HarryHirsch

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by HarryHirsch 6mo ago
In Europe the law argues that cars are dangerous, and if you loan your car to a habitual bad driver, that's on you. You can either get the person who drove it to fess up, or the judge can fine you (because you lent out your car against
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by HarryHirsch 6mo ago
Economists, of course - the confounder of discrimination is absent here. Recall: if something appears weird in the US, it's usually due to slavery.
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by HarryHirsch 6mo ago
The U-3 rate does not include those that drove for Uber one hour in the month. The gold standard metric is labor participation rate of white men over 20, and that's not looking good: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series&#
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by HarryHirsch 7mo ago
They imported top graduate student talent that went to the us and might have wished to stay but could not or wouldn't put up with the H1-B indentured servitude or was better paid back home or just patriotic. Also - less financializatio
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by HarryHirsch 7mo ago
George Sheldrick wrote an important program at the age of 75. He chose not to follow a chess career as a young man, but he could have.
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by HarryHirsch 9mo ago
... pitching his books and preaching the Prosperity Gospel, which is antithetical to mainstream Christianity and not good financial advice.
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by HarryHirsch 9mo ago
Why would someone listen to Dave Ramsey of all people? He is neither an economist, nor a Christian, he has nothing to contribute to the subject! His shtick is real estate investment, of course he wants to see Joe Public buy a starter home.
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by HarryHirsch 9mo ago
The decision to implement benefit cliffs is absolutely intentional, because income requirements that cause people to fall of medicaid or SNAP completely are sharp, and maybe 10 % of the population rely on those. Obamacare subsidies are pha
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by HarryHirsch 10mo ago
Their health would improve?
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by HarryHirsch 10mo ago
It's not an unmitigated positive, instead it's a transparent move to paper over the high cost of housing by getting both parents to work. Of course housing prices will adjust accordingly, the supply remains the same, and the deman
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by HarryHirsch 10mo ago
It's not a surprise that especially at elite college it's classical economics that is taught in the gen. ed. courses. Its models are simple, and plainly visibly wrong. If behavioural economics or political economics were taught in
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by HarryHirsch 10mo ago
Yet meanwhile, women entered the legal profession in the 1920's but wages did not catch up until the 1960's when the Equal Pay Act was passed. Economics 101 would say you could snap up competent female lawyers for a little more th
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by HarryHirsch 10mo ago
The authorities aren't going to send you off to reeducation, they will just determine (accurately) that you are a me-first guy who must not be allowed on the public roads and won't return your license. A win for the general public
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by HarryHirsch 10mo ago
Truth, but we need to consider road safety. Lock the lady up, and lock all other texters up. Motorcyclists all over the nation would agree.
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by HarryHirsch 10mo ago
School voucher 2.0, it's going to be great!
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by HarryHirsch 1y ago
The authors of the paper are most certainly fake chemists, the idpol-centered vocab gives it away. Science is a social endeavour, identities as a scientist are relational. A chemist is someone whom the scientific community identifies as one
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by HarryHirsch 1y ago
So the argument is: if you were paid in any stablecoin then prices of housing, coffee and cat food would not have gone up quite as much in the last five years. That does not make sense at all, the recent inflation is caused by insufficient
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by HarryHirsch 1y ago
You can also provide clean air and mandate such and such a turnover of fresh air, and you can have paid sick days, so that employees don't drag themselves in with respiratory illness and infect the rest of the staff. But it's Amer
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by HarryHirsch 1y ago
They haven't done it yet, which would indicate that it's complicated, where is the nearest scrap dealer that would take the stuff? The Eastern Peloponnese is thinly populated, the nearest town is Nauplion with ~ 20 k inhabitants,
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Carl Schmitt would agree, or maybe Helmut Schmidt, too, when he was Mayor of Hamburg in 1962: "We didn't refer to the Constitution much, in those days"
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
By outside forces, of course. Women entered the legal profession in the 1920's, but wages did not catch up until the Equal Pay Act was enacted under the Kennedy administration. There were plenty of labour market arbitrageurs profiting
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
If they are protected from competition they will end up like the US auto industry in the 1970's. They can try and do generics but Teva, Ranbaxy and Ratiopharm will eat them once patent protection runs out.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Back then it used to be the running joke about economists: "if everyone takes care of himself, everyone is taken care of"
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Where's the pharma lobby? Pharma is the only industrial science left in the country!
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Let's be honest, the other party wasn't much better. Lots of talk about "womens healthcare", but not a peep about funding OSHA properly. Me? Brought in to clean up after a major incident that made the regional news and c
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
The wait time when you can't afford the physician is infinite. That's the market at work.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
The map shows the capacity of waterways. Down the Danube, across the Mediterranean and the ocean, up the Rhine, and only a few kilometers of road.
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Regulating prices is a recipe for disaster though That's an assertion, not a statement of fact. Pricing in natural monopolies is a mature subject, and public utilities have been a thing for over 100 years. Also, pricing for medical p
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
Tolkien scholars would ask the question: is Sam Gamgee the warrior or the gardener? (The right answer is: he is a gardener, the Lord of the Rings is all about rebuilding after destruction.)
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by HarryHirsch 2y ago
It's scandalous, though, that the public will pay for firefighting efforts in areas that are unsafe to build in. It's insane to build on a slope or in a canyon that's plagued by katabatic winds.

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