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by pcrh 2y ago
Thanks for those sources!
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by pcrh 2y ago
Why does that logic not apply to those on higher incomes? Have a job with a free-market rate of $100/hr? Why not work for only 30 hrs a week? Also, UBI levels are never proposed at $3k/week ($150k/yr), but rather at about $25
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by pcrh 2y ago
Agreed. Such variable motivations for work and money apply to those on low incomes as much as they apply to those on high incomes. There's no a-priori reason why one would expect those who receive UBI to be work-shy.
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by pcrh 2y ago
It isn't a very good critique, as it assumes that the only reason people work is to avoid starvation. People will work very hard to increase their income levels above that required solely for basic needs (i.e. UBI levels), see pretty m
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by pcrh 2y ago
Your argument ignores the fact that people do not "need" to demand a full market wage if they already get UBI. Indeed, it is often claimed that state subsidies to the poor are in effect subsidies to their employers. The situation
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by pcrh 2y ago
I suspect the project has broader goals, but presenting it as solving a problem familiar to most (i.e. litter) is mostly for the exposure that would bring.
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by pcrh 2y ago
You're correct that the immediate host animal hasn't been found. But that problem also applies to the lab leak hypothesis, since there's no evidence in the genome of SARS-CoV2 that it is an artificial virus. It is in fact o
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by pcrh 2y ago
> there is a tremendous amount of circumstantial evidence. In other words, there's literally no scientific evidence that SARS-CoV2 and the pandemic emerged as the result of lab-based activity, either malicious or accidental. This
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by pcrh 2y ago
Agreed. It also has irrelevant fluff within the very first section, "I'm passionate about delivering products....I strive to center compassion..." etc.
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by pcrh 2y ago
A good start might be lichens. Lichens in the Antarctic can survive and reproduce while being very cold and dry, albeit their growth rates are very slow. > In the case of Buellia frigida in the McMurdo Dry Valleys region, the growth rate
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by pcrh 2y ago
Until recently, you would have been hard-pressed to find a French restaurant selling anything like a burger, maybe it's still the case? On the other hand, many Americans think having a burger as the main course is perfectly acceptable.
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by pcrh 2y ago
OP is well involved in marketing, it seems. See: https://mrsteinberg.com/
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by pcrh 2y ago
Indeed. It was only after having lived in the US for a few years that I realized Americans actually considered burgers a "meal". For most who grew up in the French or similar culinary traditions, a burger was more like a snack, pe
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by pcrh 2y ago
With regards to consciousness per se being real, that question was resolved with Cogito, ergo sum .
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by pcrh 2y ago
On the other hand: There were an estimated 28.1 million households in the UK in 2021, an increase of 6.3% over the previous 10 years. [0] and: The UK population at mid-year 2021 was estimated to be 67.0 million, an increase of 3.7 million (
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by pcrh 2y ago
It's the passing-off that hasn't worked. The copiers/forgers decided to "improve" on the originals and in the process made their copies evidently fake. No doubt others will learn from this mistake and produce origi
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by pcrh 2y ago
Yes, but they're evidently not in the same category as the originals, i.e. obvious fakes, and so are not "new", despite their claims to be so.
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by pcrh 2y ago
Ironically, the complaint seems to be that the copies are not accurate enough, i.e. don't sufficiently resemble the styles of the original creators, and are too easily detected as forgeries.
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by pcrh 2y ago
I'm not a graphic artist, and appreciate how the illustrator's art involves many creative tricks of representation to convey complex meanings. However, the "messy" reconstructions of 3D space seen in these videos did mak
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by pcrh 2y ago
This isn't much US vs Europe, as industry sector. You can probably make comparable amounts of money in the same sectors in London, Amsterdam or Paris.
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by pcrh 2y ago
> If any would not work, neither should he eat. Ironically, that is one of the original "10 planks of communism" by Marx and Engels (i.e. "The liability of all to labour").
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by pcrh 3y ago
Agreed. The "magic" of double entry bookkeeping is that it is a financial version of the Principal of the Conservation of Energy. It isn't as strict in that it allows for assets to alter in value, for profits or losses to be
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by pcrh 3y ago
My understanding of double-entry bookkeeping is that it does not care who Alice bought the book from, nor what their accounts look like. Instead, the "double entry" that complements the money leaving Alice's cash ledger is th
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by pcrh 3y ago
That's and interesting proposition. Particularly the consumption, or not, of nitrate. I wonder what other measure(s) might be used to indicate the abundance of life?
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by pcrh 3y ago
Tibetans traditionally sleep on beds that are not much different from European beds. The porters shown in the article are "camping", so to speak, i.e. not in their typical sleeping postures.
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by pcrh 3y ago
Amazing demonstrations of casual racism in that article. It reads as if it was written in 1850 rather than 2000. There's no plausible reason to suppose that Tibetans or "tribesmen" have more natural sleeping positions than &q
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by pcrh 3y ago
It's poverty that sucks. The rural exodus to the cities occurred later in France and Ireland than, for example, Britain, so the memories of "true" peasant life were able to be more easily documented. You perhaps know the TV s
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by pcrh 3y ago
This reminds me of John Berger's work describing the modern world invading the life of peasants in France, such as Pig Earth, reviewed here: https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/05/books/love-among-the-pe
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by pcrh 3y ago
You should add to this the observation that there is a lack of Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA in modern humans. This suggests that hybrids from Homo sapiens and Neanderthal female parents were non-viable; perhaps only male Neanderthals and f
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Fibonacci's Real Mathematical Legacy(blogs.nature.com)
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