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by skh 8y ago
I don’t think my position is hypocritical and even if it is I’m not looking for a way to resolve it. I believe taxes should be higher for people in my income bracket. I also will not be donating to the government. I have not problem with
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by skh 8y ago
It means the marginal effect of the first $1,000 would be greater than or equal to the marginal effect of the last $1,000. It does not mean that the aggregate benefit of multiple $1,000 donations would be less than just a single $1,000 don
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by skh 8y ago
One person donating a $1,000 when no one else does could be more beneficial than if everyone donated $1,000? Interesting idea.
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by skh 8y ago
In what way is this a worthy comment? You think it in any way efficacious for a country to impose a 70% tax rate to buy ammunition?
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by skh 8y ago
What's interesting from a political science perspective from the U.S. is that Ronal Reagan believed that the tax on labor should be less than the tax on capital. The U.S. has shifted very much rightward on this issue in the last 40 ye
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by skh 8y ago
Your logic is bad or it’s your math. Suppose I pay an extra $1,000 in income taxes via a donation. This amount will not help anyone or improve the fiscal situation of the United States government. However, several million people paying
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by skh 8y ago
Widespread undernourishment and hunger was not defeated by charity. It was defeated by government. Widespread access to clean water was not accomplished by charity. It was accomplished by government. Widespread access to education was no
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by skh 8y ago
So what if I’m an inconsistent hypocrite? By the way, isn’t the essence of hypocrisy inconsistency? I still believe tax rates are too low for people in my income bracket. Also one should ponder that the marginal effect of donations to the
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by skh 8y ago
You've made a mistake. You wrote: ..you're not actually willing to do yourself." That should be: ...you're not actually willing to do solely by yourself. As I said, what does it matter if I'm a hypocrite? My bel
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by skh 8y ago
If you are aware of the free rider problem then you oughtn't be unaware that people can believe that something should be done but won't do it if they aren't forced to.
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by skh 8y ago
I choose to live in a society and I want to live in a society that maintains a certain level of humanity. To run this enterprise that we call society requires a government (I do not at all agree with anarchism). That government requires m
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by skh 8y ago
OK. I'm a hypocrite. I do vote for higher taxes on myself and others. So I guess the last sentence you wrote isn't entirely correct. You do realize that people do seemingly contradictory things, right? And sometimes have overt
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by skh 8y ago
I try to impose my personal preferences and beliefs on others whenever I vote. I see nothing wrong with this. I also believe that people in my income bracket should pay more in taxes. I'm not going to voluntarily pay more whilst oth
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by skh 8y ago
I think my wife and I should pay more in taxes. I also feel that I shouldn't die on my sword and voluntarily pay more in taxes whilst others in my income bracket don't. There is nothing contradictory in this. But suppose you th
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by skh 8y ago
My wife is a psychiatrist and sees a psychiatrist off the record because she’s afraid of the stigma affecting her career. It’s just one data point but I find it telling that a psychiatrist is afraid that other psychiatrists will know she t
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by skh 8y ago
You could just as well argue that electrons are conscious because they can read our minds while we do experiments and are trolling us by creating some made-up rules they've invented which happen to look like quantum theory. One can a
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by skh 8y ago
She's a physicist and is addressing the notion that electrons have consciousness. She works in quantum gravity and presumably knows quite a bit about particle theory. Her blog post is solely about the idea that electrons can have con
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by skh 8y ago
Panpsychism isn't "crazy shit" we "tried long ago" and we haven't "moved on". She doesn't claim that panpsychism was tried a long time ago. She claims that Now, look, I know that physicists h
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by skh 8y ago
In my metropolitan area being 10 minutes from downtown via bus is much different than being in downtown. Our public transit system is such that going from downtown to any other location serviced by the transit system is easy. But if don’t
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by skh 8y ago
I can’t fully grasp the expansion of the universe. It seems intuitive to me that if something expands it must be expanding in something larger. Back when I was going to major in physics one professor told me to imagine a balloon expanding
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by skh 8y ago
The VA is not military. I specifically said military to avoid talking about the VA. Government sponsored healthcare can certainly be bad but it doesn’t have to be. People on Medicare like it for the most part. They certainly don’t want
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by skh 8y ago
I believe drugs cost significantly less in other countries. I see no reason why research would fall. Companies are not the only ones capable of doing drug research. The Jonas Salk’s of the world mostly do research because it interests the
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by skh 8y ago
I didn’t know there was a profile pic in the App Store app until I checked again after reading your comment. I don’t have a profile pic setup so that’s probably why I never noticed the icon on the right hand side of the page. I never thou
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by skh 8y ago
I don’t believe this is correct on iOS and it isn’t correct on the Apple TV. In iOS you need to go to Settings -> iTunes & App Store -> tap on your Apple ID at the top of the screen -> tap on view Apple ID -> scroll to subs
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by skh 8y ago
My experience is that it is easy once you find the right screen. A Google search always leads me to the right screen. Apple could be better at making the location more transparent but they couldn’t make the act of canceling, once you get
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by skh 8y ago
Netflix has been very good about being easy to cancel. Few companies are as good as them but I can’t trust that Netflix will always be as good as they currently are.
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by skh 8y ago
I wonder how much money it costs Apple to handle subscription payments/cancellations for Netflix and other streaming services. I prefer to handle subscription through Apple because cancelling such services is never difficult. I don’t
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by skh 8y ago
I think the problem comes from the mapping you are choosing. You can construct a map that between (0, 2) and (0, 1) that is onto but not one-to-one. But to say that (0, 2) and (0, 1) have the same size as sets (cardinality) means that the
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by skh 8y ago
I see now. Thank you.
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by skh 8y ago
I don’t think anyone should call you a moron. I do think you should consider that if professional mathematicians don’t have a problem with a proof and you do then it is most likely an indication of a lack of understanding on your part. I d

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