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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
> They're probably staying silent because here in Canada at least, this could be violating federal laws. Could you elaborate?
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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
I hate how when people say scrum they really mean something which is not well defined and you end up with some weird system that only some "scrum master" understands and that they seem to be making up as they go along.
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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
> Here is a quick video explaining how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Uu5eyN6VU Good video, thanks.
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Fed Chair: we now understand better how little we understand on inflation(businessinsider.com)
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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
They could veto all laws that don't change this. So to me it as democratic as Democratically elected representatives want it to be. That being said I have to agree it is not ideal if they can only approve or veto.
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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
> Ursula von der Leyen was not elected by EU citizens But was she not elected by EU members of parliment, who were elected by EU citizens? Every country I have ever lived in had a similar arrangement, I control who are elected to parliam
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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
This is to be expected, GPT-3 is great and all but it is not reasoning or thinking.
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After 20 years, the Mars Express spacecraft will get rid of Windows 98(interestingengineering.com)
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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
> The public health institutions in the US have an abysmal track record for accuracy and also knowingly lied to the public - e.g. advising against masks at the outset because they wanted to preserve their mask supply. Their track record
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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
> I'll grant that he was more competent at administrating the response than Trump, but COVID hasn't ended, the pandemic is still in progress. He gave US the vaccines, without which the pandemic would have been much worse. >
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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
I'm not interested in repeating it, I don't want to cause further violence against marginalized communities. Enough people have already quoted it from the article in the comments. And maybe ask yourself, why would a social constru
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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
> In my view allowing new leases on federal land[1] and asking oil companies to boost supply[2] is breaking his campaign promise to end fossil fuels[3]. But as you rightly point out there are so many that he has kept that one hardly make
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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
Hopefully it also incentivizes people to stop being selfish and buy an electric car.
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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
> What promise did he break? If he is anti climate what are you comparing him too? The past president left the Paris agreenment. Well like I said I still think he is the best president ever, but In my view allowing new leases on federal
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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
> I don't believe Biden has the most popular administration among just the last three, a sentiment that I suspect GP shares. Well he is not if you take the poll numbers, but as Biden has said, the low poll numbers are mainly a side
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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
> If people (companies) just use that money to buy financial products, pay off other debt, and so on, and it just kinda circulates in the banks, but most of it doesn't end up in consumer's hands - then there is no reason that t
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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
> I mean, the same media that was apparently run by a vast left-wing conspiracy for years is suddenly right-wing? Did they just change hats? No, this was just a lie though, the media has always been right wing, they lie and say they are
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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
> If gas price doubles does that mean that folks who commute by car go only half way to work or stay at home every other day? There are a lot of behavior that can be changed, not all of it, but people could skip some trips, maybe only 10
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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
All I see is promise made, promise kept ... or well not quite but at least they were trying their best up til recently when the Biden administration took a anti climate policy turn for some reason which I don't get. I will still vote f
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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
It is different because the media has not been as right wing as this before.
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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
> If you want to say that M1 has caused a demand-side inflation, fine... but it seems to me that 1/2ing the price of oil would 1/2inflation I would like to see some evidence for this, as I don't think this is the case, I
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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
> Ok, but how can you as a fed say that if you double the money supply the velocity will stay the same forever? It went up by 500% since March 2020 btw, not just 100%, or 200%: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
I'm pretty sure people are mostly upset with the current inflation level, not the inflation level back when it was low. But I guess those people should just be grateful it was not higher before, and just be less greedy.
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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
But his low poll numbers is mainly because the media won't give him credit for the good things he did and because of republican rhetoric.
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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
> The only difference today, with inflation, is the supply-side shock. If central bank policies were causing inflation, they'dve caused it over the last decade; and likewise in japan. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/seri
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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
> When heating your home suddenly costs four times as much you can't just use a quarter of the gas, or you'll freeze. Maybe this is an aside to you, but would you expect heating cost to increase or decrease if you are using fos
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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
> What evidence do you have that campaign promises to end fossil fuels caused an increase in oil prices. If you create policy that deter investment in fossil fuels, and reduce production, would you expect prices to go up or down? And if
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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
Would it be better to keep S&P high with inflation at highest levels in 40 years? And if so why?
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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
Well they surely are doing a stellar job running shit into the ground, so I guess they clearly know what they are doing.
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by wronglyprepaid 4y ago
> It's not just the amount of money, it is the amount of money available vs the amount of goods available. Okay, but ... if you just pumping money into the economy, are you not by definition just pumping money into the economy, as o

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