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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> One reason why SUVs are as popular as they are is that car manufacturers are allowed to produce less efficient cars if they are larger and with off-road capability This was true like in the 1990s. It hasn't been true in a very lon
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> The NYT has a century-plus history of pushing the defacto national narratives used by politicians - while they might not be openly backed by any federal interest, they are certainly stochastically willing to play along. That's ver
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> The shortsightedness of people is amazing: since the '70s, when oil prices go down, people reliably buy wasteful and large cars. Then they go up, and people reliably do the opposite. You don't want people to respond to econom
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> Just directly pay government expenses with new money instead of selling bonds. What would this accomplish, exactly? JGB yield zero, reserves yield zero, what's the effect of buying one with the other? > Japan’s nominal GDP has
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I prefer to just keep using "crypto" and confuse the outsiders with my own crypto-jargon
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You may not understand this if you are from a foreign country, but the relationship of states to the Federal government in the US is not like the relationship of provinces to the central government in France. The US is a truly federal syste
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> What's magical about Tesla that its going to stay a non-union shop? I guess Tesla thinks they can afford a package attractive enough to compete with unions and then not needing to pay the dues will tip the scale in favor of keepin
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
So I'm not advocating for clear-cutting, I'm saying that as an emergency measure, I'd rather do it than nothing, at least to get rid of all the dead trees, which really need to go ASAP. But clear-cutting is obviously bad fo
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
It's not about "not caring", but most understand that a value system that assumes we must eliminate suffering whenever possible leads to terrible, dysfunctional, hedonistic societies that create a lot of harm. In the same way
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
That's pretty cool! I've heard a lot of good things about Mazda as well, including improving build quality and reliability.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I think it's a lot more likely that in 50 years, per capita animal consumption will be higher than today, simply because the subgroups that tend to favor vegetarianism are shrinking as a share of the overall global population (and tend
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I'm glad you agree that while protesters are allowed to cause some inconvenience, they are not allowed to disable critical infrastructure like access to roads. This is why most areas in the U.S. which are concerned about rule of law (s
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> You are confusing ability to have children (which has genetic components) with the decision of doing so. No, I'm not. Please re-read the sources I mentioned, as well as the text I wrote. I listed both factors and focused on the se
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
It is precisely this type of self-righteous posturing that causes people to pass laws to block radical groups from blocking traffic and as well as driving the public into opposing whatever legislation you are advocating. Sorry, but no civil
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> So in order to stop protesters, No, in order to stop protesters from blocking traffic , then that is all the police need to do. The protestors can always protest in a park or literally anywhere other than in the middle of roads. In a
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> Most cars have a powertrain warranty that exceeds the bumper to bumper warranty, First, the catalytic convertor is not a part of the powertrain. Second, these warranties do not cover theft . No manufacturer warantee covers theft, it c
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> It's not about removal or clear cutting. It kinda is, given that controlled burns are taken off the table. Yes, controlled burns would be preferable, but if they are ruled out (which, in practice, they are), then we need to signif
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> This is absurd. The "gene pool" has nothing to do with people's sense of ethics around having kids or not. To think that fertility -- one of the key issues in evolution -- would not be influenced by genetics requires a
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
California, unfortunately, needs a lot more wildfires, as the state refuses to do controlled burns, doesn't allow clear-cutting, and it's hard to pass EIR processes. But 20 million acres of forests need to be removed from the stat
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The Charity-Industrial Complex(im1776.com)
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Really Kissinger's main crime was "supporting" various wars or coups, which basically every secretary of state does, since there is no war or coup in which the US isn't supporting one side over another. However our actua
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
With interest rates at their current level, it makes a lot of sense to not pay down your mortage, to refinance, or even to take out a heloc. Again what matters is net worth, not whether you house is paid off.
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what do you drive?
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Agree that the obsession with Kissinger is quite funny. He's not even in the top 10 of my personal villains for US foreign policy, but he never led (or commanded someone else who led) an army and can't be guilty of any warcrimes.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> It just sounds completely broken over there and I'm not sure I will manage to wrap my head around it. Agreed. But that's the way it is, and it's important to understand why it's this way. When Europe and Australia
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
The costs are more diffuse than this. First, the U.S. system costs twice as much as other systems because we have more people employed delivering care and they make higher salaries. Doctors, nurses, they all make more in the U.S. than in Eu
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
The issue is why it costs $6.5K to get the stitches rather than who pays for it. I mean, it's clear that it's not sustainable to have a healthcare system in which stitches cost this much. Things are not made any better or less out
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Having an abundance of talented developer labor so even money losing companies can afford to buy it is not a problem that exists in the world. What usally happens now is that developers leave if there are no customers, but yes, if we ever r
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> I don’t believe objective measures of intelligence don’t tell you all that much about someone. Unfortunately that's not true. And we have a lot of data that this isn't true. I recommend reading "The Ape That Understood t
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
If it's not obvious, the more diverse a group is, then lower the lowest common denominator will be. That's just a law of nature. So if you are selling a global movie, you are not going to be able to rely on cultural references, wi

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