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by rory 4y ago
"Sorry, not sorry" is exactly a flamewar thing. You're not "speaking truth to power." First, as I pointed out you're factually incorrect. Second, who do you think is reading your HN thread that has power over t
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by rory 4y ago
The author is using Toronto as a stand-in for a typical North American city, when in fact it's actually pretty bizarre and unique with respect to density-- I can't think of any American city structured similarly.
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by rory 4y ago
Also doesn't apply to Boston, Philly, and perhaps some smaller cities in New Jersey etc.. The author is Canadian and it seems like he's taking a lot of his perspective from Toronto, which is actually kind of bizarre in that it has
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by rory 4y ago
> expensive political stunts Yeah wouldn't mind losing this $120B if they had saved that $600k, amirite? FEMA subsidizes all kinds of wealthy people, Florida MAGAs and NYC Davosers alike.
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by rory 4y ago
> flying legal immigrants to other states Can we please not do this flamewar thing? Asylum seekers are technically neither legal nor illegal immigrants yet, but everyone knows this will cause an argument that's completely unrelate
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by rory 4y ago
> these children were recruited from 6 of 10 cities included in the original cohort: Vancouver, Montreal, Kingston, Toronto, Hamilton, and Halifax Probably just the difference between this cohort vs. all Canadians (urban and rural).
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by rory 4y ago
In the case of Germany, they invented a new currency worth a lot more and allowed exchange at a gov't-determined rate (they actually did this a few times).
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by rory 4y ago
This train of thought is logical, but what is the practical application for a given nation? Even if one were to abandon fiat money, there's no way to force their adversaries to do so as well. The game theory seemingly pushes everyone t
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by rory 4y ago
Largely governments: https://darksky.net/attribution
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by rory 4y ago
Where do you live?
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by rory 4y ago
> I imagine myself trying to cast a spell like that and having to go through fifty iterations to even begin to start doing the right operation without killing the person; and even when fully trained making tons of error while doing it c
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by rory 4y ago
??
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by rory 4y ago
> 2008 had one of the top 5 or 6 peaks of inflation over the past century! More like the 9th or 10th, but nonetheless I see what you're talking about with the summer 2008 oil spike. The problem with this analysis is that a deflati
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by rory 4y ago
No, it's not at all actually: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=T1OA
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by rory 4y ago
2008 was on the verge of a massive deflationary spiral. Bank debt forgiveness likely did cause inflation, but we needed it then! We are now in a period of high inflation already, so we would very much not like more.
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by rory 4y ago
> People forget that the average home was ~700 square feet 100 years ago. Interesting related graph: https://infogram.com/1pqdpn20vkmlelcq6qx7jzwz9pf00g9xnq5 Although we're currently in a frothy situation, scaled
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by rory 4y ago
Yeah the 1031 exchange simply defers the tax to a later time. But if you defer it until you die, your heir (in many cases) gets off tax-free.
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by rory 4y ago
You're skipping over the (extremely important) part where you take out a mortgage on property. So you buy the $500k property with $125k in cash and a $375k mortgage (25-30% down is typical for investment mortgages). Depreciation *plus
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by rory 4y ago
Exactly, and it's clear that cultural exchange has already been quite strong in the European->Indigenous American direction, so it's interesting to see what we could learn in the other direction. The article isn't helping
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by rory 4y ago
Infamous people are definitionally famous.
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by rory 4y ago
I've crossed three land borders to Canada in the past few years and none had an outgoing checkpoint.
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by rory 4y ago
> The latter isn’t a valid argument, because it would suggest the morality of murdering someone depends entirely on how many friends they have I think you misunderstand my point. There are many reason murder is harmful, and abortion ap
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by rory 4y ago
I think most people basically understand that part though. It's not like no one has noticed the bans and restrictions in red states. The much stranger thing that's happening is Europeans protesting in the streets against a ruling
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by rory 4y ago
There's no single Abortion in post-Roe USA standard either-- in fact it's more internally variant than Europe. So I guess it's kind of like comparing a basket of apples, oranges and bananas to a different basket of apples, or
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by rory 4y ago
How would that settle it? Like if you go to get an abortion they extract the fetus and put it into an artificial womb, then put it up for adoption? It's not likely we're all going to stop inseminating each other just because we ha
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by rory 4y ago
A fetus generally isn't believed to be a conscious entity (nor is a newborn for that matter). The important distinction vs. a kidney is more that it's something that likely will become conscious in the future . The question of ab
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by rory 4y ago
It's not listed as a particularly safe or unsafe place by the measure of the Bloomberg article. When I lived in DC I was several times narrowly missed by people blowing red lights, robbed, and once had to wake a driver up at a red ligh
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by rory 4y ago
For people wondering the drivers here: car crashes, drug overdoses, suicides. So the claim isn't really referring about the things people usually consider when it comes to "safety" (interpersonal attacks), although it's
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by rory 4y ago
I love Warsaw and think I would personally really enjoy living there, but if the GP isn't willing to move to Boston, they're not going to like living in Warsaw. Much smaller then NY, much more homogeneous, not a major world center
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by rory 4y ago
The use of freeports seems orthogonal to the fraud allegations outlined. Can you explain how they are related?

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