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by pfisch 8y ago
This is about anti-Jewish discrimination specifically. This is pro meritocracy. Not affirmative action.
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by pfisch 8y ago
This would devastate the economy. For example: Exxon mobil profits in 2017 were 19.7 billion. Fukushima cleanup costs exceed 180 billion. There is no way to do what you are proposing without massive price increases in electricity, gasoline
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by pfisch 8y ago
Uh, what the hell are you talking about? It sounds like you are crutching on "integrity" when perhaps you need a more unbiased analysis of why you have been made fun of secretly or even publicly, declared dismissive and asocial, i
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by pfisch 8y ago
You are too generous concerning the Great Leap Forward. It really wasn’t some unfortunate accident. There was clear intent to eliminate large swaths of the population of China.
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by pfisch 8y ago
A free market doesn’t prevent genocide. A state where free speech and dissent is violently oppressed is always ripe for genocidal events. There is no real legal system to contest illegal detention and state sanctioned murder in China. It is
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by pfisch 8y ago
There are a lot of instances of the Chinese government intentionally directing food away from famine stricken areas. There was clear intent to starve out populations and political opponents.
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by pfisch 8y ago
Are you saying the banking industry should be deregulated? That is not the big takeaway from history...
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by pfisch 8y ago
Can you elaborate on the sum of facebooks contributions being positive? Not disagreeing here, I just don’t know what contributions you are referring to.
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by pfisch 8y ago
“Death” from Crohn’s disease while he happened to be in India, and had the only private key for 90+ million dollars. Sure.
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by pfisch 8y ago
Winning a war and body counts are not the same thing. Even in vietnam the US had a good ratio in terms of killing Vietnamese vs allied deaths. That doesn’t mean the US was winning.
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by pfisch 8y ago
The us lost these engagements though. Truly defeating insurgencies like these is currently beyond the reach of the most technologically advanced and well funded armies in the world.
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by pfisch 8y ago
From the evidence presented there I would say it is unclear. Also no one can fact check everything just like no one can report everything. So I agree there are subtle ways of being biased that don’t require telling lies. That will always be
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by pfisch 8y ago
I think what you said about choosing what to fact check is true, however, it is also true that spreading propaganda/intentional false information is a massive problem on the right, and a much smaller problem on the left. It exists and
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by pfisch 8y ago
I mean I think at this point it isn't unreasonable to say it's over for the ocean. Either we start sequestering on a massive scale or the ocean is going to turn into a pool of acid anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if it was al
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by pfisch 8y ago
You just brushed right past doubling energy costs in your rebuttal. But whatever.
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by pfisch 8y ago
Are you saying rehab facilities also don't work compared to a control group? I am skeptical about that too. I'd be surprised if both rehab and AA don't have a statistically significant effect on addiction treatment.
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by pfisch 8y ago
Are you saying that there are no statistics that back up AA as effective? I am pretty skeptical of a claim like that.
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by pfisch 8y ago
Hahaha, what? The USA created the internet, google, the smart phone, most pharmaceuticals. I could go on and on but why bother. You must be joking with this.
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by pfisch 8y ago
Turbo Tax is incentivized to maximize your savings. The government is incentivized to do the opposite. It's not that they can't. It's that eventually someone will be in charge that will decide they shouldn't.
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by pfisch 8y ago
Isn’t there a massive advantage if you have seen the question before though? I mean you just pretend like you haven’t and hit it out of the park. This isn’t theoretical, I have done this before in a real interview and it did work.
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by pfisch 8y ago
It isn't about the person. It is about the scale of government. Running a small business is not the same as a large business. Ok, have you ever played civilization? In civilization corruption goes up as you build more cities and the fa
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by pfisch 8y ago
It doesn't make any sense to compare the Netherlands to the US on any metric. The Netherlands doesn't have the population or gdp of just Texas or California by themselves. The sheer magnitude of the difference between the US and t
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by pfisch 8y ago
How would you even know if it is right? This is such an obvious fox guarding the henhouse situation. The government would have a clear incentive to not offer you the deductions you are eligible for, and taxes are complex, so it would be eas
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by pfisch 8y ago
> So your solution is to simply do nothing. I never said that. I said implementing extreme solutions like a 95% cut to everyone's carbon footprint are a terrible idea. Also we are most likely talking about like a 0.5-2 ft rise maybe
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by pfisch 8y ago
> It seems to be quite well established that not dealing with climate change is going to be significantly more expensive than taking preventative action. Over what time period though? Projections are all over the place, and it is basical
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by pfisch 8y ago
I imagine people used to think that when it was France trading with China beyond things exclusively in China like silk. Prices go down over time. Also it might be worth it for gold.
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by pfisch 8y ago
Depends how successful your game is, the price per copy, and how big it is.
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by pfisch 8y ago
You don’t pay for the bandwidth to download a game on steam.
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by pfisch 8y ago
You land on the webpage. Now enter all your payment info, validate purchase, make account. Cool Or is it f2p? So you land on page, still need to make an account for persistence. Also will need to do credit card eventually for game developer
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by pfisch 8y ago
No, this doesn't really work because other people will ultimately run you out of business with their compounding profit and reinvestment advantage.

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