manjushri

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by manjushri 9y ago
It seems like leverage has shifted from the central banks to commercial banks over recent decades, and indeed there has been massive consolidation of power in the commercial sector. The central bank seems more like an insurance proxy for th
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by manjushri 9y ago
Okay, and how does that compare to the countless equally bad or worse laws passed in representative democracy?
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by manjushri 9y ago
If dick picks are fair game I think we should all be required to strip naked and submit to cavity inspections for the security screening process. Because that's how we've managed to keep our prisons 100% contraband free.
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by manjushri 9y ago
Did you read the final conclusion of your study? >Conclusion: In contrast to the established view, our findings suggest that compared to both the pre-War and post-War periods there was an increased likelihood of suicide during the Second
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by manjushri 9y ago
Is mass murder a positive manifestation of mental health?
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by manjushri 9y ago
Considering the fluid nature of social dynamics, there still seems to be a relation there. >By the time of the outbreak of the civil war in 1983, Sri Lankan suicide rates were already extremely high Civil wars don't just spontaneous
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by manjushri 9y ago
Maybe I'm missing the humor here, but is doubt due to the lack of a control group not a crucial element of the scientific method?
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by manjushri 9y ago
Their "taking into account" seems like mere handwaving away. How would the ending of a civil war not be associated with an increase in mental health? >The decline in pesticide suicides during this same period was larger than fo
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by manjushri 9y ago
Accepting lower profit != accepting negative net profit and is far more sustainable for mankind than dogmatically seeking maximum profits.
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by manjushri 9y ago
The "totally by accident" excuse is not valid when people are paid bounties to conduct vigilante surveillance. How much money would it take for someone in need to plant evidence?
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by manjushri 9y ago
Indeed, that is the justification for planned obsolescence, the environment be damned.
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by manjushri 9y ago
From your source: >Finally, one of the key goals of genetic studies of ADHD is to understand its aetiology and mechanisms. The challenge undoubtedly will not only be in identifying risk factors but more importantly testing causal mechani
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by manjushri 9y ago
Both of those quotes are saying the same thing with different words and have the same intent. "It's too expensive" is not a valid excuse if customers would be willing to pay for it.
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The Myth of Health Insurance(szasz.com)
1 points by manjushri 9y ago|0 comments
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by manjushri 9y ago
>what reason do we have to believe that a decentralized monetary system will be more equitable? For the same reason that democracy is more equitable than a dictatorship or a monarchy
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by manjushri 9y ago
Seems like a strawman argument. Sure, metaphorically "everything" might be gambling, but the point is to play games with better odds for everybody except the casino.
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by manjushri 9y ago
While it's not a silver bullet and has a long way to go, advances in alternate models of money distribution such as cryptocurrency do seem to be moving us towards a more decentralized monetary system
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by manjushri 9y ago
Socializing is a game, but that doesn't mean you can't play it with genuine, mutually beneficial, good intentions.
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Remembering Masturbatory Insanity(szasz.com)
2 points by manjushri 9y ago|0 comments
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by manjushri 9y ago
Psychiatry has a long history of pseudoscientific mass diagnosis of undesireables. Slaves who wanted to escape had drapetomania[1]. The holocaust was conducted under psychiatric auspices [2]. Masturbation and alternate sexuality were insani
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by manjushri 9y ago
>yes, use science to overcome your random genealogical assignment. There is no proof that social disorders like ADHD/ADD are genetically deterministic. Which is why the diagnosis relies solely on social observations rather than biol
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by manjushri 9y ago
Are you positing that this free market exists and accessible? There are countless examples of people with little to no meaningful choice of where to work, what to buy, and what they can sell.
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by manjushri 9y ago
Doctor who ordered unnecessary heart surgery and risky tests jailed for 20 years Dr Harry Persaud of Ohio made more than $7m from health insurance fraud while abusing patients’ ‘sacred trust’, says FBI https://www.theguardian.com
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by manjushri 9y ago
Good point. Judging from history though, law has been quite unsuccessful at preventing the problem of murder.
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by manjushri 9y ago
This discussion is framed around recent decades, not centuries. The US has been far more violent than the UK on the world stage in recent decades.
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by manjushri 9y ago
Indeed. However, there are massive monetary incentives and influences to perscribe treatment even though the risk/benefit ratio may not be in the patient's favor.
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by manjushri 9y ago
Logically, it seems more practical to worry about things you can control, than those that you can't. "There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will." -Epi
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by manjushri 9y ago
>9/11 had more concentrated economic impact than heart disease ever will. And that was because of the misguided emotional response (i.e. invading countries which had nothing to do with it), not because of the event itself.
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by manjushri 9y ago
Law is not the only variable and is not deterministic. Social environment and cultural values are of great influence. The US media glorifies violence and yet censors the reality of it. How many of those other countries with stricter gun con
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by manjushri 9y ago
That seems like a reasonable definition, not a lie. >could include a doctor prescribing a treatment that is successful for 99.9999% of patients Sure it could, but that is an edge case that would account for a negligible number of deaths

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