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by syzarian 4y ago
The equation : x^2 = a where a is a positive real number has two solutions. An equation can have multiple solutions (even infinitely many solutions). Sqrt(x) is a function and as such it can have only one output for a given input. Func
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OSHA was set up to ensure better working conditions. Regulations regarding wage theft, mandatory paid time off, limit to the number of hours one can work in a week, etc. are all made for better working conditions. You appear to be know ve
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The act of working is not what helps people live a better life. The act of working in humane conditions for human wages and benefits does. Paraphrasing Mencken: A Republican is someone with the haunting fear that a poor person somewhere i
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I don’t know if you use “efficiency” and “productivity” in the economic sense but I don’t think this is correct. There are examples where efficiency and productivity have degraded standards of living and there examples where it has enhance
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Yes, both are “bad” but one party is much worse. I don’t vote since in my view neither party supports workers but I’m not under a delusion that both are equally bad. Personally, I think things must get much worse in America before things c
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by syzarian 4y ago
Well, loosely speaking: Democrats sometimes shit on employees but do support some measures to help workers. Republicans never support measures to help workers.
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I have not seen that one. It’s funny. Thanks for sharing it!
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Republicans never seem to pass up an opportunity to shit on employees. I can’t think of a single piece of legislation they’ve supported in the past 20 years to advance the lives/working conditions of workers.
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Professors have motivations beyond ensuring that the a potential student is capable. For instance, sometimes they need bodies to pad resumes or look good for a promotions committee. A person with a Ph.D. should have an expert level of kno
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by syzarian 4y ago
I passed Ph.D. qualifying exams in mathematics after failing them the first time. Almost everyone in my family has a college degree and this fact helped me not one bit since none of them can understand graduate level mathematics. Being a
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That I understand. I objected to the idea that the theory was vague rather than that the theory contains objects that are vague. Even so, if one thinks the theory contains vague objects then we run into considerations such as the following
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This is different than saying the definition of the reals is “vague”. The models and various definitions are not vague. They are as precise as the axioms of Euclidean geometry or any other axiomatic system. His objections are reasons why
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Within ZFC there are precise models of the real numbers and it’s not at all vague or on a loose footing.
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In America there used to be union halls, fraternal societies, and clubs. The decline in these things in the U.S. occurred with desegregation. I don’t know enough of social history to say desegregation was the cause but it certainly was a
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by syzarian 4y ago
What is the purpose of your comment? Do you have a belief that if the global mean temperature were, for instance, raised 3 degrees celsius that this change would not result in noticeable changes in weather? Weather does not affect or resu
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Walking is not criminalized as in there is a law specifically stating its criminalization. Clearly I’m talking about effects of laws designed to discourage walking. I cited a source from a law professor that goes into this in some detail.
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Appealing to authority is not a weak basis for an argument. It’s as if you don’t understand the role of expertise. Almost everything you know comes from knowledge discovered by experts. I suppose when you read a paper you don’t like sour
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People rarely factor in those fees or the HD technology fee or fee for equipment rental that most people get conned into getting.
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Appeal to authority is not an argumentative fallacy. Appealing to a false authority is. For instance, appealing to the authority of a Ph.D. in quantum physics is perfectly fine to do when the topic is quantum physics. Appealing to that s
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by syzarian 4y ago
The walking “thing” as you put it was clearly not read by you. I think the author of the paper knows more about it than you. If you think walking isn’t criminalized in America then go out for a walk in an affluent white neighborhood with
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by syzarian 4y ago
In the United States a union’s legal definition is not a monopoly on labor. This is not the economic definition or practical definition either. You should read up on case law, labor history, and labor economics. It is mystifying how one c
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by syzarian 4y ago
I don’t know if you’ve experienced American stroads. Theoretically you can walk from point A to point B but often times that involves crossing a stroad. Doing so is extremely unpleasant and dangerous. American car drivers just don’t expe
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Rural areas are not typical in terms of where most kids live and grow up. Explaining how things are in rural parts of the country is not a valid counter point. In large parts of the country walking has more or less become criminalized and
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You clearly do not understand the role or purpose of a union. Your use of “every” is incorrect.
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Caribbean medical schools exist and the bottleneck for the number of physicians in the country comes from the lack of expansion of residency slots.
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Everybody just latches on to Musk, because they're not thinking neutrally, they hate him, for whatever amalgamation of reasons, assume he is a jackass and idiot - and then find their proof for it. I specifically said that I was respo
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There’s a percentage of people who will watch a movie with a plot they don’t particularly care for due to lack of better options. You discount that sometimes the market drives viewership by constricting choice. Some decide that a barely a
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I understand and agree that this is a great corruption but they don’t have Smaug levels of wealth and so your analogy fails. They are prostitutes that sell their votes/souls for money in order to influence outcomes.
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I think you have it backwards in your last paragraph. Five years ago Elon Musk had a lot of goodwill and was highly thought of by lots of people. Through his actions as a boss and through his public statements he’s shown himself to be a j
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It seems to me that very wealthy people hoard money like dragons. Congresspeople generally aren’t very wealthy. Instead it seems like prostitution is a better analogy. Congresspeople quite often have their votes swayed for relatively sma

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