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by ende 10y ago
This isn't civil court. All international law is a theatre masking anarchy between nation states. The distribution of justice it provides is roughly proportional to the relative strength and willingness of its participants.
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by ende 10y ago
So basically philosophy as an incubator for new scientific field startups? I like that notion.
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by ende 10y ago
Funding is not the silver bullet to a better education system that many would like it to be. Misguided reliance on systemstic top-down reform, conflicting interests of education providers and their agents, and the immovable inertia of trad
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by ende 10y ago
You seem to not understand what 'trickle down' disparagingly refers to. The common contention with supply side economics isn't that savings == investment == growth, rather it is in regards to the implications of marginal ta
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by ende 10y ago
Oof. So anyone can be named as a father without any proof. Starting hitting the governor, judges and members of the state legislature with these false paternity claims. Law will change real fast.
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by ende 10y ago
Let's add to that the song and dance focused specifically around "assault rifles", which kill less people per year than knives, blunt objects, or bare hands. (The vast majority of gun deaths are by handgun, and are either sui
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by ende 10y ago
You have to be muslim to be a terrorist?
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by ende 10y ago
National militaries are effectivr against other national militaries. Against heavily armed insurrectionist civilian populations, not so much.
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by ende 10y ago
Ok, but meanwhile there are a lot of innocent lives being ruined as homes are destroyed and civilians slaughtered at the hands of a brutal dictator and his Russian accomplices. Unnecessarily destabilizing regions because we don't like
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by ende 10y ago
The term you're looking for is panspermia. Nothing can necessarily be ruled out but it seems both 1) highly unlikely from a mechanistic perspective and 2) unnecessary to the explanation of life origin.
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by ende 10y ago
The payment to the government is irrelevant. The point is that the government artificially restricts the number of occupational licenses.
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by ende 10y ago
It's not the same thing though. The anti-competetive behavior of a company in the telecommunications industry is grounded (literally) in the natural barrier to entry that comes with the immense investment and government authorization
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by ende 10y ago
Let's compare the number of countries that Russia has subjected to energy blackmail to that of literally any other country, for starters.
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by ende 10y ago
The problem with accepting any kind of help from Russia is that the Russian government is single-mindedly focused on geopolitical leverage. It does nothing out of the kindness of heart. Every offer of assistance, every interaction with a
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by ende 10y ago
The rich are the government. To limit government is to limit the source of power of the rich.
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by ende 10y ago
I want all food that was packaged on Friday the 13th to be explicitly labeled as FRIDAY THE 13TH FOOD because I have an irrational fear of superstitious dates. I demand the government require all food manufacturers to comply with this labe
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by ende 10y ago
You're trying to make a comparison to the regulation of common carrier utilities but you're missing an important distinction. Regulation of certain utilities is justifiable because those utilities enjoy a natural monopoly granted
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by ende 10y ago
10% tax on the self-employed? That is devestating, especially when you consider that 1099's also pay 100% of of their own payroll tax. Why is it that those who have managed to escape from the slavery of employment always get thrown un
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by ende 10y ago
To expand on this, it may be useful to consider capitalism as a system of property law and free markets as a system of regulatory law.
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by ende 10y ago
I've always thought trucks should have their own lanes due to very different acceleration and lane changing patterns from other automobiles. I wonder if the emergence of driverless vehicles ends up leading to a separation of driverles
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by ende 10y ago
You can't just 'redraw' state boundaries though. The core fallacy in this kind of thinking is that the existing political geography is all the result of some top-down design and thus subject to top-down revision. The '
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by ende 10y ago
No more than any other level of government left unchecked. The pendulum has now swung the other way, and there's probably an optimal Goldilocks zone somewhere in the middle. You're right that it's about balancing the author
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by ende 11y ago
To be fair, the tree plotting libraries are getting way better.
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by ende 11y ago
"It needs to be stopped not because it's a different party, but because of who is donating the money. In the Obama campaign his fundraising records were set by small, individual donors. The GOP on the other hand is using a few meg
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by ende 11y ago
Huh. It would be a great irony if the realization became that capitalism and socialism need each other to thrive.
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by ende 11y ago
Actually it does. The prime objective of Socialism is to prohibit private property. Social democracy on the other hand seeks to exist within a standard capitalist system. Healthcare systems similarly vary along those lines with some coun
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by ende 11y ago
It's also the term Bernie Sanders should be using instead of socialism. Strange that he doesn't.
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The Minimum Wage Is a Bad Tool for Fighting Poverty(bleedingheartlibertarians.com)
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by ende 11y ago
>> Considering Russia and China are casually annexing territories, its pretty obvious this framework no longer exists >A pretty big overstatement. The only cross-border war between nations I can think of is Russia and Ukraine. If p
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by ende 11y ago
The UN is probably better described as "The WW2 Winning Team + associates". Please adjust expectations from here on out accordingly.

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