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by astine 3y ago
I don't see anything in that link about increasing unemployment in order "suppress wages". Milton Friedman's comments are about monetary policy. Unemployment can be decreased by increasing inflation, but Friedman thinks
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by astine 3y ago
"According to the law of supply and demand this would result in wages rising rapidly and without bound" No it doesn't. Having to poach employees to increase your labor pool doesn't mean that you are willing to raise wage
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by astine 3y ago
This. Along with the federal government more generally. And also all of the companies that lobby or otherwise work with the federal government. NoVA is adjacent to DC and has a better tax environment than MD, so that's where all the g
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by astine 3y ago
Um. Yes? Considering books like this https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/27/us/tennessee-school-board-rem... have also been banned, I'm not super confident in the some people's ability to distinguish
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by astine 3y ago
Do you have any examples of this book actually being read to children? Otherwise it's still speculation that kids are being taught "how to give blowjobs". I have no doubt that sexually explicit books on lgbt issues exist, but
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by astine 3y ago
> A 6th grader should NOT, under any circumstances, be taught how to give a blow job by a 400lb man in a dress. Can you show one instance of this actually happening? I'm not aware of any and what does get banned seems to be a pretty
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by astine 4y ago
As opposed to "postive". It's the old is-ought dichotomy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem . Positive claims are about what is true. Normative claims are about what should be true
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by astine 4y ago
A bit late, but I can answer your question. The reason that every accounting solution is unique is because every company is unique. Your accounts represent different aspects of your business. You need to track all of your assets, liabilitie
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by astine 4y ago
Those kinds of systems already exist. They tend to be a bit unreliable and still require a human person to oversee the process. Besides, in truth, they only handle a fraction of what accountants actually deal with.
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by astine 4y ago
Because accounting is not the same thing as book keeping. Book keeping can, and in fact is, partially automated. Accounting however, is not just about data entry and doing sums, things which frequently are automated, but also about designin
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by astine 4y ago
I mean, there's a difference between the size of a codebase and its efficiency. I could write a ten line program and peg a CPU, and write a ten thousand line program that doesn't cause and trouble at all.
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by astine 4y ago
The DSM V does recognize comorbidity of ASD and ADHD and allows for simultaneous diagnosis. You might be thinking of the DSM IV which didn't.
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by astine 4y ago
Actually, Zeno's argument actually was that it was impossible to move. He was a disciple of the earlier philosopher Parmenides who had argued the change if any kind was impossible and therefore an illusion. This was a hot debate in pre
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by astine 4y ago
This is correct. There are hundreds of archaeological sites world-wide that have yet to be excavated, simply because archaeologists haven't had time to excavate them all.
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by astine 4y ago
Buildings in the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact contries during the Cold War were often constructed with an ideological bent in mind: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning_in_communist_...
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by astine 4y ago
Having access to the original artifact itself is still important. We have a lot of second hand accounts of things that happened in the distant past but for many of these things, we are missing original accounts or original artifacts from th
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by astine 4y ago
Artwork such as this is not just important from an artistic perspective, it's important from an archeological, historical, and paleontological perspective. There is a lot we have learned from ancient rock art and probably a lot that we
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by astine 4y ago
"Now, you might be thinking "But Alvaro, you idiot, we're adaptation executors, not fitness maximizers! This is all perfectly alright, you see." Sure, we're adaptation executors, but that doesn't give you a bl
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by astine 4y ago
Unless someone turns off the underlining with a stylesheet.
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by astine 4y ago
I'd say that if Plato's account is so garbled that he gets the date off by thousands of years, the entire story is likely to be useless as a source of actual history.
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by astine 4y ago
You can tell by actually reading the account and knowing a little bit about the context. Plato's account is of a civilization that was defeated in a war with Athens ten thousand years before his time. Because Athens did not exist ten t
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by astine 4y ago
Your definition "1" describes just about anything. Water, for example, produces a chemical effect. So do amino acids. Your entire metabolism is a chemical process, as is the growth of plants. What I think that people mean when t
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by astine 4y ago
Sort of. Sshfs is a FUSE file system that locally mounts a directory on a remote server using an SSH connection as the only necessary transport.
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by astine 4y ago
Most past civilizations didn't fail due to a single resource collapse. Also, most of them didn't have free-markets oriented around innovation.
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by astine 4y ago
If one in every thousand Americans has a unique and unexplained mental illness that compels them to violence, that would provide more than enough explanation for motives. It's even true for some famous shooters. [1],[2],[3] 1. https:&
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by astine 4y ago
I don't think I agree with that. Java isn't static. Python isn't static. C# isn't static. These are some of the heavy hitters in terms of total number of users. Stability is valuable, but popular languages still mana
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by astine 4y ago
Yes, I've TOF's blog posts before. TOF's perspective is one that I've encounter many times before. You mostly find it in some very conservative Catholic circles. If I was being generous, I would say that TOF was pushing
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by astine 4y ago
The engine might be faster (I'm not sure) but SQLite has the advantage that it doesn't have to connect over a socket. Instead you load the SQLite library into your code and your application directly manipulates the database files.
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by astine 4y ago
"Galileo was not punished by the church for saying the earth orbits the sun. Galileo was indicted and punished by the church because he was a local elite with several personal and political enemies within the church, and more directly,
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by astine 4y ago
> There are some simple facts that aren’t really controversial. There are two ways for a war to end: One way is for one side or the other to be basically destroyed. And the Russians are not going to be destroyed. So that means one way is

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