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by astine 7y ago
" I don't see why capital gains should be taxed lower. " The point of taxing capital gains lower than income is to encourage the wealthy to invest rather than hoard their wealth. This is good because invested money helps driv
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For the record, I've definitely seen backlash against the 'male brain' hypothesis for autism, which is that this study is ultimately about. The guy who first proposed it was Simon Baron-Cohen who is a well known autism resear
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A culturally and context dependent grouping of people based on ancestry and geographic origin.
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It's not just narrative fitting. There is also a strong bias towards publishing results that seem surprising because that gets more readers. Of course, that also biases toward wrong results because wrong results are likely to be surpri
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1.3 decades
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An ORM is not a substitute for learning SQL. It's just a nice tool for more tightly integrating your database and your application code. An ORM can make you like much easier, but if you don't know SQL or how a relational database
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by astine 7y ago
You're arguing that we should be comparing the total cost of the fossil fuel and renewable energy industries. If the discussion is mainly about the direction society should take with regard to energy, then I would agree with you. But t
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by astine 7y ago
" i'm not sure how it's the wrong context, but no matter. " Actually, this is important. The original article talks about government subsidies in the renewable energy market. It's only talking about direct subsidies
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" >but it doesn't mean that they are factually the same thing. First of all, the meaning of words and political concepts are never factual. " You're still missing the point. The point is that there is a distinction be
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" so rather than relying on semantics, make the argument you're really trying to make, which, by context, seems to be that you don't think externalized costs should be used in the comparison. " No, externalized costs are
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" Cars in my country get taxed directly or indirectly (through fuel) based in part on emissions " Unless these emmission taxes are calibrated to the cost of climate change then this argument is missing the point. Taxes and subsidi
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" If you only look at these, and compare fossil fuels to renewables, you’ll come away thinking that fossil fuels are far cheaper than they actually are. " In the case of this discussion, you're looking at it backwards. The su
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" Not requiring a company pay, in some form, the cost of their externality costs is an active policy decision. " No, it's a passive policy decision by definition.
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" Gifts in kind aren’t subsidies? " They can be but that's less common. The key difference is that a subsidy is direct and an active policy. For example, when people talk about subsidies for renewables, they aren't talki
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by astine 7y ago
In my experience, economists don't usually conflate subsidies with negative externalities any more than the conflate positive externalities with taxation. " Most people don't know the word "externality," so using a
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by astine 7y ago
This is wrong because subsidies aren't just externalized costs. They are defined as monetary gifts. You're extending the definition by analogy and arguing that a company externalizing its costs is the same thing as a subsidy, but
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" I'm not denying banks need to step up their game, after all it's nearly 2020. But personally I think the reason it won't matter is most of them won't be around long enough - they're in for a world of painful
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by astine 7y ago
Honestly, I'd rather my bank be too quick to notify me of weird activity and ask for my approval than the opposite. At the very least, it lets me know that they are paying attention. If someone were to steal from my bank account, I&#x2
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by astine 7y ago
Honestly, I've never like Stallman. I've long argued that he was a liability. The reason I'm playing devil's advocate here (I can't speak for anyone else) is that this is at least partially in response to a viral me
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" Never setting boundaries for RMS for decades may have contributed to him never been properly housebroken and ultimately didn’t do him any favors. " I don't disagree.
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That's good to know.
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" How is it we value free speech, but there are certain discussions you just cannot have, even in a rational and measured way, without risking making yourself completely unemployable. You should be able to have a questionable viewpoint
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by astine 7y ago
Just to play devil's advocate, if Stallman is genuinely autistic, as many people seem to believe, it's possible that he didn't understand it as a 'tactic'; that he just expressed to this woman how he felt and didn&#
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by astine 7y ago
Except that the pseudoaddiction isn't the misdiagnosis. The pseudoaddiction is the collection of behaviors that have been misdiagnosed. Someone else in this thread said 'underdosing,' and I think that gets at the idea better.
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" The one thing I find very puzzling or annoying, is why anyone want to even use the very confusing term "pseudoaddiction" and especially be "against against" it. Jeesh. The situation seems like it could best be han
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by astine 7y ago
" Yet they never reverse course. " That's because they don't have to. A lot of Apple customers don't even consider competing products. Apple could release a Macbook without a keyboard and there would still be a cont
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I do this all the time, especially while driving. I plug an aux cord into my phone to listen to podcasts or audiobooks and plug the usb connection into power supply in my car. I wouldn't be able to do a long road trip if I had to switc
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If you turn on "showdead" you'll be able to see the original comment. I don't think there was anything worth flagging about it; the commenter just gave away his political bias using the the word 'extremist' rat
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"Or is the key message of conservatism something else?" It depends on the conservative. It's a broad camp. Some people who call themselves 'conservative' are really just super reactionary people who hate any kind of
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by astine 7y ago
Trump got elected, in part, because a lot of religious conservatives hoped he would appoint conservative (read anti-abortion) judges to the supreme court. Religious conservatives don't, for the most part, like his obvious loose morals

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