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by skh 8y ago
Something being sidestepped in the post you responded to is that what is being talked about is a valid algebraic object with lots of structure to it. It’s called a module which you can think of as a sort of vector space. It’s just that th
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by skh 8y ago
The answer to the question of the morality of the bombing at least in part depends on whether one is a victim or perpetrator. You correctly stated that Americans would consider a fire bombing of Los Angeles to be morally wrong. From the v
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by skh 8y ago
Yes I agree with what you write here. I don’t mean to suggest it was a purely political calculation. I mean to suggest that decisions can be militarily bad or irrelevant while still be necessary politically.
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The question isn’t whether Americans would unambiguously view a fire bombing of LA as morally wrong. The question is would the Japanese view it as morally wrong? Of course the victims view it as wrong. Would the offenders?
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I think this is the part that people miss when discussing the nuclear attacks. It’s purpose was not tactical or military. It was a political purpose.
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It’s debatable because we just don’t know when the surrender would have taken place in the absense of the bombings. We can look at statements by leaders on what they would have done under the hypothetical of them not occurring but we still
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After the Germans surrendered my dad's division was scheduled to be transferred to the Pacific for the invasion of Japan. At least that is what they were told. He was happy to hear of the bombings on Nagasaki and Hiroshima since from
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by skh 8y ago
I appreciate your sentiments and view. I went down cynical route a long time ago though. I lost all faith in 2009/2010 when it became clear that Obama and the Democrats took Wall Street money on the understanding that they would not
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by skh 8y ago
I defined the meaning of the phrase "businesses don't pay tax on expenses". My posts have only to do with the meaning I defined. My posts have nothing to do with what you are talking about.
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by skh 8y ago
Despite the evidence presented you continue to think that California, Minnesota, New York, etc. are not subsidizing states like Mississippi, Alabama, etc. Perhaps no amount of factual evidence will dissuade you from your current belief.
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If we amended the Constitution of the United States to state that only corporations count as people then our politicians would no longer be lying when they say they support the people. We would finally be living in a country in which the p
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California sends quite a bit more to the federal government than it receives from the federal government. In fact, in 2014 it was primarily Republican leaning states that received the greatest subsidies. The facts show that the federal go
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I can find examples of a roulette spin landing on 00. However such examples are rare. In the same way one can find examples of where a well funded candidate did not win when going against a relatively underfunded candidate. In circumstanc
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A company takes in money from products and services it sells. From this amount of money the company pays employees and equipment, services, etc. for the running of the company. These are called expenses in business accounting. The compan
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I'm sure Netflix paid tons in employer contributions to employee income taxes, social security taxes, etc. This situation should not be viewed as Netflix paying tax. An employee's benefits, pay, time off, etc. are all part of t
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I suggest it's not as simple as just saying "vote" given the massive disparity in funding capabilities between the average citizen and the average Fortune 500 company. Money is powerful and greatly influences elections. Now
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by skh 8y ago
Saying that something is not trustworthy is literally saying it is not something that is able to be relied upon to be truthful. This means one should not assume the source is correct. It certainly doesn't mean to assume it is wrong.
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by skh 8y ago
Let’s take Syria for example. Do you think the reporters reporting on Syria and the complexity of what is going on there are experts in foreign policy? I don’t. I don’t think government affairs reporters are experts on tax policy either.
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The point isn’t that one should assume they are always wrong it is that one shouldn’t assume they are always right.
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Reporters are not experts in the areas they report on. If reporters generally get it wrong on the areas that I know about then why would I assume they get right on the other areas they write about? If your doctor wrote articles about compu
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An expert read articles in his area of expertise and found them to be rubbish. Thus his anecdotal evidence is that the reporters get it wrong and so he shouldn't be so willing to accept as correct articles in areas outside of his expe
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Have you heard of the Murray Gellmann Amnesia Effect? How do you know the source you are reading is trustworthy? I've witnessed the Murray Gellmann effect in my area of specialty which is mathematics. It makes me wonder about article
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by skh 8y ago
Once an unpopular proposal is shot down backers of said proposal back off for a bit. They bring up the idea repackaged some months/years later. They fight the battle again. Eventually, after enough votes the measure will pass. Peop
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You don’t need to show an ad in your tv shows if the whole show is an ad. I’ll bet Goop pays Netflix to show this. I hope this is not where Netflix is headed. Netflix has a widely disliked feature of showing previews of shows without givi
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by skh 8y ago
The Aldi brothers have their share of scandals in Germany when it comes to tainted and mislabeled food. I wouldn’t be so confident that Trader Joe’s is what it claims to be. They are very secretive about where their food comes from and ha
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There are lots of people who don’t think a flat tax on income is the fairest tax. Presumably a person whose income is very large has a lot more to lose if society collapses so they should pay more to maintain society. I tend to believe p
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We do just that but for a set of beliefs that are not religious.
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I think it is you who has missed the point. I deal with the legal system in my native language. It happenes to be standard English but I’m not so ethnocentric in my thinking to believe that non native speakers of standard English should b
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by skh 8y ago
From Wikipedia: Politics (from Greek: πολιτικά, translit. Politiká, meaning "affairs of the cities") is the process of making decisions that apply to members of a group.[1] The article discusses a dialect of English and how its
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I think it’s clear from the article that the author is does not intend to mean that everyone who speaks Black English also has a command of standard English. It seems to me he was saying that standard English should be taught in schools de

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