RobertoG

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by RobertoG 7y ago
Maybe a more accurate analogy would be: somebody fall in the mountain doing something risk of what was totally aware, should we go to rescue her or left her to die?
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by RobertoG 7y ago
It's a strange sentence anyway. I suppose he calls civilization to the Neolithic, so civilization started with agriculture, and with agriculture you have something to ferment (and more people trying different things). Doesn't look
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by RobertoG 7y ago
>"how these findings can be reconciled with the research on the importance of breakfast" Research, sometimes, is not what it should be. "It was a combination of fear of indigestion, religious moralization and advertising t
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by RobertoG 7y ago
Only when the system is very simple and well understood.
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by RobertoG 7y ago
If we are not able to organize our behaviour in a way that don't destroy the existing working system, why do you believe that we will able to accomplish, the arguable most difficult task, of creating a working system anew?
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by RobertoG 7y ago
>"If we may think that it's still modelling our world exactly enough [..]" Some people think that it has been pretty accurate: "[..] The dotted line shows the Limits to Growth “business-as-usual” scenario out to 2100.
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by RobertoG 8y ago
".. they still end up perceiving the item in the small paper box as being lower quality than the one in the giant clear plastic .." You are right, but I suppose you mean "we", like in "we the people".
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by RobertoG 8y ago
That's the subject of many science fiction stories. Paul McAulie excellent "The mouth of the whale" comes to mind, for instance.
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by RobertoG 8y ago
In theory you are right but, in practice, that only happens because they don't follow Norway's example :-)
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by RobertoG 8y ago
Maybe Australia should follow Norway sovereign fund idea: "I don't think anyone expected the fund to ever reach $1 trillion when the first transfer of oil revenue was made in May 1996." From: https://money.cnn.com&
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by RobertoG 8y ago
I suppose you are right, I didn't though about that. I find the implications surprising. Does that means that the universe can't be considered a closed system and entropy increasing is not unavoidable?
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by RobertoG 8y ago
We know there is an equivalence between mass an energy. Does this view imply that new energy is appearing in the universe?
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by RobertoG 8y ago
The grandparent gets it but not totally. He says: "All money is in the books of the central bank,[..]" In the case of lending, it's the commercial banks where the money is created and destroyed. If enough reserves exist alrea
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by RobertoG 8y ago
Banning those items, presumably, will create incentives to find alternatives. If we are lucky, some ecologic friendly alternative that makes economic sense will appear and will extend outside the EU. If we are very lucky, that hypothetical
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by RobertoG 8y ago
"[..] Surely real CIA agents understand that." I don't follow the argument that this makes the CIA implication less probable. Surely all the spook agencies of any country understand that and yet it happened. If something, we
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by RobertoG 8y ago
Are you saying that the USA has not currently the knowledge, raw materials and manpower for keeping its social safety net and building infrastructure at the same time? Because from where I'm standing it seems that it's the politic
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by RobertoG 8y ago
I don't think we can't say anything about his state of mind. Kurt Gödel starved to death because of fear of dying poisoned. In bad times, intelligence by itself is probably not enough to save us of our emotions.
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by RobertoG 8y ago
Well, being the guy to who Kurt Gödel ask mathematical advice has to be a curious position to be.
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by RobertoG 8y ago
"it's all over the map, there are even societies where the baby isn't considered a person until some time after birth." What societies? Some of the countries in the graph?
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by RobertoG 8y ago
Putin is doing a really bad job, nobody cares.
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by RobertoG 8y ago
>>"[..] are they entitled to a share of the work of other people?" The work of other people? Is productivity increments the result of some people working harder instead of and increment in technology and knowledge?
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by RobertoG 8y ago
>>"We shouldn’t dismiss this as irrelevant, because many things that close only a small part of the gap may, when added together, close a large part of the gap. But this doesn’t do much on its own." I'm not saying is no
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by RobertoG 8y ago
Out of curiosity, are primary care German doctors employed directly by the state, or are they private business that invoice later to the public health budget?
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by RobertoG 8y ago
The data you request (if I'm reading it correctly) is in your link, in the "2002-2016 series" document, page 9, point 3.3 The transference to the private sector in 2002 (thousands of Euros): 25017 In 2010 (the highest of the
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by RobertoG 8y ago
Maybe the Cubans and the Spaniards have some magic genes on them, but I think is more probably that you vision of those countries is distorted. Personally, and this is my intuition talking, I think that the most important fact is primary ca
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by RobertoG 8y ago
So, you don't take into account inflation, not GDP per capita grow, not population ageing, but the take-away should be the same.
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by RobertoG 8y ago
"[..] there is nothing particularly “magic” or special about those four chemicals that evolved on Earth[..]" An interesting corollary would be that, if we find them outside Earth, then, probably, they didn't evolve on Earth
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by RobertoG 8y ago
One thing is the metrics and, another, the model that you use to understand the metrics and to make predictions. The problem is that you can make a model to justify whatever you want. "With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and wi
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by RobertoG 8y ago
No, they optimize the talk filling the others speakers pauses.
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by RobertoG 8y ago
"There's an odd usage of alpha male" I think you are right. How can be a male be the alpha without the group collaboration? By definition, the alpha is the one in the top of the hierarchy in a given moment. "I'm not

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