maoistinquisitr

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by maoistinquisitr 8y ago
This whole current moment rhymes too well with 2000 and 2008. Who are the Ken Lays, the Bernie Ebbers's, and the Madoffs? I suspect Bezos and Musk are going to fall hard.
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by maoistinquisitr 8y ago
The key variable is Trump's total failure to implement his stated policies on immigration. https://www.numbersusa.com/news/more-400000-asylum-seekers-o... Wages would be going way up if Trump were actually deliver
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by maoistinquisitr 8y ago
A tariff or tax regime indexed on real wages and also environmental protection is necessary. Selling things in the USA profitably on the basis of cheap labor in countries with weak environmental and labor protection should not be so simple.
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by maoistinquisitr 8y ago
> Government massively subsidizes the oil industry all the time. Not true. Even if it were true most of the oil industry is losing money hand over fist. But not as fast as the phony baloney "renewable" industry is, even with it
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by maoistinquisitr 8y ago
Which is fundamentally stupid because the beta-carotene to vitamin A pathway is highly limited. The whole idea is wrong. Vitamin A deficient people need vitamin A. Stuffing extra beta-carotene into them will just turn them orange and have o
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by maoistinquisitr 8y ago
> US is one of the least densely populated developed countries None of the other developed countries have vast interior deserts. The east and west coasts and some parts of the Mississippi and Great Lakes watersheds are plenty overpopulat
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by maoistinquisitr 8y ago
Your comparison illustrates my point. Oklahoma is not crisscrossed with efficient water transport and reliable annual fresh water. Oklahoma is probably overpopulated as it is. The Netherlands is, too, in the long run. But for now it's
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by maoistinquisitr 8y ago
> There is a LOT of room in the country for growth No there isn't. All the places with viable logistics and water supply are pretty much full up. Urban areas need barge transport, good rail grades, aqueducts, and rivers to carry awa
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by maoistinquisitr 8y ago
It's not reinvested capital. It's highly leveraged funny money from a decade of ZIRP. And this isn't really a "tech" problem at this point. The "real" economy is full of huge companies that are barely maki
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by maoistinquisitr 8y ago
Amazon makes weird non-GAAP claims. In terms of GAAP, Amazon had negative free cash flow of $4.2 billion in Q1.
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by maoistinquisitr 8y ago
Both German and Russian war production increased throughout the war under command economies and massive bombing. They key factor was fuel.
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by maoistinquisitr 8y ago
Well look how communism in Asia played out over the ensuing 40 years. Would it have been such a horrible idea to let Japanese boys die fighting off communists? And why are 50+K American lives still at stake (and billions of dollars in defen
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by maoistinquisitr 8y ago
> US (not invaded, economy grew during the war GDP grew during the war due to federal debt. The standard of living markedly declined and didn't recover until much later.
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by maoistinquisitr 8y ago
Japan and Germany fought WWII because they wanted to secure oil supplies. The USSR and USA defeated them because they had massive amounts of oil at their disposal. The USA was #1 producer at the time. Also, both the Germans and Japanese fai
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by maoistinquisitr 8y ago
Well then why is the water in your city pumped by diesel engines, and why are all the goods delivered by diesel locomotives, barges, and trucks? The entire logistics industry is just full of morons that didn't get the memo over the las
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by maoistinquisitr 8y ago
Not really. You are underestimating the massive energy efficiency advantages of modern diesel engines, across many contexts. It's the same reason why water pumps and freight locomotives and all kinds of other equipment that could theor
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by maoistinquisitr 8y ago
http://energyskeptic.com/2016/why-is-passenger-rail-so-damne...
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by maoistinquisitr 8y ago
Diesel buses are very energy efficient. Electrified rail is surprisingly inefficient. Building bus rapid transit lanes makes more sense than spinning up a light rail infrastructure almost any way you measure: capital costs, energy, maintena
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by maoistinquisitr 8y ago
I don't really see any ads just by running NoScript. I don't see the need for an ad blocker. If a site won't render with javascript disabled, then I just close the tab.
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by maoistinquisitr 8y ago
Python and JS are both equally awful. The sad reality is that Perl 5 still remains the only viable scripting language aside from scheme (lol) with sane scoping and lexical closures.
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by maoistinquisitr 8y ago
These garbage studies confuse the impacts of crappy fried food and oils with alcohol itself. Heavy drinkers also eat more PUFA. The PUFA itself is very damaging. The alcohol just magnifies the damage of the PUFA. The alcohol even further in
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by maoistinquisitr 8y ago
Alcohol in the absence of polyunsaturated fats is fairly benign. In the context of fried foods and margarine and vegetable oils it's very damaging. On a very low fat diet you could probably down a six pack daily with minimal harm.
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by maoistinquisitr 8y ago
Well, I agree, but that's definitely a totally bipartisan scam. It's not just the loan subisidies, though. A huge amount of federal policy building over 70 years shovels tax money towards "higher ed". Most major schools
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
I'm not a fan of Obama but one good thing he was doing towards the end was cracking down on fraudulent "higher education" programs milking students and the taxpayer. He was deliberately choking off the loan subsidy fraud game
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
If you want to expand the scope it gets even worse. Why is Christianity so marginalized in the public square in a majority Christian country where even today most immigrants are Christian? You really have no point. You were trying to evoke
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
Qualified white gentiles are massively under-represented in the ivy league because white jews are massively over-represented. So the victimology is a little off in your comment. Look into Ron Unz's analysis on this matter. Jews are ast
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
This is what the whole urban charter school thing has really been about. A cluster of middle class people set up a charter school and steal most of the other high potential kids, leaving the actual public school with even worse performance
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
What's changed is the needs of the political classes. The democrat party has been in something of a death spiral for decades (arguably since the 50s) and is critically dependant on imported voters. Without the massive immigration that
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
> would like to see a good program for skilled immigration It's very difficult to build a case that we need any immigration at all, skilled or otherwise. All claims that we need high skill immigration come from either the immigrants
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
All analysis I've seen indicates pretty much the opposite. Electricity is way less useful than diesel fuel. Our civilization critically runs on diesel and no one has figured out an even theoretically viable way to substitute in batteri

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