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by tsotha 11y ago
So you assert. Even if true it's meaningless.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>is there a mascot celebrating Dresden bombing? Or fire-bombing of Tokyo? There is not much difference, beside "efficiency", between those and Nagasaki/Hiroshima. Decades ago it seemed a meaningful strategic bombing operat
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by tsotha 11y ago
Sure, but NetWare was the industrial strength solution. It was too expensive to set it up at home or at a company with fifty employees.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>The bank profits from fees we pay to the bank and from interest on loans from the bank, but they have to have the money before loaning it out in the first place. They can't just loan you money out of nothing. Oh, I agree they have
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by tsotha 11y ago
That's how I remember it. The Mac came out only four years after the IBM PC and allowed Apple to sew up the GUI market for about five years. They were able to maintain a big quality edge for far longer. Apple also introduced the firs
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by tsotha 11y ago
Things like education, health care, and rent are all baked into the inflation numbers. If inflation and income growth are relatively constant (and they have been) then, yes, it is a wash. All she's proving here is people have more
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by tsotha 11y ago
I'm sure if you looked hard enough you could find the same in Vietnam. But it's not a culture-wide attitude.
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by tsotha 11y ago
There are two factors that determine how much money you have. Being "at a good place career-wise" is only half the equation. Your career better be going to a really, really good place if it requires living in an area with $4500&
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by tsotha 11y ago
Yeah, "aligned" is not the right word. But it's not part of the US either. It's not a state. It's in a weird protectorate gray area. By historical standards the most accurate appellation would probably be "c
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by tsotha 11y ago
>The Vietnamese don't seem to hold grudges for very long. For whatever reason, they seem to be a lot less traumatized by the war than the US was. This is despite the fact that they lost millions of people in the war. Did people in t
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by tsotha 11y ago
Birth control was readily available by 1970. Presumably you've heard about "free love" and all that?
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by tsotha 11y ago
>I'm not saying it wasn't tough, but housing prices were much lower relative to incomes in the 50s and 60s, even in a place like San Francisco. What do you mean even ? San Francisco has to be in the top five in terms of growt
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by tsotha 11y ago
>Do the other comparisons and you'll find that you are off base -- people today do make enormous sacrifices to start families at a young age, and people in the 50s to 80s who were single with no children did live lavish lifestyles.
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by tsotha 11y ago
I don't know about the 50s, but by the sixties traffic was as bad in some places as it is today. Traffic in Southern California, where I grew up, is actually better today than it was in the 70s.
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by tsotha 11y ago
I remember paying over a dollar a minute in the '80s for a phone call to my sister in the same state. Air fare was crazy expensive compared to today, as was anything electronic. Some things have gotten more expensive, and other things
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by tsotha 11y ago
>Most of them thought spending their life in a car was great -- certainly way better than having to take the bus or the train. It was a sign of success. You're overstating that quite a bit. Sure, driving for twenty minutes beats ta
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by tsotha 11y ago
>They just can't afford to raise a family as easily as their parents and grandparents could, so many choose not to, not because they legitimately have no interest but because they don't see the numbers adding up. That's th
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by tsotha 11y ago
>An enormous number of people, especially young people, are looking to avoid spending their lives in cars. Young people never wanted to spend their lives in cars. What's different with this generation is they don't seem to hav
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by tsotha 11y ago
Aren't we talking about the speed of sound in helium, though? That should be faster.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>The money multiplier effect you're alluding to means that if I have $1000 in the bank, the bank can lend $750 of it out to you, so between the two of us we have $1750 of liquid assets despite the $1000 of hard cash backing it. Whic
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by tsotha 11y ago
I'm not wrong. You are. Please. Do a little research. You have no idea how the system works, and I'm not sure where the certainty is coming from. This is right from the wiki page you refuse to read: "Because bank deposi
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by tsotha 11y ago
>Banks can only loan out money deposited with them. This is emphatically incorrect, and the slightest bit of research would have been enough for you to realize it, too. When you take out a home loan at the bank the bank doesn't lend
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by tsotha 11y ago
>The thing I find oddest here is that the his friends are now set as following the new account of the football player. Seems like at the very least there is a bug that needs to be fixed there. I doubt it's a bug. Someone probably c
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by tsotha 11y ago
Heh. I know four unrelated guys named Steve Miller. They might be willing to trade your "Misssssster Anderson"s for their "Some people call me a space cowboy... yeah"s.
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by tsotha 11y ago
In fractional reserve systems you create money when you borrow from the bank. So governments will often deliberately (if not openly) stimulate real estate prices in an effort to inflate the money supply and stimulate the economy. A great m
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by tsotha 11y ago
Technically, printing your way out of a debt crisis is still considered a partial default. From the investor's standpoint it's no different than an official markdown.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Sanders has no better chance than Trump. We're deep into decimal digit territory here.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>You act as though it could have only been a racial issue if the Republicans had explicitly made it so, which is not how it works, and that by calling them out on it, Democrats made it into a racial issue, which is laughably disingenuous
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by tsotha 11y ago
To what should I give more credence - an article in which someone says something is impossible, or large, multi-threaded applications at my workplace grinding through data around the clock? I feel like a blacksmith who's been told hors
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by tsotha 11y ago
>It's been demonstrated that for whatever reason the public at large isn't nearly so concerned about military actions carried out by drones. The public doesn't care if they're carried out by manned jets either. It&#x

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