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by cykotic 3y ago
This is a philosophical viewpoint but in some sense all of them are lucky. Louis de Branges claimed for years to have a proof of Riemann Hypothesis. No one really agreed with his conclusion. He is certainly a first rate mathematician and
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by cykotic 3y ago
Out of curiosity I looked into Comcast cable tv prices in my area recently. All cable packages had a list price that did not include $20 a month for broadcast tv fee and $15 a month for regional sports tv fee. It’s not a surprise that peo
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by cykotic 3y ago
Sometimes a regulation needs to be done at the government level for the protection of everyone. For instance, we didn’t leave it up to individual apartment complexes on whether or not they wanted to implement ADA requirements or fire detec
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by cykotic 3y ago
That is certainly plausible and worth looking into.
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by cykotic 3y ago
On the whole though you would agree progress has been made, right? In a world with imperfect knowledge you do the best you can with the information you have. The response to a paper ought not be, “This paper is bogus because they didn’t co
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by cykotic 3y ago
If we did science as you seem to think it should be done then very little progress will be made. You should read up on the history of progress in neuroscience. Metaphorically speaking; when you walk into a dark room one has to reach out a
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by cykotic 3y ago
Higher median income places tend to have a fewer percentage of poor people. Probably some people assume poverty correlates to suicide rate. The authors did the best they could at making sense of the data they had. Here’s a map of suicide
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by cykotic 3y ago
We live in a world of imperfect knowledge. We look for patterns to try to determine cause/effect. The beginning process for this is to point out correlations and then further investigate. It’s not possible to account for all variabl
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by cykotic 3y ago
I very much doubt this is true. Do you have any training in this area? I’m guessing no.
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by cykotic 3y ago
The post is light on details but they do cite one study. Do you have anything other than intuition for your beliefs? I’ve not studied the issue and know nothing about childhood development so my intuition is almost certainly riddled with
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by cykotic 3y ago
That Thomas has taken very expensive gifts from people with cases he ruled on is enough evidence of wrongdoing. One does not need any more information. In such a position as judge, member of Congress, or President the appearance of impropr
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by cykotic 3y ago
Would that people like you think as much about the poor when it comes time for the government to make its budget. We’d be a better country if it this happened.
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by cykotic 3y ago
I said nothing of the sort nor implied anything of the sort. In a financial sense, winners=rich and losers=poor. This has nothing to do with zero sum.
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by cykotic 3y ago
I had read about rainfall problems some years ago. I thought it was more of one time occurrence sort of thing. Humans have done a remarkably good job of messing up the environment.
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by cykotic 3y ago
I’m surprised it’s that many people. I’d be interested to know if the displaced people primarily lived near the railroad. Colon was a small city back then so I did not think it could be so many people. We in the Zone weren’t taught much a
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by cykotic 3y ago
I hope my prior comment isn’t taken as derogatory toward Panama. Based on when I was last in Panama they’ve done a great job of governance. At least compared to when the Canal Zone was still an American territory. I think, overall, we Am
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by cykotic 3y ago
I’m not up to date on things now. Thanks for the information. Prior to the handover of the Canal there weren’t any issues with water during rainy season. But Panama City has ballooned in population and the ships going through the canal now
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by cykotic 3y ago
Gatun lake is man made. There was no lake as such prior to the building of the canal. There also weren’t a lot of people living in the area of what is now Gatun lake. Between Colon and Panama City was very sparsely populated.
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by cykotic 3y ago
Zonian here. There was zero chance of ever creating a lock free canal. The amount of digging required for that was not possible in the early 1900s. I think pumping water in those days was far too impractical. Ships need to get raised 85
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by cykotic 3y ago
In the U.S. bonuses are taxable income and the marginal rate of taxation for the bonuses comes at the high end of an employee’s tax bracket. In the U.S. corporate tax rates are lower than the income tax rate for high individual earners. T
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by cykotic 3y ago
According to the definition you linked to no suffering occurs because no one lost anything. You can’t lose something you never had.
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by cykotic 3y ago
I made an edit to my comment above. It may explain more my position. We live in a society and there aren winners/losers in a financial sense. But we all have to live together. That 10 people have as much wealth as 150 million people
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by cykotic 3y ago
Profits by definition mean leftover money after all expenses. Paying tax on profit does not incur a loss by anyone. It does mean that someone receives less than if there was no tax but it isn't a loss. You can't suffer if nothi
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by cykotic 3y ago
I don't know Italian law and don't know if ex post facto tax increases are illegal. I'm guess not since they are enacting such taxes. Windfall taxes don't bother me.
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by cykotic 3y ago
I think you don't understand what the word suffer means. Those entities don't lose anything. It's not possible to lose something you don't have. In an alternate universe where the windfall tax did not occur those enti
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by cykotic 3y ago
It does not bother me. But I think there should be a min/max for how much wealth a person has. No one suffers from taxing windfall profits. Windfall , by definition, being unexpectedly high profits.
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by cykotic 3y ago
The vast majority of climate scientists believe you are wrong. A very small minority of them believe you are right. Given that climate science is not like mathematics where absolute certainty is possible it’s best for people to go with the
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by cykotic 3y ago
Hysteria is too strong a word. Perhaps you speak in hyperbole. Few people are actually hysterical over the destruction of the environment that we are doing collectively. I just hope we don't kill too many people with the "degro
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by cykotic 3y ago
I think the question ought to be why is your belief on the matter not the result of propaganda in the reverse direction? When you believe something that the overwhelming majority of experts disagree with then it seems it’s much more likely
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by cykotic 3y ago
You may suggest it but I don’t care if someone thinks I’m biased toward one over the other. They are both assholes and neither deserve adulation of any kind. It is objectively true though that Mark will kill Musk in a real fight. Mark tr

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