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by synetic 3y ago
You would need to control every factor of a person's life to see if D makes the difference: food, culture, stressors, exercise, etc. Since it’s not possible to do this should we give up studying these sorts of things? Scientists stu
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Couldn’t read the whole article but in the beginning they write: The imf has found that higher profits “account for almost half the increase” in the euro zone’s inflation… It sounds like it’s a legitimate idea. Do they disprove the IMF f
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… but the truth is on the sea, the bigger gun wins. Yes. So why go through the rigmarole of trying to justify the actions when it comes down to we do it because we can and our leaders think it’s in our interests.
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by synetic 3y ago
You vastly undercount the role of luck in Elon’s success and the success of others with billions. There is luck in where you are born. There is luck in terms of who you parents are and how your brain happened to respond to whatever i outs
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Iran fights U.S. interests in the Middle East. Its actions are not designed to punish the USN per se. The war is with the U.S., not its navy.
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Nothing absurd about it at all. Unfortunately this is a view held by many Americans. It is sad to me to see people defend the fact that one person can accumulate so much whilst vast numbers of people have so little. Hopefully, someday w
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As you suggest it won’t show him. It should, however, show us what an absurdity it is that a man can lose $44 billion and not have it affect his life in any material way. The distribution of resources/wealth is grossly unfair. One p
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by synetic 3y ago
But they can't, and people see it for what it appears to be: illegitimate. During the Revolutionary War British officers were aghast when American soldiers deliberately tried to shoot British officers during battle. It was considere
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by synetic 3y ago
You may define “reasonable” any way you want to. The fact is that U.S. has sufficient military power to enforce its will on others while having enough soft power to, usually, wrap those actions in a cloak of U.N. legitimacy. One should no
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by synetic 3y ago
If the U.S. has the right to intervene when non U.S. flagged vessels owned by a U.S. company are stopped by a foreign government does, say, North Korea have the right to intervene when North Korean owned ships are stopped by the U.S.?
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by synetic 3y ago
The ship the Iranians tried to stop violated sanctions of the Iranian government. The U.S. is a bit hypocritical. We ignore U.N. resolutions when it suits us in case you think violating U.N. sanctions somehow is a higher standard than vio
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https://www.businessinsider.com/us-north-korean-seize-ships-...
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There’s a huge difference between helping out a citizen who has broken the law by dodging taxes and helping out a corporation that purposefully evades U.S. regulations. People rate higher than corporations. At least they should. Note that
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I was in my young 20s when Last Action Hero came out. It was well marketed and they hooked up with some fast food chain. ai think you could get Last Action Hero glasses at the chain. It was a huge flop. I never did see it. I’ll have to
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by synetic 3y ago
No well done review site will remain good once it reaches a critical mass. Private, small scale networks of friends are the future of trusted reviews and recommendations.
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If someone is dropping f bombs in a meeting then presumably others heard it. Their testimony carries more weight than an AI produced transcript. It’s not as if the transcript is the most compelling evidence.
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Your understanding of how people ought to make conclusions and operate in the world is deeply flawed. No one, including you, has the time and means to find the level of specificity you seem to require in order to decide what their impressi
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by synetic 3y ago
At this point everyone should assume that everything they do online is traceable to them and can be leaked. In the scenario you describe tracing porn activity to you is easier to do than it is now. I don’t know what the solutions are but I
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by synetic 3y ago
I agreed that I was wrong. I think you missed that part. Absent specific, articulable, evidence-based reasons to believe otherwise, we certainly should take them as exactly that, especially when they keep coming back with different approa
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The impression I’ve had is that he is against broad forgiveness and does want repayments to start again. It’s been a political minefield in that he doesn’t want to piss off his base. It appears my impression is wrong but I do believe he w
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The distribution of power is grossly unfair. North Dakota’s Representative represents far fewer people than one from California. The two Senators from there represent far fewer people than the ones from California. Since California and N
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by synetic 3y ago
I believe your view is wrong. That plumber you talk about benefits from an educated society. We all benefit from this. Was it unfair to polio victims that future generations benefited from the polio vaccine? It’s ok when bad policies get
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There is no proportional representation in Congress or for votes for President. Congress and the Supreme Court no longer operate in a way conducive to this state of affairs. The Constitution badly needs a rewrite. What worked in a 1800 no
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Biden must really like this decision. He has never really supported large scale forgiveness and does want repayments to start again. This gives him the political cover to restart payments without upsetting his base. However, the Supreme C
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I don’t understand the sentiment. I paid off my student loans and I hope others get forgiveness. I don’t see how their gain is my loss. I am happy when bad situations get rectified even when I don’t benefit.
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If this forgiveness stands, future borrowers will take out even more debt, believing that future presidents will likely cancel some of it. They will probably be right. This moral hazard increases the cost of the loan program; more and more
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The appears reasonable to me. A 15 year old can’t purchase alcohol online and have delivered, right? We agree that is reasonable. There are long standing laws against children buying porn in real life. It does seem reasonable to me to r
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No, it should not. But it does provide one with a basis, a starting point, for how to first approach and view a given topic. We all use our experiences to form mental models for now things work. So while anecdotal evidence should not dri
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A car centric culture in which it is expected that everyone drive somewhere to accomplish just about anything is very expensive to maintain. Couple this with a belief that government can’t work and a belief that taxes must always be lowere
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The type of situation was new, compelling argument . In my first response to you I stated: More succinctly, there are times when one should change their mind much more rapidly than gradually. You responded by repeating your original poi

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