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by oatmeal1 4mo ago
More histrionics.
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by oatmeal1 4mo ago
You identify the potential bias of only one side here. The revolving door between regulators and industry introduces potential biases of others in the opposite direction. If Prasad approved of the trial design and later decided it was insu
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by oatmeal1 4mo ago
America doesn't need new cities. There is an unbelievable amount of space wasted within every city and any urban planner can show you. Development policy in the 40s and 50s was backward and we continue to suffer the consequences toda
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by oatmeal1 4mo ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "squeeze the renter," but it's hard to find any person that invests substantial money (risk) in a business that doesn't want to maximize profits and charge what the market will bear. La
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by oatmeal1 4mo ago
PG makes little effort to identify what it means to earn something. Some people consider effort the measure of whether something is earned. Some believe luck should be subtracted from result to get what is earned. Some say you cannot ear
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by oatmeal1 4mo ago
The market is not some independent external arbiter. The market is based on rules government creates. Those rules can be exploitative - It may be perfectly legal to make payday loans to financial illiterates, or treat animals cruelly in m
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by oatmeal1 4mo ago
Inflation needs error bars. A small bias in how inflation is measured, over a long period of time, would create substantially different results. I personally don't doubt that we have more buying power, but we have basically just crea
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by oatmeal1 5mo ago
Flooding we experience is largely due to destruction of wetlands that used to act as a buffer for excess water during storms, and paving over land for cars making the surface impenetrable.
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by oatmeal1 5mo ago
If Congress intended for the CFTC to regulate sports betting, it would have had that language in the act that originated the agency. It's telling that only recently the CFTC has discovered such authority. No previous leadership of th
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by oatmeal1 6mo ago
Or voting machines.
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by oatmeal1 6mo ago
America is rich, but that money is spent on new problems we invented for ourselves. We subsidize farmers growing unhealthy foods, then subsidize buying those unhealthy foods through food stamps. Then we subsidize healthcare to address the
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by oatmeal1 6mo ago
If food security were a motivating factor in policy, we would be diversifying away from corn, because drought and aquifer depletion are threatening the ability to continue to grow it.
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by oatmeal1 6mo ago
> Why would better tools be expected to do enable teachers to do that for more students at a time? Khan Academy showed that one great teacher distributed to millions does that pretty well. It doesn't make sense for every teacher in
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by oatmeal1 6mo ago
The education system seems one of the only places where vastly improving technology over the past 30 years has not translated to cost savings or improved outcomes.
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by oatmeal1 6mo ago
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"
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by oatmeal1 6mo ago
Has not happened after other catastrophic administrations. Each party likes the power when they get hold of it.
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by oatmeal1 6mo ago
People are okay with violence when democratic means (if first past the post even counts) do not solve their problems.
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by oatmeal1 6mo ago
The difference in level of concern between the gender pay gap and the gender death gap at work is stark.
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by oatmeal1 7mo ago
> It will never forget to remind you of something. Software isn't as faultless as you suggest. The default alarm app on my phone occasionally fails to go off (not an issue with Silent Mode or DND). > The only people busy enough
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by oatmeal1 7mo ago
The grand projects the US has embarked on have been completed using unethical means and without regard for real environmental consequences.
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by oatmeal1 8mo ago
40 years is an interesting cutoff of where to start history. Did Iran show any aggression to the USA before the Coup d'etat organized by the CIA and MI6?
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by oatmeal1 8mo ago
90% of the people cancer kills are over 50. Old people who start believing everything they see on Facebook, but continue voting, with even greater confidence in their opinions. Old people who voted in Trump. Curing cancer would be just a
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by oatmeal1 8mo ago
Marginal improvements do matter, because any improvement in usage you get from slightly improved service gets more people invested in making the bigger, more important changes done.
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by oatmeal1 8mo ago
If the model assumed the car to be cleaned was already at the car wash, it should identify the reason to walk is that if you drive, the extra car you take to get to the car wash will now be stuck there requiring redundant walking.
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by oatmeal1 8mo ago
It's a great idea, but this seems incredibly hard to enforce. Shipments sometimes go missing, products can be damaged "unintentionally", etc. I hope they can achieve what they intend.
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by oatmeal1 8mo ago
Let's be honest, that just puts you on the extra scrutiny list going forward
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by oatmeal1 8mo ago
Exercise doesn't suck, land use policies generally just don't prioritize good places for the fun kinds of exercise.
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by oatmeal1 9mo ago
The problem isn't storage capacity. It's wasteful consumption growing water-intensive crops in the desert.
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by oatmeal1 9mo ago
Calling a chatbot yes-man a manipulator in this case is unreasonable. If you take a drama class and then believe you have become the King of England and try to attack Scotland, that isn't the fault of the drama teacher. There are all
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by oatmeal1 10mo ago
As someone with treatment resistant depression, it is odd people are against medication. Medication is proven safe and effective for treating depression. Therapy and medication should be used immediately in conjunction because 1. therapy

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