awptimus

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by awptimus 9y ago
middle man increases uncertainty, which is your friend
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by awptimus 9y ago
someone failed thinking 101
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by awptimus 9y ago
God called one of his angels back to heaven
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by awptimus 9y ago
I have an acquaintance whose main method of argument is shouting out names of logical fallacies without pointing out to the person he's arguing with where and how it applies. This list is helpful as a guide to spot errors in reasoning.
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by awptimus 9y ago
https://evans.uw.edu/sites/default/files/NBER%20Working%20Pa...
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by awptimus 9y ago
minimum wage earners lost $125 a month due to cut hours.
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by awptimus 9y ago
Because...
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by awptimus 9y ago
That QM is random to us is no more correct on its face than a dice roll being random. A dice roll follows rules of classical physics and given enough information about the state of the system we can accurately predict /exactly/ ho
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by awptimus 9y ago
Did he just assume their gender? Did I just assume his gender?
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by awptimus 9y ago
Didn't read the article. But the answer is yes.
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by awptimus 9y ago
I ain't try any trick yo
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by awptimus 9y ago
"Crazy" suffices to say that the behavior set is far outside of regular norms as to be unworkable with normal reason. It doesn't have to imply the actor is schizophrenic or anything. It doesn't matter if the actor, behav
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by awptimus 9y ago
And it's mediocre because?
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by awptimus 9y ago
And this single line you plucked out of Atlas Shrugged is mediocre because?
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by awptimus 9y ago
Give one example of a "mediocre idea."
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by awptimus 9y ago
bump
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by awptimus 9y ago
Yes, the characters are intended to be one dimensional. You'll notice all the characters have differences from each other in important ways, because they are meant to show how certain beliefs (and contradictions in beliefs) interact an
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by awptimus 9y ago
I love articles like these because it's nothing but regurgitated BS by people who don't get Rand, about people who aren't really 'devotees'. Writing caricatures of people and ideas and how those caricatures of peopl
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by awptimus 11y ago
Bahahaha. That's funny. ESPN's entire business model is based on being just popular enough that any cable company not carrying it would go under so they can demand something on the order of $6.50 per subscriber when the majority o
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by awptimus 11y ago
You should always trade by specifying your own limit.
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by awptimus 11y ago
It's not even controversial to anyone who knows math. It's a consequence of the intermediate value theorem.
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by awptimus 11y ago
What if Bigfoot is dressed in a burka? Under your assumptions your system is logically sound and under the system you can conclude, but in broader context you assume that which you would like to prove. You started with no one saw bigfoot, a
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by awptimus 11y ago
Other people don't factor into this. Proving to them is not necessary. Once an event occurs, it occurred. Your knowledge of what that event or the total state of that event might be uncertain, but the event's occurrence is no long
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by awptimus 11y ago
Not true. Given a hypothesis "there exists" the first observed instance is proof of the positive. The inverse however, again, requires you to sample the entire population and collect all data.
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by awptimus 11y ago
It's just missing the better alternative. It's much more correct and useful to say "given all evidence the probability there are yeti is almost zero" correctly doesn't rule it impossible and correctly asserts that w
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by awptimus 11y ago
This is an unnecessary. "You can't prove a negative" isn't a statement about logic, it's a statement statistical evidence (incorporating logic). You need to observe the entire population in order to reduce a probabi
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by awptimus 11y ago
This article demonstrates the danger of thinking statistics is logic - you can only use statistics with the analytical framework firmly set up...not as a replacement. The United States is just that - United. States. 38 mass shootings, howev
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by awptimus 12y ago
One of the co-authors has been writing about this extensively. http://wmbriggs.com/post/15337/
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by awptimus 12y ago
Reminds me of this cartoon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F2OOrtU2VE
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by awptimus 13y ago
Complaint 1 isn't a problem with free-trade, it's a problem with a treasury issuing debt. If the treasury ceased to issue new debt, then this "problem" with free-trade goes away. This "problem" is not bidirecti

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