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by rsj_hn 5y ago
We could use a bit less wildly inaccurate stereotypes than "extremely puritanical USA". Please consider updating your views of our country from the 18th Century. Imagine if I went around ranting about "extremely Catholic Fran
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> I believe parental leave should be provided, but I don't see how anyone expects employers to shoulder the burden of providing paid parental (in reality maternity) It is always citizens that shoulder the burden one way or another.
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The idea of "value" independent of price is something treated by Marx as a normative claim that neither Adam Smith or Ricardo developed. When Ricardo or Adam smith talked of "value", they just meant "price" but
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Too Big to Sail: How a Legal Revolution Clogged Our Ports(mattstoller.substack.com)
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What do you think of the communities shown here: https://twitter.com/AndrewAPrice/status/1459512492489592832 I think there is a middle ground between wanting a human-scaled neighborhood with character and beauty t
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The problem with these UN agreements promising money is that the leaders still have to go home and get those appropriations passed. So even if 85% of the world's population wants to get money, whether or not the money is provided will
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> At some point - it's simple. Just pass on a carbon tax on any good, regardless of which country it is created on. Taxed in the country of destination. I don't think it's so simple, actually. My experience is that when pe
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The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy with Edward Luttwak [2013 video](youtube.com)
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> It leaves me wondering whether German unions might behave different A lot of moderns don't understand the unique role of Germany in the historical pantheon of left wing movements. Germany has historically been the hotbed of social
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Thanks! Sometimes I spend too much time on this site :)
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It's hard to tease out covid supply shocks, massive expansionary fiscal policy, and immigration. My bet is that that this is the order of importance, but I could be wrong. Honestly, I don't understand why we are debating another f
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Correct. Court decisions are about the law, and here I blame the current administration for trying to take a shortcut and not doing either 1) legislation (which requires some horse trading -- you'll need to give the GOP something in r
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> How is a private developer [...] > No private company in China is "too big to fail" The biggest companies in China are state owned enterprises with large ownership positions by communist party insiders. Not only are they n
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There's no "if" about it. Latest median earnings are negative for the last month as well as year over year: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/realer.nr0.htm Real average hourly earnings decreased 1.2 per
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> Sales tax is indeed double taxation. Yes! > That's why you're allowed to deduct it It's complicated. First, Sales taxes cannot be deducted from SALT if you deduct state income tax. You have to pick which one you deduc
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
That's true in biology or physics where actual facts - or things very close to facts - are being discovered, but not so in culture. Culture doesn't "advance" like science, although it does change, and inevitably so, and
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> which is even more saturated and competitive than the mobile market. I disagree. It was the decline of PC laptop build quality that prompted MS to get into this game, after years spent vainly begging OEM partners to sell at least somet
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> I really don't quite understand this fuss about the mandate. > Americans have tens of thousands of laws OK, let me try to break this down to make the court ruling more understandable. The mandate is not a law. It's a regul
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I honestly don't think Microsoft can compete in this market, which is a shame. First, what would MS do? Follow the Google approach and make a platform or follow the Apple approach and make a full phone? Google makes a platform, leaving
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Here it is from the horse's mouth, the newspaper of the ILA - International Longshoreman's Union: https://ilaunion.org/2021/05/latest-long-beach-terminal-auto... "TTI would become the fourth automat
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
That is interesting -- can you share your sources? There are, of course, a lot of ways of measuring upward mobility: * inter-generational upward mobility -- are you richer than your parents? * intra-generational mobility - has the older yo
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I posted this because I find Newton's time at the mint fascinating: * He made innovations in minting that resulted in more accurate, precise coins whose quality gained fame. - this blog * New innovations in making coins harder to clip
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Yes, I agree with your first two points. But it's important to point out that just because something is hard to prove does not mean that we should presume guilt. > and the third is that Louis admitted to the allegations. Did he? AFA
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Isaac Newton and the Royal Mint(blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk)
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So I'm not defending Louis C.K., either. But I'm troubled by the idea of people just concluding that he commited sexual assault when he hasn't even been charged with that, there was no fact-finding process at all, and people
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This, I didn't know -- where can I watch a special?
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That's not the issue. For those of us who aren't interested in judging him for this transgression, he's still a good comic that is quite entertaining, and we'd like to see him perform. The issue with cancel culture isn&#
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Louis C.K. is one I can think of, off the top of my head.
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Exactly. People complaining about protestants have no idea how sex is treated in traditional Hindu or Islamic societies, or really any durable traditional society.
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> In fact, one of the Eurobonds proposals was that states use European bonds up to some threshold (60% debt-to-gdp ratio level was proposed), and have to rely on national bonds to cover the rest. Yes, these are valid points. My impressio

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