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Coöperate. And coordinate, etc. Also mostly seen in the New Yorker these days due to their style guide, but occasionally elsewhere.

> The reason you don't feel as threatened by cars as you are by bikes is (without knowing you in person) twofold Neither of your two points covers the reason I feel more threatened…

Income tax percentage in the U.S. ranges from negative counting credits (for the bottom 60% of taxpayers in states with no income tax) to a marginal rate of 52.7% plus a 1% surchar…

> He postulated eightfold increse in economy Yes. That's math, the rule of 72. At a 2% growth rate the economy will be 8 times larger in 108 years, more or less. The rate is a bit …

> Social Security in the US is definitely not enough for a "nice retirement". A two-retiree couple who contributed at the tax limit for long enough would get $122,592 in Social Sec…

It's precisely what Keynes meant. He meant that 15 hours of labor now will buy you what 40 would then. How could he have meant anything else? How would he anticipate houses 50% lar…

"Democratic Socialists" in America aren't socialists. Even Bernie Sanders doesn't advocate seizing the means of production. You can argue we use it wrong, but we can argue it's our…

It still sounds impossible I'm afraid. A realistic wealth tax probably caps out and around 2%, remembering that the net worth of very rich people is generally not liquid and can be…

Counterpoint to the general practice of ever using that phrase: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/come-on-obviously-the-purpo...

> In which case that is just "reduce your budget and spend less" with extra steps. I'm pretty sure the extra steps are the point, in that I simply don't believe the MMT folks expec…

> Let's see which tech stack and which customer support organization survives the merger, respectively... I have no inside experience of either company, but I have been through a l…

> Of course, most Western languages have gendered nouns - English is pretty unique in that respect. That likely comes from English being born as a pidgin of French and German. The …

If you have ever purchased insurance, including car insurance, he has impacted your life either because he probably insured or reinsured you. There's a good chance if you've ever p…

American railroads have pretty good pay and benefits, including some of the last defined-benefit pensions left in the private sector. They didn't want to give in on same-day sick d…

With respect, this was not a good reply. > 24 states have legalized weed and 39 have made it available for medical use, YET it is still illegal under federal ruling. Congress at le…

Yes. The United States government is not allowed to regulate commerce unless it is interstate. So it defined interstate commerce as anything that substantially affects interstate c…

Logical fallacies aren't automatic falsehoods. They're things that can't be proven with formal logic. The slippery slope is a fallacy and also a thing that fairly consistently happ…

There are a lot of questions that are upstream of yours. Or at least, that illustrate why your questions are aggressively framed in a specific ideological directions and it's possi…

This administration's legal theory is that executive power is concentrated entirely in the person of the president, which, to be fair, is because the Constitution says that it is. …

> What point of “there is a lot of overlap” is difficult to understand? The part where it would matter. The "race realist" i.e. racist right likes to point out that there is a lot …

> most advice has been starting at the bottom as an IT helpdesk worker I've been in infosec for about 10 years. It's a very broad field. Opinions vary but it's generally not consid…

The only mention of the First Amendment seems to be specifically in regard to Zuck's allegation (whether you believe it or not) that the government subjected him to overwhelming pr…

No. There are entire categories of employers (such as most of the prestigious financial firms for financial jobs) that only hire from the Ivy League. Twitter had its internal hirin…

The general rule is in fact that you can read anything you can get your hands on, which is one reason people like Prince Harry who come from different legal traditions consider the…

If we were all on the same page the US would have reciprocally banned TikTok as soon as China banned Facebook, i.e., before it even existed, and would also ignore its constitutiona…