therpe1

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by therpe1 9y ago
There's very little evidence that tax cuts stimulate economic growth. If there was meaningful evidence the investigators would receive the Nobel Prize -- every year. And while economists can be relied upon to provide all sorts of elabo
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by therpe1 9y ago
The article has some good points but the whole "crowd" thing was never a serious idea. Crowds are not intelligent. Democracies are what are intelligent. Having lots of intelligent people who care deeply about something discuss it
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by therpe1 9y ago
America needs to embrace "local government." That means devolving budgetary power to the states. The federal model has failed. The current system is broken. The people who pay the most into the system (highly productive cities) ar
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by therpe1 9y ago
It's weird. This article is so poorly informed and, frankly, straight-up dumb that I'm surprised that the author would put it out there under his real name. But what's more surprising is how every time a startup geek shows up
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by therpe1 9y ago
This is actually a fantasy that has no basis in reality. You claim that conservatives "(in general)" do believe in global warming but poll after poll after poll demonstrates otherwise[1]. 85% of Republicans don't think humans
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by therpe1 10y ago
Anecdote : I suspect if you're the parent of a special needs kid and you're not filthy rich and you want to have access to the best specialists and, frankly, access to other special needs kids then it makes sense to move to the E
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by therpe1 10y ago
It's worth pointing out that: 1) Controlling memory layout is not as big a deal as people think. The JVM is highly optimized (really it's probably the most optimized system ever devised) for allocating and deallocating objects on
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by therpe1 10y ago
If this was a broad-based phenomenon because the media is incompetent and is constantly hiding conspiracy theories then you wouldn't expect to see such the heavily polarized differences between parties that you do. (That is to say, let
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by therpe1 10y ago
Trust in the mainstream media has only collapsed among a single group: the right-wing[1]. This is where your "it's just desserts" narrative falls apart. Study after study [2] shows that while the mainstream media is still pop
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by therpe1 10y ago
You're right. The problem was never really fake news it was more that a significant chunk of the population has abandoned consensus reality. This is not a US problem either. I travel a lot and everywhere -- Europe, Japan, Australia, In
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by therpe1 10y ago
It's not just ridiculous... it demonstrates an almost willful disconnect with reality. Just consider: 1. Do these people have any knowledge of history? Both Canada and the USA have sustained far, far, far higher rates of immigration th
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by therpe1 10y ago
Why do you keep saying 'the politicians'? This was a straight party-line vote. There's a single party here working very hard to centralize and corporatize the internet. There's another party working against that. I have
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by therpe1 10y ago
> But painful as the last couple months have been, I still still think Trump was a better outcome for the nation than Clinton. I like and respect Obama, but I don't think you understand how badly much of rural America has been doing
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by therpe1 10y ago
> Do city people think that those who are suffering are just losers who deserve their fate? That is simply not true. Many have families who love them, and the potential to have a good life, but heroin is such a strong addiction. They nee
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by therpe1 10y ago
It's so striking how people who view the "soft sciences" this way really have no understanding of science at all. It's a very American thing and it really reveals the extent to which science has been socially constructed