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by opo 5mo ago
>...Additionally, wealthy people can use securities as collateral for near zero interest lifetime loans which also bypass having to pay income tax. This is just Internet mythology. The IRS would go after such arrangements very quickly -
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by opo 5mo ago
This is sometimes referred to as Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy: >Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people": >First, there will be those who
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by opo 5mo ago
Well many government pension funds are horribly underfunded, so likely it would just add to the underfunding till eventually the government would bail it out. It is an expensive, inefficient way to try and solve the issue - when they scre
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by opo 5mo ago
If sending military advisors to a country is starting a war, the list of wars started by each President will get MUCH larger. (For some reason most people associate the Vietnam war with the President who deliberately lied to congress to
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by opo 5mo ago
Depends on what you call a “war” since the last time the US declared war was in WW II.. In terms of military operations, a partial list would probably include: Democrat Presidents: Bosnia, Haiti, Iran, Kosovo, Libya, Niger, Somalia, Syria,
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by opo 5mo ago
>... If retirement age was say 80 instead of 60, there would be 25% fewer jobs to go around. (using imprecise simple math). Economists refer to this idea as the lump of labour fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L
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by opo 5mo ago
>...I don’t know why people downvoted this because it is obviously correct. In a democracy you have to buy the votes of the largest constituency with other people’s money, In the last few decades both political parties in the USA have t
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by opo 5mo ago
>...my parents were Silent Gen (WWII vets) If your parents were WW II vets, wouldn't they be part of Greatest Generation (often considered to be those born 1901–1927)? Silent Generation are often considered to be those born 1928–19
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by opo 5mo ago
>A lot more utility solar has been installed since then. Yes, utility solar is very safe. Unfortunately rooftop solar is much more dangerous and also much, much more costly. So one has to wonder why anyone supports the massive subsidie
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by opo 6mo ago
You won't convince many people if you think ad hominem attacks and insults are acceptable. Yes, subsidies are done to help drive adoption. The key is that the subsidies should go where they can do the most good. Money is limited and is
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by opo 6mo ago
The consumer rooftop solar cost is usually one of the most expensive ways you can generate electricity - often several times the cost of utility solar installations. The high rooftop solar price is usually hidden (at least in the USA) beca
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by opo 6mo ago
>...The reason why Buffet complains about them is that A) it makes harder to discern from financial statements how much staff is costing the shareholders, not that its a competitive advangage or disadvantage, and B) if theres a cost that
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by opo 7mo ago
>...it has always been about allowing those who are socially superior to avoid the embarrassment of having to compete in an environment where they might be defeated by their social inferiors. Is your argument actually that women don&#x27
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by opo 7mo ago
Qualified immunity doesn't apply to criminal cases. It is used to defend against civil suits. It is unfortunately very easy to find many cases where it leads to injustice. For example: >...Abby Tiscareno, a licensed daycare provi
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by opo 7mo ago
It is amazing how that bit of corporate PR is still being quoted over 100 years later. In reality, Ford had huge turnover problems with his workers - one estimate is over 370% annual turnover. One way to help prevent turnover is to pay more
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by opo 7mo ago
>It has killed many, many more than the world’s nuclear accidents. For that matter, it has killed many, many more than the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan!
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by opo 7mo ago
>If given a choice I would rather be born in 1940s. 80 years of relative peace, I think after you got your draft notice in the 1960s to go fight in the Vietnam war, you might have had second thoughts.
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by opo 8mo ago
> I just say "I believe in jury nullification and will use that power if necessary". Have you actually said that during voir dire, or is this a hypothetical?
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by opo 8mo ago
>...From what I remember off the top of my head, Finland has a system where private educational facilities do not exist. Not quite. Private education is not prohibited in Finland, but for-profit basic education is prohibited and private
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by opo 8mo ago
>...I absolutely think I ought to be taxed a little more than I am, and would gladly pay that money to live in the better society I believe that would create. The federal government does have a system to accept gifts which you might want
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by opo 8mo ago
This was a unanimous decision by the Supreme Court and I think a large part of it was that an individual state could use this for political gain. As Kagan said during oral arguments: "I think the question that you have to confront is
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by opo 8mo ago
I don't think that is the consensus view of why Caesar was assassinated: >...According to Suetonius, Caesar's assassination ultimately occurred primarily due to concerns that he wished to crown himself the king of Rome.[13] The
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by opo 9mo ago
I have not seen any indication that Mamdani has advocated for violence to achieve his goal, so calling him a communist seems unfair, but I think he would also agree it is unfair to simply say he is "left of the center-right". Mamd
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by opo 10mo ago
Is Mamdani proposing a "one time" tax of 5% of all of a person's wealth or anything remotely similar? If not, I don't think it is reasonable to compare the two situations.
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by opo 10mo ago
Not sure why you are bringing up private prisons. Private prisons are a tiny percentage of federal prisons and prison labor is used throughout the USA.
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by opo 10mo ago
>...Someone in a Scandinavian country where there are virtually no unsheltered homeless people probably doesn't index their zero to "dying of exposure on the sidewalk due to untreated mental illness," while an American who
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by opo 10mo ago
While conspiracy theories about 9/11 being some sort of an inside job are widespread, they are not supported by evidence.
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by opo 10mo ago
> ...which calls for "A New Pearl Harbor": Reading through your link, I don't see how one can say it "calls for a "A New Pearl Harbor": >...Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolu
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by opo 10mo ago
Just because they claimed it, doesn't make it true. OCR and screen reader software in 2023 did not have problems with serifs.
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by opo 10mo ago
The title was chosen by the publisher: >...The book's title was Svirsky's, chosen as a deliberate homage to George Bernard Shaw's The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928). Asimov feared the tit

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