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by mac01021 6y ago
But how have they done that? We _do_ live in a democracy (well, a republic -- in the USA). The government/legislature does seem, to a large extent, to be beholden to the wants of the immensely wealthy, but that's only because the
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by mac01021 6y ago
Well.... If he owned 9% instead of 10% and I owned the difference of 1%, then I would be better off.
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by mac01021 6y ago
Fiscal stimulus is when the state pays money that it already has (or that it borrows for the purpose) into the private sector so that private entities will have cash and engage in spending. Monetary stimulus is when the central bank increas
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by mac01021 6y ago
Well, we _are_ having a conversation that's all about how we think the system should work...
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by mac01021 6y ago
If I win the lotto, I'll give 4 weeks notice. If I get hit by a bus, not so much...
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by mac01021 6y ago
Why conflate regulation of the money supply with the ability to hire contractors? If you want to increase the money supply, print some money and give it out. If you want to fund highway construction, figure out how much it will cost and the
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by mac01021 6y ago
When 47% of the things you're classifying are "miscellaneous", you've got some more categories to come up with.
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by mac01021 6y ago
I don't see why it's unfortunate if there's an equally good tool that is more egalitarian. Congress could give the Fed the power to, rather than just buy bonds (or whatever it is they do) introduce money to the economy simply
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by mac01021 6y ago
Is there a reason that congress couldn't bestow upon the Fed some powers of taxation, while still leaving it free of the political constraints that the legislature faces?
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by mac01021 6y ago
Congress created the Fed and gave it what powers it has. They (assuming a consensus among legislators) could totally have given it a different mechanism for controlling the money supply. Even one that culminated in a check being mailed to
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by mac01021 6y ago
I never understood how anyone can find it remotely fair for the Fed to introduce new money into the economy by any means other than equal division between all citizens.
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by mac01021 6y ago
What conspiracies are moving people to do that? And how do you burn down a steel tower?
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by mac01021 6y ago
Not exactly on topic: There have been a few HN submissions in the past linking to papers concerned with the effect of 5G on insects. As a layperson I was not able to evaluate those papers. But if anyone knows if there was any kind of conse
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by mac01021 6y ago
I'm ignorant of these things. What's an example of something that might be a trade secret belonging to a children's hospital?
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by mac01021 6y ago
The school in the article is in Georgia, so tents might not even cost. As much as air conditioning...
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by mac01021 6y ago
Invoking similarity to Nazi propaganda is almost always a strategic error, and Thomas Sowell should know better. The actions of the third reich were so heinous that they are mostly recognized as precluding any comparison with the thoughts
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by mac01021 6y ago
Do you have any examples not related to race relations? What do you mean by "reductionist"?
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by mac01021 6y ago
What specific outcomes should, in your view, be illegal?
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by mac01021 6y ago
I think it's more like a JC Penney or Macy's (neither of which you listed)? Or maybe those are all the same thing but I'm not acquainted with the ones you listed. I've seen them in shopping malls in the northeast but ne
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by mac01021 6y ago
For a TLDR, look two the first two paragraphs of the last section: """"""""""""""""""""" The war on drugs has been fought largely with
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by mac01021 6y ago
I'm a state school grad without much desire for a job at a prestigious FAANG company. I do not feel any disrespect from HN or from people I meet on the street. Is that really your constant experience?
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by mac01021 6y ago
Because the amount of story that the creators want to tell requires more than 2 hours. Shows with 50 or more episodes in the entire series may take years for the whole series to come out. But they never really try to go more than a year wi
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by mac01021 6y ago
What effect, if any, would you expect an LVT to have on the amount of land that remains wild?
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by mac01021 6y ago
But then "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their ow
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by mac01021 6y ago
What does "15m/mile" mean?
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by mac01021 6y ago
Other countries probably won't want to let many people in until a vaccine comes out. But, for domestic travel, it seems to me that the airlines shouldn't need too much technological sophistication to make airliners safe, at least
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by mac01021 6y ago
It's not like we can't do both. If I have anything interesting to say about the socioeconomic repercussions of shutting down air travel I will. But, in general, I think the more people talk about global warming the better.
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by mac01021 6y ago
Does it follow that you see basically no value in community colleges and other "low-prestige" public institutions whose participants are predominantly from outside of any aspirationally-aristocratic subculture?
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by mac01021 6y ago
The big question is "what is Y in this case"?
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by mac01021 6y ago
The article spends a little time, in the middle on the headline assertion "College does not guarantee Happiness" But spends more time on an anecdote about the author's son to demonstrate that "Happiness is possible witho

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