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by refurb 1mo ago
You need to adjust for inflation. Also the correct measure is % of GDP
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by refurb 1mo ago
US government solvency is backed by the power to tax and tap into the massive US economy. Considering the US has one of the lower overall tax rates of developed economies, I’m not sure we’ve reached any sort of crisis level
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by refurb 1mo ago
I disagree on the “if you’re poor”. I find eating healthy cheaper. You can prepare healthy meals from basic and cheap foodstuffs like vegetables, whole grains and legumes, eggs, low cost meat cuts etc. You can prepare delicious meals for
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by refurb 2mo ago
While the debt numbers might look large, don't forget how much revenue is coming into these companies as well. OpenAI gross revenue was $4B in 2024, $13B in 2025 and estimated to hit $26B in 2026. Revenue is doubling or more. Same wit
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by refurb 2mo ago
I would question the idea that highly industry consolidated debt is competing with risk free debt issued by the US government. Those are two very different products. And while the quarter by quarter growth may seem astonishing it very diff
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by refurb 2mo ago
By that measure it doesn’t sound like that much. You’re talking about about an amount that is a 13% of the total US government spending, of which is 20% of the entire US GDP. I’m not saying it’s insignificant but it’s only a few percent of
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by refurb 2mo ago
It sounds like you can’t grasp a discussion on another topic yet you insert yourself into it.
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by refurb 2mo ago
It seems like your desperation to make a point has caused you to goal pole shift a second time!
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by refurb 2mo ago
DMF is quite different than acetone. As a chemist it’s a highly polar, very high boiling point solvent that is the “go to” when you can’t find a solvent your reactants dissolve in. Acetone is less polar, more chemically reactive and lower b
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by refurb 2mo ago
As someone who immigrated to the US and has been detained in secondary inspection I can assure you I do have knowledge in this area.
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by refurb 2mo ago
I mean the guy didn’t have proper documentation and admitted to illegally entering the US (not at a crossing I assume). It’s a completely different situation.
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by refurb 2mo ago
Maybe, but being detained for a couple hours is better than committing a felony, no?
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by refurb 2mo ago
CBP doesn't need a warrant to search at the border, including electronic devices. However, if Tunick was smart he would have refused to provide the PIN, and let them seize it. He'll get it back eventually, but it was in his right
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by refurb 2mo ago
A far better approach is for the US citizen to simply say "I chose not to provide my PIN". The officer will say something like "That's your choice, but I will need to seize the device to conduct an analysis. It will be
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by refurb 2mo ago
> It's people who couldn't get out of jury duty. But that's good no? People who got out never would have taken it seriously. I sat on a jury trial and was highly impressed with how seriously my fellow jurors took it - esp
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by refurb 2mo ago
>U.S. law though is highly non-autistic LOL, that made me chuckle. People somehow think they're the first one to think of a workaround to a law, when in fact it's been happening since the first law was written down. The law ad
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by refurb 2mo ago
Lots of examples of older drugs currently in use that are potent hERG inhibitors: haloperidol (antipsychotic), ketoconazole (antifungal), erythromycin (antibiotic), domperidone (anti-emetic), hydroxychloroquine (anti-malarial). All of these
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by refurb 2mo ago
Look at the GLP-1s. Lilly spent tens hundreds of millions developing an oral version that was otherwise the same as the injectable’s. And the notorious inhaled insulin that Pfizer launch (and horribly failed). There are many ways to differ
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by refurb 2mo ago
It’s a similar problem you see with all safety related decisions - as the large risks are eliminated you become more concerned about the smaller risks. Plenty of successful drugs from the 50’s had hERG activity, yet the impact on safety was
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by refurb 2mo ago
> Failed attempts cost society nearly nothing The world does not have unlimited resources. Money spent on one project is money that can’t be spent on another.
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by refurb 2mo ago
As someone who used to work in pharmaceutical R&D, the important thing to remember is the hurdle to get over hasn’t remained constant. The FDA has gotten significantly more strict in its review than it was in the 1960s. A good example i
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by refurb 2mo ago
Zolgensma acts on the peripheral motor neurons not the CNS
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by refurb 2mo ago
The US title system varies by state. Some are deeds based others are Torrens (registry), though deeds based dominates. And as for being screwed, that’s why real estate transactions have title insurance - to cover damages from incorrect tit
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by refurb 2mo ago
Clarifying definition is not a "word game". You seem quite uncomfortable debating the facts, and that's ok.
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by refurb 2mo ago
Hmmm, this index scores US at 80% and Mexico at 86%. To say the results are suspect is understating things.
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by refurb 3mo ago
I never said no one would be bankrupted by ambulance fees. We’re talking about financial ruin of the government.
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by refurb 3mo ago
Your article is about landlines AND they received government approval to end service. We’re talking about remote areas of the US that have almost no local population. Why would a company put a cell tower in the middle of federal land where
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by refurb 3mo ago
That seems like an impossible task in today’s world of layoffs and needing to jump jobs to get pay raises. You could live where you work and suddenly your next job is a 30 min drive away. How could you ensure that enough companies existing
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by refurb 3mo ago
Causing death in the course of administering treatment is not illegal. For someone in severe pain, it’s completely legal to offering increasing doses of morphine to treat pain even if it results in death.
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by refurb 3mo ago
> Now do maternal death rate Sure! https://archive.is/rMVJ0 Turns out the CDC changed the way it counts maternal deaths, while other countries didn't, so you're comparing different measures. The old US measure

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