RobAtticus

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by RobAtticus 1y ago
While true, there is another nuance missing here. The deficit was higher in 2020 & 2021 due to the Covid stimulus spending. Looking at 2017-2019 for Trump and 2022-2024 for Biden probably gives a fairer picture of what happened during b
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by RobAtticus 2y ago
>I think it depends on how you describe "wealthy". The life of someone who makes $200k a year isn't hugely different from someone who makes $50k. You still have to drive yourself to work and sit in rush hour traffic with e
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by RobAtticus 3y ago
After fees is a bit tacky, but, at least in the US, I think it is considered good etiquette to tip on the original amount before discounts. I remember this came up a lot when Groupon was big offering a lot of BOGO deals.
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by RobAtticus 3y ago
Numerous people (Matt Levine, etc) smarter than me have written about how there was no $1B break up fee. That fee only came into play if something prevented the deal, like regulators blocking it. Him having buyer's remorse was not suff
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by RobAtticus 3y ago
Hi! Author here, happy to answer any questions!
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by RobAtticus 3y ago
>Say what you will, the 27th Amendment passed. Sure, but the Congress that approved it never felt its consequences because it took another 200 years for it to become ratified. So the first group it affected was definitely not the same gr
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by RobAtticus 3y ago
For a company that "stopped posting on Twitter" they sure post a lot: https://twitter.com/FoxNews
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by RobAtticus 3y ago
When push came to shove, how many Democratic leaders (Reps and Senators) voted against or objected to the electoral college results in 2017? It was less than 10 Representatives and no Senators, meaning none of the objections were even put t
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by RobAtticus 4y ago
dragonwriter was talking about the Democratic primary.
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by RobAtticus 4y ago
It's pretty much on a steady climb upwards though. So a show today probably has more ads per half hour than one 10 years ago, 20 years ago, etc.
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by RobAtticus 5y ago
Is there a reason May 2021 should be particularly instructive vs year-to-date (YTD) for NYC? [1] has murders down 1.3% (299 vs 303) and burglaries down 24% YTD. Felony assault is up 5%, but overall crime is down 0.9%. It's definitely a
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by RobAtticus 5y ago
You keep talking about Sturgis, which ended on Aug 16. There is known incubation time between contact and testing positive, and even by 10 days later (Aug 26) the rate was at ~1200. Also July -> Aug was a 55% increase in cases as well, e
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by RobAtticus 5y ago
You can change it to 20/100k if you wish, it doesn't really make a difference. SD case counts per 1M on selected dates: Jul 15 2020 - 463 Aug 15 2020 - 725 Sep 15 2020 - ~1800 Doubling in a month seems like a spike to me.
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by RobAtticus 5y ago
South Dakota is #3 in cases per capita and #10 in deaths per capita in the US. It's August-November stretch was just brutal, peaking with a death rate of 200/1M for the week of Nov 16. Sure it's raw numbers may not have been
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by RobAtticus 5y ago
>I really want to see how the US being the richest is calculated. I don't think it's really a mystery. When people say this, they are referring to the fact that the US has the largest GDP (total, not per capita) in the world. O
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by RobAtticus 6y ago
>I mean, until Bernie Sanders, no politician openly called themselves a socialist. This is recent. Eugene Debs?
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by RobAtticus 6y ago
Does this actually disagree with what he said? OP said Trump doesn't put in the effort to persuade (aka, get McConnell to focus on his agenda) and used his bully pulpit ineffectively (aka, putting enough pressure on McConnell to act).
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by RobAtticus 6y ago
The latest tag is 2.0.0-rc2 since it is technically a release candidate and not the final cut.
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by RobAtticus 6y ago
It's not a repeat of the spring...yet. The daily number of cases in Spain appears to still be on the rise, and the death curve is usually 3-4 weeks lagging the cases. So deaths is likely still on the rise. All that said, it may not rea
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by RobAtticus 6y ago
>Customers are also hugely price sensitive, an increase of a few pence can have a massive change on purchasing patterns. Looking at one weekly special[1] I see Pepsi selling four 12-packs for $12. I would be shocked if customers taking a
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by RobAtticus 6y ago
Yes but the topic is mail-in voting fraud. He was physically at the polling place and stuffing the box. It's fraud and should be punished, but it has nothing to do with mail-in voting fraud.
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by RobAtticus 6y ago
To be clear, it was developed in a branch so all the individual commits have been reviewed beforehand when landing on that branch. And the branch was rebased throughout the development cycle. This is just the final PR to merge that branch b
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by RobAtticus 6y ago
>constant distractions The problem is that parents who are being thrust into the homeschooling role typically _do_ have constant distractions, including their day job, watching other siblings, worrying about their financial situation, et
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by RobAtticus 6y ago
Not sure if this is just snark, or really just that cynical, but it seems clearly false regardless. The senior in high school missing their last 3 months probably isn't going to experience any negative effects, but there are plenty of
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by RobAtticus 6y ago
>You may try to cherry pick anything, but the facts are the facts. I enjoy the irony of criticizing someone for cherry-picking, while using NY as a proxy for how the whole of the US is doing. Perhaps you could've picked the state th
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by RobAtticus 6y ago
>at the time My point was that tourism to the US is probably not uniform throughout the year, and March is likely on the lower end of tourism. Hence the ratio of traffic being Americans returning home is higher.
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by RobAtticus 6y ago
Certainly, but I don't think anyone was assuming 5% fatality rate. There were concerns about it being 1-3% fatality, but even those would be worst cases. Worth noting that .36 is roughly 3x as deadly as the flu.
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by RobAtticus 6y ago
Kind of - it closed the borders for Europeans traveling to the US, but did little to manage Americans returning from abroad. Given March is winter in the US (thus less tourism), I would imagine the majority of Europe -> US traffic at the
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by RobAtticus 6y ago
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/ Italy new cases did flatten to 3500-4000 per day for a few days this past week, but they have since resumed increasing on a daily basis. So I don'

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