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by thawaway1837 7y ago
Of course Obama would have been successful. For one thing, when he required the Europeans to increase their NATO contributions he did it quietly, without publicly insulting them, and got them to commit to increase it over a period of a deca
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
Because Obama was tackling the Chinese in a much more effective and long term manner through the TPP. And because 5G decision making hadnt really begun until early last year.
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
This is the reality. The Europeans would have been just fine with working with the US against China. The problem is that the “great negotiator” thought that what would be really brilliant would be to first attack your allies, and then ask t
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
There is a lot of evidence about US backdoors. The invisible dots on every printed page in the world. The Snowden leaks. The fact that the US is publicly trying to get Apple to install backdoors on their phones and threatening to pass laws
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
Why in the world would you stock it and use up valuable space, and fuel on carrying it around the world? Also, it surely cannot be a good idea to keep massive amounts of acid around for non essential purposes.
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
I think you don’t understand what a warmer planet actually means. I think you fundamentally don’t understand what temperature means. Temperature is not a primary property. It’s an emergent property which reflects the amount of energy in a s
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
In the US a resume with a photo will be discarded immediately by most companies. I suspect companies have written policies that say no photo resumes allowed. The simple reason is that a photo just opens up a ton of bias accusations. There i
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
Because if it is indicative of a warming planet (which this particular event may or may not be, although the warming of the planet is beyond doubt at this point), then life for human being is gonna get much worse because we have spent centu
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
Well, in my case WFH during the pandemic has been far better than otherwise because now everyone is on an equal footing. Everyone is WFH so I’m not missing random side conversations or getting ignored altogether. And it’s still pretty terri
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
Aren’t there a bunch of hotel brands that provide this?
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
Considering the person who is surrounded by the best experts, and should be in charge, spends his press conferences contradicting what those very experts just said minutes ago, we are kind of forced to listen to other people who have access
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
It would be significantly faster, cheaper and more effective to open additional mask factories in China. And they’d probably have a life beyond the pandemic there as well. Besides, it’s likely considering how few American regions are actual
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
I don’t see how their employment prospects or healthcare scenario would improve with them falling severely sick and now having preexisting conditions to boot. This is exactly where governments need to step in to prevent stuff like this.
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
Considering typescript compiles down to JS, and incredibly readable JS at that, the fact that your developers are unable to debug the JS directly may indicate that they are not as amazing at JS as you may believe they are.
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
I guess their thinking is with the current state of the world they would be selling oil at a loss anyways. So might as well slightly increase that loss and hurt their competitors as well.
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
The difference being no other president in at least the past 3 decades has publicly tried to influence the Fed. I’m sure every president has done so privately. Doing it publicly is not the same thing. There’s also the fact that no other pre
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
Credibility isn’t the same as perceived independence.
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
The Fed lost its independence at least a year ago, since the President has maintained a sustained and public campaign to pressure them. But the real issue here is that people don’t see this as a monetary issue and the fiscal side is depende
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
Didn’t they also announce a QE program of 700Bn?
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
Didn’t they also announce a QE program of at least 700Bn? Fed funds rate at 0 and QE worth at least 700Bn resulted in an 8% S&P drop so far. I’m not sure how much more effective the remaining monetary tools can be.
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
Right, which is why he shut down the division created to plan and prepare for pandemics, and terminated the position created to organize the response for a pandemic. The CDC was so dysfunctional that by the swift signing of a pen the CDC ha
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
Very few of the media seemed to focus on that. They largely seemed to focus on the fact that the Verily plans were nothing like described in the speech.
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
A lot of dying people are not being diagnosed as because of CoronaVirus. The people who are dying are usually older, or have preexisting conditions and their deaths can easily be chalked to their age/condition.
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
Once testing procedures are prevalent, and the curve has been bent, there is no reason why you cannot continue largely as usual well before a cure or vaccine exists.
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
If they do indeed go into lockdown it’s almost certainly a massive mistake.
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
This is the part people are missing. We don’t know enough about the virus, and due to the extreme nature of the worst case scenarios it’s probably a better bet to act as if the worst case scenarios are true. We can recover from an economic
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
Yeah, that’s never been my experience. You may see some scooters on the sidewalk. Bicycles are far more likely to be on the road than sidewalks. Note that kids under a certain age are allowed to bike on the sidewalk.
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
True, but I suspect the effect of so many fewer people venturing out is probably canceling out a lot of that effect.
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
Old wives tales can often be helpful. At the very least, they will probably be good at soothing symptoms. The key is to (a) avoid stuff that could be dangerous (eating exotic stuff that may be potentially poisonous), (b) don’t use it as a r
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by thawaway1837 7y ago
Yeah, except that’s not true at all. SS is not in a risky position. The worst that can happen to it is current SS receipts do not pay out enough money for the current SS recipients to live a reasonable quality of life. SS is a transfer of

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