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by syki 5y ago
Walking alone with no other changes will do little for weight loss. But exercise does affect diet and satiety. There are also changes in terms of mental well being. Keeping active has benefits well beyond mere calorie expenditure. https:
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Read Jefferson's views on usufruct and compare with his desire to maintain his estate's wealth and not free slaves for said wealth. It's hard to not think lowly of a man with such views that are backed up with such actions.
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So for the financial stability of his estate he kept people in bondage and yet believed that this said bondage was evil. You don't consider that a massive hypocrisy? It is extremely hypocritical especially in light of his views on us
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....European Christians are unusual in their almost fanatical commitment to equality of all before God's eyes. At the time they did not overall believe this. At least not in deed. Some did and most didn't. Indeed, 100 years a
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Do you have evidence that all of the founders thought slavery was categorically evil? I doubt this very much but could be wrong. Apparently they thought forming a more cohesive federal system was more important than abolishing slavery. A
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Humor shouldn’t get in the way of understanding the point being made. Clearly this reference to Ferenginar was illustrative of a broader point. Equally clear is that it doesn’t underpin my understanding of economics. No reasonable reading
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by syki 5y ago
I’ve never seen this before so thanks for the links and clarification. I learned something new.
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Japan, Germany, Norway, Italy, Spain, etc. all run a national healthcare systems for far cheaper than the U.S. that covers everyone with more or less equal outcomes. The citizens of those countries don’t go bankrupt when getting care. It
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by syki 5y ago
I don’t understand the downvotes. It’s obvious that the each party represents differing corporate interests and those interests take precedence over everything. How much did Wall Street suffer for its malfeasance when Obama was President?
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There are people who want “free market” solutions and the definition of “free market” tends to be any solution that involves a corporation running it. Generally people deep down know that it is obscene for a country as rich as ours to have
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by syki 5y ago
They are using a different notion of “measure” than the standard notion of absolute value of the difference. Under the standard measure every number is within epsilon distance of a rational for any positive epsilon. Thank you for the clar
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This what happens when a significant portion of society worships the “free market” and wants to avoid government running things. In the U.S. we have managed to fully monetize just about every aspect of life. Even something as mundane as p
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Rational numbers are algebraic so how are algebraic numbers reasonably far from each other? Algebraic numbers are dense in the real number line.
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The author has an axe to grind. There is a lot argumentation by assertion going on. Here’s a part that makes it hard to take this post seriously. How did Newton and Leibniz discover the calculus without understanding it? Because European
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by syki 5y ago
You fail to understand the meaning of “if”. I was proposing a scenario where a company would plausibly be prevented from hiring certain people.
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by syki 5y ago
You fail to grasp the issue at hand. If company A hires, all at once, so many key employees of company B that company B can’t replace the workers soon enough to avoid irreparable damage then company A might be engaging in anti-competitive
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by syki 5y ago
It’s not that a given trauma center has all the entire supply it’s that it can’t find replacements quick enough if too many people are hired away too quickly.
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Suppose it’s a trauma center that requires a certain level of staffing to be certified and that once said staffing can’t be maintained the center loses certification. Competitor decides to poach employees en masse to initiate decertificati
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by syki 5y ago
I believe this ruling has to do with unfair competitive advantage. The employees are not prohibited from quitting or working elsewhere. The company attempting to hire the employees is prohibited from hiring the employees. It’s a temporar
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by syki 5y ago
Meant to write “that evidence was not provided…”
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by syki 5y ago
It think it is good that evidence was provided that the article is wrong on these points. It illustrates how easy it is to dupe people. Since the first unsubstantiated assertions were made in a magazine it now falls to those who claim it
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The military-industrial complex you refer to would be the war efforts of allied nations. Those war efforts didn’t start in earnest until the Munich Agreement in the case of the UK and quite a bit later in the case of the US. Your writing
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by syki 5y ago
Since Chiang Kai-shek the U.S. and Taiwan have, at various times, considered Taiwan’s Government the true government of China, the civil war as still ongoing, and have had a one China policy. It seems that the CCP will be no more willing t
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I was thinking of the third option. I don’t have anything intelligent to say about that option but posed it as a possibility. I imagine that believing in the third option would roughly be equivalent to a religious belief. That is, one be
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Regarding your either/or line of reasoning in your first paragraph. Are you sure these are the only two possibilities? Could there be partial dependence on the current state of one’s mind and environment? Does the same exact state a
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Your points are well stated and succinctly out. They’ve made me think about this issue more than I ever have. It’s not a question I’ve ever been interested in but I like the reasoning you are giving. The first sentence above though helps
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The government is owed money. It has the ability to forgive it. That is its prerogative (viewing it as a single entity). It can do with its money (or obligations of debt to it) as it sees fit. Just like the landowner in the parable is a
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As I said, the government plays the role of the landowner. Perhaps you have the mistaken belief that the money you pay in taxes is still your money and therefore you don’t believe the government can play the role of the landowner.
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Mathew 20:13 “But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? 14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don’t I have the right
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If data showed that at regional state universities and community colleges the rise in tuition corresponded with the decrease in public funding per student then you wouldn’t believe it? Or that such data would mean nothing to you? Consider

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