@The_Nicepackage@atrupar It should be noted that “borrow spend die” is much rarer than most people seem to think, but even so I don’t really oppose this.
@dani43321@michal_smyk@LinkofSunshine I’m pretty sure it is exactly 50% with false negatives: 10000 people, 100 have it 99TP 1FN, 9900 don’t have it 9801TN 99FP. 99TP/198 total positives = .5
@krissakray If I can Invest at 4% or prepay a mortgage at 2%, every dollar I prepay “earns” me 2% when it could’ve been earning 4. It’s simple arbitrage
@dccommonsense The hard part is preventing allies from developing nukes - think Japan or South Korea. If we assume there’s almost no chance of denuclearization, you have to consider the vast number of possibilities 100 or 200 years from now. Anything could realistically happen over that time
@dccommonsense 1) thankfully the limitations are mostly physical (enriching uranium is hard and takes a while) so it’s not becoming dramatically easier over time for now
2) yeah I guess your solution would probably be to violently supress anyone attempting to build them forever
@principal_idele@IterIntellectus@MZHemingway I’ve been saying this for a while and this is the first time I’ve seen someone else say it too. Kids were historically an expense in the short term but necessary in the long term. We’ve taken the “upside” (removed the downside of not having them) and left only the expenses
@hirokonn_ARAK@arowe777@HLC_actual I’m not a huge WW2 history buff but the zero is highly regarded by lay people (specifically early in the war, in 1941 and 1942). I don’t know if that reputation is deserved. I also had never heard that we captured one.