zeke5123a
7hr ago
But it wasn’t just Bass that went up. All other candidates but Pratt. Why was he the missing batch?
zeke5123a
7hr ago
I dunno but it seems like these reporting errors seem to go in one way and it’s never quite clear how they are “corrected.”
zeke5123a
8hr ago
No it’s not possible. Lizardman constant. The most favorable Dem districts tend to be 85-15% Dem. Not the 99-1 you’d need for this to make sense. By the way, some votes went to another Republican in the race. It was just zero to Pratt.
zeke5123a
21hr ago
Thousands of votes and not a single one for the second largest (to that point) vote getter? Thats just not statistically possible
zeke5123a
2d ago
Fair enough. I do think most are jokes (but this one was snark—will try to raise the filter a little bit)
zeke5123a
2d ago
We disagree. The point of the trolley example is that you must make a choice of killing more or less. What messes with our intuition is that there is an obvious right answer (make sure fewer die) but it feels morally wrong to take action to kill an innocent.
It seems less morally wrong to take action to kill someone that created the situation whereby you must choose to kill more or less.
zeke5123a
2d ago
Coase made the point that any conflicts in rights are bilateral monopolies. That is, my factory is only a nuisance to your home because your home is there.
It is true that without the police Floyd may have lived that day (or may not have). But it’s also true that Floyd’s actions also caused his death. That is, there isn’t a single party responsible but multiple parties.
zeke5123a
2d ago
The analogy doesn’t hold. In the trolley situation, the victim is exogenously tied to the tracks. In the criminal situation, the criminal tied himself to the tracks. It was in fact just desserts (ie do bad things and bad things are likely to happen to you)
zeke5123a
2d ago
I was told by Scott Alexander that the mainstream media doesn’t lie so your post must be wrong.
zeke5123a
2d ago
And well he should’ve been arrested. Don’t steal from stores; don’t get arrested.
zeke5123a
2d ago
The biggest difference is that Floyd was human excrement. The world was better off with him not in it. Novak wasn’t committing a crime. Novak wasn’t tweeking from hard core drug use. Novak wasn’t acting fucking wild when the police showed up. Novak doesn’t have a history of home invasions where Novak held a gun to a pregnant woman.
The police’s job with Floyd was to restrain him because he was a criminal who was acting very wild. Notably the police did not start with kneeling on his back. That’s the first video that came out but if you watch the bodycam footage the police tried a lot before kneeling on him.
zeke5123a
2d ago
Yes a jury with an activist who lied to get on and a jury who knew if they gave the “wrong” verdict their town would be destroyed and their lives at risk. After all Congresswomen showed up to make that point. It was for all intents and purposes a show trial.
zeke5123a
3d ago
Floyd was actually a druggie. So how was the police reaction to him worse?
zeke5123a
6d ago
Why would that generate seethe?
And Nixon famously took us off the gold standard. So the reason we need 250 bill is due to Nixon (ie it is mocking)
zeke5123a
6d ago
It’s prevalent for banks because the pref can be treated as equity for books purpose but debt for tax purposes (properly structured — see TRUPS). So it helps banks pass regulatory capitalization requirements (ie not overly levered) whilst maintaining (for the bank) tax efficiency (ie deductions).
zeke5123a
8d ago
Privatization isn’t merely about internalizing costs (ie avoiding the tragedy of the commons). It is also about spreading bets. Centralized decision leads to big bets; de centralized decisions leads to many bets that sometimes conflict and sometimes don’t. So when you get weird fat tail outcomes you aren’t fully wiped out because some bets were made on the weird fat tail.
But yes privatization is not a perfect system. But to paraphrase the great Half American Winston Churchill: privatization is the worst system except for all of the others.
zeke5123a
10d ago
First they became very valuable before the buybacks. Second some of them have not done buybacks!
They created a system that easily allows fraud and makes smoking gun proof difficult. When people notice irregularities or things that look like fraud, the supporters of the system demand smoking gun. Instead the opposite should be the presumption — it’s fraud until proven otherwise.
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