clavalle

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by clavalle 10y ago
Individually, no, but statistically...perhaps?
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by clavalle 10y ago
Fair enough, but mathematics is robustly internally consistent. If a mathematical idea leads to the same results as another mathematical idea with no contradiction it is considered true and is celebrated. These ideas also need to avoid r
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by clavalle 10y ago
>How do we choose which ones to teach? Which one leads to a richer vein of further research? Which one makes better predictions? Which one finds more applications? Diversity and scope can be important only so far as they improve the syst
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by clavalle 10y ago
Sigh. Yes, boring is the right word. For some reason you assume people are implausibly stupid, and not just in this thread but as a general approach. It does make for very boring discussions where I have to explain things like this: I kno
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by clavalle 10y ago
You are making a radical suggestion; that scriptures (or their 'source material') are the whole truth of how they themselves came to be rather than the end of a long process pre-dated by unknowable oral tradition. Further that the
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by clavalle 10y ago
>Because available historical records are quite informative. Pointers to said records? I wasn't aware there was a historical play-by-play regarding how the dogma of today's dominant religions came to be.
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by clavalle 10y ago
I'm not sure how you can say that. Look at the moral aversion regarding eating pork for some religions. It is completely conceivable that they saw people getting terrible wasting diseases from parasites from people who ate pork and ca
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by clavalle 10y ago
The thing about alcohol and tobacco is that it is a personal choice that affects the people making that choice directly. The diseases can be spread from generation to generation. And the problems tend to be worse for kids that are born wit
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by clavalle 10y ago
Which came first, the moral aversion or the danger?
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by clavalle 10y ago
>What makes sexual labor so horrid? It is a really effective way to spread some pretty terrible diseases. And, no, condoms and dental dams etc aren't going to be full protection. There are some that are not routinely tested for and
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by clavalle 10y ago
>Basic income is known to create a large disincentive for work. In previous experiments (Mincome) labor supply dropped by about 10% So what? Those people spent their time on things they valued more than the money they could earn by sell
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by clavalle 10y ago
It's worked for my family in a slightly different context.
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by clavalle 10y ago
>I despise social security, mainly because it's a wealth transfer tool Wealth transfer is not necessarily a bad thing.
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by clavalle 10y ago
Maybe I misunderstood him but I thought he was saying that as long as there were solid cash flows despite full capital expenditures that the stock would reflect those cash flows. Less of a quibble and more of a core misunderstanding of what
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by clavalle 10y ago
Discounted future /free/ cash flows. That's cash flow minus capital expenditures which means, at some point, Amazon is going to have to decide enough is enough and allow overall cash flow to come in well above its capital exp
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by clavalle 11y ago
Because that was the plan all along? At some point Amazon is going to get a return for all of its investment. The entire market is now dancing to Amazon's tune. Why not now?
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by clavalle 11y ago
I've helped IBM explore some consumer applications around Watson. We were basically using it as a recommendation engine. In contrast with regular recommendation engines which require other users to feed it data on preferences and then
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by clavalle 11y ago
You misunderstood. Attacking civilians is bad in any context and strictly illegal. Declaring war then attacking government, military, and critical infrastructure after such a declaration is quite different from flying a plane of civilians i
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by clavalle 11y ago
Probably because being 'cool' is highly subjective and of marginal, perhaps even negative, relevance to doing valuable work. It is presumptuous and pretentious: 'Are you good enough by my own arbitrary and vague standards to
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by clavalle 11y ago
"political purpose" in this case meaning deterring people from attacking us. I'm no fan of how Bush handled things but painting flying airliners filled with civilians into skyscrapers filled with civilians and hitting governm
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by clavalle 11y ago
I have a really hard time feeling bad for people that join the military that get upset that they have to kill people.
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by clavalle 11y ago
This raises the very important question: is the fear of drones hitting planes completely overblown?
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by clavalle 11y ago
I was referring to the idea that American adventures abroad don't do much to 'export democracy' as evidenced by a handful of failures. But that 'analysis' ignores the bulk of the last century where, in fact, America
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by clavalle 11y ago
Who doesn't? We all share this tiny oasis of life.
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by clavalle 11y ago
Oh, ok. We'll go ahead and save ourselves enough cash to cover the GDP of your country, then, and ramp down our military in your neck of the woods. You don't mind defending your own democracy from the likes of Vladamir Putin et.
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by clavalle 11y ago
That's not how competition works. If I can produce my good for $10 and sell for $20 and my competition sells for $15, what will a consumer do? What will I do in response?
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by clavalle 11y ago
That is only true if competition between the sellers of those goods is broken or there truly is a global shortage of all types of goods that can fulfill a basic need.
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by clavalle 11y ago
It's complicated. There are a couple of directions to examine this question. First, from the supply of money and how it is used. While everyone will have more money, that doesn't necessarily mean that each unit of currency will b
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by clavalle 11y ago
>The main condition holding them back, Desmond argues, is rent. This is a symptom. The main condition is that they have to bargain with their life (or physical suffering) on the balance for nearly everything including rent. When the cho
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by clavalle 11y ago
A natural key. It is not always possible, but when it is it should be used.

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