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by tpeo 10y ago
The issue with spleen and black bile in humoralism isn't that it overproduces it, which it doesn't, but rather that it overaccumulates it. >“The gall, placed in the concave of the liver, extracts choler to it: the spleen, melan
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I'm sorry to say it, but you're mistaken. The opportunity cost of time is decreasing over income, since the marginal utility of income is also decreasing, and these things should be equal in equilibrium. It seems somewhat counter-
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Given how seniority (older being more dominant) was supposedly the major predictor to dominance ranking, it doesn't seem as if the macaque's ranking criterion reflected any kind of genetic fitness.
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I'm skimming through the study, thanks to Sci-Hub. The researchers did account for the impact of grooming and harassement on the immune system. We next investigated the behavioral mechanisms that give rise to social status effects on
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Price controls in competitive markets are usually a bad, bad idea. Rent controls, for instance, are famous among economists for managing to both disrupt rent markets while failing to achieve their desired outcome, which is helping poor tena
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It's easier to convince people who have no priors. The majority of people doesn't ever consider the temperature at the polar ice caps unless they are climate scientists, so they'll take accept it easily. But lots of people wi
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It took me a while to get what you're at, but I think you're up the wrong tree. Because when Brin used the word "institution", what I understood was something like "layers of abstraction" that you're refer
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Transcendence, Interstellar and Gravity. I haven't actually watched neither Interstellar nor Gravity, but from what I know neither of them portray technology in a bad light. But Transcendence does overall portray technology in a good l
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If you see that much of a difference, you weren't being cynical enough.
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This probably already is a huge violation of many safety regulations in Thailand .
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I don't think it does. For one, people have an intuitive understanding of basic arithmetic regardless of whether they're educated or not and this can be improved through practice. On the other hand, it supposes that humans are som
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There are strong network externalities both to Facebook and to Google services. The more people use them, the better they are, and so much more higher are the opportunity costs of switching to other websites. Pleas won't change the inc
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You're doing a bit of hyperbole there. Depression is, according to the current theories, due to a imbalance in neurotransmitters in the brain. Now, a physiological constraint is much more binding than a behavioural constraint, as nobod
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Trying to get the most out of stale bread was a probably big deal until the early 20th century. I mean: toast, french toast, soup (really a dipping sauce for stale bread), bread puddings, crumbled and fried (as in migas ), crumbled and mix
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I'm sorry, but what do you mean by "decay"? You're talking about fat tails?
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Though he's indeed wrong in saying that the "invisible hand" acts only as to hamper trade, he isn't far off. The only use of the expression "invisible hand" in The Wealth of Nations occurs amid the discussion
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The particularities of cardboard and marbles would likely prevent it from being "self-aware", in so far as "self-awareness" requires that the machine be fed a large amounts of information regarding itself, through itself
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Personally, 2001 (the movie, haven't read the book) was the only depiction of aliens I actually like. IMO, FTL travel might require harnessing such crazy physics (negative energy, for instance) that any civilization advanced enough to
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Sort of. Christianity is a mixed bag. Popular christian imagination is still filled with miracles and supernatural beings acting on human life. On the other hand, many christians don't hold such views and have a much more deflationary
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This "racism is a system" always sounded to me a bit a rhetorical voodoo, because it allows people to claim that there's still "racism" even if they have no evidence beyond what's in their heads besides the dif
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Which, incidentally, is a quote attributed to Louis XVI of France.
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Heaping the likes Pinochet and Franco with that of Mussolini is conflating authoritarianism with fascism, and that can only debase the meaning of "fascist". No wonder the word is thrown around so often.
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Apparently, back in the 19th century people credited Berthold Schwarz [0] with the inventiom of gunpowder. I remember reading Beyond Good and Evil and reading in the preface that "the Germans invented gunpowder" and being rather
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By the definition of what? "Bias", "own bias", or "human"? I don't know about "human", but being "biased" is something like "consistently straying from the truth in spite of availa
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I wasn't previously acquainted with the term "modal realism" (been avoiding contemporary philosophy for a while now), but there doesn't seem to be an immediate connection in this case. There aren't actually many wor
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Frankly, I'd be surprised if anything ever suggested that Leibniz's colorful metaphysics was correct, even or incorrect. Leibnizian monads are unextended and unable to act on one another (from §1 and §7 of the Monadology), which i
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Well, "not feeling an emotion that you're experiencing" would be just a plain contradiction if experience either required or were identical to feeling. I can see how it would seem impossible.
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The problem of suicide isn't so much whether killing oneself is "wrong" or not, or the possible impact of someone's death on their social circle, but that it's extremely unlikely that any boundedly rational agent ac
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There's indeed a difference. An emotion which isn't merely not perceived, but not perceptible, couldn't ever come anyone's attention. On the other hand, why do you think it would be impossible that there might be someone
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Personally, I don't think something as old and as widespread as DSGE can be called "cutting-edge". Introductory macro, like any other introductory course, is always at least twenty years lagging behind standard theory, as use

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