akimball

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by akimball 6y ago
Justice system, yes. Police? Not so much. Find an Old Testament reference to a police force, if you wish to be credible on this point.
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by akimball 6y ago
The only "fair" tax policy is no tax policy. The function of taxation is to punish an activity, which is inherently discriminatory. In the context of a monetary sovereign, it serves no revenue function.
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by akimball 6y ago
Like the muon. "Who ordered that?"
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by akimball 6y ago
In the Euro zone, nations are not monetary sovereigns.
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by akimball 6y ago
Taxation is obsolete as a revenue mechanism for a monetary sovereign. The only value of taxation is to discourage an activity. To discourage the generation of income is profoundly counterproductive.
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by akimball 6y ago
While that is valid, two wrongs don't make a right.
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by akimball 6y ago
You mean like increase in autism, depression, and decrease in population mean testosterone?
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by akimball 6y ago
Very few of them are, because each case is different. Another way to put this: EBM is only good for about 1 in 10 treatments. Great for writing papers, though.
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by akimball 6y ago
(db)RCTs are good. Fetishizing them is bad.
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by akimball 6y ago
Regardless of their claims, I think it likely that their range gain is attributable entirely to reduced drag coefficient.
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by akimball 6y ago
60,000 USD, per the article
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by akimball 6y ago
You forgot the rape
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by akimball 6y ago
Capitalism is the only tool for insuring plutocratic fascism.
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by akimball 6y ago
It would be easy for Intel to prove what code is running. Peer review does the rest.
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by akimball 6y ago
Can you explain why?
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by akimball 6y ago
Free will can certainly be modeled probabilistically.
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by akimball 6y ago
Et moi aussi: I try not to eat anyone smarter than me.
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by akimball 6y ago
Very little if the level of contextual loading is high enough. Vast amounts if it is low. Not all bits are equal.
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by akimball 6y ago
Also a good description of most art.
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by akimball 6y ago
I just assume until proven otherwise.
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by akimball 6y ago
And thus there is a sell-by date on capitalism.
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by akimball 6y ago
Often a boot cycle gives the rootkit a chance to hook boot code to bootstrap into hypervisor.
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by akimball 6y ago
Or for something that is gendered.
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by akimball 6y ago
Broadly speaking, the press loves the nutters. They make a sensational story and draw eyeballs. This is fine, but then both-sidesing leads to the normalization of nuttery. Fact checking is hard work, and not adequately compensated. It&#x
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by akimball 6y ago
Being associated with broad-brush slander is also a negative. The attack on cryptocurrency broadly was extremely unbalanced, and not even factually correct on some pivotal points. I concede that it a sector rife with opportunism, scammers
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by akimball 6y ago
Interestingly, the often repeated "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" comment is also a relative likelihood argument "like those supporting intelligent design". I'm pretty sure the proportion of p
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by akimball 6y ago
I would go a step further: The odds of any claim being wrong are overwhelming, regardless of whether it is endorsed by the consensus or not, whether it is ordinary or extraordinary. Brains are not truth-making machines. Anyhow, I'm n
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by akimball 6y ago
Almost always. Have you met reviewer number 2? I suppose he's right most of the time, and feels vindicated as a result. I'm just troubled by the the modulus, the work of merit, rare and precious as it is, that suffers from the s
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by akimball 6y ago
You can more correctly assess the credibility of counterclaims, and evaluate how they are motivated to disinform about vitally important issues. Similarly, if they are wrong, you can evaluate how their motivations caused them to mislead ab
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by akimball 6y ago
You argument appears to be that I should focus on a strawman instead of evaluating the evidence.

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