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by opo 6y ago
In terms of "debunking" I prefer to see a response from the original authors to make sure the people criticizing a study aren't missing something, but even assuming they are totally correct, they estimate approximately 100,00
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by opo 6y ago
>...Let's leave the medicine to the medical professionals, yeah? That is unfortunately what most people do and it can lead to poor results for the patient: >...Analyzing medical death rate data over an eight-year period, Johns Ho
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>At any given moment there are a fixed number of jobs, ... I think most economists would say that is called the lump of labour fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
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by opo 6y ago
USPS pension funding gets brought up quite a bit as some kind of a conspiracy, but that doesn't appear to be accurate. The issue for the postal service is that the law was changed so that the USPS would start funding their retirement h
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by opo 6y ago
>... you have a discussion between Marxists of the classical and less Leninist sort and Randians you will find huge areas of overlap outside economics. These include technology, the notion of progress, science, the importance of educatio
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by opo 6y ago
>I think it's pretty clear ... I don't think there is a clear consensus on any of the points you bring up: >...a) the Japanese had been willing to surrender on one condition (keeping the emperor) for weeks, https:/&#x2
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by opo 6y ago
>...The US is largely socialism and profits for the corporations and free market absolutism and costs for the working poor. These kinds of statements don't really add much to the debate - they sound like political slogans. To add t
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>...Perhaps true in general, but George Washington's case was a bit different. He was exhausted by the presidency, ... When people refer to Washington giving up power, they are generally referring to him resigning from the army afte
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by opo 6y ago
No, the last time the minimum wage was increased was 2009, not 30 years ago. The original federal minimum wage was .25 in 1938. If it had only kept up with inflation it would only be about $4.55 today. https://www.dol.gov/a
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by opo 6y ago
>> What do you think is going to happen if you increase minimum wage to the point where it makes automation a more affordable alternative? >This is going to happen anyway. Changes that occur more slowly are easier for everyone to a
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>...I said it's pathetic that people (like me) who make $500k/year pay less than $75k in federal taxes. How does someone making $500k pay less than $75k in federal taxes?
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by opo 6y ago
There should be a flag indicating that content is considered 'Not Notable' by the admins so it is easy to ignore in searches if you so desire. The idea that content is actually being deleted because it isn't considered '
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by opo 6y ago
As user dragonwriter points out there are a number of reasons this likely won't help very much. I'd love to see all complaints of brutality and all deaths caused by police be investigated by a different organization (maybe a state
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>Lincoln was anti-slavery in the sense that he thought it was morally wrong, he just didn't see any way of ending it that was constitutional. I think that is the general consensus of Lincoln's thoughts at the beginning of his a
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by opo 6y ago
Hirohito was the head of state under the Japanese constitution during before and during WW II. It is pretty clear that the war crimes trials in Japan were orchestrated to protect the emperor from being charged: >...According to historian
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by opo 6y ago
>...when the Northerners legislated their economy away the rebellion was somewhat predictable. Lincoln didn't want slavery to extend into the new territories. That alone was enough for the slave holders in the south to plan to assa
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by opo 6y ago
>... arguably shouldn’t Preventing any accountability for many murders, probably goes a little beyond "arguably shouldn’t". Though in particular, the infamous gladiator spectacle at Cochran though was likely more a case of wha
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by opo 6y ago
>...Unions can thus lobby for higher wages or more officers without lobbing for more prisoners. Rather than coming up with hypotheticals of how you think they could operate, it is more useful to look at what they did: >...many of [CCP
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by opo 6y ago
>...The second quote which gives various numbers across multiple different years, including 1994 lobbing showing relatively small amounts in most years. I never implied this was a total breakdown of their lobbying money. They spend an e
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by opo 6y ago
>...They often brought up to deflect discussion, but simply operate at a order of magnitude smaller scale. That is simply not correct. >...In the 2016 election cycle, private prisons gave a record $1.6 million to candidates, parties a
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by opo 6y ago
The government run prisons in CA are worse than the private prisons they closed. The prisons in CA are so bad, the federal government actually took over oversight of the medical care as they failed to provide a constitutional level of medic
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by opo 6y ago
>...Read more about MMT economics if you're curious. MMT (“Modern Monetary Theory”) is rejected by most mainstream economists. The major proponents are politicians. http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/modern-monet
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by opo 6y ago
I see this analogy quite often, but I think it isn't very useful. Horses didn't have agency - horses weren't able to apply for other work, couldn't retrain themselves, weren't able to move to somewhere where they m
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by opo 6y ago
>No, the judicial and legislative branches have ceded it. Well, it is the executive branch that chooses the supreme court... For every John Marshall there has been on the court, there is likely a Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr with his famous
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>It's a bargain for someone who can normally afford to be paying more to store their insulin, sure, but for someone who's barely affording it normally, there's no difference between having it and not. I guess you are claim
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by opo 6y ago
>...Most emergencies are sufficiently short-term that they don't meaningfully reduce incentives for new producers to enter a market, because there's no time to adapt. That is simply wrong. Before all these price gouging laws,
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by opo 6y ago
>...And you don't need Vitamin K supplements. Greens are extraordinarily high in Vitamin K. Even, just 20 calories of Spinach will provide over 400% of your daily Vitamin K intake! I agree with you that most people don't eat en
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by opo 6y ago
>...the US government of the last 10-15 years doesn't have the same viewpoints on anti-trust that they did 20+ years ago. The Nintendo NES came out in 1983. Didn't they have control of all apps allowed to run on their machine?
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by opo 6y ago
>Except storage is much less useful in the old paradigm, Plentiful storage would obviously have been very useful over the last several decades. There is a large variation in daily electrical usage (particularly in summer months): https
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by opo 6y ago
>...For example, use solar power during the day to pump fluid from a lower reservoir into a higher reservoir, and then harness the energy of the water flowing from the higher reservoir into the lower reservoir through turbines. Trying to

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