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I think the real answer to your question is politics. Helicopter money is a political question in a way that QE is not. The question of what social programs we have, and what they …

Similarly, I'm not a confirmed case but I've been isolation since Friday just out of general precaution, and I developed a mild chest tightness while here. I was sure it wasn't cov…

VLC was removed because a VLC developer (copyrightholder) asked them to. Specifically, they alleged apple did not have the rights to distribute VLC unless they also allowed users t…

The average traffic speed in Sydney is 55kph, so a 45 minute drive covers a distance of 25 miles. Taking the IRS standard deduction for gas and depreciation, you pay about $1 in op…

I think you don’t understand the point of view of diversity advocates. (I don’t mean this negatively, it’s often difficult to understand people who have very different perspectives…

Narcissism is more of a spectrum of behavior than a bistable formalism, but it is mostly characterized by feeling superior in general (not only in J2EE) and that superiority not ba…

Color is overrated in a world where most are colorblind . Red means danger or stop because you have seen a lot of stop signs. In a world of colorblind people, stop sign colors are …

I was also puzzled by this earlier in my career. If tech is so hot why is it hard to get hired? I will now share the answer I spent years looking for with you, perhaps it will help…

> You are confusing the type of the variable with the type of the object/value contained in the variable. I’m not “confusing” them; I’m prioritizing the former over the latter, whe…

> That means that greeter and greeter1 are just two references to the exact same underlying object They are two references that differ in type . It is a feature in Swift (and any s…

> What an object is, which is roughly equivalent to its observed behavior, should never depend on how it is declared. This is actually a statement that strong typing should not exi…

If you read the study, they find the gap is fully explained by two factors: 1) men drive faster 2) men work more hours, and therefore learn the platform faster. If their conclusion…

What you're missing is that bikes, and especially ebikes, are far more viable for transport than most Americans think. In Copenhagen for example bikes are actually the primary mode…

> but all the past evidence points strongly towards a combination of "this researcher is incompetent" and "these statistical methods are useless". Your arguments seem to be based i…

argument from relevant authority. A professor of "science and society" at an accredited university would be a relevant authority for the topic of the scientific method and its impa…

Although you present it as ridiculous, whether or not 2+2=4 is actually a serious topic among mathematicians. The search term you are looking for is "alternative axiomatic set theo…