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by rsj_hn 5y ago
This is bad history that robs people of their agency and blames the US as the sole cause of any political event happening anywhere in the world. First, it was the Clerical class that was most responsible for the overthrow. They were the one
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
This is exactly right. It was the malaise speech that doomed his campaign. The difference between Reagan's hopeful, patriotic campaign and Carter's "Malaise" cannot be underestimated. To try to blame Carter's loss o
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
That's not how HN discussions go. For example, 50% of all discussions end up turning to people complaining about global warming. Pretty much 100% of all discussions about anything that any tech company does veer off into general condem
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
You don't know what's going on in schools? Or have you just internalized this oppression narrative so much that you don't think there is any reason to oppose it? "Teachers who had light skin were placed into a “white ca
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> Obama clearly did increase the deficit as national debt went from $10T to $19.5T during his tenure. To discuss this without mentioning the Global Financial crisis seems a bit disingenuous. I'm no fan of Obama but this is not a v
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I forgot about the 2019 Canadian landslide. How did that work out for Australia's election? But in any case, the United States has its own politics.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
That is a political argument as to whether a policy is beneficial or not. Do you know how to win political arguments? Here is a life pro-tip: One way to lose political arguments is to insist that the public has no choice but to adopt a ta
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Love this skit! The Hartman era was a good one -- also the jiffy pop airbag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQm7EEnN-0E
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Yes!! We must do this! Someone grab a napkin and amend the Maine constitution.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> When a carbon tax/madate is inevitably enforced LOL, good luck with that. Hard to think of more unpopular legislation. You might as well say "When the United Nations High command forces the U.S. to increase its gasoline taxes
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
For some reason, this warms my heart so much. I love it. It would of course be better if they played a round of poker.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Where are you getting this information? Do you have some links?
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> Hard to say since research into gun violence is banned by the government. It's not banned. The government isn't going to fund it, but you've jumped the shark if you think that means it is banned. And part of the reason i
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Yes, F is the electromagnetic field whose laws of motion generate the E/M dynamics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_tensor (This assumes you believe a "Field" has a physical meaning.)
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Well, I think the point is that in rigid body dynamics, the configuration and phase spaces naturally form a manifold and then the equations of motion are in terms of differential forms on the cotangent bundle of the these manifolds. This is
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> European cities were established long before cars were a thing The small, touristy, beautiful medieval cores of many famous European cities are like this. The vast oceans of newer construction surrounding this core were made in just as
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> For a concrete example, one youtuber showed how Maxwells equations simplified to a single equation if you introduce an operator that is a combination of div and curl, and also a new kind of physical entity that combines the electrical
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> "Direct housing subsidies don't prevent additional supply". The idea that the price of housing will not increase if a good is subsidized because the supply isn't "prevented from increasing" is so confused
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
It's just some of the more advanced theory you'd get from studying modules repackaged a bit. Basically the extra stuff that is usually skipped in first year linear algebra courses are the symmetric and asymmetric (often called ext
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Yes, the correlation is not necessarily causation, but we can add some other data points -- for example the size of new construction has been steadily growing at roughly 2%, which does not suggest any kind of odd explosion in house size as
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> tax unoccupied residencies OK, sounds promising > ..use that tax to subsidize housing record needle scratch sound . Subziding housing drives up the price, because it increases demand for housing. Have we not learned this lesson? A
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Of course they provide liquidity. But the whole point is that the entertainer doesn't want liquidity, they want illiquidity, for two reasons: 1. The marketing value of a ticket being impossible to obtain. The best way to do this is to
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
This is the difference between constrained and unconstrained areas. For example, San Francisco is a constrained area since it's already bounded by other cities and can only increase housing by building higher or getting rid of parks. B
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Nevertheless they are not buying houses for emotional reasons, but for the income stream. FYI, the reason this is happening is that interest rates are so low that people are desperate for yield, and rental yield fits the bill. There are a l
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Generally the U.S. leads a coalition of western nations that protect international shipping via freedom of navigation exercises. So if some country like India declares it owns the Indian Ocean, or China declares it owns the SCS, or Egypt
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> We pay people unemployment compensation because the knock-on effects from someone taking the next-best job are serious We have unemployment insurance not because of sentimentality, but because insurance is economically useful. A person
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> Also growing population and people moving to areas where the jobs are. Most recently: pandemic refugees from NYC and California settling in adjacent areas. When demand changes for a good with inelastic supply you see large excursions i
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> The price for housing has gone up substantially in the last 20 years This is the result of supply and demand. How does demand for housing increase? Falling mortgage, downpayment assistance programs, government guaranteed loans. That in
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
U.S. has a 65% home ownership rate. Not everyone can afford a Bentley or a condo in Manhattan. That is not some terrible injustice that needs to be fixed. Living within your means and buying a place where you can afford to live is also an a
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
"SF" is not used to refer to the "greater SF area", which is rather "the bay" or "SF bay area", a reference to the San Francisco bay which all these areas adjoin. Think of all the cities along a river

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