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by ethn 5y ago
Free market requires strong property rights, as private property is a legal fiction which otherwise does not exist enough to sustain a market. This is instead a dysfunctional government approaching anarcho-individualism.
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by ethn 5y ago
Many of these definitions of bubbles are so broad that any investment can be seen as a bubble, thus there is no bubble-free asset; making it a negligible distinction. A definition I like, from Warren Buffet, on what is a bubble in contrast
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by ethn 5y ago
Indeed, this criticism is as old as Ned Block's Troubles with Functionalism from 1978.
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by ethn 5y ago
That’s not true pipelines can transport oil, ammonium nitrate, be laid with internet fiber, and a variety of other chemicals.
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by ethn 5y ago
Neo-Kantian generally refers to the application of the style and epistemology provided by transcendental idealism in treatment of other subjects, rather than as a departure from Kant. The Thing-in-Itself was once controversial but undeserve
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by ethn 5y ago
Hume would not have considered the analytical response as adequate indeed neither does Kant. Only a synthetic treatment of the subject of logic and causality itself could resolve the Scottish Skepticism--that's why these books do not h
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by ethn 5y ago
Critique is the response to Hume vs Berkeley, not Prolegomena. Prolegomena is less rigorous and in-style than Critique.
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by ethn 5y ago
That’s a strange interpretation of Hume. Hume was a radical, he doubted causality itself. He only defends modern political institutions to the extent that they provide some utility in pursuance of “liberty, order and peace”. If they don’t h
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by ethn 5y ago
I think this is largely embarrassing. The author pesters us with an imputation on Hume as an analytically bankrupt political thinker but fails to deliver any concrete proof. Then the author assumes (while incorrectly interpreting Hume) tha
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by ethn 5y ago
Proof of Work is an alternative to reputation networks, so it won’t succumb to a Sybil attack since it doesn’t rely on reputation.
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by ethn 5y ago
Not true, they suffer to the Sybil attack. I could create several digital identities to create a fake reputation.
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by ethn 5y ago
I think you can develop this into something cool. However I think the current idea is a bit too similar to eToro and especially close to what Seeking Alpha is. The UX is also very, very, overwhelming.
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by ethn 5y ago
Did you end up being forced to make a mobile app?
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by ethn 5y ago
I built a mobile PWA app, with functionality equivalent to a native app in look and feel. I put a lot of work in pre-rendering the next views in the background to get it where it’s at. However, users don’t understand that it’s a platform si
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by ethn 5y ago
Look up Tuvan throat singing or overtone singing[1] for general methods of production. You can learn to be able to do it in a few days. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtone_singing
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by ethn 6y ago
> they say that the fact that it is deflationary and can not see inflation is a good thing, when it is actually a bad thing. There is a reason the target inflation is at ~2% almost everywhere. We need inflation to keep the economy going.
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by ethn 6y ago
Indeed that is the conspiracy theory where they have undue influence on the profit seeking behaviors of utility companies, financial entities, municipalities, and otherwise private individuals with sufficient capital. However, what most don
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by ethn 6y ago
Look at my comment history for a previous discussion but these studies also include theoretical costs for non-renewable energy called 'carbon pricing'. It's flat-out dishonest. If solar power were the cheapest energy source,
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by ethn 6y ago
Yes I was trying to estimate while running errands. Thank you for working it out.
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by ethn 6y ago
50% is a bit better than you think. If you were to do a coin toss on each as a basis of determination you would only have a 25% chance of getting 2 correct. As n-schemes becomes larger, the coin toss does much worse in respect to the Bayesi
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by ethn 6y ago
The Lazard study includes carbon pricing which is exactly what I said: “[All studies] provided account for an additional theoretical externality cost on our well being for coal”. Like every industry in the last decade, coal generators have
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by ethn 6y ago
This is not true, the figures you and others have provided account for an additional theoretical externality cost on our well being for coal. The nominal price of coal energy in the US is more than half of the cost of solar per kWh (3.2 vs
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by ethn 6y ago
You glossed over the author's much more reasonable statement[1]: "The sun is shutting down (relatively) — all four magnetic fields are going out of phase (Zharkova) — and the upshot will be a dramatically cooler planet." When
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by ethn 6y ago
The Quantum Computer scientists Scott Aaronson and Gil Kalai have casted doubt on this result[1][2]. Also good to note is that Kalai casted doubt on the original Google supremacy result. There are now classical algorithms 6 orders of magnit
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by ethn 6y ago
Right now many central banks and countries, especially the US are actually exercising a third economic philosophy: monetarism (which the federal reserve board members are historically staunch supporters of)[1]. 1. https://www.cle
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by ethn 6y ago
Further, even if the citizen ostensibly advocates the wrong belief, or say are persuaded by an adversary, that belief becomes the legitimate value of the population regardless of the reason—-as democracy is purposed to obligate government t
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by ethn 6y ago
I'll add that Critique of Pure Reason is saving metaphysics rather than destroying it. The transcendental aesthetic, Kant's discovery, uses what we immediately experience as a subject (the subjective), to discover that which remai
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May’s Theorem(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ethn 6y ago
Effectively I disagree with utilitarianism and instead believe that intents are what provides moral soundness—this is the counter-argument provided by Singer, where he provides cases where utility calculations failed to the opposite effect,
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by ethn 6y ago
> This was never my claim. I only claimed that epistemology is not an ideal starting point. Obviously, epistemology predates Descartes. Modern philosophy onward (that is to say, beginning with Descartes, traditionally, anyway) shifts its

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