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by glenra 13y ago
Reason #1 (of 5) given is "We have violently increasing numbers of uneducated people in our country." Is there any definition of "uneducated" given? Nope. Is there any plausible definition under which being "une
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by glenra 13y ago
> I think it's very presumptive to think that because someone is "just" growing marijuana, that they aren't dangerous. I think it's more presumptive to think that they are dangerous, absent strong evidence t
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by glenra 13y ago
Scenario 3: You're thought to be doing something illegal but not in the least bit dangerous, like growing marijuana. And the cops do a midnight raid just because they can on the pretext that you might "destroy evidence" if
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by glenra 13y ago
Food is a lot cheaper now than it was then. As is clothing, especially at Walmart. If you look through an old Sears catalog the worker-hours needed to buy pretty much everything people buy has declined - all the stuff is cheaper, not just
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by glenra 13y ago
The people who make that claim usually base it on average hourly earnings rates, inflation-adjusted, for some class of (male) workers. On the other hand, if you look at "median household income", that's grown a fair bit sin
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by glenra 13y ago
The death toll due to TSA is undoubtedly large, but the bigger loss of life component of it is likely from people dying in an auto accident after they choose to drive rather than fly.
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> Anyway, wouldn't the question would be unanswerable if some of the jelly jars could have peanut butter? No, the question is answerable but it's answerable with a range rather than a specific number. > We know the ques
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by glenra 13y ago
Check out some of these documents if you want to get angry: http://www.tennessee.gov/hsda/con_standards.shtml The standard for "Burn Unit" says there can't be more than one burn unit bed for every 225,00
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by glenra 13y ago
If there's any contention at all, the state health agencies typically "determine need" by holding a hearing which gives an opportunity for "the people in the community" to weigh in. The way that works in practice
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> Theoretically the free market says that another hospital would pop up to compete on price, but theory ain't practice It is illegal to start a new hospital to compete on price with the existing ones. To open a new hospital, you
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I assume they're all comparable in the relevant attribute which is: if you make labor more expensive, employers will tend to consume less labor. Do you have some reason to think they're not comparable in that way? Do we need to fi
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How about a couple cartoons? http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/10/by-far-the-2-best-cartoons-... Seriously though, if you're determined to doubt the law of demand applies to the market for labor - as I suspect yo
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by glenra 13y ago
Bad economic policies such as living wage laws actually do get enacted into law (mostly at the state and local level) and thereby make people's lives worse. Laws like that prevent people from employment, restrict economic growth, destr
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by glenra 13y ago
I think a large part of the appeal of Ender's Game was that it treats unusually bright 11-year-olds as capable moral actors - the author clearly remembered what it was like to be one to a degree few other authors do.
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by glenra 13y ago
By that logic, we shouldn't hold 24-year-olds responsible for their actions either, right? Anyway, what makes you think having a "fully developed" prefrontal cortex means one DOES "know the full extent" of one'
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by glenra 13y ago
That seems pretty simple to solve - just decouple the courses from the grading process. Let the teacher specialize in teaching and let some other firm that specializes in testing rate/certify your resulting competence or lack thereof i
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by glenra 13y ago
Under Jewish law the official age at which one is considered able to tell right from wrong and thus held responsible for one's actions is 13 (for a boy) or 12 (for a girl). I've never seen a good argument for 18 or 21 being a bett
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by glenra 13y ago
Artificial Intelligence is like that too - it can't produce "intelligence" because as soon as scientists figure out a way to do stuff that looks like intelligent behavior - say, speech recognition or winning at Jeopardy - t
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by glenra 13y ago
In that case: the current TSA is quite harmful to my emotional safety. Disbanding it and letting me just go to the gate and get on the damn plane unmolested would greatly improve my emotional state. In all honesty, I think a HUGE part of wh
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by glenra 13y ago
SOME of the cost numbers are in the federal budget. But there are other costs that dwarf that. The real costs also include people missing their flights, people wasting time unproductively at the airport because they had to leave two hours e
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by glenra 13y ago
That seems like a good argument to set off MORE harmless bombs in airports, so people and the authorities get a chance to learn and get used to it and fix their priors about this stupid risk we've been overreacting to all these years.
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by glenra 13y ago
It'd be cheaper to get garbage by mining old garbage dumps in other countries - say, India or China - and ship the garbage back than it would be to mine the ocean. The ocean garbage is really spread out thinly.
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Much of the garbage mentioned in the article is only out there because of the tsunami and will presumably clean itself up over time.
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The good news is that gives us about a century, and if we don't break the world economy today with our attempts at premature optimization , our technological capabilities then will be unimaginably greater than they are now. Roughly on
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A better way to phrase that experimental result would have been "Cocaine And Heroin No More Addictive Than Oreos".
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Yhe simplest definition of "atheist" is one who lacks a belief in God. If you don't actively possess a belief that god exists, you're an atheist. Atheists confidently disbelieve in god in exactly the same way that they d
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by glenra 13y ago
The IPCC reports say pretty much the exact same thing, if you filter out the spin. In particular, the "impact" part of their reports says the next 1-3 degrees of warming will on-net increase agricultural productivity - it'll
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Much of modern economics directly inspires libertarian objections to state action. (Krugman and his acolytes notwithstanding.) I tend to think of libertarians as "liberals who learned economics".
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Privately built roads, railways and pipelines have often solved this problem in the past. One way to deal with the holdout problem is to just buy options on land along various alternative routes, then only exercise the options once they
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by glenra 13y ago
Getting the government to do the right things and do them well is itself a public goods problem, and one that as far as I know is as-yet unsolved. All of those "numerous issues" apply to public provision of goods at least as well

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