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@RichardHanania To the extent a country is rich if it contains a lot of gold.

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@Noahpinion The rest of the world learning what nerds have always known - there are more interesting alternatives to socializing.

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@PercivalSweetw2 @mattyglesias This is fairly rare though, for unusual bottlenecks - the expectation, typically fulfilled, is prompt treatment. Certainly far less of a problem than people not getting care in the first place or being economically ruined by it.

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@cryptoupdate_io @bdquinn It’s a small part of all crime, but crime is a huge part of it.

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@SbWisLaw @bdquinn Possibly if you live in Zimbabwe or something.

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@simongerman600 I don’t think two very similar kinds of Norwegian really count, either.

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@RichardHanania Showing yourself getting massacred thinking it’s a win is certainly something.

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@VexedVortices @mattyglesias Not necessarily far right in the more political sense, but likely opposed to gay marriage, for instance. On the other hand, they would be ”what the absolute fuck?” about some current right-wing positions, like antivaxx and Trump, even if they had been on the *right* in 1995.

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@theurbaneist @mattyglesias I doubt that.

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@mattyglesias Virtually everyone in the West who's not an American is perfectly aware of that. Just because we have the better solution doesn't mean it's flawless.

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@corbintrent @mattyglesias Communism has a poor historical record.

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@NOELreports You have to wonder if the decoy is cheaper than the drone in the first place.

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@mattyglesias Yeah, I’m not even sure about the rest of you in the first place.

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@memory_gcr You can expect with high confidence to spend 3.5-3.75% yearly of that amount forever if reasonably invested. Is that enough? Depends on your circumstances.

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@_Parduss_ @Aella_Girl Don’t get me wrong, the average hunter gatherer has a fair share of injuries and damage, but at *some* point a modern person can exceed it.

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@_Parduss_ @Aella_Girl This isn’t what it says.

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@RichardHanania It’s particularly impressive how Chinese poverty numbers go into the negative, even.

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@cremieuxrecueil First, are they? Second, women tend to have better pain tolerance.

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@JonathanJColton Let’s not sleep on Kaja Foglio, though!

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@JonathanJColton Gonna go Gail. Less impressed with her current X-Men work, but she’s done some absolute classics.