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by snrplfth 10y ago
He moved there in 1956. The war started in 1983, 27 years later . Could it be that you don't know what you're talking about?
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by snrplfth 10y ago
The problem is that the pharma industry wouldn't have you believe it's a bunch of pointless roadblocks. The pharmaceutical industry, as currently constituted, generally thinks the FDA's system is great, because it means tha
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by snrplfth 10y ago
I didn't say they were on the market in other developed countries, since the drug approval bodies in those countries tend to face similar incentives. My point is that the process which requires drugs, even many existing generics, to go
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by snrplfth 10y ago
The leakiest incentive is that the FDA gets in a huge amount of trouble if it lets through a drug that has unforseen negative side effects, but faces essentially zero consequences for holding up the approval of a worthwhile drug indefinitel
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by snrplfth 10y ago
Oh no! People might start taking drugs not explicitly approved by the government after an extremely long, expensive and monopolizing approval process, like kratom or something crazy. Can't have that.
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by snrplfth 10y ago
Here's what they actually did that was novel: - Building an engine capable of multiple restarts while facing into a supersonic headwind, which are necessary for any kind of successful propulsive landing. - Designing a mass-thrifty firs
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by snrplfth 10y ago
What I'm saying is that, if someone is predicting a certain amount of economic progress for the year 2000 in 1929, then the fact of the Great Depression and WWII will tend to make predictions more optimistic than reality. Those two eve
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by snrplfth 10y ago
But what I'm saying is that both paid labour and unpaid labour (or "domestic labour") are both going down in number of hours. People working in daycares and kindergartens are already counted in the paid labour hours. What t
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by snrplfth 10y ago
The inflation-adjusted price of a Model T in 1930 would be about $4000 2008 dollars, but the per capita income was only about $7000. (A big reason the Model Ts seems so cheap is because labour costs were comparatively low - but so were inco
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by snrplfth 10y ago
The curb weight of a Model T is 540 kg and its engine produces 20 horsepower, while a Honda Civic is 1150 kg, produces over 160 horsepower, and gets 35 mpg. It's moving twice as much car, with better efficiency, much faster, over a lon
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by snrplfth 10y ago
They've continued trending down since then, especially when you count hours of domestic labour, which has dropped a lot (and no surprise, since you're not getting paid wages for those hours generally.)
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by snrplfth 10y ago
Again, my point is that the average home probably wouldn't have had a car, and if it did, it was far worse in terms of efficiency, safety and performance than all but the cheapest used cars today. This is the mis-perception I'm
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by snrplfth 10y ago
It existed, but was quite expensive, and mostly not used in homes. People generally purchased ice blocks to put in small iceboxes. Not like the refrigeration that exists now.
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by snrplfth 10y ago
Okay, but that means no fridge, no car, no air conditioning, no television or computer, no air travel, only a few sets of clothing, and many other things missing besides. That's what's being offered as the "1929 life". N
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by snrplfth 10y ago
J.M. Keynes was basically just spitballing when he said that, in an article called "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren". Basically a non-academic article to make some long-term predictions based on trends of the time. Al
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by snrplfth 10y ago
It also has to do with legislation and with marginal value. Above 40 hours or so, a lot of countries have laws, like overtime pay and what have you, that start to kick in and make it less worthwhile for an employer to ask for those hours. A
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by snrplfth 10y ago
Sure, most cryptocurrencies will probably fail over the long run. But the comment I was responding to was asserting that Bitcoin would fail because it lacks "underlying usefulness" or "commodity backing". I disagreed w
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by snrplfth 10y ago
I wouldn't quite agree that tax requisition is "the thing" that gives a paper currency value, though of course it is one. (I mean, lots of people/companies hold USD, EUR, CHF, JPY, etc., without ever needing to pay taxes
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by snrplfth 10y ago
But the value of Bitcoin is that it is durable, portable, divisible and uniform - and basically in limited and predictable supply (unlike the Weimar Reichsmark or the Hungarian pengo.) That's what makes it useful. Why does a currency n
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by snrplfth 10y ago
The usefulness of nuclear explosives is in their high energy-to-weight ratio. It's very easy to mount them on rockets, guide them to targets and detonate them precisely. A short burst is as good as a long push if the total force is the
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by snrplfth 10y ago
Humans already have the technology - nuclear explosives, and a lot of them. And I don't see how it's a bad time for space-oriented stuff in the USA - it hasn't been this good for years! What makes you think NASA is going to g
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by snrplfth 10y ago
I think they're talking about the Goldstone Array: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldstone_Solar_System_Radar It's used for high-res imaging of asteroids that pass close by.
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by snrplfth 10y ago
I think it's the structure of rights-of-way, pole-attachments and so forth as monopolies that props it up. The fact that municipalities get sued for trying to sell bandwidth is a problem, but it emerges, I think, because of the fact
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by snrplfth 10y ago
Let me clarify: I'm saying that the "well, your objections are just psychological" aspect is the weakness. Sure, to have a psychological theory is fine, but too often it drifts into essentially "objections to our theor
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by snrplfth 10y ago
Well, Comcast's oligopoly is largely established by the fact that rights-of-way and pole-attachment rights are monopolized by municipalities, which tend to approve only a single, or few providers. It's not a natural monopoly.
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by snrplfth 10y ago
Well, that's a big weakness of these theories, I think. My question is not terribly complex or dependent on unusual or unrealistic situations. I would also note that sometimes, people operating off a 'psychologist' basis like
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by snrplfth 10y ago
Okay, then I agree with that. And I would add that its non-permissiveness is a big contributor to its disharmonies.
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by snrplfth 10y ago
But are collectives allowed to exclude people? If not, how will they select appropriate workers? If you can just show up at a collective and say "I want to work here, and you can't exclude me or kick me out " then how will t
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by snrplfth 10y ago
But if people can freely organize themselves into collectives or communes, then some of those collectives will be more successful than others, and without mandatory redistribution, you'll have inequality again. Also, if people can leav
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by snrplfth 10y ago
But the comment he was responding to said "humans in more permissive societies habitually live in relative harmony even more than those in less permissive ones." So the fact that, upon trivial examination, a society is revealed to

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