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by force_reboot 11y ago
Classical economics does not claim to want to increase demand, and Keynesian economic only wants to correct for unnaturally low (or high) demand due to short run fluctuations. There is nothing wrong with a four hour work week. The reason p
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by force_reboot 11y ago
Both freshwater and saltwater (for reference, these refer to geographical locations in the US: Chicago and Minnesota near lakes, and MIT, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc. near the coasts) claim that you can't run out of demand, in the lon
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by force_reboot 11y ago
Furthermore, when people are described as refugees from anti-Semitism, without going into specifics, this gives a very different impression to the public, than when they are described as people moving away due to the same kind of discrimina
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DNA from 37,000-year-old human hints at early European history(sciencenews.org)
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by force_reboot 11y ago
The problem with this approach is that for every legitimate reason for wanting to fight someone, there will be illegitimate reasons too. Someone might challenge a person to a boxing match because they think that person is weak, effeminate
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by force_reboot 11y ago
Indeed, and if they want to make these claims why aren't they applying the same logic to Coq, Agda and Idris? These languages are often lauded (correctly) for giving up Turing completeness in exchange for improved static safety. But
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by force_reboot 11y ago
They haven't pointed it out because the relationship is unclear. E.g. the soviet union was leftist, but engaged in oppression, wars an brutality. The left in Europe have no more respect for free speech than the right in Japan, they j
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by force_reboot 11y ago
I think there is broad agreement for you explanation across the political and economic spectrum. In management/MBA speak they refer to the change that is occurring as "climbing the value chain". Each nation must apply its l
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by force_reboot 11y ago
Medians aren't the only important thing. If mean incomes increase, (I think they probably have since the top 1-5% will be overrepresented in the US and Europe) then the total amount of money to go around in these countries has increas
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by force_reboot 11y ago
The problem is that liberals, who are well aware of crime figures, don't publicize them because to do so would be "racist". That is, they don't think that publishing these figures would serve any purpose other than perp
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by force_reboot 11y ago
Focus in safe spaces and crybaby students is very misguided. Anyone student can claim that they are victimized or feel "unsafe" for any reason, but these claims will be filtered through academics, media and the university adminis
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by force_reboot 11y ago
I just refer to Idris when speaking about dependent types. If I talk about Coq, someone will usually make a joke, which is fine as a once off, but if I want to talk about it regularly I can see that being an issue. The funny thing is that
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by force_reboot 11y ago
>If you're reading this and this word "privilege" doesn't make sense in context, it's time to do some homework. I think 99% of people on HN understand exactly what you mean by privilege here, even if they don&#
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by force_reboot 11y ago
Neither, I really should have said "as voter and a a citizen" since changing this policy might require more than voting. But I think that this is something an ordinary citizen can do something about. The policy up until now was n
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by force_reboot 11y ago
You do have some impact, as a voter. E.g. you might not be personally afraid of ISIS but the threat they pose to the region and Europe might be enough for you to think that the US should reverse its policy of trying to overthrow Assad.
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by force_reboot 11y ago
All facts are going to be interpreted differently. So (a) alone is clearly not a good criterion. But if you are saying that (a) and (b) combined imply that a statement should be forbidden, then my critique still applies. If you forbid L
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by force_reboot 11y ago
Given the highly political nature of this topic, I don't think anyone is going to be convinced by saying "this was debunked by experts" without even posting a link. Especially when being a mathematician doesn't make you
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by force_reboot 11y ago
Regarding 2., are you saying that, in general, some true facts are so harmful that the public needs to be prevent from knowing them? And if so, who is in charge of determining what the public can know, and why are those people immune from