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by 0xBDB 1y ago
Coöperate. And coordinate, etc. Also mostly seen in the New Yorker these days due to their style guide, but occasionally elsewhere.
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by 0xBDB 1y ago
> The reason you don't feel as threatened by cars as you are by bikes is (without knowing you in person) twofold Neither of your two points covers the reason I feel more threatened by e-bikes, which is that the last time I was in Ma
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by 0xBDB 1y ago
Income tax percentage in the U.S. ranges from negative counting credits (for the bottom 60% of taxpayers in states with no income tax) to a marginal rate of 52.7% plus a 1% surcharge on all income combining federal, state, and local for inc
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by 0xBDB 1y ago
> He postulated eightfold increse in economy Yes. That's math, the rule of 72. At a 2% growth rate the economy will be 8 times larger in 108 years, more or less. The rate is a bit higher, so we're a bit over 8 in the 95 years s
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by 0xBDB 1y ago
> Social Security in the US is definitely not enough for a "nice retirement". A two-retiree couple who contributed at the tax limit for long enough would get $122,592 in Social Security benefits in 2025. Not beachfront living i
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by 0xBDB 1y ago
It's precisely what Keynes meant. He meant that 15 hours of labor now will buy you what 40 would then. How could he have meant anything else? How would he anticipate houses 50% larger than his generation's, or cars with twice the
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by 0xBDB 1y ago
"Democratic Socialists" in America aren't socialists. Even Bernie Sanders doesn't advocate seizing the means of production. You can argue we use it wrong, but we can argue it's our language and we evolved it. But I
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by 0xBDB 1y ago
It still sounds impossible I'm afraid. A realistic wealth tax probably caps out and around 2%, remembering that the net worth of very rich people is generally not liquid and can be difficult to mark to market. Any higher rate risks for
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by 0xBDB 1y ago
Counterpoint to the general practice of ever using that phrase: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/come-on-obviously-the-purpo...
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by 0xBDB 1y ago
> In which case that is just "reduce your budget and spend less" with extra steps. I'm pretty sure the extra steps are the point, in that I simply don't believe the MMT folks expect them to ever take place. It's
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by 0xBDB 1y ago
> Let's see which tech stack and which customer support organization survives the merger, respectively... I have no inside experience of either company, but I have been through a lot of large financial industry mergers and I know wh
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by 0xBDB 1y ago
> Of course, most Western languages have gendered nouns - English is pretty unique in that respect. That likely comes from English being born as a pidgin of French and German. The John McWhorter theory (not sure if it's generally ac
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by 0xBDB 1y ago
If you have ever purchased insurance, including car insurance, he has impacted your life either because he probably insured or reinsured you. There's a good chance if you've ever purchased anything shipped by railroad, or electric
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by 0xBDB 1y ago
American railroads have pretty good pay and benefits, including some of the last defined-benefit pensions left in the private sector. They didn't want to give in on same-day sick days (not the same as prescheduled PTO, which they did h
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by 0xBDB 1y ago
With respect, this was not a good reply. > 24 states have legalized weed and 39 have made it available for medical use, YET it is still illegal under federal ruling. Congress at least has to pretend it has enumerated powers and is using
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by 0xBDB 1y ago
Yes. The United States government is not allowed to regulate commerce unless it is interstate. So it defined interstate commerce as anything that substantially affects interstate commerce. Did you cut down a tree in your backyard and use it
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by 0xBDB 1y ago
Logical fallacies aren't automatic falsehoods. They're things that can't be proven with formal logic. The slippery slope is a fallacy and also a thing that fairly consistently happens in politics and law. The point far up thi
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by 0xBDB 1y ago
There are a lot of questions that are upstream of yours. Or at least, that illustrate why your questions are aggressively framed in a specific ideological directions and it's possible to frame them in the other direction. If common Ame
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
This administration's legal theory is that executive power is concentrated entirely in the person of the president, which, to be fair, is because the Constitution says that it is. That's not conducive to good government and is not
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
> What point of “there is a lot of overlap” is difficult to understand? The part where it would matter. The "race realist" i.e. racist right likes to point out that there is a lot of overlap between certain racial groups and th
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
> most advice has been starting at the bottom as an IT helpdesk worker I've been in infosec for about 10 years. It's a very broad field. Opinions vary but it's generally not considered an entry tech field. This advice is b
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
The only mention of the First Amendment seems to be specifically in regard to Zuck's allegation (whether you believe it or not) that the government subjected him to overwhelming pressure to fact check as he did. I don't know wheth
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
No. There are entire categories of employers (such as most of the prestigious financial firms for financial jobs) that only hire from the Ivy League. Twitter had its internal hiring policy leaked some time ago (before Elon) and Harvard was
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
The general rule is in fact that you can read anything you can get your hands on, which is one reason people like Prince Harry who come from different legal traditions consider the First Amendment to be nuts. "Just for starters, we reg
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
If we were all on the same page the US would have reciprocally banned TikTok as soon as China banned Facebook, i.e., before it even existed, and would also ignore its constitutional guarantee of free speech (which the Chinese, like the Sovi
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
The US wants to be much more like a wartime US, in the face of its most intense completion since WWII. I think most Americans have no conception of what WWII era US censorship and propaganda looked like, but it looked a lot like modern peac
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
The actual American belief is generally "[Most] Rich people bad government worse". The Pinkertons were breaking strikes launched by Americans, after all. May Day is a commemoration of an event that took place in Chicago. The react
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
Louisiana. I guess it's difficult to reconcile parts of it with the Code Napoleon. All other states have English common law as the basis of their legal systems.
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
Sweden is an outlier. US debt to GDP is 110%. France and the UK 99%. Italy 138%. Greece 203%. Japan 263%. China depends on who you believe, but probably somewhere around 100%.
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
Money is debt. Green (or whatever color) slips of paper aren't intrinsically valuable. They're a promise to redeem them for things that are, same as an IOU. I take your point that not every economy is run by a government that owes

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