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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> it's preposterously stupid that our legal system So at this point, your Chesterton fence alarm should be blazing red, because it is unlikely that you, sitting in pure contemplation, can correctly decide that something so widesprea
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The Red-Pilling of Loudoun County, Virginia(taibbi.substack.com)
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
What you are saying makes sense for Tokyo, a huge real estate market, but not for a campus. Let's suppose dorm A costs 60% to build as dorm B so that students can choose to live in dorm A for $600 and dorm B for $1000. But one year mor
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> I find it weird that you trust the inspections Well, that's something for you to work out. China was great at monitoring the population. If there was a Christian missionary somewhere in those villages they would have been swiftly
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
per capita isn't a useful metric. Imagine if you are China and your population is declining, but your GDP is still going up so your per-capita CO2 is going up. That's not fair for them. https://data.worldbank.org/i
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
That goes back to the issue of how long the market can stay irrational. Maybe a very long time. Maybe not long at all. So you risk giving a windfall to the contrarian investor but maybe no contrarian investor will arrive. I'm pretty su
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Stanford students get windows. Cal students don't. :P
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
The problem is that to go from not needing a car every day to not needing a car at all is a huge leap that has a lot less to do with the geography of daily tasks and more to do with the geography of everywhere you'll go, as well as thi
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> This often meant bureaucrats would set export quotas based on calculations rather than merely exporting excess product and making decisions based on spreadsheets rather than relevant expertise. The official story is false. They knew wh
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
The problem with that theory is that auto manufacturers face declining average costs and so are incentivized to produce more cars and sell them for a lower unit price. This is why the only source of auto inflation is by adding more features
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I did not know this, and frankly it seems to be at odds with my understanding of French politics during that period. I'm not saying you're wrong -- I'm happy to get other evidence, but can you point me to something? Update: t
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
FYI, it would help if you provided links to the cited studies.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I had to think for a second about the first one, assuming you meant Queen Elizabeth. Well played.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> How does an AI car that is programmed to maintain its lane, operate safely and obey traffic rules operate in an environment where there are no lanes or traffic rules? People in NYC zoom around and honk the horn and cut each other off w
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Republican Youngkin wins Virginia governor's race(nbcnews.com)
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Venezuela: ICC Investigation Opens(hrw.org)
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> Why is NJ always giving more? If they have so much debt? Because we have progressive taxation and a lot of rich people live in New Jersey, so they pay more in taxes. A state doesn't need to be in financial trouble because it is po
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
This is like one step away from the Morlock and Eloi.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> multiple junk bonds can be combined together to form a higher quality bond than otherwise. Well it's obviously true. Take your good bond to get paid first from 1000 junk bonds. Then your 999 worse bonds get paid last. Even during
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
They make the softest toilet paper. There was one of those ersatz progressive boycotts of Koch Industries where they listed all the Koch owned brands and which brands were politically acceptable alternatives, and out of curiosity I bought s
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Yes, Reagan was wildly popular. He was also not the evil monster that progressives portray. He won primarily because he was a better politician than Carter. Carter of course went on to do a lot of humanitarian work and deserves public respe
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
SFPD don't investigate because the DA wont prosecute. Actually the DA has the lowest prosecution rate and highest dismissal rate of any DA in California (maybe in the U.S.) for even those things that the police do investigate, which
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Will be interested to see how this works out. Don't understand why people are treating this as a bad thing here.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
updated
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29102780
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
In terms of general rules of thumb, it requires a certain working knowledge of the world to gauge how plausible it is that the U.S. would single-handedly be able to overthrow a regime in Iran if there wasn't broad popular support for t
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
So you discount the testimony of teachers because youtube has an algorithm, and you discount the oppression narrative quotes because you label the source as "astroturf" and you discount the actual school materials leaked by whistl
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Yes, Carter was frumpy, gloomy compared to the optimistic Reagan always standing in front of a huge flag with perfect hair and a glint in his eyes.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
The fact that there are no hits except for one 4 months ago and the next one six months ago proves my point about very selective enforcement.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Am I the only one disappointed to find out that when the article says "Big Macs" they mean that purely as a caloric unit of measurement?

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