Nope. And that is quite a leap in logic.The larger Gulf States are aligned with the US in striking Iran. And we have an incentive also to prevent another nuclear breakout from happening.Edit: can't reply> I do note that a similar reason was given for North Korea which did end up rather peacefully acquiring nuclear weaponsBecause we were in Iraq and Afghanistan when North Korea's nuclear breakout happened in the early 2000s.

Citation needed

The Austrian school is economics for people who never learned calculus.That doesn’t mean they don’t have interesting things to say now and then, but it’s mostly just a collection of folk wisdom.

> but if that happens the state is entirely dependent on the growing the wealth of the mega rich and will act in their interest in effect cementing their power even further.This is a laughable premise.A huge amount of government revenue has always come from the wealthy, yet there is consistent pressure to reduce their taxes in the US government. Why? Because the IRS doesn't run the US government, politicians do. Why would a wealth tax based government be any less likely to try and reduce their t

I'm not really seeing how the blacks and women ruined corporate research, can you expand on that more? Are you saying they were all retarded and without enough white, Asian, and Indian men nothing could be accomplished?

Whataboutism is a rhetological fallacy. Making fallacies is bad. Pointing out fallacies (or as you put it, "narrative control") is good.

> he was forced to give up his family farm.I don't know where this narrative comes from. He wasn't forced to do any such thing. He voluntarily put his family peanut seed business into a blind trust when elected, with his personal lawyer as trustee. He subsequently only gave up the business once he took control again after his presidency, because it was in massive debt.

There's a difference between favors and corruption, there has always been. It's something called regulations. We the people must tolerate a certain amount of favors, but there's a line: You cannot accept these favors while in office, particularly so when the exchange involves a public good or decision. You must sell your peanut farm before you hold office. You can't accept a plane from a foreign government in exchange for use of an airbase while in office. The things you do in office must be for

Obama bailing out banks, and banks giving loans to Netflix, then later Netflix making a movie deal for Obama is not corruption.Did Netflix in any way ask Obama to bail out the banks? How many other businesses were those banks giving loans to?

Because people can be more than one thing, and aren't perfect?

years and years and years of ptorrone's posts aren't capitalized, though. it's not like they suddenly decided today, for the purposes of this post, to change their writing style.in any case, i prefer to decide whether someone has the "emotional maturity of a child" based on what they say, not whether they push their shift key.

It's rarely the mature who talk about maturity.

We should be governed by capabilities, not arbitrary numbers.

Paul Newman won his last race at Lime Rock in Sept. 2007 driving a 900-horsepower Corvette when he was 82.

If goods aren't being sold, then the price will drop.

people are subjective, math is objective ;)

What if you define a hard rule from this statistics that « you must fire anyone on error one »? Won’t your company be empty in a rather short timeframe? [or will be composed only of doingNothing people?]

Fwiw in places like parts of the midwest housing is below cost of labor and materials. An existing house might be $70k and several bedrooms at that. You just can’t get anything built for that even if you build it all yourself.

> What is the benefit of "moving compute to space"?I’ll bite. It’s cheaper and quicker to permit a launch than permit, zone and interconnect a datacenter. And solar panels in space don’t need glass cladding, which makes them cheaper to make and lift.The downside is launch cost. But there is a breakeven between these factors that seems to have most of its error bars within Starship’s target. (By my math, around $35/kg.) So if Starship works, and all indications seem to show that it will, eventual