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by nickff 1y ago
Your view is a commonly-held one, and makes a lot of sense; unfortunately there is very little support for it. One data point to the contrary is the Oregon Health Care Study, which showed that 'free' preventative care increased he
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This criticism 'proves too much', as the same critique can be made of taxes, which doesn't seem like your intent, unless you believe that prisoners are just the 'tip of the iceberg' when it comes to state-slavery.
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I think NH doesn't have any private prisons either, and hasn't since 2000. Private prisons only have about 10% of the total prison population anyway. https://www.criminon.org/where-we-work/united-states/n
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From what I understand, Maine has no private prisons; why are you bringing them up in this topic?
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If the FCC chair was the one engaged in wrong-doing (as Paul seems to believe), they would be the prime candidate for impeachment. In any case, it seems like Paul thinks that the previous administration was also engaging in censorship, and
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Probably because of how aggressive the down-voting of unpopular opinions has become. Joke comments get upvotes, and thoughtful objections get flagged these days.
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I think you're right, but the military has different rules about due process, which you may not find convincing. A good example of the difference is the Captain's Mast.
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Do you think the Justice Department should prosecute people they believe to be innocent? If not, it seems that every prosecution is an expression of the view that the accused is guilty, and by allowing the JD to proceed, the President is ex
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> " the VP and President of this country making clearly biased remarks on an active criminal case against a resident of the United States" I am sorry to break it to you, but this happens all the time, and is not a violation of
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I was saying that Belgian, Canadian, and other countries could send their armies (and other armed forces) to fight the Russians in Ukraine.
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What neutrality laws? Germany and Japan have laws about what sort of military deployments they’re allowed to make, but I’m not aware of many others. NATO members get involved in non-NATO conflicts all the times; see France’s Mali operations
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I agree with you on both counts, but I'm not sure I would count on any president post-GWB to actually defend Taiwan. Nobody seems to have put much behind the Minsk Agreement. Even if they did, I'm not sure how long that would last
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> "I'm slowly starting to think that NATO/EU is using Ukraine as a trench war test ground. Ukraine right now needs to invest in offensive capability, not defensive capability. If they don't bring the war to Russia in
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The comic book Tony Stark was definitely modeled on Hughes, but it seems like the (Marvel Studios) movie Stark was at least partially based on Musk.
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It is my understanding that Marvel Studios' Tony Stark was modeled after him, rather than the other way around. Additionally, he had a cameo in one of the Iron Man movies.
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You seem to be demanding some proof of the RTO side, which is a reversion to the mean, while providing none for your own side. I see and hear people talking about all the non-work things they due while being paid, and am unsurprised that th
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If WFH is a good deal for both sides (in a particular industry), I would expect new entrants to use it as a competitive advantage against existing businesses (likely hiring away talented staff). I agree that web-tech business formation seem
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I don't think there have ever been many ‘perfectly rational’ business (or governmental) leaders; the successful ones are just ‘sufficiently rational’. In fact, some business leaders are probably instituting RTO for irrational reasons,
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I find this idea that there is a 'CEO RTO mania' to be absurd; if WFH was just as good for the company, and more attractive to employees, we should see a boom in WFH-first companies, which does not seem to be happening. Instead, i
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Big-spending subsidies like CHIPS definitely stimulate growth in the targeted industry, with film being a classic example of how impactful the subsidies can be. The issue is that the subsidies are paid for by taxes on everything else. Reali
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It seems to depend on what data you look at, and exactly how you look at it: https://i0.wp.com/mishtalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/No...
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I know and use wavelet, Fourier, and other transforms on a daily basis, but your post did not stimulate any interest in me. Also, your reply on the other thread does not strike me as particularly insightful (I'd argue that your 'f
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Your earlier post comes off as link-spam, as it uses general language to connect something tangentially related to what you're interested in to drive traffic to your website. This is not conducive to questions.
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People have been getting more risk-averse, as well as nosier over time. Both of these changes increase the push for surveillance. I agree with your intuition that people shouldn't have to worry about being constantly monitored, but if
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You do realize that Dickens' famous tales took place in the richest country in the world at the time, right?
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Those stats actually indicate to me that many crimes are being under-reported, at least by certain groups. Compare the race & gender distribution of murder and aggravated assaults to other crimes; murders are obviously well-reported, bu
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Quite ironic for someone at Google to be complaining about a lack of long-term support for customers, when Google seems to have basically no customer support at all.
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Not parent, and I don’t know about Chicago (I’ve never even visited Illinois), but if the police response is unsatisfying, people just don’t bother to report many crimes to the police. It is common for many ordinary people not to report pro
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What does Reaganomics have to do with Chicago failing to replace its water pipes? It’s a deeply Democratic city in a very Democratic state, and all three levels of government have been consistently increasing their spending in almost every
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That was a criminal charge, not a class-action, and very different rules apply. Shkreli also committed one set of frauds against one company which affected many people; Amazon engaged in separate anti-competitive acts against many different

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