mowenz

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by mowenz 9y ago
Just to be clear, we are post scarcity with respect to food already, and people still starve. People starve and will starve because of greed and other evils, not because of climate change.
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by mowenz 9y ago
The reason climate change is dangerous is that it threatens food supplies and homes of millions of people. But the reason people starve or go homeless is not due to scarcity of food or land. Problems created by people of fairness, justice a
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by mowenz 9y ago
Hmm depends on which fuel you choose to fill up with. Assuming we choose the cheapest option, a litre of clean burning canola oil can carry you 91km assuming 30 calories/km and 2750 calories/litre @ <$2/L that's a lo
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by mowenz 9y ago
Actually products of labor and capital are both imported, and no one said anything about isolationism.
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by mowenz 9y ago
Fair enough, but just to be clear my intention was not to debate either side as any more or less reasonable.
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by mowenz 9y ago
This is True, but just for genetating and selling electricity on a market. By contrast, Cycling or taking stairs can still make great economic sense, or even much better sense, than driving, when deciding to produce or purchase energy.
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by mowenz 9y ago
As far as this 'support your neighbors' culture goes: it's an interesting thing to me because at a national level the politically correct response becomes the opposite (support free trade), and it also turns into a very infla
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by mowenz 9y ago
I'm not disagreeing or even commenting on the conclusion... I'm cmmenting about the method.
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by mowenz 9y ago
>While I agree that not all things illegal is toxic or terrible, knowing what we know about "disruptive" companies and the persona behind them, I think it is a safe bet in this case Well whether or not it is a safe bet (and I d
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by mowenz 9y ago
Many should actually be, but non-violent drug offences definitely should not even be offences in the first place.
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by mowenz 9y ago
You are making a leap from "illegal" to "toxic" or to "terrible," while those are not the same.
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by mowenz 9y ago
Non-violent drug offenders being sent to prison is closer to a human rights abuse than a just outcome. Edit - to be more concise: It's just amazing to me the number of people willing to listen to and preach high and mighty politics whi
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by mowenz 9y ago
He never rationalized immoral behavior, unless you consider climbing Mt Everest immoral. A lot of people risk their lives every day in their jobs. It's not typically seen as immoral to do this. I agree markets have failures, and they a
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by mowenz 9y ago
Whether Orwell or Tolstoy is right about Shakespeare's genius, it's impossible to reliably quantify, or even qualify, genius outside of contributions to the hard sciences. Orwell himself actually talked about this in Politics and
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by mowenz 9y ago
The title is clickbait. It's analagous to saying "Elon Musk's mouth has worse bacterial contamination than petri dish of Lyme Disease." Sure, by number of bacterial agents, Musk's mouth is more contaminated... But t
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by mowenz 9y ago
Keynes took previously unacceptable ideas and made them gospel, and he also was critical of economics when others thought they had everything figured out. Before an econ degree I thought it could all be understood the way we understand, say
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by mowenz 9y ago
It wont happen that way. How many times has America been through this kind exercise? Truman gave us a dire warnong and not enough cared. Look at Iraq, Vietnam, Hiroshima and Nagasaki--they were all unjustified atrocties, and that is the tru
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by mowenz 9y ago
And a step further: a 100k project had commissions, meetings, expenses all associated with a 100k project. If people are cheating enough to waste 100k on useless crap expect them to cheat some of that for themselves. That means hotel rooms,
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by mowenz 9y ago
Hey, hey now, I am kindly asking a reasonable question, and I and others are raising reasonable concerns and now you started to slinging mud. Do you actually have any technical facts to substantiate your "as definitive as it gets"
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by mowenz 9y ago
Why is it definitive? Are you able to help me understand that? Was the initial report they retracted more or less definitive? Remember the Iraq War was also started with lies corroborated by the US Gvt and the courts did not pose an obstacl
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by mowenz 9y ago
I have seen this and also the criticisms of it. I am not understanding what exactly is the definitive proof here, can you help me understand? To be fair, the criticisms were that they were hired by the DNC after the DNC dragged their feet o
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by mowenz 9y ago
Can you provide a source please? Edit: I was downvoted for kindly asking for a source?
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by mowenz 9y ago
In our busy and overwhelming lives it is easy to procrastinate about civic responsibilities while still caring about living in a just and fair world. My phone has not been searched, either, but the issue here is to stand up for your rights.
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by mowenz 9y ago
We agree they do correlate, but there is actually some debate about just how well intelligence tests do correlate with success , but the general idea of them remains the same as described above afaik, unless you'd like to point what
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by mowenz 9y ago
What? Has any evidence of the Russia Election Interference/Hacking become available in the public domain?
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by mowenz 9y ago
The most amazing thing about IQ tests are that some social (really pseudo --they cant really experimentally test theory) scientists convinced the world these things matter. If you go and read the literature the idea is that thete is a conc
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by mowenz 9y ago
I appreciate many aspects of your post, but let us remember that jobs are good because they produce value. For instance, people who want to give free haircuts to homeless people that are charged/fined are people who create value that d
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by mowenz 9y ago
>Most of it is just gone. Ive wondered if over a very long period of time it might be possible for our descendants to build a simulation which can aproximate the entropy difference b/w now and our past on earth. Or if such calculati
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by mowenz 9y ago
>to "live in the moment". But arguing that those who don't do so have mental illness and/or anxiety is a bit much. In school I had a headmaster who was all about the importance of living in the moment (and related, ni
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by mowenz 9y ago
Yes, I should have used prepare in place of cook, as cooking requires heat.

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