rayiner

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by rayiner 1y ago
> However, Tesla vehicles got a $7,500 effective price hike just one week ago, when the federal US EV tax credit was taken away by republicans. Incidentally, Tesla CEO Elon Musk spent $200 million in political bribes to help make that ha
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by rayiner 1y ago
I know little about monetary policy, so this is a genuine question. What’s the non-kooky explanation for why there was a big economic divergence between income and productivity in the U.S. that appears to have started at the same time as th
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by rayiner 1y ago
It’s not hubris that caused that, but the quite reasonable desire not to live in mud huts.
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by rayiner 1y ago
I strongly suspect most practicing economists are Keynesians.
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by rayiner 1y ago
Economists at the Fed skew Democrat 10 to 1. https://www.independent.org/tir/2022-fall/political-affiliat... . In a 2006 study of economists, Democrats outnumbered Republicans 2.5 to 1: https://econfacul
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by rayiner 1y ago
I suspect your right wing friends would agree if you said “society should focus additional resources developing people who are naturally gifted.” If you frame it in terms of “school funding,” what you’re actually measuring is their beliefs
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by rayiner 1y ago
Yeah, “left” isn’t a useful term in this context. As noted elsewhere, Soviet Russia focused on developing gifted kids. On the other hand, so does Iran, which has a super right wing government.
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by rayiner 1y ago
Yeah, we are free range parents, but we are kind of recognizing we should help him develop his math talent. I can do math okay, I majored in engineering, but he’s got a math intuition I lack. He’s also got a pretty short attention span, tho
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by rayiner 1y ago
It doesn’t raise any such question because “the executive power” refers to a pre-existing concept. Article II starts: “ The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” The use of the definite article “t
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by rayiner 1y ago
Same story for my middle kid. He’s bored out of his mind in 2nd grade math. He overheard me explaining square roots to his older sister while he was working on a coloring page at a restaurant waiting for our food. Then he pops his head up a
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by rayiner 1y ago
> What it says is that the constitution cares a lot about the power of the government to regulate the natural right to hold weapons and monopolize violence and how that monopoly works. That's not what it says! It says: "the ri
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by rayiner 1y ago
IQ is pretty stable from preschool onward: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/apa.16925 . Especially in identifying low and mid-IQ kids ( i.e. people who won't benefit from gifted education).
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by rayiner 1y ago
> Agencies like the NLRB, SEC, and others also preside over judicial action. Legally, they don’t! Nobody seriously argues Congress can create independent agencies that exercise Article III’s “judicial power.” The seeming “judicial action
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by rayiner 1y ago
You’re begging the question. Just because the constitution isn’t an enumeration of all rights doesn’t mean you can gin a right into existence just by saying it exists. You still have to identify the source of that right somewhere else. What
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by rayiner 1y ago
As I said, the 2015 figure I gave was already adjusted for inflation. The medicaid spending was only $495 billion in nominal dollars in 2015.
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by rayiner 1y ago
> Because that's how American cities are built It’s not just “American cities.” Even in Tokyo—which has transit better than what Americans could ever aspire to build—getting around on public transit takes much longer than driving. A
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by rayiner 1y ago
70% of households even in the bottom income quantile have a car, and it’s 88% in the second to bottom income quantile. There’s no reason with modern battery technology these cars can’t be as cheap as gas cars. And building charging infrastr
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by rayiner 1y ago
What do you call the theory that the legislative power is vested in Congress—i.e. that Congress can’t create bodies that exercise legislative powers independently of Congress? You don’t have a label for that—it’s just what the first sentenc
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by rayiner 1y ago
The US has had a nationally bank since before the constitution was adopted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Bank_of_the_United_State... . The U.S. has had a central bank that controls inflation by performing market
2420.
by rayiner 1y ago
No, “emanations from penumbras” is calvinball. This is simple. Article II says: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” As you note, the FTC enforces antitrust laws. Enforcement of the law is a
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by rayiner 1y ago
The examples you picked aren’t great to support your point. An alien with a copy of the Constitution and the Federalist Papers would easily discern that the document intends to afford greater protection to the right to bear arms than some r
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by rayiner 1y ago
Oh, I see what you’re saying. Article I, II, and III, create “Congress,” the “President,” and the “Supreme Court.” Those are the constitutional organs of the government, and are invested with the legislative, executive, and judicial powers,
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by rayiner 1y ago
No, that cuts the other way. The only reason we allow the FTC to create regulations with the force of law is by pretending that regulations are just an expression of how the executive will exercise its delegated discretion in enforcing the
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by rayiner 1y ago
Yes, but Article I, Section 8 says: “[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Gover
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by rayiner 1y ago
> Which isn't to say that there aren't problems with recent Supreme Court decisions in this area The problems aren’t with the recent decisions, but the 1930s ones. I don’t think there’s a decision on the books today that was mo
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by rayiner 1y ago
Lots of confusion here about the relevant legal issues. The Fed presents a much trickier question than other administrative agencies. Article II, Section 1 says: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of Am
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by rayiner 1y ago
The problem with the Supreme Court’s rulings isn’t “inconsistency.” It’s that it completely fucked up the precedent in the 1930s and allowed an unconstitutional fourth branch of government to be created.
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by rayiner 1y ago
In America, even most poor people have cars. In the bottom income quantile, 70% of households own a car: https://data.bts.gov/stories/s/Transportation-Cost-Burden-Tr... . In the bottom 20-40%, it’s 88%. And in the
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by rayiner 1y ago
Keep your eye on the climate change ball. We have a perfectly acceptable drop in replacement for gas cars in the form of EVs. This is not the time for your urbanism fetish or massive social engineering.
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by rayiner 1y ago
We should dispense with this Obama-era “nudge” nonsense and simply ban gas cars.

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