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by opo 8y ago
The actual tax burden has basically gone opposite of what you imply in your many messages. The top 10% paid 49% of taxes in 1980 and the bottom 50% paid 7% of income taxes. In 2015, the top 10% paid paid 70% of incomes taxes and the bottom
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by opo 8y ago
>...If only we had a government that took better care of people in poverty. Have they tried getting SSDI? No one gets rich off of that, but it is one of the major government programs to help support those with disabilities.
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by opo 8y ago
The podcast 99% Invisible had a story on "The Great Red Car Conspiracy" which covers this. As with most issues, it looks like it is more complex (and interesting) than first appears. https://99percentinvisible.org&#x2F
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by opo 8y ago
>I was speaking of wind in absolutes - Well... the original poster was referring to the potential problem where you don't get any electricity from wind for several days, so it might have been better if you dealt with that issue rath
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by opo 8y ago
That isn't correct. According to a paper from the Fraunhofer Institute: >...Long phases of no or little wind power are a potential thread to future energy systems with a high share of renewable energies. A frequently cited example
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by opo 8y ago
Your comparisons between power production of nuclear and solar is somewhat misleading since you are forgetting the low capacity factor of solar. In terms of power production of solar in China: >...The contribution to the total electric
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by opo 8y ago
>...The story of Microsoft floating a significant loan to Apple in order to keep Apple solvent in the late '90's is well-known. That might be well known, but it never happened. To resolve a patent violation and alleged stolen
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by opo 8y ago
>...The common rule of thumb is you can live off of an investment at 4% indefinitely Your general point is right, but the situation is even worse than you say since you are misinterpreting the 4% rule. It isn’t that you can live “ indef
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by opo 8y ago
A better option is to buy long term care insurance.
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by opo 8y ago
The state senator who actually authored the legislation establishing the California High-Speed Rail Authority was Quentin Kopp. After seeing how this has turned out he is now opposed to it (and I think joined a lawsuit against it). In an
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by opo 8y ago
Do you have any sources for any of this? For example: >...Americans were pretty much able to get out of Japan after December 7th. Well... I didn't see any references specially on Japan itself, but when Japan took over Guam, they int
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by opo 8y ago
>..."Could one make a machine to play chess, and to improve its play, game by game, profiting from its experience?" This reinforcement learning approach to chess did not enjoy much success--until AlphaZero. Don't forget Sa
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by opo 8y ago
>...and not force them by law to massively overfund their retirement benefits. It sounds like the change in law was to have the USPS start funding their retirement health care costs since they are promised to the workers and the projecte
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by opo 8y ago
The main reason it is falling is because of natural gas substituting for coal in the power sector and that will continue to happen due to the low prices for natural gas.
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by opo 8y ago
>... diagnosing an infectious disease is pretty useless on it's own. I don't think that was what was being measured. The evaluation was a comparison of: >...MYCIN's choice of antimicrobials with the choices of nine huma
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by opo 8y ago
>...Job security for physicians is rarely the issue, there are plenty of sick people. Yea you would think so... Unfortunately, in medicine, just because a computer program is better then a Dr at diagnosing a patient is no guarantee it wi
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by opo 8y ago
The amounts of hi-level waste generated are manageable and no one is claiming we are in danger of imminently running out of space. Long before this becomes a problem we will either recycle the waste or use most of this "waste" to
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by opo 8y ago
Right now nuclear waste can and should be recycled which would reduce the amount of waste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste Soon it will be possible to use most of the waste as fuel: "...Fast reacto
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by opo 8y ago
>...Anyone who can build an ML model to catch these clues is going to make billions. Yea you would think so... Unfortunately, in medicine, just because a computer program is better then a Dr at diagnosing a patient is no guarantee it w
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by opo 8y ago
>...There are historic cases of private banks issuing paper money in the U.S., but it usually degraded into distrusting the currency, ... I don't think that was the general case at least with the bank notes issued by the national ba
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by opo 8y ago
While their is less public subsidy for the Rams/Chargers stadium than many other stadiums, it doesn’t look like it is zero: >..."There will be no public dollars, no taxpayer dollars used for this project," he said. "T
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by opo 8y ago
This is not good advice. Enough people have given away all their assets to qualify for Medicaid, that there are rules to prevent this: >...To prevent candidates from simply giving away their money or resources to qualify for Medicaid, t
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by opo 8y ago
That’s one of those quotes that helps start a discussion, but there is no evidence that Henry Ford actually said that quote: https://hbr.org/2011/08/henry-ford-never-said-the-fast
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by opo 8y ago
>...And all of this was a direct result of the rigidity of the gold standard. The gold standard created a feedback loop that accelerated the global economy into a brick wall--the brick wall being the reality of the finite supply of gold.
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by opo 8y ago
In what area, did we have zero percent interest rates back in 1930? Interest rates were lower, but with deflation, the real interest rate has been estimated to have been about 7.87% in 1930: http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/
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by opo 8y ago
>...Smallpox is uniquely deadly... The indigenous people were exposed to many diseases, not just smallpox: >...Numerous diseases were brought to North America, including bubonic plague, chickenpox, cholera, the common cold, diphtheria
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by opo 8y ago
>...If you looked at the deals that textbook companies get, you would realize that they sure as hell aren't negotiated well (or at all honestly). Yea, everyone should read about Feynman’s experiences of being on a textbook review c
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by opo 8y ago
>...I hope this get fixed eventually, either by extending it to both genders or removing it completely. Every country has abolished private slavery. I'd like to imagine a world where each individual state also relinquished its clai
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by opo 8y ago
>If anything the draft brought the war to a close sooner. I don't think there is much evidence for this. Over 2.7 million Americans served in Viet Nam. If the politicians could have possibly gotten millions of young people to drop
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by opo 8y ago
I guess that is how being a conscientous objector worked in the US during the Viet Nam war - anyone declaring themselves a conscientous objector had to due some kind of public service or face jail time (probably more than 6 months). In the

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