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by ryuhhnn 2y ago
> Abraham Wyner, a Pennsylvania professor of statistics, wrote in Tablet that the GHM casualty figures were "faked".[68] Wyner's article was analyzed by professor Joshua Loftus of the London School of Economics, who conclu
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by ryuhhnn 2y ago
source?
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by ryuhhnn 2y ago
> This argument doesn't account for would happen to the valuations of those assets once the government decided that it owned a portion of them or started forcing people to sell them I don't think the author was trying to argue
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by ryuhhnn 2y ago
> the author would've been able to have it published SOMEWHERE and it wouldn't just be a gist ad hominem and appeal to authority fallacy > Don't know why I wasted my time clicking that link. I knew it would be what it w
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by ryuhhnn 2y ago
https://github.com/MKorostoff/1-pixel-wealth/blob/master/THE...
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by ryuhhnn 3y ago
> In effectively all societies, the vast majority of serious crimes are committed by a tiny sliver of the population who offend again and again. I agree hence removing that 2% of murderers caused the homicide rate to drop dramatically an
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by ryuhhnn 3y ago
> This is not an extreme political opinion, nor something that is unreasonable to ask someone whether they believe. Why are you asking if this is something they believe if by your own admission it’s a position that is widely held? Again,
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by ryuhhnn 3y ago
why are you assuming I’m “worked up”? I was simply asking some questions and just because I disagree with the original commenter’s characterisation doesn’t mean I’m necessarily upset. In fact, quite the opposite, I’m curious why so many peo
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by ryuhhnn 3y ago
Nobody should be surprised that removing an entire portion of the population would cause the homicide rate to fall the same way nobody would be surprised that there is less rainfall on a day that has less cloud coverage. This isn’t really a
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by ryuhhnn 3y ago
Why is paying into a social safety net considered “free money” but usury is not? Why is it that when rich people as for money it’s a “loan” but when poor people ask for money it’s a “handout”. Free money is never free, money isn’t even real
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by ryuhhnn 3y ago
Why would you even ask a question like this? It’s clear that our society has issues that stem from people’s inability to navigate our complicated modern world. Your “why not just let them suffer” provocation adds nothing productive to this
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by ryuhhnn 3y ago
What do you mean? Crime does not happen in a vacuum. The idea that people steal because it’s fun or commit fraud because they enjoy seeing their victims suffer is not supported by any sort of rigorous sociological or criminological understa
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by ryuhhnn 3y ago
Why is there no linked, independently verifiable research on EMF “sensitivity”. I think I know why but…
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by ryuhhnn 3y ago
There might be an impact, but it’s not clear what the impact is. I’m no biologist, but I’d wager your volume of immune cells changes quite a bit over your lifetime. I’d be more interested in seeing the long-term health outcomes of vegetaria
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by ryuhhnn 3y ago
Is critical theory a rhetorical dead-end if you want to seriously debate something? Sure, but framing a debate and constricting it to a dichotomy is no less radicalising than a critical theory argument. I think people dislike critical theor
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by ryuhhnn 3y ago
> make the evolution of improved systems possible by dismantling what's in the way. I think you already answered that question for me. I’ll also add that I don’t think this book was meant to be a contribution to management theory at
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by ryuhhnn 3y ago
You must not have read the book because Graeber was pretty clear that he wasn’t making suggestions of what ought to be, he was simply diagnosing the issue and providing a framework to think of something better.
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by ryuhhnn 3y ago
Consumed by anger? Graeber was an anthropologist, it was literally his professional job to make anthropological observations about society and form them into a coherent theory, which, as someone who read this book in its entirety, he did an