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by question000 6y ago
Yeah too bad it actually explains reality instead of the weird "debt is just bad." ideas that predict a crisis every single quarter.
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by question000 6y ago
Americans love labor unions it's just that you can get fired for supporting them so people have to remain silent.
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by question000 6y ago
The Center for Open Science actually has a web framework built around this concept they call pre-registration. Check it out website: cos.io , site to preregister: osf.io
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by question000 6y ago
Thanks I'm glad someone told me this, I'm from Charlottesville so I'm shocked to hear people say "it's irrelevant."
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by question000 6y ago
Yeah I'm in the same situation and I just started lying to everyone and obtaining treatment illegally, buying prescriptions online and treating myself based on what I've read instead of waiting 6 months for a 15 minute appointment
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by question000 6y ago
Yeah but even if we accept passive investment is a form of productive labor, there's a limited number safe/good investments for those good investors. As we saw in the 2008 recession when more and investors pile on even the safest
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by question000 6y ago
That's just being silly.
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by question000 6y ago
I mean this wouldn't necessarily mean a collapse, but I really applaud the relative specificity and reasonableness of this claim. Still don't think it will happen.
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by question000 6y ago
Ok why do you believe this if you can't make one verifiable prediction that it will happen? Will it happens tomorrow? In 20 years? In 5 months? It's just a feeling you have that isn't backed by data. I can't really ever
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by question000 6y ago
Ok make a prediction about the "currency collapsing" and we will see. An actual prediction of the value of the currency not just a remark about prices seeming unusually high to you personally.
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by question000 6y ago
Ok make any kind of verifiable prediction about this and we will see if it happens or not.
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by question000 6y ago
Self-driving cars, computer speech recognition and the collapse of the federal reserve system. Things that are going to perpetually happen next year since the inception of Hacker News.
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by question000 6y ago
It's only politically charged in the US. I don't need to read a study to know gun laws reduce crime it's just extremely obvious to me.
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by question000 6y ago
Because Trump lied about nearly everything related to his finances for decades and has openly admitted that his followers are just gullible and will forgive him for it, so he doesn't care. A cursory google search reveals this to be tru
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by question000 6y ago
Yeah but the question is which one of these types are more "program-y" Functional programming while a valid form, is inherently better expressed by constraining the possible use cases. It's closer to electrical engineering or
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by question000 6y ago
Presumably animals don't have souls, maybe in some wordy sense they do, but functionally they don't so we can eat them or step on them. If bacteria has a soul we are in trouble. As for the comprehensiveness of the Bible yeah what
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by question000 6y ago
So two points here I disagree with (though I'm not I a Catholic I can't really explain their belief system.) One is the belief a all intelligent things have a soul, obviously fetuses and intelligent life do, but animals functional
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by question000 6y ago
Well I'll take the bait, is there like a second god for other planets and species? Would non-human intelligent life have souls? Why wasn't this mentioned in the Bible? Doesn't this mean that both creation stories are inconver
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by question000 6y ago
This is the type of question that doesn't really effect me as an Atheist. Even if there was intelligent life on Venus, how would my life be changed as an individual?
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by question000 6y ago
I have an opposite experience, people who live in small towns usually seem to be actively opposed to development, and don't want any new people coming to their town. They just want to enjoy the low property taxes.
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by question000 6y ago
I spoke with a famous dean and he said that they don't look at gender or demographics at all and right-wing people like to lie on Hacker News. Basically if there's a post about academia right-wing groups will try to stir up racial
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by question000 6y ago
Yeah so taxes have gone down. If you measure taxes with real metrics they've gone down to their lowest level ever.
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by question000 6y ago
Without the university system we'd just be Saudi Arabia though. It's just a matter of time until we nationalize everything and finally get a modern system. It's inevitable, the US university system just isn't competitive
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by question000 6y ago
Yeah citation needed, other then tariffs taxes have only gone down in the past 30 years...
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by question000 6y ago
Now you're just being silly.
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by question000 6y ago
No you a definition of free market. Basically it appears to be a magical metaphysical thing like the Garden of Eden.
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by question000 6y ago
Free markets seem to have like a metaphysical power to people who hold the above opinion. Even if the above was true, wouldn't someone in a free market be free to form a monopoly if they wanted too? What would prevent them? Other peopl
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by question000 6y ago
Remember Hacker NewS forbids saying anything against the R Party, remember to to use code words next time. For example: "Zuckerberg is cozy with conservative interests" is fine, but using the R word angers people members of the R