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by reagency 11y ago
GDP is a weak measure of prosperity/utility. War had very high GDP, but has very low utility. It doesn't burn banknotes, but it burns everything banknotes buy, so the result is similar. The only thing economically good about war i
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by reagency 11y ago
Everything is probability. Why since out some statements as deserving of qualification? You said all knowledge is inductively reached, why didn't you say "probably"?!
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by reagency 11y ago
Placebos can only affect psych/neuro (and possibly hormonal) conditions, which is the brain is biologically capable of changing things. Not all illnesses are susceptible to placebo.
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by reagency 11y ago
What type "looks like" that?
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by reagency 11y ago
Baby boomers are on 55+ now. Gen X is middle age now, and they eventually got low paying jobs working for the baby boomers. Gen Y happened, but we were boring, so we got retroactively split up and rolled into Gen X and Millenials.
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by reagency 11y ago
How is that debatable? We teach coins and bills to 8 yr olds, but for some pseudoiberal-arts-intellectual reason we don't teach propaganda and compounding interest to hif schoolers. (I actually learned propaganda in a school-funded
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by reagency 11y ago
Ironically, in the US that class was called "Home Economics "
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by reagency 11y ago
One day I might have a mentally disabled child. I will have an orangutan as a genetic heir or friend. That logically explains the common sense ethics.
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by reagency 11y ago
To err is humean.
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by reagency 11y ago
Priming is a broad topic. Only certain kinds were debunked. Wikipedia summarizes "Although semantic, associative, and form priming are well established, some longer-term priming effects were not replicated in further studies, casting d
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by reagency 11y ago
Almost no job postings mention salary, and most jobs are filled. Certainly the hundreds of thousands of bigco job ads don't post salaries, and startups don't either. Government does.
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by reagency 11y ago
A Glassdoor competitor said Glass door is bad? Unassailable authority.
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by reagency 11y ago
You can't compare top-line revenue across industries. Fedex is capital intensive.
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by reagency 11y ago
You aren't subsidizing anything. You are paying market price for a product. The seller does bizdev how they choose.
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by reagency 11y ago
What's wrong with that? It is SSL secured. Once you agree to install software, it had local access with your accounts privileges.
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by reagency 11y ago
Much of Europe skips the 2-year 'liberal arts' portion of undergrad.
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by reagency 11y ago
Silly to compare resident tuition for the LLM against nonresident tuition for JD. Residency is equally easy in either case.
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by reagency 11y ago
UT Law is absolutely an elite (tier-1) law school for purposes of the USA Big Law firm recruiting and lockstep salary.
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by reagency 11y ago
Does German law guarantee non-Germans a public education?
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by reagency 11y ago
At undergrad, a successful technique is to assume X exists and try to construct it. As you do so, you either find one or reach a contradiction to every possible class of structure. Nonconstructive proofs of existence in rare, outside of log
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by reagency 11y ago
GA is for comprehension, not computation. It is like a high level functional language, compared to Fortran. Compare how hard it is to compute complicated matrix arithmetic in haskell vs fortran, vs describing symmetries in same.
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by reagency 11y ago
http://www.av8n.com/physics/clifford-intro.htm is a much better source. It looks like OP read av8n and that translated it into some spiritual interpretation.
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by reagency 11y ago
Av8n is s much better source for this material. slehar took pictures out of context from av8n and wikipedia, and slathered a layer of woo on top.
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by reagency 11y ago
What's up with the kooky Penrose-esque metaphysics of the human mind at the end there? Lehar has taken the elegance of geometriv algebra to a bizarre spiritual plane (er, bivector?)
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by reagency 11y ago
I would never use your system. I expect a system to behave as advertised , not debug its internal state transitions
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by reagency 11y ago
Age-related disease is simply not an issue for the billions of young people suffering. The problems facing the wealthy elites are not the problems most people face.
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by reagency 11y ago
Why do you put "ing" at the end of "finding" when it is obvious what you mean from just "find"? English is so silly.
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by reagency 11y ago
Back when Java Applets were a thing, Sun wasn't friendly with browser makers. JavaScript was a gimmicky alternative that was created by a browser manufacturer. It had the foothold, and it grew. Nos Oracle isn't interested in Web.
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by reagency 11y ago
Or in general, any infinite size n-dimensional structure can be embedded in some finite size n+1 dimensional structure.
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by reagency 11y ago
Meat is always cooked and often charred. Non-meat is not so that way.

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