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Avraam Jack Dectis

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17 solution to major problems, part 3 has 6 subsolutions: 1) Sorting the housing crisis - short and long term solution 2) Best Gerrymandering solution 3) Overview of reengineering the tax system to be inflation resistant and

Avraam Jack Dectis

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Solution to gerrymandering is simple. You just have to drop the constraint that only one person can represent a district. For example, if instead we gave each district 100 votes in the legislature: And in an election one party got 60 percent, one party got 25 percent and one

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@AlecStapp Less politically dysfunctional than North Africa! Ha!

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@PhysInHistory Stunning failure of Cambridge to not pull out the stops, to keep him there and alive. Stunning failure…..

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@guardianscience Given what we know, it is a scandal that plastic food bottles and packaging are still allowed. Will they wait until the fertility rate is zero to act? Or do governments prefer their citizens sterile and lobotomized? Glass and paper were fine for packaging for a very long time.

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@AMFChina They have been saying that for decades.

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@HowThingsWork_ Weird how California cannot figure this out.

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@adampnathan Free detox in a nice remote place would be better.

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@GinieSigonney A plane so efficient they turned off the jet engines and is flying on one of the passenger’s propeller hats?

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@Shayan86 @O_Rob1nson @AuroraIntel I used to think everything was true until proven fake. Now I think everything is fake until proven true.

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@culturaltutor I am of Greek heredity. I have never been late for anything. The universe, however, has, on occasion, been varying amounts of early…..

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@varangi44632193 @nicholadrummond Precisely correct. Turkey did the exact same thing to Cyprus in 1974. They invaded, stole Almost half the country, murdered thousands of unarmed civilians, systematically raped and mutilated women and even murdered over a thousand prisoners of war. Yet today, Turkey trades

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@steveanastasiou @nickgerli1 Many folks want to sell but cannot, because they cannot buy. It is not the golden handcuff of a low existing mortgage. It is the impassable barrier to a new mortgage.

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@AviBittMD @joerogan @RobertKennedyJr @PeterHotez I will debate anyone for a trillion dollars.

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@SVicharsheel @PhysInHistory Hi Shipreeta, Yes, what you say is true. But, this article says he was curable and misdiagnosed. If Cambridge had tried harder, called in more doctors for him … A 1994 analysis of Ramanujan's medical records and symptoms by Dr. D. A.

Srinivasa Ramanujan - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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@TommyTook Incredible what we can stigmatise……… Is there anything we cannot stigmatise? I think stigmatisation is an actual industry.

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@GuyDealership I think it is mass depression and a desire to avoid being noticed. The exact opposite of the post war years. Birth rates also are the exact opposite of the post war years which you would expect.

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@paulg Founders generally have easier commutes and less housing hassles. Also, founders’ innate psychology is vastly more assuaged and massaged by being in the office, which is not the experience of others. As with all things human, you must ask if this is driven by logic or if it is

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@ns_whit How do they maintain their culture?

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@JChengWSJ I find this very interesting! What is the China view of spiritualism? I thought Communists rejected all religion? Spiritualism without religion?

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@paulmcleary Why not restore USA shipbuilding prowess by demanding that all ships that load or unload in the USA be USA built, crewed, maintained and based? Give the shipbuilders a decade to spin up. Then you will have many shipyards, big boost to domestic industry and the middle class and

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@ChowdahHill @CageFooName I feel sorry for the person with only half a birthday…..

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@JChengWSJ @Lingling_Wei @yifanxie For decades, people have proclaimed the imminent failure of the China model. Why would they be correct now?

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@phalpern A conceptual mind only cares about the idea, not the details. Such people are at an extreme disadvantage in many routine endeavours, like job interviews, for example. Imagine how poorly the world would have treated Einstein if he did not produce the annus mirabilis? !

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@stats_feed What is wrong with the top 5? What do their leaders do all day?

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@AP_Davison Slaloming the slippery slope to eugenics.

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@JosephPolitano A whole lot of people in prison for a whole lot longer for a whole lot less.

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@pretentiouswhat People have been talking down China’s prospects ever since Deng pivoted to Capitalism. They have always been wrong and will always be wrong. Respect the competition. And thank them for making industrial policy fashionable. The student showed the teacher his mistake.

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@emilykschrader @De_Andreas_ If Ukraine can get free weapons, so should Armenia…….

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@paulkrugman Which highlights the singleism discrimination problem. Unattached people are discriminated against.

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@StockMKTNewz The world is missing Charlie….

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@RobertKennedyJr Anyone who wants to start a war probably never fought one.

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@NavyLookout @HMSChiddingfold @HMSBangor I feel sorry for whoever was at the wheel. Must be horrible feeling.

