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Comment · 2 years ago
By chance I just talked to someone with deeper knowledge on this and they said the current constraint is actually ramping up supply of the delivery mechanism, not the drug.

I have zero expertise on this, but would be curious if anyone knows what's special about Ozempic delivery that can't be served by a commodity syringe.

Comment · 2 years ago
I wonder if a more workable arrangement would stipulate that indigenous people are exempt from these regulations only when the work and management of a project is also designed and implemented by Indigenous people.

That would seemingly circumvent this loophole where a large, private corporation run by white canadians effectively uses the indigenous people as a loophole, cutting them in to circumvent regulations.

Wouldn't really help e.g. overfishing issues but seems directionally better.

Comment · 3 years ago
No, it is really how it works, (as I caveated) most of the time.

I don't understand what you're arguing here. Is your claim that most of that government deficit was not spent in the domestic economy (therefore stimulating GDP growth)?

Comment · 3 years ago
No, that's a bad analogy. It's more like I borrowed 8% of my annual income this year, and then bought 4% more than last year. If I hadn't borrowed all that money, I wouldn't have been able to buy that much. It's both intuitively obvious and empirically demonstrable that government deficits stimulates economic growth in the immediate term, since most government expenditure happens in the domestic economy.
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The comment I'm replying to claimed fewer people _want_ jobs in a system such as Germany's.
Comment · 3 years ago
Odd then that the USA has a much lower labor force participation rate than Germany.
Comment · 3 years ago
> The hoi polloi that can't afford the voucher plus mountain of money private school tuition

What are you talking about? The voucher is supplied by the state, and charter schools are definitionally tuition-free to students and their families.

Comment · 3 years ago
I think that's fair so long as you exclude e.g. sailing "athletes."
Comment · 3 years ago
I'd be curious to know how much the ~25pt asian-white SAT score gap is explained by ALDC students. In other words-- how much harder is it for a non-ALDC asian student to get into Harvard than a non-ALDC white student?
Comment · 4 years ago
The savings from turning household heat down during the day aren't trivial, but they aren't very large either. You can keep your heat ~10-20°F lower during the day when you're not home and save energy, but then additional energy is needed later in the day to get the temperature back up. Typical estimates are that this lowers gas or oil consumption by 10-15%, and only in the colder months. Certainly dwarfed by energy spent commuting, on average.

Your comment on the second+ order effects is much more interesting, but also much more uncertain.

Comment · 4 years ago
Thank you!
Comment · 4 years ago
Do you know of an example snippet / article demonstrating how to do this?
Comment · 4 years ago
Although the national mandate was struck down, some states have their own mandate.

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