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by hogFeast 5y ago
It is hard to find an explanation for this other than Germany has been co-opted by Russia. Ukraine has been separated from the herd and will surely fall. Putin will be on Germany's border by the end of the decade.
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by hogFeast 5y ago
No, the page was created for "freedom day" (and the consistent predictions that it would unleash an apocalypse).
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by hogFeast 5y ago
But the problem is that expertise is used to shut down debate...that is the reason why it is controversial. People do not disbelieve experts because they think they are experts themselves. They disbelieve experts because the argument today
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by hogFeast 5y ago
The principle of requiring healthcare staff to get the vaccine is already established. Most countries in Europe already do this. This is not the same thing as requiring all employees to be fired if they fail to have a medical procedure that
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by hogFeast 5y ago
The ruling that you mention was also used to sterilize disabled people. It is funny that you mention Nazi Germany...they did that there too. But, of course, everyone else is just overreacting, the ends justify the means, only people of true
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by hogFeast 5y ago
Okay, so you don't understand what social policy is either. Wow.
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by hogFeast 5y ago
It always seemed very tiring to me: work out who the person is, work out what political allegiance they have, and then decide to agree or disagree with them/potentially having to reorder or reinterpret X or Y to make it all fit. Regard
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by hogFeast 5y ago
No, I am not. People are paying for the medical resources they use. Nice try though (I would learn more about social policy, the point of social policy is that it is for everyone, not people who agree to a medical procedure, not people who
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by hogFeast 5y ago
Economic policy has had a huge role in that. If you are wealthy, you can borrow money for free, you can pay no taxes, and you can invest your free money at 10%+...oh, and the govt will bail you out if it goes wrong. I worked in equity resea
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by hogFeast 5y ago
Investment management is a classic example of this. CFA has a low pass rate (it isn't that hard really, tens of thousands of people do the exam in India and China so that impacts the pass rate), most people do it but, ofc, the really u
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by hogFeast 5y ago
The logic used in these "ideas" is so comically bad that you know an economist must have thought of them.
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by hogFeast 5y ago
Ah, I can see you are real expert. I look after two elderly people, probably the biggest problem that they have is with applications that change state based on how you touch it. Even something as simple as picking up a call in Android is to
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by hogFeast 5y ago
France weighs very heavily. With Germany, they led the move earlier this year for the investment deal with China. The decision was made to become reliant on China, and the pandemic significantly worsened this dependency because China's
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by hogFeast 5y ago
I don't think it is only about being personable. That is obviously very important but it is as much about being able to insert yourself into someone else's life and help them. You meet someone, they have a problem, and you can say
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by hogFeast 5y ago
The BMJ, ironically, is prone to publishing articles that make unverified claims without making clear rather significant conflicts of interest. Infamously, they published a largely spurious article which claimed that UK govt cuts had killed
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by hogFeast 5y ago
They are going to get popped by journos. Twitter got popped left and right by journos and this was despite the platform being a huge source of revenue for the media, and the owner's politics. The week they go public, the stories will s
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by hogFeast 5y ago
The working day was 10-16 hours for most of the 19th century. But work then was totally different: a lot of it was piece-rate work, most factories didn't directly employ anyone, etc. (this was also true of proto-industry which is often
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by hogFeast 5y ago
You have explained the mindset I am referring to. Thanks. Saved me time.
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by hogFeast 5y ago
How do you think scientific progress happens? They didn't just have flame wars in the past, they literally set humans alight. Even today, science is a very emotive topic (I studied economic history, people have fierce arguments around
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by hogFeast 5y ago
> HN tends to attract people from an educational/professional background that encourages critical thinking. I couldn't disagree more. HN is one of the few places where you will get people who have no idea about a topic expoundi
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by hogFeast 5y ago
I used to play League...then I found out everyone who played that game had slept with my mother.
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by hogFeast 5y ago
I explained it already. The reason why you don't think it has been explained is the same reason you don't understand. I said nothing about prop trading...but you don't are missing knowledge that you get taught first year in a
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by hogFeast 5y ago
You still don't understand the mistake you have made. Again, don't go into finance. You don't understand basic elements of what is going on here.
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by hogFeast 5y ago
You have it on in the background. Some streams have a very engaged community, everyone is there flooding the chat all the time. But in most streams the viewers aren't engaging, they have it on the background, it is on their second moni
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by hogFeast 5y ago
T1 is a very extreme example. He seems to have no life, he plays the same game for 10-12 hours/day, he is pretty toxic, he seems to have few other interests and no social life...that is fine, he is an astute businessman but most other
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by hogFeast 5y ago
So you are saying that they attempted to write off taxes and also attempted to minimise the estimate...you should not go into finance my friend. And yes, your response is the kind of misconception that I think the journalists banked on.
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by hogFeast 5y ago
It was. You don't understand what you have linked me. Trump's tax cut - 12% of GDP CARES - 12% of GDP Further stimmy (iirc, this was a bill passed in December after the election) - 5% of GDP Biden Stimmy - 10% of GDP Infrastructur
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by hogFeast 5y ago
> I think everyone, including the writer of the article, understands the mechanism at play. That is the most interesting aspect of these articles. They are optimised for the title, not the content. Ignore the oil spill: if you lose $100m
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by hogFeast 5y ago
The evidence for the expectations model has changed significantly over the past two years or so. Obviously, central banks are going to move slower given that expectations has been the consensus for two decades. But I think academics are rea
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by hogFeast 5y ago
It is amazing to me that people don't get this. Government spending of something like 40-50% of GDP over the past few years. That spending has been leaking into the money supply because the market can't absorb the debt (this is am

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