesn't say anything good for America that so many of its big companies fall into that category. The big companies of America fall into every category, not just the ones you cherry-picked. You could have easily mentioned GE, In
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
> There is no equivalent of this in this new-fangled electric world. Until batteries become smaller, light and a hell of a lot cheaper, I'll be sitting on the sidelines. The entire premise of the discussion is a world where we have
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
I found it most interesting that "Other Renewables" (i.e. solar and wind) went from ~5% to ~15% in just 10 years. If we can triple capacity again in the next 10 years, we could completely eliminate coal (assuming storage can solve
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
> If we all move to EVs, the demand for electricity will go up (a lot!) But I don't see how we're planning to meet such demand with our current power grid. I don't think anyone has proposed more EVs without an improved gr
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
I agree completely. I think I am making more of a point about the "tail wagging the dog" in the US military strategy you mention. We have created economic dependencies on our vast military spending. At a fundamental level, the $1
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
That US military spending has never fallen below 3% of GDP. The two times it got close, we jumped right back towards 4%. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?locat...
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
> Consider, right now the US military budget is bound to balloon some more because of this war, without us doing any fighting. Military Keynesianism --- chest puffing handshake. We are sending actual weapons and machinery, which need to
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
> If there is a relatively big EU military, we in the US have a chance of reforming and shrinking our monster. Our military's size and capabilities seem to be more a function of job-creation, rather than actual military need.
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
> Nation states don't do "precedents" when it comes to helping each other out. NATO is a nation state alliance built on mutual defense and strengthened by precedent. The precedent of defending allies is built into the NATO
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
When did the governments stop printing tons of money?
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
I'm not sure what you mean, the success stories that you called biased are also true. Your point wasn't about "truth", it was about being representative of the normal outcome. This story of people getting $10 million wor
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
> By allowing our governments to decide what's a lie / propaganda that's not allowed to be published The headline "RT turns to Peter Thiel's Rumble after Big Tech companies block the network" tells us that p
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
> HN is filled with bias for the success stories This is true. > He gave up a job at Google and beats himself up every day for literally giving up millions, probably well over $10M had he just stayed. This is also a biased success sto
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
It is interesting in the sense that it fails completely to mention the multiple countries Russia has invaded over the past 25 years. It treats NATO's actions as happening completely in a bubble, ignoring Putin's own provocations.
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
> Leicester City This is the exception that proves the rule. The fact that winning the EPL was such a monumental upset and that you have to go back 5 years to find it, kind of proves the entire point. Them falling back to 12th place is f
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
>but as is often the problem in North American sports, it hurts small market teams. In the case of baseball, the negotiations are being held up by the small-market owners because the existing system is so beneficial to them. There is a d
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
Ukraine was the buffer zone and Putin invaded them. Now he has NATO at his doorstep in Poland.
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
> the implicit point was obviously partisan No, it was not. Partisan would be asking if they were going to switch to a specific different party. I asked if they re-thought their affiliation. > As for Russian propaganda, that isn'
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
> What does it mean to be independent then? Is it more like undecided? I'm sure it means different things to different people. For me, it means that I don't follow any party's platform in lockstep. I try to judge each cand
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
My comment was very careful to not include partisanship or judgement. It was a question on if events caused them to "re-think" their affiliation. Flagging it, while allowing commenters to spew Russian propaganda for the past 2 wee
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
Even if you believe this response, recent actions (the Russian invasion happening) prove their analysis was completely off the mark. Their site now has a bunch of articles covering the same invasion they assured us would never happen.
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by long_time_gone 5y ago
You can drill-down to a specific SRO building to find a unique story, but the overwhelming trend from 1960-2010 was to eliminate SRO because of health and safety concerns. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_

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