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@AlecStapp I think America just woke up! USA is finally on board with industrial policy. USA is finally on board with getting things built. Not fully awake yet, but getting there.

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@Culture_Crit @itsreallyalex_ All you need are architects that are aware of shapes that are not rectangles.

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4 months

@jdcmedlock Some might think derisively of this but instead they should be fearful. Because in a democracy, these are the people who parse the arguments and vote. If they cannot parse the arguments they might vote for the wrong person. Economics should be taught everywhere.

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7 months

@levie Precisely which positions do we desperately need “skilled”? If you go to LinkedIn and see the number who applied to each job, there are quite a few. Excess labor just lowers labour costs to corporations, thus increasing profits. Can you prove a genuine shortage in any niche?

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@phalpern And then the ungrateful SOBs poisoned him ……..

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@culturaltutor I forget the details but I do remember reading the monasteries were doing good research in something and England was set back significantly by their destruction. Respect the cultural pillars.

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@Culture_Crit Perhaps this proves that productive capacity is the most important attribute for the wellbeing of the citizen. Economic models that expect to rely foreign entities will fail. Thus, the wisdom of protecting domestic manufacturing and, also, industrial policy, is proven and

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@EricTopol Would a single consumer in the USA complain if plastic drink bottles were banned? I do not think so. What are we waiting for? If the FDA will not do it, legislation should.

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@mezaoptimizer They found a better way than surgical sterilisation. All they had to do was poison the food and environment. Why do you think testosterone and sperm counts are dropping so fast it is a question if the human race can continue to reproduce? Do you think that is an accident? USA

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@gCaptain Brilliant move by Hanwha. First, they basically got the yard for free. Second, with all the discussion of how we need to increase our shipbuilding industry, and possibility of legislation to effect it, they are now extremely well positioned to take advantage of the dynamic. If

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@daniel_foch Just need robust fertility incentives. Which have the added benefit of helping actual Canadians.

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@JonBruner Glass bottle with metal cap still infinity better….

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@Jonheathcote I wonder how much native talent we leave on the table with inadequate educational incentives.

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@MoritzRudolf Beautiful thing about the Chinese system — they can set lofty goals and focus the resources to achieve them. They had the wisdom to graft capitalist mechanism onto their model, which enabled great progress. Xi is carrying the ball well and China is lucky to have him.

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@denise_dewald And yet, everyone is comfortable with the democratic tradition of completely untrained folks with no mandatory requirements running the country ………..

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@RobertKennedyJr Brilliant! Plastics too should be considered. Testosterone levels and sperm counts dropping hard, no other credible explanation besides environmental poisons.

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@arpitrage The French do not poison the food. They retained their culture.

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@zhao_dashuai Very inappropriate! How would you feel if someone took a shot at Xi and a bunch of Americans said maybe we should talk about abolishing Communism? Agenda or not, best to be respectful.

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@daniel_foch Housing costs go down means cash flow freed up to buy other things…

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@JoeyMannarinoUS I recently bought blueberries at Walmart. They looked very good. They smelled like fabric softener. Binned them.

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@JoeyMannarinoUS I now carefully smell any fresh fruit. If it smells like chemicals or, just nothing, I pass.

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@StrongTowns At least three access roads….

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@ElysiaBale @guardianscience The argument seems defensible. I also do not agree that it is somehow virtuous to suppress the human population, as though they were vermin. It is vaguely fascist. Worst than fascist actually.

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@AmyArtPoetry Orthodox have best art.

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@profstonge We are already down to 1.6 fertility rate, meaning only 3 of 4 needed are born. Food poisoned, environment poisoned, economy poisoned. Now we know why government does not seem to notice.

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@taylorswift13 Happiest birthday in the universe to you!

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@drgurner Prison design is one of our greatest failures.

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@bulutuzay_ The surprise is Turkey is still in NATO. The story seems to be that joining does not require that you comport yourself in a civilized manner. Not even Nuremberg level crimes can get you kicked out.

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@PradyuPrasad @ns_whit Very nice, I like the first and third especially.

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@randomwordslou1 @UN_Spokesperson @antonioguterres @UN_CYPRUS You talk Turkish but you look Greek. Have you considered a DNA test??

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@GuyDealership Any excuse to go slower should be welcomed. Speed limits are limits, not a recommendation. Those limits only make sense on a dry road during the day. Any excuse to go slower should be welcomed. Some people think limit means minimum, they pay more insurance.

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@NavyLookout @TreasChest Hopefully the personnel are unscathed ….

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@c_k_lynch Thus proving it was always possible.

