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by prottog 4y ago
Wealth inequality causes drug addicts unleashing havoc on the public?
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by prottog 4y ago
It's a different DA, but the current Manhattan DA (who appears to be from the same school of thought as the one under discussion), upon taking office in January 2022, issued a written policy memorandum which stated that his office will
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The typical reaction I get about the Midwest and the South from coastal people is basically "eeeww".
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> What matters is aggregate outcomes In the aggregate, nobody starts a business. It's hard work with lots of risks. Most everyone prefers to exchange their time and labor for a stable income.
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> It does amuse me that we're still at more people hiring than looking for jobs. It's a stark contrast to other industries, where the power is normally in the hands of employers. In my area, many businesses outside of the tech
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by prottog 4y ago
No, Hyundai is more upmarket than Kia. Well, maybe upmarket isn't the right term; Kia is marketed towards younger and hipper people, and Hyundai the stodgier. Compare the design of the Telluride to the Palisade or the K5 to the Sonata.
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by prottog 4y ago
> anyone who mentions the "petrodollar" in a geopolitical context knows knothing about geopolitics I'm curious about this. The petrodollar is clearly a real phenomenon and policy decision. You might say that it's the
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by prottog 4y ago
> every fiat currency is imaginary. Well, the USD is backed by the "full faith and credit of the United States government" which, however you may feel about it, isn't imaginary. Each dollar is a claim to a piece of output
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by prottog 4y ago
What an absolute gem! An example of both that there is nothing as permanent as a temporary government program, and a government program whose name only marginally reflects what it actually does.
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> we are governed by filth who are looting public treasuries for themselves and their buddies. Hence the conservative ideal of smaller government with limited powers, so that there is both less to loot from as well as a lesser ability fo
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by prottog 4y ago
I have my own beef with Mopar products, but it's unfair to point out the Wrangler PHEV as a showcase of how bad the Stellantis electric technology is. The Wrangler is a niche product that will never be efficient, not even if it used un
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by prottog 4y ago
> Have I lost money? Technically yes, but you only realize it if you sell. And if you hold until it matures, then there is no loss, since you get everything back (barring default). But as other commenters pointed out, there are only very
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by prottog 4y ago
But would you pay a negative interest rate, i.e. a fee? Wouldn't having millions of dollars available on demand be a service that you would have to pay for?
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Back when people agreed that shiny rocks are a good medium of exchange and store of value, it made sense for them to pay banks to hold on to their money. It was impractical to hold large amounts of physical material under your mattress; it&
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by prottog 4y ago
> (why would you lend money for 10 years at 3.5% when you can lend money for 3650 successive 1-day terms at 4.75%?) That's the thing, you can't know that. Rates could go up, down, sideways, or in circles over the next 10 years.
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by prottog 4y ago
I'm running bullseye on desktop and haven't found anything terribly out of date, but it was first released a year and half ago so maybe it will happen soon, and of course YMMV. I find that most local development is containerized a
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by prottog 4y ago
I mean, the Nasdaq 100 lost almost 30% in 3 months, from March to June of last year. Doesn't mean every CEO fumbled that bad. Or maybe it does!
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by prottog 4y ago
That Kang et al. study was 50mg/kg of caffeine administered three times a day. That would be about a hundred cups a day of coffee for my body weight. Don't they say the dose makes the poison?
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by prottog 4y ago
I promise you the city I live in now is not accurately described as liberal, and I'm minutes away from rural areas. This state is in fact one of the top 10 most rural states. I'm familiar with the Arbery tragedy. You're extra
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by prottog 4y ago
I fully admit that this country used to have that problem in the past. Here and now, I don't think nearly as much, though it seems like mass media has been doing its level best to fan the flames of a race war ever since George Floyd. I
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by prottog 4y ago
> largely a monoculture I'm no expert on Switzerland, but can it really be described as a monoculture? There are four language groups, after all. I cannot speak to the existence of an overriding Swiss ethos that people identify with
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by prottog 4y ago
If you're talking about commodities, sure. Capitalism did a fantastic job at producing those very cheaply and delivering them worldwide. This is why I as someone living in a first-world country have my pick of laptops and phones and ca
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by prottog 4y ago
As long as you don't think that just because someone doesn't agree with your way of helping fellow human beings, they are necessarily uneducated or heartless. As an example, just in the last six months or so, I took considerable t
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by prottog 4y ago
Switzerland is very much an exception to the rule, and even it has a written constitution limiting the government's power. "More power to the people" works when operating within a culture that values attributes that lead to a
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Yeah, but the Wild West nature of crypto is its selling point, maybe even its raison d'etre. What would be the point in regulated crypto? It won't do anything that the traditional banking system doesn't already do.
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Estimates are an average of six protons per cubic meter of space. A whole lot of nothing!
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Do you also agree with the assessment that the highest income earners heavily subsidize the poor? Because that's the same reasoning behind the "blue states subsidize red states" trope. The federal balance of payments with the
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by prottog 4y ago
> Many folks in the deeper circles of online carnivoria The wonders of the internet!
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by prottog 4y ago
The other commenter already made the point that not all work has an economic value higher than the legally-mandated floor of wages, which I'll take as axiomatically true and won't explore further. The more interesting follow-on po
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by prottog 4y ago
> If you accept that we live in post scarcity and begin from that principle Are you saying we currently already live in a post-scarcity world? Or are you saying that AGI will get us there, some time in the relatively near future?

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