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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
> If your moral code dictates what other people can or cannot do with their own lives That's literally the point of law. One person writes the law, and it dictates what others can and can't do with their lives. Are you an anarc
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
> You can suck on it when you are a baby, but god forbid you ever take a look at it again before you are married. It turns out, a mother's nipple has a far different effect on an infant than a young adult female nipple does on a tee
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
If you solve a political problem by building consensus on the wrong thing(s), then you've made the world a worse place than had you done nothing at all. Bjorn Lomberg and others have done a good job rating strategies to improve human f
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
According to these links, in 2021 it ended up being 70 million of taxpayer money out of a total revenue of 300 million: https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3551625-the-time-has-co... https://www.statis
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
From Wikipedia: Although NPR receives less than 1% of its direct funding from the federal government, member stations (which pay dues amounting to approximately one third of NPR's revenue), tend to receive far larger portions of their
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
> Yes they did, and they did a lot worse than that See above reply. Wikepedia completely contradicts what you are saying. I also know what you're saying about AEI is mostly garbage, too.
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
I've never read the "Bell Curve", and I'm not a huge fan of Charles Murray's work in general, but, from the first line in Wikpedia: "The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life is a 1994 b
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by PathOfEclipse 4y ago
I don't know what's on his twitter feed, but I've yet to see a single rebuttal to any of the main highlights of that book. Don't be blind to the truth because of your own personal biases. I just scanned his twitter feed
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by PathOfEclipse 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fallacy This is probably one of the most commonly-used fallacies I see people used to deal with cognitive dissonance caused by information that might make them uncomfortable.
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by PathOfEclipse 4y ago
NYT have destroyed their credibility for numerous reasons, both past and present: https://www.amazon.com/Gray-Lady-Winked-Misreporting-Fabrica...
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by PathOfEclipse 4y ago
I mean, I did contradict your take. I contradict that inflation dropped primarily due to Carter picking Volker, or that dropping oil prices were a major factor. How much more contradictory can I be? There's plenty of other takes that c
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by PathOfEclipse 4y ago
You can be as self-assured as you like, and that's your prerogative, but why post a response if you're not going to take the time to be convincing in any way, such as by providing any evidence, information, or even rhetoric? I&#x2
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by PathOfEclipse 4y ago
https://heartland.org/opinion/ronald-reagans-fight-against-i... "It was only after the election, when Volcker knew Carter had lost, that he really clamped down on the money supply. This illustrates an important po
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by PathOfEclipse 4y ago
https://reason.com/2022/10/13/inflation-remixed/ Inflation in 1980, when Carter's presidency ended, was at 12% YoY, the highest they'd ever been in his entire presidency. Rising oil prices were
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by PathOfEclipse 4y ago
> You're quoting the outputs of a propaganda industry, not the outputs of credible independent research. One man's propaganda is another man's truth, and vice versa. Do you really think the EPI is credible? https:/&#
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by PathOfEclipse 4y ago
Inflation is primarily caused by governments increasing the supply of money: https://www.hoover.org/research/inflation-true-and-false . Inflation was fixed in the U.S. when Reagan became president: https://
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by PathOfEclipse 4y ago
One of Scala's biggest mistakes was probably to support higher rank types, because it seems to have resulted in a in a hostile takeover of the Scala community by pure FP zealots. No one in the world ever thought: "why don't I
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by PathOfEclipse 4y ago
the U.S. government works the same way. According to one web site, there are over 4 million federal employees. When is the last time any have been laid off? What I find most disturbing is that you think this is somehow a good thing. A gover
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by PathOfEclipse 4y ago
> Pointing out that there was never a time when everything was all rosy and dandy is not a non sequitur. But it is. Also, no one was making such a claim, either, so why point it out in the first place? > It's pointing out that th
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by PathOfEclipse 4y ago
GP: I remember when this good thing still existed. You: I remember also when this unrelated set of things existed at the same time. That's a great non sequitur you just spewed out. In case your Latin is rusty, that translates to "
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by PathOfEclipse 4y ago
What do you think a theory is? A theory is by definition unproven. With enough evidence, it becomes proven and therefore no longer a theory. Then there's the grey area in between, where a theory seems plausible but there's not eno
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by PathOfEclipse 4y ago
You say "don't focus on the number", and then say in the same sentence "it's for illustration." Well, if you pick a terrible number, don't you think that affects the quality of your illustration? See, your
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by PathOfEclipse 4y ago
> I don't think they necessarily are good to validate work though, or at least, they do so poorly. For me, I've found they actually do help significantly to catch bugs even for my initial PRs. To know your code works, you eith
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by PathOfEclipse 4y ago
I attribute some of the greatest successes of my career in part to having good unit test coverage. I have seen no other pragmatic way to solve the problem that, in the worst case, a minor software update can be O(N) expensive to make, where
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by PathOfEclipse 4y ago
How many people in this world just put their blinders on and distort new information to fit their preconceptions and biases? What do you think "low confidence" means in the context of an intelligence report? I tried finding out my
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by PathOfEclipse 4y ago
Where did you get 2% from? I tried searching for what "low confidence" means when given by an intelligence agency, and in the process I'm finding a lot of people like yourself that apparently like to pretend it means whatever
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by PathOfEclipse 4y ago
I think where the founders got it wrong is not expecting the population to be so ignorant and easily swayable. For instance, school voucher measures, which would benefit so many people, tend to get shut down due to lobbying efforts from ric
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by PathOfEclipse 4y ago
> Notice how you didn't address the fact that you know very well that Trump supports and embraces Alex Jones I didn't know that and I still don't know that. I certainly wouldn't take your word for it. You have to be t
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by PathOfEclipse 4y ago
You're right in that Hillary is fairly mainstream leftist, and her views are absolutely awful and inline with the original comment I responded to. It only gets worse as you go even further left! And that's my point. The extreme ri
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by PathOfEclipse 4y ago
> Racists always defend other racists. Where you do make up this garbage? > Thank you for showing your true colors and proving my point beyond a doubt I hope you become a better person someday. You're capable of so much more.

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