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by newacct583 5y ago
South Korea certainly seems like a success, with a per capita death rate about 3% of what the US saw. In fact contrary to your point, there is a very wide spread in covid impact from nation to nation. Here's a graph of all nations wi
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by newacct583 5y ago
To be clear: "safe" in this context generally implies more than merely "physically unharmed". It's quite clear that Jack Ma was coerced into giving up control of Alibaba. It seems likely that Peng Shuai is being s
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by newacct583 5y ago
The first example cites what I guess is an attempted cancellation of Peter Thiel: > In his recent book “The Contrarian,” journalist Max Chafkin assigns an ideology to Mr. Thiel, then defines it as “fascist” and even tries to blame this
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by newacct583 5y ago
Obviously true, but still on balance government-directed spending (especially outside the US, but even here too) is more likely to take long term goals like climate mitigation seriously. And the big picture changes, at the level of serious
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by newacct583 5y ago
Which is sort of the same thing. "I don't want to run this expensive or complicated test because it's stupid" is certainly a kind of cost cutting.
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by newacct583 5y ago
Only in a specious sense. The point to money isn't "scarcity", the point to money is TRUST . You trust that $1 is going to be worth $1 tomorrow, and that it will be worth $1 to the shopkeeper and the bank and your family a
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by newacct583 5y ago
This seems like an attempt at misdirection. In a lawful society, the reason for surveilling suspected terrorists is because you actually suspect them of terrorism, not because they're currently your political opponents. If you ran wit
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by newacct583 5y ago
> This was a motion for a temporary injunction so all the court said was "there are grave statutory and constitutional concerns" and so the relief was granted. That's right. And two months ago, with a case that had clear
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by newacct583 5y ago
You're making up arguments that the fifth didn't even bother to, though. If that was their reasoning, then why didn't they say so?
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by newacct583 5y ago
This isn't about getting it Right or Wrong though. This is about making pre-trial injunction decisions based on baldly partisan reasoning. The 9th and 6th may have a "partisan" view of jurisprudence, but they're consis
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by newacct583 5y ago
So depressing. The argument was that there are "grave constitutional concerns" with allowing implementation of the mandate (which is odd to begin with, considering that medical practice regulation like this has been done by the f
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by newacct583 5y ago
First, the idea of "conflict of interest" is not about allowing or disallowing testimony. That's (1) normally an argument you make after testimony and (2) absolutely not something one party to a suit (the State of Florida in
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by newacct583 5y ago
> Those are transitory Exactly. So is the pandemic. And so is the resulting inflation. I think you agree with me.
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by newacct583 5y ago
Not for five years they aren't! That chart ends in a few months. It's just reflecting CURRENT inflation rates. Again I ask, because everyone insists on cherry picking their way around this: Where is the source predicting a >
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by newacct583 5y ago
True enough, though if the modern real estate market had existed in the 70's then "inflation" would have been something closer to 30-40%. Like it or not "home values" decoupled from "housing costs" over th
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by newacct583 5y ago
That's almost exactly backwards, where are you getting this? The big inflation driver right now is (1) the increase in liquid cash in the economy due to covid relief programs and (2) the higher wage levels needed to get people to wo
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by newacct583 5y ago
> But the biggest losers overall are those with fixed incomes dealing with rapidly rising prices. And therein lies one of the big pseudo-centrist points here. A mild reduction[1] in fixed-rate entitlement programs is coming down the pip
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by newacct583 5y ago
Great, then surely you can cite me the source you used to predict that general inflation (not, ahem, some cherry picked real estate numbers) would be higher than 7% over the life of this bond, producing the negative interest you were teasin
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by newacct583 5y ago
Cite for that? No one with any expertise has predicted a >7% inflation level that I'm aware of. This sounds like something you got from talk radio. (Edit: two replies have taken this out of context. Savings bonds have a minimum t
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by newacct583 5y ago
We would not be "in the Cater [sic] Years" regardless. The lowest inflation reported in the late 70's was about 5%, with a peak at 15%. Last year's post-covid number was 5.4%. Your point seems mostly like demagoguery
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by newacct583 5y ago
Stop with the conspiracy theories. There are no "anti-nuclear folks" in this thread. It's a bunch of people looking at a balance sheet and trying to decide on how to prioritize energy spending. And nuclear doesn't fit
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by newacct583 5y ago
> New reactors coming that are way, way less expensive. They've been "coming" since the 1960's. Start yelling about building stuff when they've arrived.
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by newacct583 5y ago
You're just throwing up arguments to see what sticks here. Almost everything you're saying is wrong or misdirected. > Never mind that the plants consume CO2. The linked technique is literally about getting more plants to gro
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by newacct583 5y ago
> treat it as literally unlocking the next level of human development That was literally the way it was thought about a three quarters of a century ago. It... didn't work out. It's just not there. It's fine. It's s
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by newacct583 5y ago
The subject at hand was whether or not people, even ones who make messes, should have access to public bathrooms, not whether or not you should be expected to have someone over for dinner. I mean, let's be honest, I'm relatively c
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by newacct583 5y ago
> this happens every time intel gets kicked to the curb. > > "Guys, don't go AMD, the new Intel CPU will be faster" To be fair, for years and years, new Intel CPUs were faster/better/whatever. What you r
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by newacct583 5y ago
> However, most users who aren't willing to become technically savvy will have a better time with windows. Yes, but they'd have an even better time with a Mac, and a better time still with a tablet or phone. The days of "
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by newacct583 5y ago
Yeah, this is straight up journalistic malpractice by Intelligent.com. Publishing facts that are clearly contradicted by more reliable, obviously available facts is going way beyond gutter clickbaitery and veering straight off into propaga
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by newacct583 5y ago
> If Trump was re-elected tomorrow, do you want him to have these same powers? Uh... what powers? There's no government action at work here. We're talking about the refusal of a bunch of Mastodon services to federate with Gab
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by newacct583 5y ago
One of the goals of the Affero GPL, in fact, was to close exactly that loophole with respect to hosted software. The rights granted by the license are expressly granted to the users of the software. So in theory SFC can sue for the sour

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