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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Lifespan isn't the only measure of health. Residents of the Matrix lived quite long. We can keep cancer patients on a morphine drip for years.
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The second one is also personal gain, as you yourself explained. It's a way to protest the organization or harm coworkers without making a personal sacrifice. Morality is self interest as much as money is.
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Yes, they are, mostly, when you dig into the details below the platitudes.
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Perhaps Christianity is the degradation of society. The United States was founded with an explicit attempt to get religion out of government, until the Great Awakening gave a rebirth to a cancer in our democracy. Even conservative Republica
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How is pornography and prostitution different from homosexuality and marriage, that justifies making some wrong but not the others? One could argue that Homosexuality is a genocide against the whole species, and marriage is degrading to the
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Politics wakes strange bedfellows. There is no single coherent definition of acceptable behavior. All corners raise hell for what they consider unnacceptable. PC isn't exclusively left-wing.
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Chronic pain is also closely link with opiod abuse.
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Advertisers like sexiness but don't like porn because they want their customer base to stay frustrated and chase satisfaction via materialist comsumption. It's a blend of Puritan work ethic with soulless corporate exploitation.
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Each one generated revenue for the DNS system administratots.
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Why do we have parking spots but no scooter spots or bike spots?
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But the method they use is printing money to move the value of money from those who had it to toward those who get the newly printed money. Same as with academics publications who do that decentralized. (Another, more-natural (Austrian), ca
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Scientists were gaming citations before SEO.
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They likely would get picked by super elite research orgs like IAS, or work outside the system and get grants from people like Simons. Or have a low level teaching job like that guy who proved a twin primes result a few years aago.
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Like the rest of economics supply and demand, it depends on if the journal is elite and has more submissions than space (Nature) or is struggling to fill space. Also, journals catre more about important results than correct ones, until they
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How do you propose people be compensated for creative work? Who would spend a year on a project if they could only sell one copy for $15?
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Aren't you a lawyer? Copyright is a textbook example of rent seeking. After the first copy is sold, restricting re-copying is rent seeking: extracting money without adding more value.
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You are conflating physical property with real property (aka real estate, land)
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Outlet stores are specifically built as places to dump manufacturing errors. Chinese factories are also able to manufacture excess high quality inventory beyond what their foreign customers order.
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Nope, but you can patent it with a bit of fiction about inventing a computer that performs the algorithm.
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Modern Monetary Theory argues that income tax (and alll other direct taxes) are unnecessary because the government can riase fund via fist money and its indirect taxation via inflation. This is effectively a tax on the entire economy and c
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Since I'm not an expert in graph theory, especially the arcane theory of "continuous graphs", your definition is unintuitive and excessively formal to me. How is that better? Abstractions are abstract. Almost no one learns p
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The name of the company is Alphabet. Of course the prefix Alpha is a branding label.
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Yes, European publicly funded medicine works great when R&D is funded by private sector sales to USA consumers. You're welcome!
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It's easy for an attacker on your WiFi network, in some cases. Your WiFi network might be encrypted, which might be a broken encryption, or might be unencrypted to discourage excessive use.
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You don't even need a special skill to see this effect. Just try to remember the name of someone you knew kind of well but haven't thought about in 5 years. Often you'll get that "tip of your tongue" feeling and the
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"the amount of people who actually stick to it" is an absolutely massive sampling bias, even at age under 10. Even among people of same general intelligence, areas of interest matters a lot. I don't doubt there are sexism an
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If you don't want to live in a society than you should be the one to leave.
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Mirror neurons (on which the science is suspect) don't require physical touch.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
I'm curious, when you with FB, did YOU reach out to everyone you cared about? Else it seems a bit hypocritical.
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But don't forget the cases where you have a problem and no one it meatspace can help, but an Internet forum can. This is common for social/psychological problems.

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