antwerpz

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by antwerpz 6y ago
I don't think you read the whole of my comment. Amazon aggressively reinvests its extremely large and stable earnings into the business which Bezos owns a large part of and controls actively. Both he and his ex-wife have realized extre
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by antwerpz 6y ago
You seem to be making a political point about the Netherlands which is completely separate from the fact which I presented, and which you incorrectly contradicted.
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by antwerpz 6y ago
NL has a far, far smaller share of North Sea Oil than Norway (and 3 times the population) The UK has a similar share (actually slightly smaller) with over 10 times the population.
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by antwerpz 6y ago
You're confused about how GDP is calculated. The GDP difference between the US and Europe is fifty times larger than one rich person's own income? This isn't actually a great argument dismissing the suggestion that US wealt
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by antwerpz 6y ago
To be fair, there is not really any other country to compare them to on this. No country which was already rich, stable, democratic and well-educated has ever received such a large resources windfall as Norway did from North Sea Oil.
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by antwerpz 6y ago
GDP measures income, not spending. If someone outside the US spends money on Amazon, and a portion of that money becomes part of Bezos' income, that portion is counted in the US GDP, not the foreign country's GDP. His income last
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by antwerpz 6y ago
Losing UC as a subscriber is a huge own goal for Elsevier. Researchers will get used to: 1. always posting preprints, 2. always looking for preprints first, 3. using scihub to get older papers, 4. citing and sharing material using links to
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by antwerpz 6y ago
Abstinence-only education fails for sex, because a) sex is a built-in human drive b) sex is beneficial in lots of ways, and c) there are lots of ways to have sex safely. Abstinence as a strategy is not in and of itself flawed. The way lots