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by raincom 5y ago
As long as there is a demand for US dollars, they can print to finance UBI. That's why US, EU, US are in unique position to print, because exporters love to exchange physicial goods with paper currency. The same exporters don't wa
902.
by raincom 5y ago
Yes, Africa, India, Pakistan, etc. Yes, population almost increased 7 folds.
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by raincom 5y ago
A friend submitted a paper to a journal in humanities. The reviewer said "his English is informal". In other words, these reviewers are asking for stilted English.
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by raincom 5y ago
I thought top ranked journals have good reviewers, since the editorial board consists of researchers/professors from top notch schools. Can you share your thoughts why junk get published in such journals? Has it to do with collusion or
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by raincom 5y ago
It tells us that USA manages it well. In the third world, in the last thirty years, people struggle for drinking water in summer, aquifers depleted, more floods, etc.
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by raincom 5y ago
The point you bring up is an example of "fallacy of equivocation". Yes, words are polysemic. In this case, 'anti-semetic' is seen as "anti-jewish". That's one sense of 'anti-semetic'. You can als
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by raincom 5y ago
There are multiple reasons: - Lebanese govt invited them. - USA wants to keep tab in that part of the world. - Talented investigators in FBI and others want to keep their brains sharp. - Advance knowledge about explosions, how to prevent th
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by raincom 5y ago
In fact, that's how collusion and correction happens in the West. In other words, "discretion" is for sale for the powerful. Prosecution uses discretion to not prosecute the powerful; Judges use discretion to suppress evidenc
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by raincom 5y ago
This phenomenon is studied in the history and philosophy of sciences; it is called "paradigm change" ala Thomas Kuhn. Yes, researchers who work in the dominant 'paradigm' tie their psychological identities with the parad
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by raincom 5y ago
That's why many entrance exams across the world have become tougher over the time, as more and more test prep companies have become accessible to the majority of test takers.
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by raincom 5y ago
This has to do with the lack of economic mobility. When 100 million poor families try to their get kids to 500,000 spots in top schools, this is an expected result. The 'how' of getting to these spots varies: test prep (in China a
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by raincom 5y ago
Legitimacy of any government, monopoly on voice by any government is defended on such grounds: different varieties of social contract theorists. As one of the replies suggest, you are picking on "little", whereas the parent poster
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by raincom 5y ago
I used the services of such a 'water witch' in India. Not because I trust them, but because of the social 'pressure'. Since friends and relatives use them, I just used them. When acquifers were not depleted, every '
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by raincom 5y ago
In fact, lucid dreaming is one of the techniques used in 'buddhism'.
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by raincom 5y ago
A similar story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19222467
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by raincom 5y ago
Isn't (esp dissociative experiences) what is called "dark nights" in the Buddhist traditions?
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by raincom 5y ago
Of course, I can define the word 'happiness' as a square root of the natural number '4'. So what does it tell?
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by raincom 5y ago
It doesn't need to be from the research experience. Research is not a straight line from A to B. One has to form wrong hypotheses, discard them completely, improve upon them, etc. Some paths are from A are MORALLY forbidden from purs
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by raincom 5y ago
Before Industrialization, people used live in small communities, with relatives spanning generations. Now that sort of thing does not exist anymore. Now people are abusing in the name of friendship: just use others, and don't reciproca
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by raincom 5y ago
These days ATMs are dispensing 50 dollars bills by default, unlike 20 dollar bills a couple of years ago. What does it tell?
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by raincom 5y ago
Exactly this is what one expects of these offshoring companies. This consultant makes $400 per month or $2.27 per hour, while his company makes off of him $4800 per month or $27.72 per hour, assuming this company is paying $30 per hour. Yo
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by raincom 5y ago
Ruling on using brush made of boar (pig) hair? Heart valve made of pig tissue (valve): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aItwQrkImjQ
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by raincom 5y ago
There are fundamental problems with international laws; whoever has the power, enforces its version of law. In fact, the state is founded in Law, whose enforcement depends on the monopoly on violence. That's why the State has monopoly
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by raincom 5y ago
Many Islamic scholars say it is haram(forbidden).
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by raincom 5y ago
Yes and no. Here, the sociopathy is generated by the dynamics of the organization that Amazon is, but not by the upbringing or the genetics of the individual.
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by raincom 5y ago
Yes and No. No, if one bought three Neiman Marcus shirts from such a source. Yes, if one has bought many shirts, bags, laptops from these people; even in this case, prosecutors don't go after the fencers(middlemen) directly. They bust
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by raincom 5y ago
Some pawn shop in Santa Clara did something like that. He got busted. https://patch.com/california/losgatos/san-jose-pawn-shop-own...
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by raincom 5y ago
Pretty locked down Performance sucks Expect that it is a windows VM It sucks to troubleshoot, deploy, etc.
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by raincom 5y ago
One can live with one meal, water and salt for many days. That's how people in old days used to survive during droughts.
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by raincom 5y ago
There are differences. For instance, filipinos or Indians working in the middle east, is different from filipinos or Indians in the EU/UK/USA/Canada--the economic status differs. Even the people who go to middle east are in a

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