TangoTrotFox

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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
It's not the gamma rays that kill you. In particular even with a supernova strength source, it's unlikely that the gamma rays would even have enough energy to get through the atmosphere to the point of meaningfully heating the gro
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It doesn't. First to clarify what the CMB is. It's basically just heat residuals that seem to indicate that the universe was much hotter in the past. The problem is that these heat residuals are relatively homogeneously distribute
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I'm in no way endorsing this individual's proposal, but the argument you're using here is not as strong as you'd expect. A recurring trend in the past several decades has been that a contradiction in prediction is often
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
Today the number of people that don't have to work, both in raw numbers and as a percent, has absolutely skyrocketed. I mean if a person is simply interested in e.g. pursuing research and not so much with material niceties then it&#x27
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
The ruling specifically focused on the militia aspect militia. Quoting that ruling: The prefatory clause comports with the Court’s interpretation of the operative clause. The "militia" comprised all males physically capable of ac
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
Do you think you shouldn't steal things from other people? Of course. I mean I think we'd agree that everybody, more or less, feels this way, right? Yet each year there are more than 8 million thefts per year in the USA alone. It
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
People too often come to one side or another of an issue without considering context and alternatives. War unfortunately drags everybody down to the lowest common denominator. The reason for this is that the lowest common denominator, the n
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
Chess is mixed sex. I'm guessing you're looking at the FIDE URLs like https://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?list=men as provided on the FIDE (international governing body for chess) page here [1]. That URL seems to
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
I think the history of the world paints a different picture. Worldwide, and since our earliest recordings of history, governments have tried to expand themselves to encompass ever greater regions and ultimately grant themselves ever more ex
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You're creating a distinction here that does not exist in any shape or fashion, except for size. The difference between a state government and a federal government is simply over the scope of their decisions. In other words a federal g
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
Countless topics that are not, in and of themselves, controversial have become incredibly politicized. And this is an issue that seems to only be getting worse over time. Let's take a not so hypothetical hypothetical based on something
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Look at sites/software/etc that is offered for free that you believe offer very high value. There's a recurring trend. In spite of the value offered, the developers invariably end up short of revenue. This tends to result in
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
One big issue with your conclusion - there is no context. What alternative destinations would you propose? Any US whistle blowers or leakers that manage to gain the ire of the US government itself need to seek refuge in an area that will no
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
I don't think it's productive to declare everything secretly racist, sexist, or whatever else. Soros and his Open Society Foundations are the most visible representation of globalism today. But this has nothing to do with him bein
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
No, it's not. That money is lost to the government, not to your actual costs (labor/goods/etc). To illustrate the point clearly imagine I'm a robber. Each time I see you get paid I come and rob you. I take 30% of everyth
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
This is completely illogical. The reason you're earning more money is simply because you are giving away less to the government - not because your actual costs change in any way whatsoever. This has nothing at all to do with labor cost
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
This has nothing to do with labor. Lower tax rates simply mean you take home more of every dollar you earn. For instance if you cut your overhead by $10 now you take home (just looking at that value in a vacuum) $8 instead of $7. That obvio
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
Okay? So let's say each employee costs $10 pretax. We add two employees in the same scenario where we started with a company that has $250 in sales with costs of $100 in labor and $50 in other costs. All that has changed is that the co
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
I prefer to avoid calling things dumb, but I tend to agree this does sound like it fits the bill. Any clarification would be appreciated. Companies are taxed on net. This sort of itemization makes no sense. So for instance imagine a company
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
Personally I'm most looking forward to the James Webb Telescope [1]. It's expected to be launched as soon as 2007! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
There's one extremely important nuance here people are skirting over. Facebook is not "enabling" e.g. mob violence in India. It's not even the internet "enabling" these things. These acts existed long before th
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The person you're responding to is undoubtedly referring to the ability to link cause with effect. As such "cognitive manageability" doesn't mean simple. Relativity is far from simple, but it's cognitively manageabl
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
The question is what effect does coddling vs doubting have on an individual's personal development? Does actively praising individuals, regardless of whether they 'truly' deserve it, encourage them to work harder or does it e
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
There's an interesting anecdote in the chess world. Mikhail Botvinnik [1] was a longtime former world champion and would go on to become the 'patriarch' of Soviet chess, which would dominate the world scene in chess for many
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
In astronomy one aberrant observation is enough to completely revolutionize the field or destroy a previously esteemed view. It's not based on melting pot models and so a single mistake indicates something is wrong, perhaps fundamental
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
The problem with this is that numerically we work far less than ever before. We work nearly 200 fewer hours per year today than we did just a few decades ago! [1] I think people's discontent is about something much more fundamental. Pe
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China at one time tried to move towards a social economic system. It was optimistically labeled their 'Great Leap Forward.' We can debate whether it was socialism or communism, but it's irrelevant. And indeed during this time
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Why, in particular have you become more pessimistic about the timelines for robotics? I've also been headed this way, but it's as a complete outsider of the field simply extrapolating directionality comparing promises to deliverab
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
I would agree with you in general, but at the same time I think there is key nuance of perspective here. "Human friendly rules" can be seen as unwelcome authoritarianism in different cultures, or even by different people within th
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
A logical problem here is that a 100 million people would be far more than enough to decide any and all elections. They could put 'Mr. Cause' into office at every single level of government if there was ever anything like 100 mi

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