Their target is 5% and looking at the latest quarter they are not going to hit it, even with their "creative" math.
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That is all.
What it may or may not say about Greece is utterly irrelevant because that's not what I was talking about.
Because we actually tax it properly
> cars tend to be cheaper models and smaller.
Because cars are less part of the lifestyle and SUVs haven't yet prisoner's dilemma'd us completely.
Your other anecdotes are also basically "not spending unecessarily on stuff that is bad for the climate = poor"...
Here's another factor: Europeans need to save up money for our five week vacations, do you think travel is free or something? Hint: that stuff costs way more to do regularly than AC and a redone bathroom. Pah.
Cheap imports are great for consumers, but a currency losing 20% certainly doesn't mean its economy has magically contracted 20%. If anything a weakish currency stimulates internal economic activity as it's good for exports.
The US economy is also not nearly "twice that of the EU", in nominal terms either - it's about 50% bigger. The (silly) chart is for the eurozone.
Seriously, the US always had a somewhat bigger/stronger economy, but a cheap dollar at the time made nominal almost equal, which was misleading. Now, the US still has a slightly bigger economy, and has had better growth, while the price of the dollar makes it look like a massive difference, which is also misleading. The true output difference is high single digit. Why are you pretending otherwise?
Or is it that you think shitmen make minimum wage or something? Anyways, the answer is simply that _UBI IS NOT MEANS TESTED_ so working won't take any of it away, just give you more money. Even if UBI was on par with your salary we'd be talking doubling your income. If that's somehow not enough the market will have to value those jobs higher until there is equilibrium.
I wouldn't say that means most of my consciousness in such a state is subconscious, or that failing to reach a useful result means there wasn't "aware" computation.
An anology would be two co-processors, where one is responsible for IO. Your idea of two entities simply doesn't apply if the interconnect is intact. Unity isn't an illusion just because the entire inner process isn't fully shared across.
And isn't the part about the subconscious making decisions and the conscious merely catching on or rationalizing mostly about basic ones that _by definition_ don't require much thought?
I would extend your "some vegans" to "most everybody" - who seriously thinks complex animals are unconscious automatons? And how would that even work? Tiny few-celled organisms surely aren't and where exactly the line goes we don't know, and like you say it depends on how the word is defined and used, but isn't "stimuli causes not just reaction, but qualia" pretty standard?
What's dumb about a "fuck yeah" among friends? What is the actual difference to other general modifiers? "Not as versatile" perhaps. Language use changes with context.
Making stuff up to ponder the possibilities is all fine, don't get me wrong. But it shouldn't be given too much weight.
But just because supervised heroin won't kill you doesn't mean it's somehow good, actually. That's a separate judgement.
There's surely no upside. It's overwhelmingly likely to make you less healthy and less happy. But so will too much bacon and sitting.
Chairs are still safe though, by any sane definition.
-Clojure also has list comprehension, so use what you like.
-You cannot compare the repls, at all. If used standalone, sure, but that's not how it's done. You send s-expressions for evaluation, from your editor, and that's the magic. There does not exist any kind of equivalent repl-based workflow for python or really anything that isn't a lisp. Fix errors live is literally what it excels at, so I'm not sure what you mean by that.
-Macros get messy and avoiding them when possible is good, yes. Still, the power is there. But as far as DSLish stuff I prefer manipulating and "running" straight data structures, like re-frame events. Data is code :)
Also:
-CLJS
-Edn+transit
-Datomic
-Live exploration/visualization tooling. As in above, or Portal, or re-frame10x/re-frisk, dev tools, dirac... obviously first you need your basic environment sorted. I use vim with conjure.
Your general point is good but it sounds like you had a bad experience and are generalizing. And how would you already be out of warranty after a few thousand km, doesn't add up.
Other notable things: America's historic tax rates (pre-Reagan), social democratic leaning countries. Higher happiness, somehow. Top marginal rate doesn't affect the vast majority of people, should go without saying.
But you changed the subject. We were discussing what relative tax changes may or may not do to inflation, not your libertarian dreams.
People who protest the war in Russia get arrested not shot because that's all it takes to suppress them. This is an argument against your point, not for it. Nor does it mean that Russia wouldn't apply harder measures elsewhere, if they thought it necessary.
Russians aren't referred to as orcs, only their soldiers.
They're not protecting their land, they're protecting themselves. If a significant portion gets shot either way it's better to at least be able to shoot back, no?
Now, moving from holding the model creator culpable to the user would obviously be problematic as well, since they have no way of knowing whether the output is novel or a copy paste. Some sort of filter would seem to be the solution, it should disregard output that exactly or almost exactly matches any input.
Diffusion would appear to me to work in much the same way. It doesn't understand what's good ("works", creates acceptable output) or why, but it knows it when it sees it, and has the tools to refine it.
We with ADHD absolutely do not have the same issues of interpersonal understanding, so of course you wouldn't because you wouldn't have that impulse in the first place.
From what I know I'd say autism (light or not) can definitely be an excuse for saying hurtful things, due to limitations in getting why something "merely factual" could be hurtful.