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@RichardHanania Full employment happens because price levels adjust until quantity demanded equals quantity supplied.
There's about another two hundred years of economic history past this point dealing with the nuance of why the market for labor doesn't clear, but we'll start with the basics.

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@mattyglesias It's not limited to the right. Kurt Grey and Wagner recognized this as the moral dyad model: in any moral situation we are inclined to view one human or group of humans as having all of the agency, while the other individual or group feels all of the pain

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@tracewoodgrains When I looked into this, over ten years ago, the answer to the paradox was money buys primaries, but not general elections. I don't know if that's still the case.

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@BecomingCritter I've seen Scott Pilgrim, Chicken isn't vegan.

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@growing_daniel That said, we are now at the point where N64 games are being recompiled natively to the PC which might be a better way of playing your favorites 2026.

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@growing_daniel It's an FPGA hardware level emulation similar to the Analogue.
The problems with an original n64 out of the box ($100-200 on ebay):
Older Electronics, failing
No native blue tooth controller
No native digital output / limited analogue
No overclocking
No save state
No rom dumping

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@sporadica On the contrary, Obsession is thinly guised metaphor for zoomer consent culture and all that is packaged in it, it kind of shoves it down the viewers throat.

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@eigenrobot I think we'd just see what these cities actually did, find an income stream / wealth source (such as parking meters) and sell it for pennies on the dollar to foreigners who raise fees without the funds passing through to the city.

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@micsolana You have to go down to the 38th metro area before you're at the median American. The dysfunction in America is localized in a small number of zip codes, and within those populations a small number of people.

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@eigenrobot The value of choosing sides is so minimal at the margin you might as well just choose to be intellectually honest and consistent, if for no other reason than to challenge oneself.

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@St_Rev You should check out wabbajack. Curated modlists that all install from one install.

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@asymmetricinfo If I had to guess it's that older European properties don't have normal ductwork, but might have older radiator systems for heating the house, and which a heat only air to water solution will fit right into by replacing the boiler.

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@asymmetricinfo Heating only solutions in the US are cheaper, but typically not by much. Depending on usage the return on investment to recover the extra thousand or two to install added cooling might not be worth it compared to running a dedicated AC.

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@eigenrobot "too soon to tell"

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@planefag Or that tornados hit the same spot.

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@SonnyBunch @AlyssaRosenberg @petersuderman The movie has a lot to criticize, but one thing that's easy to miss is that Grogu is the main character in terms of growth and emotional arc. He goes through his Dagobah arc, and achieves an emotional and technical competence.
Easy to ignore as he has no words and is a toy

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@sgodofsk What's changed in the last few decades is the ability to borrow against unrealized gains offers consumptive opportunities for the rich that avoids the tax burden.

A progressive sales tax would avoid this.
Doing something with the step-up basis would help as well but less needed.

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People's satisfaction with Mandolorian and Grogu will depend on whether or not one can emphasize and understand with a non-talking puppet who goes through character growth.

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@Noahpinion Nothing has made me more sympathetic to the barkeeper in a new hope than trying to work with a chatbot. "We don't serve your kind here!"

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@RichardHanania The term originates with the share economy - you won't own a car, you'll rent a waymo. It refers to an economic consumer model where everything is subscription based and your ownership of physical goods is minimized. Streams vs DVD, Uber vs Car ownership, Rent vs Buying house