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by whodidntante 9mo ago
The article was written by "Europe’s preeminent research institute for global economic affairs" which is based in Germany. Europe, and Germany, saw a significant drop in its trade to the US since the tariffs started. Seems like th
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by whodidntante 9mo ago
While consumers are paying for pretty much the entire tariff (according to the article), the volume what they are buying has "collapsed" (according to the article). Consumers are just buying from other sources (domestically or oth
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by whodidntante 9mo ago
I feel that many of the reactions to this paper is misplaced. To be upfront, I am not a fan of tariffs because I am pro free trade, pro capitalist, and feel that tariffs do not promote good will between countries. First of all, the summary
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by whodidntante 1y ago
I have done a lot of research into this area. Obesity and other self inflicted health issues are definitely a factor, but not, by far, the whole picture. Our cost per service is 2-4x or more, and the larger reliance on specialists creates s
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by whodidntante 1y ago
America spends $5T on healthcare per year. That is twice as much per capita as our "peer" nations (UK, France, Canada, Germany, etc) and we have poorer outcomes.
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by whodidntante 1y ago
Did not realize this, you are correct. I thought nominations were accepted until late in the year since so many people were "nominating" Trump, even before the middle east thing. But I am confused, Obama got his prize in 2009, whi
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by whodidntante 1y ago
I did not recognize her name, but after doing some research, I am impressed by her work, and do not have an issue with her getting the prize. However, her accomplishments were also clear last summer, and I feel it would have been far more a
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by whodidntante 1y ago
Jeremy Corbin is as Jewish as Elizabeth Warren is Native American And besides, not sure what is the point of putting this reference in, as he should be judged by his actions, not his ancestors. Not too different than justifying many of Clar
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by whodidntante 1y ago
I do not make excuses for what the US did/does, I acknowledge it. Nor do I minimize what it has done or is doing because others have done similar/worse. It is you who singles out US and Western Europe as bad, and make excuses for
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by whodidntante 1y ago
The US has a lot of history to deal with - genocide of Native Americans, slavery, treatment of women, to name a few. A number of horrible wars since the aftermath of WW2. We are also going through significant challenges right now - social,
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by whodidntante 1y ago
There are plenty of countries to go to that are not complicit in your home countries issues if your issue is with the US. Russia and China have well above average lifestyles based on PPP. So do many South American countries, as well as Japa
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by whodidntante 1y ago
Germany was trying to get Mexico to join them for wwi, with enticement of getting back the land they lost 70 years prior. That loss was immense for Mexico in land, pride, and economics Mexico was dealing with its own internal issues (revolu
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by whodidntante 1y ago
True, but I was around and saw first hand how Zuckerberg dominated social networking. He was pretty ruthless when it came to both business and technology, and he instilled in his team a religious fervor. There is luck (and skill) involved w
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by whodidntante 1y ago
There is another dimension, which is mostly but not fully characterized as perseverance, but many times with an added dose of ruthlessness Microsoft, Facebook, Uber, google and many others all had strong doses of ruthlessness
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by whodidntante 1y ago
And this is the point. You need to narrow the scope to make something like this useful. Writing a paper on "Good transportation design" is kind of meaningless. Do you mean cars, trucks, boats, planes, spacecraft, scooters, fighter
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by whodidntante 1y ago
Never write an article about good system design. In all seriousness, this is an extraordinary subtle and complex area, and there are few rules. For example, "if you need data from multiple tables, JOIN them instead of making separate q
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by whodidntante 1y ago
+1 For me, it goes even deeper than this. I prefer the person to write pseudo code on a whiteboard. It removes the stress of syntax, speeds things up, and shows if the person can think in computer logic. The other advantage, for me as an in
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by whodidntante 1y ago
Ironic, isn't it ? I am not sure how to address such a blanket statement as "Hundred million contracts with zero results. Conservative ideology is based on the idea that certain people is just above others" without providing
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by whodidntante 1y ago
sorry. I was responding to the part that says that "Healthcare in the US is already in very poor shape." Is AI better than most physicians for diagnosis ? I doubt it, and I doubt that there have been any real studies as the area i
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by whodidntante 1y ago
I do not know why you need to bring political ideolgy into this. It is very easy to find contracts put together and run by Democrats that only serve to increase administrative bloat. One example: $42.5B in the infrastructure bill to expand
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by whodidntante 1y ago
There is quite a lot of easy to find information on the web that shows that the US spends twice as much per capita than our European peers and we have worse outcomes, not just on average, but worse outcomes comparing similar economic demogr
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by whodidntante 1y ago
I wanted to give you an example of what I see is not just corruption, but an example of how feedback loops of self interest combine to create systemic issues that threaten our entire society. It is "known" in the research industry
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by whodidntante 1y ago
Slashing will not fix the problem. Nor will more taxing and spending fix it. The problem is systemic. We have an out of control health system that is steadily growing as a percent of GDP while providing less and less value to less and less
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by whodidntante 1y ago
What I should have said is that the system is corrupt, not that there is corruption in the system. There will always be profit to made in the system (there has to be for it to work), and there will always be corruption to some degree in the
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by whodidntante 1y ago
The first few areas are easy,since budgets are known and there are actual comparative measurements that have been done. Health. We spend $5T a year on our "health", which is 2X the per capita amounts spent by western European coun
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by whodidntante 1y ago
This, and many other things in the area of science, is an embarrassment. However, I feel that what is argued about, by all sides, misses the point. The US spends 2X what China does on civilian space programs, and 4X what Europe spends. We s
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by whodidntante 1y ago
The BBB will add $4.5T (this is the largest estimate) in addition to the $15T-$20T that would have happened without the BBB The debt would have been about $52T+, now it will be $56T+, if projections are accurate. While I do not agree with t
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by whodidntante 1y ago
I watch TV for entertainment, not news I read from different and often conflicting sources for information, for whatever that is worth I draw my own conclusions, for whatever they are worth, which sometimes change over time I believe that I
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by whodidntante 1y ago
There is quite a lot of info from many diverse sources. Even assuming a lot of misinformation or incorrect information, there is just too much to say there is nothing here. Common sense also needs to take into account that Iran already does
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by whodidntante 1y ago
I think this is quite different than Iraq. We know Iran has many sites were they are developing nuclear technology, sites that they not only do they not let inspections happen, but that are literally buried deep in the ground. We also know

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