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by davvolun 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermaphrodite
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by davvolun 8y ago
Absolutely, this is not really over money. I think if you look at the past few decades, Democrats have been better at being fiscally conservative, for whatever reason, but this is a battle over principles, not money.
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by davvolun 8y ago
You don't see why ineffective government action that fails to do the one thing it was designed to do, but inconveniences everyone else would draw so much ire?
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by davvolun 8y ago
Right? I see Chris Cillizza deliberately drop the concluding sentence of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' comment to deliberately take it out of context[1] or a single CNN journalist fabricating sources for years[2] (not to pick on CNN too mu
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by davvolun 8y ago
You say potato, I say potahto. The end result is the same, and not really relevant to my point that I really don't think anyone (in this thread) is arguing for Austrian economic theory, nor do I think anyone is threatening anyone her
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by davvolun 8y ago
If I say Hitler was clearly a persuasive speaker, does that imply I believe Nazism? Per my understanding, Austrian economics would presumably argue that (1) babies are parasites (2) parasites should be eliminated (3) ergo, babies should be
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by davvolun 8y ago
What part of that responds to anything I said? I haven't even said (1) whether I believe the effect or not or (2) whether I have or have not experienced that effect myself. You're assuming I've made a statement one way or the
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by davvolun 8y ago
I think you can respect the authority of a professional without this type of attack. How do you know the person you're responding to isn't a tenured Professor of Economics somewhere? To respond to an article on the internet, do we
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by davvolun 8y ago
That sounds crazy, I can't find any information to back up that statement. Need source. I'm finding something back in the 90s/early 2000s that might be related; the city was handling marketing and ticket sales, so maybe there
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by davvolun 8y ago
So, what...U.S. should stop at around 62% upper marginal tax rate? There's a huge difference between 70% and the current U.S. marginal rate of 37% for over $500k. Argue homogeneity, small, relatively rich population all you want, we&#x
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by davvolun 8y ago
Looks like there's a lot of McGraw-Hill Book Company (now McGraw-Hill Education, not sure if that has something to do with it) books on archive.org, particularly from the "Public Library of India." I'm wondering if these
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by davvolun 8y ago
You don't need it to be a "well-researched psychological concept" if you've personally experienced it, but that does absolutely nothing to convince me, and further, you should carefully weigh your own anecdotal exper
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by davvolun 8y ago
What's the book? There's lots of reasons why a work after 1923 might be in the public domain, but as of this year, everything before 1923 is in the public domain. I would guess FOSS/FLOSS software is probably the most likel
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by davvolun 8y ago
I did not interpret the parent comment to be arguing against you, rather, I thought it was supporting your case -- Wikileaks is fully aware of their hypocrisy and is trying to stifle internal (and external) discussion about it.
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by davvolun 8y ago
Wow, thanks for linking to that. Note that the "Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect" is a discussion point by a popular novelist, not a well-researched psychological concept. Frankly, without deeper research into the concept, it's a quo
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by davvolun 8y ago
"It's just a simple fact of human nature" is, of course, the other right-wing dogwhistle. "It's just a simple fact that there are only two genders" "It's just a simple fact that white people and black
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by davvolun 8y ago
I was told your permanent record wasn't a real thing!!
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by davvolun 8y ago
For various reasons, I'm not able to provide a source for this. Suffice to say, just because it seems likely that you would end up winning the case doesn't mean someone with deep pockets won't do everything they can to keep y
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by davvolun 8y ago
*faxes or home phone service oops
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by davvolun 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_tax_revenue_by_state (2015) California Revenue per capita is $10,408. Texas, the second largest state by economy in total money, is $10,204 per capita, the average is $10,234. Inci
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by davvolun 8y ago
To play devil's advocate (you can read my response to OP to see how I feel generally about the overall argument), it does seem to correlate that more homogeneous societies, e.g. Japan, Norway, have lower crime statistics, or lower viol
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by davvolun 8y ago
Are you serious? That's almost the basis for our (U.S., Western) form of government. "Social contract arguments typically posit that individuals have consented, either explicitly or tacitly, to surrender some of their freedoms a
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by davvolun 8y ago
Still better than supporting IE6.
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by davvolun 8y ago
The Web has been doing lots of things poorly for a long time as well. I know I've seen some implementations of date-pickers I don't like, and more old school implementations without date pickers that were just clumsy.
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by davvolun 8y ago
The comparison doesn't make sense though. There's absolutely no reason you can't build an interface using single-page that functions to the end-user identically to any multi-page form. You can't necessarily do the revers
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by davvolun 8y ago
Do any of those numbers refute my point? Instead of saying "take a look at what's already been linked" either link something that refutes my point or make a clear argument that does so. The statement was: > To play devil&#
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by davvolun 8y ago
What study? Did it break down other factors for survival or are you arguing that the 350 million Americans all have exactly the same chance of surviving cancer? I don't know why you're quoting "anecdote," you gave a text
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by davvolun 8y ago
I responded to another commenter, Simpson's Paradox -- 67% average doesn't mean that I can expect 67%. Healthcare efficacy is correlated with wealth (i.e. cost of healthcare and ability to bear that cost). To get 67%, let's s
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by davvolun 8y ago
Yes, but let's say in the U.S. the numbers are 100% survival for the richest 50% and 0% survival for the other 50%. Clearly the average survival rate is 50%. Now let's say the Netherlands has a flat survival rate of 50%. If I don&
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by davvolun 8y ago
Did you factor wealth into that? I would hazard a guess that the bottom 20%-40% in the U.S. would have a considerably lower survival rate than the average for the rest of the country.

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