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by prottog 4y ago
> on average people would have lived another 14.5 years if they hadn’t been infected How did you get that from your Pew Research source? The math on 5.5 million life-years lost over 330 million Americans works out to 6 days per person. A
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by prottog 4y ago
I have mixed feelings about Texans ;-) but I'm glad that your cousin is living a better life and expending an order of a magnitude more energy than she presumably used to.
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by prottog 4y ago
You keep claiming that the GP would prefer civilization to collapse. Nothing in their writing suggests that, and your only proof is that they disagree with your assertion that a climate catastrophe is imminent and can only be averted by rad
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by prottog 4y ago
Naturally it's risky to assume that all Democrats agree with each other on every single policy position, but if you mean that Democrats aren't asking for more tax deductions, a very recent example of this very thing happening was
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by prottog 4y ago
> an all-time high in terms of people employed The population goes up over time (and in fact is currently at an all-time high as well; the US population has never shrunk year-over-year), so this is a bum metric. The labor force participa
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by prottog 4y ago
> That Netflix thinks its catalog is worth so much puzzles me Same here. Well, this post reminded me to finally cancel.
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I think the "fuck you, I already live in a part of the world that was developed on the back of cheap energy and it's really too bad that you will never be allowed to develop like I did" humans will kill more humans than the s
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by prottog 4y ago
For five hours out of the eight thousand seven hundred and sixty in a year ;-) I'm in favor of harnessing all available sources of energy, including renewables; I hope that energy storage technology continues to improve.
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by prottog 4y ago
> The airline industry needs to stand on its own or fall. The airline industry probably stands next to banking as one of the industries with the highest amount of state interference. Looking at this list[0], there's probably more pa
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by prottog 4y ago
> We hit over 1 million dead The median age of a Covid-associated death in the US, with its hugely obese and unhealthy population, is about the same as the average life expectancy. (You can see here[0] that over half of all "deaths
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by prottog 4y ago
Is your point that people are hypocrites by complaining about welfare and turning around and taking welfare for themselves when it's offered with no strings attached? I suppose the hypocrisy is true, but it also doesn't come with
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by prottog 4y ago
Sure, one should always ask "Cui bono?", but it's equally important to also examine the incentive structures at play which drive the leviathan that is the government. At its core, the trillions of dollars of wasteful spending
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by prottog 4y ago
I'm entirely unhappy about the whole PPP situation, but I think the reason why it's taken up less space in public debates is because ostensibly it was to compensate businesses for being forced to close. Student loans had no equiva
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by prottog 4y ago
Seems like those financial regulations have caused people to forget that if something sounds too good to be true, it ain't.
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by prottog 4y ago
> Land being hoarded and/or not being developed to the most of it's potential utility Land value taxes (in the Georgist/Geoist manner) will ensure that a very valuable parcel of land, such as the one in the middle of San F
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by prottog 4y ago
> it derives the largest proportion of its value from the efforts of others We already know how to solve for this, via land value taxes. No need to remove private ownership to fix that.
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by prottog 4y ago
Harder to fire, harder to hire, without fail.
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by prottog 4y ago
Hell, there are instant coffee brands that even coffee snobs could stomach.
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by prottog 4y ago
I prefer to ask why the state is entitled to more taxation, rather than asking why its citizens are entitled to keep more.
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by prottog 4y ago
Rotor diameter of 222 meters! That's almost exactly three Boeing 777-300ERs back to back; or nearly 10 acres of cross-sectional area being covered by the blades as they rotate. How amazing.
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by prottog 4y ago
"No bid" doesn't mean you log into your broker and see literally no bids for your gilts. As you rightly point out, primary dealers are obligated to supply a bid and an ask in the gilts markets, and in return receive various p
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by prottog 4y ago
They probably mean that prevailing interest rates will triple.
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by prottog 4y ago
> The most expensive bit in a building is the land it sits on This isn't always the case even in smaller cities, let alone truly rural areas. I live in a suburban area of a small city and empty lots around here go for under $100k, a
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by prottog 4y ago
"Live with a man 40 years. Share his house, his meals. Speak on every subject. Then tie him up, and hold him over the volcano's edge. And on that day, you will finally meet the man."
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Neither statement is falsifiable, so it should be meaningless from a policymaking standpoint.
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by prottog 4y ago
Would it not be fair to look at the median score for different racial groups, since we know that many universities do in fact discriminate on the basis of race in admissions?
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by prottog 4y ago
You're arguing that past discrimination justifies present discrimination, and that past discrimination is in fact solely or majorly responsible for present disparities in outcomes. I can't see a world in which these positions are
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by prottog 4y ago
Exactly. I've made this point before in this forum, but there's no reason at all to believe that the distribution of interests, values, and strengths between different ethnic and cultural groups should be identical. The classical
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by prottog 4y ago
> The only way to fix it is to set planning rules strictly at the national level You don't even need centralized planning. Just implement a proper land value tax [0] so that the desirability of a plot of land has to be commensuratel
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by prottog 4y ago
Utopia, of course, is when everyone behaves exactly as I want them to. ;-)

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