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UncleEntity
9y ago
> And yes, the carbon tax is a libertarian concept. Actually, it's not. Pretty much everything I've read by the libertarians (Rothbardians really) about carbon taxes either call it a wealth redistribution scheme (which the orig
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9y ago
The difference is physicists don't try to change the behavior of apples unlike the quote that claims economic actors are irrational because they don't fit the models.
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9y ago
"...who believed that his field should acknowledge that people rarely behave as rationally as economic models predict." So, umm, maybe your models are bad? If you base your economic model on the silly idea that all (or at least mo
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9y ago
He fought against isis with the Kurds.
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UncleEntity
9y ago
Google thought I was a dog or maybe a god, dunno...either way it was probably as tragic as the article.
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9y ago
IDK, my uncle got drafted during Vietnam and ended up as an embassy guard in Berlin -- guess it helped that my grandfather worked for some California senator...
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9y ago
I contributed to blender for a few years and rarely interacted with Ton, never found him to be grumpy either.