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by mrow84 6y ago
Tfa is by Craig Murray whereas the edit history of the wikispooks piece [0] at least claims to be by Patrick Haseldine. What makes you say to the contrary? [0] https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Vanessa_Baraitser&
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by mrow84 6y ago
> It’s not unreasonable to hold a leader somewhat responsible - it’s not like Trump isn’t criticised (rightly) for things done by other people on his watch. Clearly you could decide that you will hold a leader to be (somewhat) responsibl
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by mrow84 6y ago
> No one said Corbyn himself was anti-Semitic https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2019/12/05/jeremy-corbyn...
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by mrow84 6y ago
> the axiom is more like "it is unfair to force one person to provide for the needs of another." I think this seems like a reasonable statement (to me), but unlike for the axiom I provided, the original claim, that "fairne
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by mrow84 6y ago
As a reminder, this is the original claim: > Fairness is not about everyone getting the same amount just for existing, for that in itself is not fair. I had asked for an explanation of why this should be so. Your example, "being f
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by mrow84 6y ago
> Because no one owes you nothing by their unalienable right to be in charge of their own life The question isn't whether people are obliged to provide for others, but whether or not it is necessarily unfair for them to do so. You
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by mrow84 6y ago
> Fairness is not about everyone getting the same amount just for existing, for that in itself is not fair. > because the stuff they get for existing has to come from someone else. Your statement doesn't hold unless we assume &qu
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by mrow84 6y ago
Again, something I could probably agree to, but it is interesting that we seem to have to move the frame from the individual up to (the individual's share of) society in order to provide a meaningful answer. Despite others' somewh
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by mrow84 6y ago
I might agree with what you are saying, but it doesn't address the question, which is to provide a rationale for the claim "Fairness is not about everyone getting the same amount just for existing, for that in itself is not fair.&
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by mrow84 6y ago
I presume you are aiming this at me, and if so it doesn't apply - I was simply asking for a rationale for the original claim that "Fairness is not about everyone getting the same amount just for existing, for that in itself is not
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by mrow84 6y ago
"So what?" is not an answer, it is another question, and I asked it preemptively to try and avoid a simplistic answer to my original question. Do you have a more constructive answer?
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> Fairness is not about everyone getting the same amount just for existing, for that in itself is not fair. Can you explain why? And if your answer amounts to "because people provide different amounts of [effort|value] to society&qu
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by mrow84 6y ago
What you are describing is essentially a centrifugal governor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_governor , I think?
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What do you think motivates states to want stricter and longer lock-downs?
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With respect to specific modelling efforts policy makers sometimes act as antagonists because, without joint modelling of all the concerns they are trying to balance, they are forced to rely on their intuition. This leaves society particula
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by mrow84 6y ago
A study I heard discussed on a podcast once, and have been unable to subsequently locate, found that once you have accounted for failed private businesses the public sector was on par (and perhaps slightly better, though from memory they sa
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by mrow84 6y ago
Yeah in principle the money printing could have been used to devalue the assets of the wealthy and redistribute wealth, decreasing inequality. That didn't happen, presumably because corporations captured the wealth in the way that you
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by mrow84 6y ago
The landlord doesn't provide the place to live, it is already there, and the cost of upkeep is lower than the rent otherwise the landlord wouldn't be able to make a profit. This is different from, for example, a retailer, who prov
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by mrow84 6y ago
Yes - I have a tendency to waffle, and it seems that editing came at the expense of my actual opinion, namely that a concern for both production and allocation is vital for a stable society. Significant advantage has been found in organis
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by mrow84 6y ago
Here is yet another trick: situating the creation of wealth primarily in the exchange of goods, implicitly devaluing the act of producing the goods in the first place; treating allocation as the primary problem, with production a mere by-pr
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by mrow84 6y ago
Precision is bounded by the channel capacity. The advance was an intellectual one - that there is value in maintaining an accurate record.
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by mrow84 6y ago
frobozz wrote: > Most AirBnB hosts and Uber drivers are not just occasionally letting spare space in their homes you replied: > I don't believe this is true for Airbnb, both anecdotally and from Airbnb's own statement about
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by mrow84 6y ago
Posting separately so as not to distract from the point about the data: I'm sorry (for myself) to be driven to being snarky/whatever, but I don't get why this isn't completely plain from that excess deaths chart. I don&#
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In 2018 excess deaths increased at a roughly consistent rate of around 7,500/week to 113,302 excess deaths in week 15 and then stopped. In 2019 excess deaths increased at a roughly consistent rate of around 5,100/week to 56,806 ex
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by mrow84 6y ago
IANAE but ... all three years show the pattern of what I presume is the flu season (broadly speaking), causing deaths (mostly in the elderly), and differing in severity/rate between the three years. 2020 is different because there is a
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by mrow84 6y ago
> During the Arab Spring, Kuwait handed out $500k checks to all Kuwaiti males above 18 years old. Do you have a reference for this? I had a look, but it's one of those things that is a bit difficult to search for.
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by mrow84 7y ago
A long time ago I wrote a conditions system for python: https://code.google.com/archive/p/pyconditions/ I wouldn't recommend using it, but it is an interesting error/control model, and I always wond
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by mrow84 7y ago
I find your point 3 confusingly worded: the trigger conditions for the pandemic bonds are specific and essentially transparent, but have not yet been met. They are independent of any statement the WHO may or may not make about whether a par
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OT, but "They obtained slices of brain tissue from layers 2 and 3 of the human cortex" has a slightly uncomfortable air to it.
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I'm not an economist, but my understanding is that some, or even a lot, of contemporary graduate-level economics is indeed like you describe, but also that there is a lot that isn't, and that the field itself is very diverse. It s

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