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by czzr 4mo ago
There are plenty of links in the article to support specific statements, you can just skip over the parts where he expresses frustration at the damage to an incredible asset the US has built over many years, and the long term consequences t
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by czzr 6mo ago
Essentially yes. Companies paid the tariff costs, largely passed this on to consumers via higher prices, and now companies are due the tariff costs back. Consumers of course won’t get anything back. Well done America.
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by czzr 9mo ago
I don’t think LLMs contradict the Pinker description - it just turns out that the output stream embodies a lot of information, and you can construct a model (of some reasonable fidelity) of the original sources from sufficient examples of t
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by czzr 1y ago
I responded to a comment that called progressive taxation a crazy “far left” idea - I’m not sure the second and third order details of taxation policy are really relevant here… But ok - yes, sure, in real life it’s a mix and the mix is wort
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by czzr 1y ago
It’s very, very basic economics - the marginal utility of money decreases, so progressive taxation is better than regressive taxation.
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by czzr 1y ago
On point 2 - notice how flat your graph is for the last 6k years? Also, why do you think the impact of past changes on a tiny group of humans living as hunter gatherers is of any relevance to 8 billion people living in the modern world (inc
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by czzr 1y ago
Of course humans have a significant effect on climate change - the steelman versions of why that doesn’t matter are: 1) It doesn’t matter because we will figure out some technological solution in the future. Or 2) it doesn’t matter since I
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by czzr 1y ago
We are (for genes, though, not sperm)
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by czzr 1y ago
Surely you see the difference between working in a development environment and working in production?
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by czzr 1y ago
The US is the second largest manufacturer in the world - it's just moved into high end manufacturing. One of the difficult things about the current situation is how confidently wrong people are about the basic facts of the US economy.
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by czzr 1y ago
America is the richest country in the world. Guess you won’t know how good you have it until you destroy it.
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by czzr 1y ago
VAT has nothing to do with this.
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by czzr 1y ago
No, you are simply incorrect, a VAT system does not make it harder for US companies to compete. It's explained well here: https://www.economicforces.xyz/p/stop-saying-a-value-added-t... For those who don't fo
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by czzr 1y ago
There are different ways to allocate resources in a society. They have different trade-offs and failure modes, and the best systems try to solve problems using the right allocation mechanism (so, mining copper -> free market, building co
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by czzr 2y ago
I grew up with an even worse passport than you, so I know first hand how people are treated. Still, the goal should be to treat everyone better, not make things equal by treating everyone like shit.
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by czzr 2y ago
There are better and worse governments. Blanket statements like yours only serve to empower the worse governments.
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by czzr 2y ago
Do you think medical researchers also do all their work in coffee shops?
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by czzr 2y ago
Debt can’t increase to infinity, true - but that does not mean it can’t be a finite number indefinitely. And the current finite number is nowhere close to causing a crisis for the US (Japan had two and a half times GDP in debt and did not c
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by czzr 2y ago
Because the federal government is not in any sense living outside its means. I’m not sure how to explain this to you, really - you’re fundamentally stuck, I think, on the idea that the gov is like a business or a household, and needs to bud
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by czzr 2y ago
The US has debt denominated in its own currency, a large and growing economy, vast natural and human resources, no prospect of a foreign invasion and debt declining relative to GDP the last few years (this last point is not even that impor
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by czzr 2y ago
Your model for the economy is just utterly wrong. The US is in zero danger of hyperinflation, and probably has the smallest debt issues of any country (certainly of any major country). Now, the problem is - what to do about how badly inform
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by czzr 2y ago
The WHO is a mechanism to allow a degree of cooperation among the world’s nations on matters of public health. It’s imperfect, as any organisation with such a difficult scope would be. But the world needs some way to cooperate, especially i
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by czzr 2y ago
I looked at the paper you referenced. Interestingly, it does not say that the warming trend is not happening, rather they argue that the evidence is insufficient to say for sure if the warming is caused by human-driven causes or natural o
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by czzr 2y ago
Darwin didn’t know anything about genes, or how inheritance actually worked.
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by czzr 2y ago
True - oxygen is very abundant, though, so its presence is not surprising.
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by czzr 2y ago
Oxygen doesn’t belong on that list, I think - the earth’s oxygen was made by the first living things.
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by czzr 3y ago
The “publish or perish” culture has been put in place by academics themselves, the major publishers are just beneficiaries of that.
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by czzr 3y ago
Tesla did it to save costs. The world is not static, you can’t map it once and expect that to be enough.
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by czzr 3y ago
Ironically this is exactly the explanation vos Savant gave in her original column.
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by czzr 3y ago
I wasn’t familiar with cat and girl, so I looked at a few random comics, and stumbled across this one: https://catandgirl.com/heroes-and-villains/ The universe, I’m sometimes convinced, has a dark sense of humour.

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