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by chiaro 7y ago
Another thing not mentioned, which I'd noticed recently after a couple of very poor nights, was feeling very dehydrated. Drinking a lot of water didn't seem to help, and it all went straight through. Some surface level research in
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by chiaro 7y ago
Or the classic least norwegian squares method of regression in the WSJ http://kieranhealy.org/files/misc/laffer.png
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by chiaro 8y ago
Common law rests heavily on stare decisis. The precedent set in Australian Communist Party v Commonwealth is not likely to be overturned, as far as free political speech and organisation goes.
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by chiaro 8y ago
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/interest-rate they don't
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by chiaro 8y ago
if ME&S represents the sum of Austrian economics, then it has little hope indeed.
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by chiaro 8y ago
Central banking evolved as a series of hotfixes for various macroeconomic edge-cases. Bank runs is one. Wildly varying inflation rates is another.
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by chiaro 8y ago
Another similar epidemic to lead poisoning we've been sleeping on is lithium deficiency. Look at the quantum of improvement on suicide and all kinds of violent crime, including rape and murder per this study[1]. Image of results table:
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by chiaro 9y ago
I've already seen that interview. How people behave behind closed doors is a more trustworthy guide to their sympathies.
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by chiaro 9y ago
The leaked emails documenting his correspondence with various alt-right figureheads paints a different picture. https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart...
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by chiaro 9y ago
David Brooks has a good piece of commentary here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/opinion/east-germany-immi... Every few years I try to write a column staking out a reasonable middle ground on immigr
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by chiaro 9y ago
It's a matter of proportion. Tariffs are some of the most destructive and distortionary taxes you could implement. The costs will be borne by many, and the benefits, a select few.
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by chiaro 9y ago
Utterly stupid. Interesting to see if this realignment is a long term thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%E2%80%93closed_political_...
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by chiaro 9y ago
These groups are there because in California they can capture a larger portion of the effects of trickle-down than in North Carolina, Texas, or New York; and because the state-provided safety net, average people's compassion, and avai
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by chiaro 9y ago
Sounds like the killer app for child pornography.
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by chiaro 9y ago
Since Russia's relevant interests are in destablising the Atlantic alliance and undermining the European Union, elevating the US- and EU-critical Corbyn over more reasonable elements in Labour is exactly what one would expect.
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by chiaro 9y ago
Nah, most substantial leaks in recent years have avoided wikileaks and gone straight to reputable publishers, such as the panama papers team, so as not to be tarnished by perceptions of bias or recklessness.
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by chiaro 9y ago
The reasons why Ecuador took Assange in in the first place no longer make much sense. Under Correa, there were a number of tensions with the US that were looming large in Ecuadorian political landscape following a default in 08. By taking i
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by chiaro 9y ago
>Educators are completely failing the current generation and are stressed out about 'digital distractions' because they know they can't compete. This is practically a conspiracy theory. There are definitely old teachers th
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by chiaro 9y ago
>Given that the WaPo article says that many of them had only a third or fourth grade education, this strikes me as possibly just making fun of people with disabilities. When the topic is rape, you always go into these comments expecting
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by chiaro 9y ago
None of the troubled firms were horizontally integrated in the way the gs would have prevented.
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by chiaro 9y ago
As with many topics of dispute, there's a bit of a gap between the prescriptions of advocates and the fears of those who oppose circumscription of hate speech. Most proposed legislation falls in line with Mill's principle, and ind
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by chiaro 9y ago
It may at least affray the WiFi costs.
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by chiaro 9y ago
The first chapter of Marx' capital directly sets up this inherency by means of his labor theory of value, along these lines.
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by chiaro 9y ago
>That is not why this is shocking. This proceeding is shocking because the legal basis for this change is dependent on a false statements about the technology involved. It goes beyond just, "Republicans prefer deregulation," or
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by chiaro 9y ago
Without even considering the ethical concerns around directly funding that sort of thing.
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by chiaro 9y ago
They have a pretty clear set of guidelines for what counts as controversial. I think they do a good job of circumscribing the worst of what they've been funding up to this point, without being too overreaching.
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by chiaro 9y ago
Fantastic news. Though a conspicuous absence is lack of any classification that deranks videos in the search results or recommendations. Even if it's largely financially motivated, it's still nice to see some kind of assessment of
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by chiaro 9y ago
Private people appointed by the company in accordance to CSR principles established by the board of directors.
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by chiaro 9y ago
Spot where inflation started to be managed by the central bank: https://media.ycharts.com/charts/2dd4f9a7b087a1eb6f763d81a97...
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by chiaro 9y ago
Intrinsic value has a seperate definition to market price. A bubble is, after all, characterised by a divergence between the two.

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