sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
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sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
10mo ago
SSDI pays out $150B yearly. Unless it's mostly fraud, it's not that much of the federal budget.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
10mo ago
The 65 year old vooooters would turn on Trump real quick if those particular funds were touched at all.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
10mo ago
Agreed. Unfortunately, it's really good for convenience.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
10mo ago
Average wages inside the country drop.
This assumes that the workers who were producing that thing were paid more than average and get a new job paying less than average (or stay unemployed).
(As a sidenote: people inside the country can no longer afford country-made products, and so shift their purchasing to cheaper imports. CPI goes up here, as I mentioned, as country-made products are price-weighted out of the basket.)
This seems fine in many cases. Often the products made outside of the country are just as good (lumber) or even better (cars) as those made in the country. I don't view this as impoverishment.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
10mo ago
They have two million Palestinian citizens that fundamentally hate them
They in fact don't hate them. Unsurprisingly, Israel is one of the best places in the middle east for Arab citizens too.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
10mo ago
The housing crisis is bad, but that's a result of (local) government policy and is unlikely to be fixed by tariffs. If anything, increasing the cost of lumber (much of which comes from Canada) will increase the cost of construction even further.
Ground beef is somewhat more expensive these days, but it was pretty cheap in 2010 and I don't recall that being a particularly great economy. It's not hard to cherry pick a commodity that's in an expensive part of the cycle right now. Canada also exports half a million tons of beef, so slapping tariffs on that is not going to move the price in the direction you want.
Car loan price seems broadly stable since 2008 modulo the spikes you mentioned. It also doesn't capture the 40% (estimate based on googling) of cars that aren't financed at all.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
10mo ago
Real talk, I seriously doubt that you could fire frozen shellfish toxin out of a gun and actually hit and penetrate the target. I suspect this thing is bullshit or a "goat ESP" tier CIA project Which is not to say that they didn't have another heart attack gun that actually worked...
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
10mo ago
Right after penis inspection day, right?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
10mo ago
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
10mo ago
Yes, you're right.
Finally, we assessed the heatmaps generated by participants’ clicks on the rung they felt best represented the extent of their moral circle.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
10mo ago
The way it was set up, it is literally impossible to say you care about foreigners more than about the close ones
Why? Iirc it was simply a matter of assigning 100 points to different categories.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
10mo ago
Given that interconnection isn't going anywhere, I don't see any good reason not to eliminate failure modes where possible. Nobody is claiming that rust fixes everything.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
10mo ago
If we want to help Africans, we can invade Africa, redistribute the resources of their war lords, save more lives and profit at the same time.
Uh, we tried that in Afghanistan and let's just say it wasn't exactly a profit center for the government (not to even touch on the other points).
sarker
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10mo ago
I did continue reading (that's why I mentioned your security strategy), my point is that your argument doesn't make sense. You admit that even skilled programmers get it right only "most of the time". That's not enough in the internet age. Falling skill levels of corporate programmers are not the trigger.
sarker
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10mo ago
Expect luxuries like lumber and vegetables to get more expensive.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
10mo ago
I think that argument just isn't supported by the evidence of 40 years of computers more or less working just fine. People are skilled enough to just get it right enough of the time.
"Enough" is entirely not enough, we're not programming PDP-11s that are only accessed by your esteemed colleagues anymore. Any Slav with a clapped out netbook can and will try to pwn you on a daily basis. It takes only a single buffer overflow vulnerability that he can leverage into RCE for it to be over. Much like missile defense, it only takes one getting through for you to have big problems.
If your security strategy is to return to 1975, you'd better get working on that time machine. In the meantime, perhaps we should put some effort into rectifying, for example, "features" that are acknowledged by even their inventor as a big mistake.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
10mo ago
Fortunately, real median wages have been going up for the past 28 years.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
10mo ago
If your position is that cheaper goods don't benefit Americans, you should just go ahead and lay your cards on the table.
As it is, I pointed out an industry in which imports were so much better than domestic production that they practically killed the domestic industry (cars) and you're bringing up walmart (who mostly makes money from groceries anyway) as a retort. It's a complete non-sequitur.
sarker
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10mo ago
What percent of American GDP were German war reparations?
sarker
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10mo ago
FTAs do benefit most people. They harm people in industries that are not internationally competitive, but most people don't work in those industries and benefit from e.g. cheaper car prices.
Lower than what the Vietnamese, Algerians or Afghans paid.
Really? Because I don't recall anyone griping about a Vietnamese "genocide". And none of those conflicts were existential for the other side. But you already know this, because you've been told this repeatedly and failed to address it.
So they took all the land except for a tiny sliver with minimal natural resources and no connection to the west bank and then put it under blockade.
Singapore also has no natural resources. Gaza has access to the ocean. The blockade is entirely a result of Gazan aggression after the unilateral withdrawal.
Because there is absolutely no reason for the IDF to be there.
Possession is nine tenths of the law. There's no reason for Hamas to be outside Gaza. Your argument about Jews getting killed is entirely based on force and who is stronger. If we're talking who is stronger, then let's see who's stronger. It's beyond ridiculous to be "might makes right" when it comes to Hamas shooting up Israeli towns and then gnashing your teeth about the eternal Jew when Israel bombs Gaza. Pick an argument, you don't get both.
If you think it's Jews' own fault when they get killed then what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
10mo ago
Why should they lay flat and accept defeat?
Jarvis pull up the gazan death toll in the latest war
They are put in a small camp with awful natural resources and have constantly been attacked by the Israelis who have bombed them repeatedly since start. Israel started the war when they attacked the Al Aqsa mosque and had already taken thousands of Palestinian hostages.
I again remind you that Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza, evicted settlers, exhumed Jewish graves, and in return gazans elected Hamas to eradicate the Jews.
If you don't want to get smoked while crying in a bathroom in an IDF outpost don't move to Palestine and don't join the IDF. They have no reason to be there and have only themselves to blame for the constant headache which they will face.
Could say the same thing about you "crying" about gazans "getting smoked" - don't shoot rockets at the militarily superior neighbor and they won't kill you. As simple as that, yet you only apply the standard one way.
sarker
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10mo ago
It's more like $400 per taxpayer (and it's not all fraud) but sure, I agree that it's probably more fertile ground than the piddling $1M NSF grants that were being bandied about a few weeks ago.
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