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@adem_5361 Turkey brought peace by murdering thousands of unarmed civilians, systematically raping and mutilating women and murdering over a thousand prisoners of war? When Turkey gives 40% of its territory to the Kurds for peace, then you have a case that Cyprus should do the same.

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@kurdasormuslar @bulutuzay_ You look Greek. Have you considered a DNA test?

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@webflite A dozen 380s! They will regain popularity when demand is adequate.

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@awatsy Noticed that in the UK. A lot of litter. Wondered about it. In USA they have crews clean up, mostly. I am sure plenty of UK prisoners would like a few days outside picking up litter…..

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@mercoglianos Cheap and effective. I like line printers……

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@ZaidJilani Enough of us know it is culture; Not enough of us dare to suggest a solution. A country that loses its culture loses its soul.

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@sciam Good article, but it danced around the inevitable conclusion that many plastic products should be banned. Plastic drinks bottles should be banned. Food sold in plastic should be banned. Plastic in clothes should be banned. Plastic used in farming should be banned. We need a

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@M_C_Klein Best part: “A strong dollar made imports even cheaper by comparison, and high interest rates reduced the demand for capital investment. US manufacturers found themselves with uncompetitive products in a highly competitive market. “ I do think if we did not have a strong dollar

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@zhao_dashuai Why would you attack the USA?

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@TDF_UA UK had 30K of these in a closet? Hmmm….. What else do they have…..

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@buccocapital Generationalism twaddle. No generation makes policy. Policy is made by a handful of people either slick enough or competent enough to get elected. There is not an entire generation of people in the Oval Office setting policy. Generationalism is a ploy to distract people from

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The summary of the argument! Many commenters complain about a certain set of seemingly unrelated problems. That set contains tax policy, inflation, social policy, domestic manufacturing and similar thoughts. Each member of that set has an answer related to all the other

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@ictinus_x Shameless to steal a church.

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@RachSalv Who is being paid off to ignore it?

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@Noahpinion Industrial policy is a beautiful thing whose beauty was denied too long.

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@PeterSweden7 Whose dna?

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@jburnmurdoch 4 years of college should be free to the student. Huge long term advantage to a well educated populace.

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@eastdakota @kevinroose I think Microsoft won big — if you look at the bigger picture. The bigger picture is a probably revolutionary technology could upend the pecking order. Microsoft has to own that new tech so they do not risk losing their step — the way IBM did when they foolishly let Microsoft

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@GRDecter So, basically, 100k is lower middle class……

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@GRDecter Crypto only has value if you can convince more and more people to buy it. Can they run out of “more”?

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@CENTCOM Emergency flotation equipment is not standard kit? Seems like it should be ……

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@LizSpecht @MarkLJWright A good example of why we should have one national police force. You call up, make the complaint, and they have to figure out where to send the complaint, jurisdiction, etc. Why should you have to figure that out? I order a mouse from Amazon, they do not tell me which warehouse

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@MatthewGNagler Very nice story ! But it highlights the systemic deficiency and failures of law enforcement in the USA. Law enforcement in the USA is horrendously Balkanized. Why should you have to know which police station to go to? If it was not a bomb and instead just a complaint, no

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@adem_5361 The best offense is to accuse others of what you are guilty of: “ with its maximalist and expansionist ambitions, does not want to see this simple truth. “

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@markeatsmeat @Mangan150 @Babygravy9 Sperm counts are dropping so fast that scientists question if the human race will survive. Average 20 year old has the testosterone of a 70 year old half a century ago. Fertility rate crashing so fast many societies are quickly erasing themselves. Food poisoned. Environment

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@LindseySnell Good point. Principles are not principles unless consistently applied.

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@hshierholz Does large scale immigration affect compensation levels?

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@ChowdahHill Good headline, good picture, but whoa, the clickbait on that link.

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@dieworkwear From the comments, you can tell the demand still exists. So it is a marketing problem. Many small high quality producers that cannot make the leap to the willing customers. There is a solution. All of those quality producers should band together under a marketing umbrella

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@AlecStapp Which, of course, I said backwards, yet the meaning was understood.

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@jacobin Everyone loves Joe.

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@unusual_whales 64 percent think they will not get fired like a clay wine jug in a Minoan oven.

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@mnolangray What about the burger shortage?

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@RussInCheshire Tactical voting would not be needed if you had proportional representation - which ensures that each party gets representation equal to its percentage of votes. Simple and easy to understand: Instead of each MP getting one vote, there are 100 allotted to each voting district,

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@GRDecter High interest rates just choke the house market more. Need supply expanded fast to deter inflated house priced. Federal program to offer zero rate loans to builders who can build tens of thousands of houses would help areas where they can build. For example: zero rate loan to

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