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by rory 5y ago
Sorry, but "all else equal" doesn't, and can never, exist. Any way to expand M2 itself changes the velocity of money, inflation expectations, and (probably most importantly) the expected future value of the US economy. Your
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by rory 5y ago
"It doesn't explain all the variance" is very a generous way to say "it explains one seventh of the variance". And re: free lunch-- keep in mind that empirical reality isn't affected by our internal sense of fa
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by rory 5y ago
No, again that's simply not correct. We can empirically observe purchasing power and money supply, so there's no need to speculate. One-time changes to M2 of that magnitude have been shown to have small to no effect on inflation [
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by rory 5y ago
> That's a drop of 24% in purchasing power. No, it's not, because purchasing power doesn't scale linearly with M2 money supply.
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by rory 5y ago
"Vaccines becoming really effective" is a far cry from eradication. There's still no reason to believe we can eradicate Covid in the foreseeable future.
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by rory 5y ago
I actually don't think it was primarily caused by hits to the head. Every collision (including tackles and scrums) "rattles" the head in a way that causes pain, and presumably damage, over time.
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by rory 5y ago
Hm I'd never considered that angle. I buy that it is an effect, but I'm not confident it's general or stronger than other effects (often in the other direction). For instance, in my neighborhood, (market rate) landlords gener
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by rory 5y ago
Where does the power come from, in your model? Money? Apartments controlled?
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by rory 5y ago
I played rugby for years and had a constant, mild headache the entire time. Went abroad for five months so I took a break, and I couldn't believe how good I felt. I had forgotten what it felt like for my brain not to hurt. Needless to
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by rory 5y ago
> Whereas if you allow market rate on all apartments you've given landlords collecting rent an incentive to impede all kinds of property development which might bring rents down This incentive still exists if only some of the ap
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by rory 5y ago
Huh, thanks. Wiki says it's about 50/50, fwiw.
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by rory 5y ago
In eastern europe it's pretty simple. The collapse of the soviet union left a strong education system and also poverty. Learning to program is one of the most straightforward and doable ways to a good income, so lots of people do it. I
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by rory 5y ago
Although your tone is rude, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. > The forces of supply and demand can be overridden, but then you have to enforce the rules Enforceability is a key factor in whether a law will work. "Prope
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by rory 5y ago
Here's a more complete picture. Sweden is consistently among the least affordable across metrics: https://www.oecd.org/els/family/HC1-2-Housing-costs-over-inc... > The median burden of rent payments for t
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by rory 5y ago
Mostly societal accumulation of wealth and consistently low interest rates (which are low in part due to the high ratio of accumulated wealth to productive capacity).
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by rory 5y ago
The only reason drug prohibition doesn't work is because people abuse the system by dealing illegal drugs.
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by rory 5y ago
> Any treatment with the opposite character - works in humans but not mice - gets discarded by your process and never tested in humans Which actually seems suboptimal in a case like this. We know the risks and side effects of steroids
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by rory 5y ago
What is the target here? A lot of the points seem to address personal data collection by companies or the government, but they define Māori data very broadly as: > data, information or knowledge in any format or medium, which is about,
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by rory 5y ago
It's a cash grab thing. No one involved earnestly interprets the cover as sexual.
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by rory 5y ago
That's true, but hanging out at a Black Barber shop is also not a realistic option for a large percentage of the population.
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by rory 5y ago
Ah got it, makes sense. I guess I was just responding to "how can you have a normal community in US culture?" in abstract, not in regards to the people in the article.
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by rory 5y ago
The mineshaft-chucking idea could actually work decently. You'd probably want to turn it into charcoal first though.
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by rory 5y ago
That fits the stereotype in my head, but I'm not sure what you're getting at. Just that they're bad?
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by rory 5y ago
There have to be more options than that. A country club? A service org like Rotary / Lion's Club? I'm not sure what's out there, but there must options other than Jihad, Kristallnacht, or barber shop.
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by rory 5y ago
Out of curiousity, why? Addiction? Moral opposition?
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by rory 5y ago
Who enforces those rights in that scenario?
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by rory 5y ago
100%. The very concept of "identity theft" feels like corporate newspeak to shift the onus of remediation from the party that actually got defrauded (the company) to someone uninvolved in the transaction.
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by rory 5y ago
Most may be too far, but I also see a bunch of postings that a cull is needed to slow the spread of CWD.
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by rory 5y ago
The rich by and large aren't hoarding cash. They own things with intrinsic value.
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by rory 5y ago
> Calling them “big tech” jobs is almost as misleading as claiming that the construction workers and electricians who built the data enter were “big tech” construction workers. To be fair, an excavator is a fairly large piece of technolo

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