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by viburnum 5y ago
Right, but those deaths were in an environment when there were interventions to protect people. Take away those interventions and you have more deaths.
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by viburnum 5y ago
What if you get vaccinated and then get a breakthrough infection? How's your immunity then?
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Productive Bubbles(noemamag.com)
1 points by viburnum 5y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 5y ago
I hate to be a bummer but she really looks like she's using growth hormones or steroids.
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by viburnum 5y ago
Yes https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/hygiene...
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by viburnum 5y ago
A university near me gave ed master’s credit for playing golf. Not even in a class, you just play golf and send in your score.
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by viburnum 5y ago
This is a good example of how fiscal and monetary policy that allow slumps to persist have impeded investments in new technology.
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by viburnum 5y ago
Construction is labor-intensive and can’t keep up with other sectors technologically. Cost disease is the kind of problem you want.
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Picking a Health Insurance Plan(mattbruenig.com)
3 points by viburnum 5y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 5y ago
Thanks! I’m pretty sure I have the same issue!
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by viburnum 5y ago
Right, but around the world the green revolution crops displaced more nutritious staple foods like millet and sorghum.
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by viburnum 5y ago
I know geeks love Norman Borlaug, but there was a catch: the new high-yield varieties are dependent on fertilizers made from fossil fuels. These plants grow fast and have more carbs and less of everything else. There needs to be a second Gr
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by viburnum 5y ago
Driving more miles is a bug not a feature. America should aim to reduce its miles driven by 50-75% to get its deaths in line with similar countries.
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by viburnum 5y ago
America has nearly twice the car death rate of Canada (and Canada hardly has substantially better weather or density than America). It's crazy.
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by viburnum 5y ago
Are you kidding? My economics background taught me to assume away all the relevant facts and content myself with toy models of perfect competition.
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Astroturfing, Dr. Evil, and NYC’s Elite Schools(z3dster.medium.com)
4 points by viburnum 5y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 5y ago
US constitution is bad though. Nobody is good enough to make it work.
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How France Did Away with Tax Brackets(sethackerman.substack.com)
5 points by viburnum 5y ago|5 comments
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by viburnum 6y ago
That’s the point.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Matt Lauer, Harvey Weinstein, Charlie Rose, etc, the workplace provides access to something they can't get anywhere else.
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by viburnum 6y ago
There's an excellent book about The Economist called "Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist." Here's a good review: https://newrepublic.com/article/155962/liberalism-at-large
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by viburnum 6y ago
It’s mostly just ad tech. Sites without ads are usually pretty good.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Annapolis convention fizzles out in 1786, the economic crisis leads to states providing relief to debtors, then 1787 Philadelphia convention rewrites the constitution to protect the bondholder class.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Probably should mention that the US constitution was written largely to protect bond speculators (against state legislatures trying to protect debtors).
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Tesla removed some drivers from its self-driving test for not paying attention(cnn.com)
2 points by viburnum 6y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 6y ago
Reporters were never good at writing. Now that all the editors are gone we can see the difference.
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Adam Tooze on Crpytocurrency(adamtooze.substack.com)
3 points by viburnum 6y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 6y ago
My car’s voice activated controls work great but my brain doesn’t. If I use it then I get tunnel vision so badly that I’m essentially blind.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Apple has really gone backwards in UI quality. It's so sad.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Hidden in all that math and technique are some very strong ideological assumptions. That poor people are lazy, that wages equal the marginal product of labour, that there’s an efficiency/equality tradeoff. Even just the common assumpt

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