QuantumChaos

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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
You challenged my point not by saying that "pulling the rug from under people" was unethical, but that it would remove people's motivation. When I directly answer why it wouldn't, you act as if I was supposed to be expla
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
I don't follow your logic. The more you work, the more you get paid and the less affected you will be by this sort of thing, so I would assume this sort of risk motivated people to work harder.
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
The disruption that people experience due to sudden price changes certainly has a negative affect on them, but this is simply the reality of demand for these resources. It would be nice if the government or private industry could insure peo
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
I think most people have an intuitive understanding of free market principals. If a person can pay more for an apartment, they not only have the legal right, but the moral right, to outbid someone else. In order to deal with inequality, we
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
I hope they can figure this issue out. As a westerner who never considered not using a toilet, I'm having trouble understanding the pros and cons of using toilets at all. What happens if a person defecates in the fields? Does this sp
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
They would be an even bigger percentage if not for discrimination. The US used to have quotas for Jews in many universities, as did the Soviet Union. The unofficial quota system for Asians is no different.
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
So why do you believe that achievements of Blacks in basketball is a result of their higher ability, but not the same for Whites in tech?
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
where does he say that specifically? He refers to statisticians helping to do further analysis on the data, but I don't see where they showed that the main claim (that the test is predictive of success in the course) is refuted by sta
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
The articles main thesis is that an intuitive, artistic understanding of turbulence can help inform mathematicians. And yet none of the historical evidence that was presented supported this claim. The pure mathematicians made progress and
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
>As broken down above, most of the money from that lobster ultimately goes somewhere else. You can't have it both ways. The only affect that the market has on the local market for lobsters in Bangladesh, is via the price in Banglad
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
The reasons were in my post: He has no real criticism of his original article. What he says about it is incoherent, not merely hard to read, as I point out in my comment. And he makes reference to nature vs nurture, which is completely irr
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
That article didn't seem very coherent. E.g. on the original test he says: "His test is not a very good predictor: most of those who appear to use a model in the pre-course test pass the end-of-course exam but so do many of those
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
he looks healthy and beautiful to me.
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
I see two separate phenomena. The article describes researchers being rewarded for their publications, and therefore not sharing data with their competitors, who could create a publication with that data which the researcher who shared the
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
I think the vitriol arises from the stranglehold progressives have on the use of "science" in public discourse. The only allow "science" to be used is used to demonstrate that women are in some sense more oppressed or l
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
What you are missing is that you are focusing entirely on edge cases. No sociological category is so airtight that you cannot "deconstruct" it. E.g. it is also true that Jewish Americans have more in common with non-Jewish Ameri
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
The European diaspora has more than 2000 years of shared religion, language and culture. This is far more significant than some trivia about the word "White" that is making the rounds in progressive circles.
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
They certainly have much more in common in all these areas than they do with non-Europeans.
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
>What is wrong with that? Do the Jewish people somehow not deserve existence? Why should we not celebrate our culture and religion the same way Christians, Croats, and Italians do? (for example.) If Jewish people deserve existence (as a
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
I'm familiar with holocaust as a reason for Israel's existence, I just don't accept it as the primary reason. There are simply to many occasions where American Jews and Israelis celebrate Jewish culture and identity for its
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
First, people certainly will begrudge Croats their national identity, when they get around to it. I'm sure you're familiar with the battle against English identity or Swedish identity (at least when they are defined in the same w
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
>No, they don't. Don't legitimize their nonsense. I share this critique, and I outlined it in my post, so I'm not legitimizing them, but rather outlining what things I think they are correct about. I simply do not believe
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
Even though they take their views to ridiculous extremes, sites like Stormfront do have a valid critique of the hypocrisy of liberal American Jews. Exactly the same people and groups who claim that White people desiring to live among other
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
Putting aside the issue of whether there is any legal basis for ordering Google to delete something that was accidentally disclosed, I also take issue with their claim that the request is in itself reasonable. They are not only requesting G
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
That is pretty shoddy, but bear in mind this is an undergrad thesis, and so (apart from teaching very bad ethics to future researchers) this has no bearing on research that will ultimately be published. As an aside, I first misread your pos
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
Why should paying teachers be considered good in itself? Are you familiar with the First and Second Welfare Theorem in economics?
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
People need to take the efficient market hypothesis seriously when using stock prices for things like this. The announcement of a new CEO (or more realistically, the rumors preceding the announcement) already given the market a chance to
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
Surely the Economist writers, of all people, can imagine that being entertained is worth something, and might possibly be worth the opportunity cost of the time people spend on entertainment. After all, by watching the video people have re
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
would you be able to point to how specifically this video addresses my points? I would be much easier to have a discussion if you did this, since otherwise people who don't have time to watch a 1 hour video will have to take it on fait
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
I think you have not read my post carefully. I was clear in separating believing in discrete categories (both their objective existence and their usefulness), vs believing that symptoms can be treated. >Labels do serve some use. But man

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