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by banads 7y ago
Economic studies are often rife with bias and political motives, as you know. It's foolish to trust such things on faith-based appeals to authority.
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Obviously there is a considerable wealth gap among different demographics. But if you compare a poor black neighborhood with a poor white trailer park, there won't be much of a difference. If you compare that poor neighborhood or trail
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>In my city, Boston, the average household wealth of a white family (excluding the value of the home) is $200,000. The average household wealth of a black family is $5. (and no, I didn't forget to put a thousand after the 5) Do you
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by banads 7y ago
Is the politics of information a liberal issue? Other than their complaints about Russia, it doesn't seem like there's many speaking out against the inordinate political power wielded by information overlords like Facebook and Goo
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Indeed, the Federal Reserve is over 100 years old. However, I fear the Fed is such a powerful and entrenched legacy system that it is extremely unlikely for it to be politically re-evaluated unless there were some sort of catastrophic syste
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by banads 7y ago
Automation should naturally lead to deflation for many goods and services
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by banads 7y ago
How can a US Dollar based UBI solve the problems of automation when the Super Admins of the US Dollar are explicitly pursuing the opposite goal? According to the Federal Reserve website, 2/3 of their main goals are: 1. Seeking to maxim
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by banads 7y ago
That same justification was used against political dissidents in the Soviet Union https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatr...
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by banads 7y ago
>They made you face up to the ground-level reality. The news media has consciously hidden and censored the ground level reality of war since Vietnam, where they made the mistake of showing families the graphic ground level realities of w
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>general misinformation is, unfortunately, just a byproduct of the existence of the internet. Not much room for inoculation outside of education. The scale of it is greatly enhanced by the internet, but such problems have existed since l
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>Fringe ideas become normalized and accelerate the extremism due to the ability of these long tail groups to find each other. The same is true for good ideas. For instance, suggesting that doctors should wash their hands was originally
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by banads 7y ago
Professors post slides and documents containing the lecture material online. However, some professors would purposefully leave out key words out of the slides to force you to come to class and fill to fill in the blanks
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by banads 7y ago
To get a degree -> to get a job. For me personally, there were many classes that I could easily pass without needing to go to class
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>I think there are thoughts that you have had that have never occurred to anyone else. Unless you created your own language that you think in this is most certainly not the case
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Phrasing it as "killing" automatically disqualifies your argument as illogical The comment you linked also makes many flawed assumptions. For example: infinite population growth is always good. That idea is literally cancer and de
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Insatiable consumerism and discontentedness
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>Soon after the show's cancellation, an internal MSNBC memo was leaked to the press stating that Donahue should be fired because he opposed the imminent U.S. invasion of Iraq and that he would be a "difficult public face for NB
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by banads 7y ago
Few people are so perfectly stoic as you presume. Often times spreading anger is the game people are playing on Twitter, and it spreads like a virus. Emotions are contagious.
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by banads 7y ago
Your satirically imagined quotes are comically similar to the actual quotes: Nixon: "You see, homosexuality, dope, immorality in general. These are the enemies of strong societies. That's why the Communists and the left-wingers ar
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by banads 7y ago
Fair point, but, I think we all can agree "proper regulation written by people who know what they're talking about" is extremely unlikely to happen.
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It seems Nixon's and Erdogan's motivations were similar. The war on drugs was created by the Nixon regime as a way to neutralize threatening political movements like Black Power and the Hippie Peace movement.
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Can't you customize all the shortcuts according to your own needs?
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According to research[1], on average, men tend to be more utilitarian while women tend to be more expressive; so your examples seem to be in accordance with those differences. Social nature is quite nuanced, so any one particular variable c
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Not common enough, it seems. As a former software developer, the mental isolation was one of the main reasons why I changed professions, and I feel much better for it. Deep contemplation of technical problems while staring at a screen and t
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Why don't you believe there can be any relation between female infants preference towards faces and female adults preference towards occupations with more face to face, people oriented interactions?
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by banads 7y ago
You think programmers spend more time having face to face (as opposed to face to computer) interactions than people in health care, child care, social work, or education?
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>Accepting that girl infants prefer faces and boy infants prefer trucks—what does that have to do with programming? Programming jobs often involve extremely minimal face to face interactions
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The same is true is in fields dominated by women, such as education
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It would seem any univariate analysis of social dynamics is by default erroneous
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Is it even possible to prove objective causation in a complex social sciences study, since there can be no control group?

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