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by skh 8y ago
...uses the 0.999... = 1.0... shenanigan... Why is this a shenanigan? Do you dispute that 0.9999....=1? One easy way to see this is that there are no decimals between 0.9999..... and 1 and thus the two numbers are the same. A property
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by skh 8y ago
I used the term ‘truth’ as used in mathematical logic. In a given model a statement can be true or false. Under a given axiomatic system a statement is either provable or not. We don’t use the word “true” when dealing with statement unde
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by skh 8y ago
It’s not tricky. I’m a reasonable person. A credible source would be a published, peer reviewed research paper. There are other credible sources. This is just one example of a credible source.
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by skh 8y ago
Yes, I thought you made the comment that will4274 made.
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The premise of your second paragraph is not supported by what I wrote. I’ve made no claims about every corporation (entity/person/whatever). I just pointed out that some corporations are incentivized to do wrong and thus relying o
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by skh 8y ago
I doubt you can find a credible source to say that wheat is poisonous or otherwise causes harm in the way that most people associated that word as it pertains to food. It may not be healthy and some people may think it’s better to eat othe
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by skh 8y ago
I suggest you have things backwards. There are lots of examples of corporations and people doing the right thing when incetivized by market forces. There are lots of examples of corporation and people doing the wrong thing when incentiviz
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by skh 8y ago
The market provides a strong incentive here as well not to poison your customers. The history of corporate malfeasance and the desire of people to optimize for short term gain versus long term gain indicates that your view is not supporte
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by skh 8y ago
Your definition of safe does not correspond to most peoples’ definition when it comes to food. Safe, in this context for most people, means safe for general consumption. Unsafe means that the product causes harm in just about everyone wh
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by skh 8y ago
We’re pretty sure that wheat is safe, right? We don’t have a proof in a mathematical sense but it’s clear that wheat is ok to eat.
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What’s the middle ground you are referrring to? Don’t feed it to kids but feed to adults? If you don’t know something is safe for consumption then it shoulnd’t be sold, right?
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by skh 8y ago
Your belief about the state of knowledge of borrowers is wrong. I teach mathematics at a community college and it is clear that a knowledge of percents and the impact of compounding is lacking in a large portion of the population. In my s
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by skh 8y ago
It is the lender’s resposibility (and the govrernment’s responsibility to regulate lenders) when said lenders can loan enough money such that that economy is wrecked if the loans are paid back. Making one bad loan is not a problem. Making
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by skh 8y ago
Lending is a two party interaction. Both sides have responsibilities and not holding German banks responsible for their profligate lending is bad. It is well known what happens when a country is flooded with credit at low interest rates.
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by skh 8y ago
Informally speaking we can take the set of all real numbers. Assuming we are using standard mathematics that most working mathematicians use then this includes non-computable numbers. Sets don’t have to be computable to be used unless you
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by skh 8y ago
I’m not used to seeing “axiomatic model”. When I read that I thought you meant axiomatic system and not model. Sorry.
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by skh 8y ago
Are you sure they run there because they love the current policies? Do you know that they didn’t move there in spite of the current policies? The housing policy that is causing a lot of distortion in California was enacted decades ago. T
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by skh 8y ago
The quality of being “true” is dependent on the model one is using. One can not talk about “truth” without being in a model. (Assuming we are talking about standard mathematical logic.). A statement in a first order system is provable if
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by skh 8y ago
I’m an advocate for higher taxes; particularly on people of means. I’m opposed to a form of taxation that punishes someone based on the state they are living in. For instance, I’d be opposed to an increased tax on just wealthy residents o
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by skh 8y ago
An important nitpick. His Incompleteness Theorem deals with recursively enumerable axiomatic systems. The second order Peano Axioms are categorical. That is, they have only one model up to isomorphism. It’s easy to come up with a comple
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by skh 8y ago
You are using the word “truth” but it is more correct to use provable/non-provable. What Godel showed is that -limiting the discussion to the natural numbers for simplicity - there are statements that are true in the standard model of
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by skh 8y ago
If things break as you say then it won’t matter what you’ve invested your money in. In such a scenario the investments that pay off are in knowledge that others find useful and physical fitness.
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by skh 8y ago
It’s certainly true that far more people understand and know how to prove the infinitude of the primes than understand/know how to prove Wiles’ proof. Wiles’ result has received far more press coverage in the last 30 yeas though. In th
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by skh 8y ago
As I suspected your statititic for the average number of hours worked per year does not tell the whole story and is not pertinent to the discussion at hand. Front he OECD source you quoted: The data are intended for comparisons of trends
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by skh 8y ago
You don’t understand what the fallacy of the false appeal to authority is. It’s interesting that you accuse me of “appeal to authority” and then right away cite an expert source. Do you not see the hypocrisy in this? The professor lists a
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by skh 8y ago
Do you have a source on this? I find it hard to believe that 51% of all taxpayers receive a net rebate when taking into account all forms of taxation. If you can’t find one no problem. I’ve heard something similar to this but it was appl
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by skh 8y ago
You are incorrectly stating the Fallacy of the False Appeal to Authority. Citing an expert in their area of expertise is not an argumentative fallacy. I have no views as such on the study in question. I just know that there is a study by
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by skh 8y ago
Does your 51% stat include sales taxes, gas taxes, phone taxes, electricity taxes, etc? I believe you are talking about federal income tax and not including other forms of taxation. Is this correct? People getting money back from tax filin
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by skh 8y ago
Bias and deliberate dishonesty are entirely different things. One can have a bias and still produce a relatively objective study. The Gallup study referenced in the NYT article you cited says: State of the American Workplace delivers unpr
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by skh 8y ago
I would agree with that assessment but for the fact that while alive the parent's medical debt can't be forced upon family members. It's a weird debt and I agree it isn't quite the same as inheriting it but I also think

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