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by noqc 1y ago
>projection Please elaborate. I do not know what you could possibly mean.
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by noqc 1y ago
taxing tobacco is not to generate revenue. That is, in fact, exactly the point. Taxing tobacco is to discourage tobacco use. The point is to have close to zero tobacco use, which results in close to zero revenue.
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by noqc 1y ago
Sure, but my point stands regardless . All taxes that generate revenue are taxes on good things. This is a fundamental rule of economics. Using this as an argument against LVT just means that you are opposed to taxation generally as a way
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by noqc 1y ago
You should always be wary of arguments from people who name themselves "The correct people". Less wrong, and the "rationalists" generally, are engaged in magical cult-like thinking.
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by noqc 1y ago
whether they claim to possess a high fidelity magic state is also relevant.
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by noqc 1y ago
A iff B exactly means "A is the only way for B to be true". The rest of your comment is gibberish.
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by noqc 1y ago
I think all 3 of these things are valid concerns.
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by noqc 1y ago
You could not be more wrong, and I am in a very bad mood unrelatedly, so that is all I will say.
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by noqc 1y ago
Because the article doesn't actually say so (presumably because the author doesn't know the difference between "if" and "if and only if") the statement: (3n^3 − 13n^2 + 18n − 8)M_1(n) + (12n^2 − 120n + 212)M_2(
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by noqc 1y ago
When you ignore or don't click on the ads, is that also immoral?
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by noqc 1y ago
You are no more freeloading by ignoring the ads they serve you than by watching them.
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by noqc 1y ago
>The primary thing that makes advertisements disagreeable is their irrelevance. The primary thing that makes advertisements disagreeable is the system that disputes my indisputable right to ignore them. If I paid someone to cut the adv
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by noqc 1y ago
I just let my wisdom teeth grow in and it seems to have worked fine. I was told that they were impacted.
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by noqc 1y ago
I think probably the easiest way to remember under/over is just to remember that euclidean distance is a very common admissible heuristic.
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by noqc 1y ago
>aesthetically useful
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by noqc 1y ago
Commutative diagrams are to these squares what category theory is to analogy.
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by noqc 1y ago
Key distribution is already solved until someone can actually solve a large discrete logarithm problem with a quantum computer. You cannot use this mechanism to send messages, only to agree on a secret that neither party chooses.
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by noqc 1y ago
> I'm saying that a visa holder shouldn't be removed or otherwise punished for making speech. You seem to think that being sent to your own country is a punishment. I do not. This is going to be a sticking point if you are tryi
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by noqc 1y ago
>> heinous shit >Code for - things you don't like. Check. Do you think that saying things that I don't like should de facto grant you citizenship?
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by noqc 1y ago
>forcible deportation comes with a period of imprisonment. You are at any point free to get on a plane home. >Let's not forget that people being sent to El Salvador Sure, but they aren't being rendered to El Salvador for the
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by noqc 1y ago
I agree! But this is very different from "the first amendment protects you from deportation".
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by noqc 1y ago
You're not being imprisoned, executed, or fined. You're being sent home.
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by noqc 1y ago
Not without due process, but I'm not sure what you think that means. No one is putting you in prison, you're being sent home. Do you think that by saying heinous shit, you are de facto granted citizenship?
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by noqc 1y ago
You cannot deport citizens, and I believe that I am not arguing that you can, however, the process due to non-citizens is very minimal. You and your belongings are being returned to your country, where you will be free to do with them whate
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by noqc 1y ago
Winning an election in a democratic country is a mandate. I also wish Trump wasn't elected president, but he definitely was.
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by noqc 1y ago
I'm not a conservative. I'm absolutely in favor of free speech, modulo paid speech, as I listed above. Deportation does require some process, but you're not being charged with a crime, you're being returned to freedom in
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by noqc 1y ago
>insurers strive to avoid it. This is not true, and nothing you have said contradicts my argument to that effect.
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by noqc 1y ago
To me, the only reasonable exception that might exist to totally unrestricted speech is paid speech. If the courts really wishes to foster a state of free speech, then it should recognize that doing so requires the regulation of contractual
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by noqc 1y ago
>Another classic detail of insurance markets is that insurers need to diversify the risks that they underwrite: for example, if you provide flood insurance, then you wouldn’t want to write all your policies in a single town by the river:
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by noqc 1y ago
I'm not sure that I believe this study.

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