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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
I guess it was posted to avoid the paywall discussion that would arise from posting the NYT -- the FAQ discourages that.
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
Having had economics classes in the past, I echo the teacher's feeling that economics is a somewhat stagnant or entrenched field. I would further say that it is fairly ideological and terse up to being cryptic at times to some extent.
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
If the Hippocratic oath had any sort of standing, the US wouldn't have the healthcare system it has, where the first questions often are "are you insured?", "are you in network?", "please insert your credit car
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
That inflation is primarily a monetary policy issue is an old economist orthodoxy. It's not true per se, or because it's been said n+1 times behind a pulpit. If you look at St Louis' Fed plot charts, you see that if the relat
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
Oaths are worthless. Better, swifter, and heavier prosecutions and consequences for advisory and finance institutions should be the norm. Kind words don't matter in a world of contracts and legal tenders.
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
Thinking about climate change as an increase of mean temperature is misleading. And this is such a case. While the mean temperature rises, e.g. by 1 centigrade, you have to account for variance increasing too. India might become unlivable n
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
Do you have a current source on the decoupling claim accounting for outsourcing? That's a good trend if true.
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
The main propagator in the US of the Chinese demographic collapse is Peter Zeihan, who may not be the best source here. Even if some of his predictions have been right wrt Europe, he tends to have and present unsourced information for anyth
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
The UK is very different from continental Europe. Your statement isn't quite valid. The EU has had the BMD reform in the past where education systems were standardized to a bachelor-master-doctorate three-party system. To get to a PhD,
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
Extremists may use whatever they want to justify their means, but shody science can make people become radical, radicalized, and then extremists. It's a gradual change that can be enabled by many things. What the article says is not to
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
I don't see any to be honest. Public money, public access.
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
sadly I've seen an increasing amount of American-style SUV and pickup trucks in France since the start of covid.
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
It's not a very good one. Western philosophies and religions can definitely show this type of bias. Some branches of protestantism do believe in predestination. It's also common to see (bad) Christian takes that suffering is a cha
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
Working for an illegal business (tornado cash isn't just some code repository, it's basically a SaaS business backed on a chain), on its product, usually makes you liable. That's why people working for cartels are prosecutabl
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
IANAL; even in the USA not all speech is protected under the law. See libel laws. Here it is less about the code as speech, but code as an illegal business and product. It's not an either//or situation. Code is more than just
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
You don't "have" a god. You can't have them in your wallet; this example is moot. Saying "There exists vkhmcdtr" would be a closer example. Now prove me that vkhmcdtr does not exist. And even there, if you are
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
Atheism is not a faith system. It is the absence of faith. Him being a famous orator does not make him a priest. Logic also does not work this way. You don't prove a negative because it's impossible to provide proof of non-existen
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
That's a false equivalent. Europeans do vary a lot from Americans in culture, but the topic was not culture but societal treatment (e.g. policing, intergenerational poverty, etc.). There, there is the glaring gap for Afro-Americans.
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
Something that a lot of people forget is that the pondering of those highly-respected thinkers was due, in large parts, to them hailing from influential and rich families. Russell? British aristocracy. Von Neumann? Heir to an Hungarian and
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
It's not achievable, and likely never will. Even research in physics or mathematics is embedded in internal department politics and financing issues that influenced what is researched, who does the research, and ultimately who gets the
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
When one of the stated goals of a discipline like Economics is to help drive economic decisions, i.e. policy, it is not an unwarranted expectation that the milieu that led to them be held accountable. Science is not performed in a vacuum.
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
It is not ideological to say that academia should be held responsible for its output, especially in fields that can drive policy (for instance, in economics it is well known that one of the key studies that tipped the scale in favor of aust
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
The issue is that a freedom is only a freedom for those who can afford it, afford escaping from the consequences of it in the case of freedom of speech. A person of color from the deepest recesses of the Bible belt can go to Harvard, can...
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
The main issue I have with capital M Marketing is that it is very much about creating demand ex nihilo, not matching with already existing demand. I often think of [former French media CEO] Le Lay's 2004 take on the role of media w.r.t
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
France is not a socialist country. It just has a somewhat okay welfare state.
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Not when Macron and co. tries every day to erode social benefits acquired by more than a century of political struggle. Work in France is importantly a vector for socialization. This seemed to be a foreign consideration to a lot of American
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
Marx clearly stated that alienation was a phenomenon that affected all classes. Marxism explains alienation just intervenes in a different manner. Depression then also happens among rich people. But the source, and expression of it might di
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
Exactly. Something ever important to hammer on and repeat is that data does not alone make facts.
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
Take it from someone who has worked in economics and finance. Cryptocurrencies and tokens are mostly considered speculative assets or derivatives with a nifty digital signature. It will not "disrupt" the industry, it will make it
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
A lot of jobs, if not a majority, tend to be jobs with no future prospect, low pay, little to no healthcare insurance, and an absence of meaning. Those jobs didn't offer something to drive or strive towards then, and still do not. Why

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