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by tpeo 10y ago
As far as I know, IS/LM hasn't been the keystone of anything since the 1970s. They've been mostly replaced by DSGE models for the purposes of macroeconomic policy. So I'm curious about what "standard macro models&qu
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by tpeo 10y ago
I did read the article, thank you. What I meant is that I find it unlikely that in such a group there would even be a strong moral reaction to any issue in the first place. I don't know about the extropian mailing list, but take LessWr
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by tpeo 10y ago
Who calls "Crocker's rules"? The guy who wants to start the discussion about the economics of slavery? The guy who thinks it's viable? The guy who thinks it isn't viable and anyone who thinks so should be shot? How
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by tpeo 10y ago
If this whole process is dependent on your tastebuds, it will probably stop after a while.
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by tpeo 10y ago
I don't quite understand why you winos take your critics so seriously in the first place. Critics are just people with opinions. Sometimes they can provide good justification for why whatever they're reviewing is good or bad. But
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by tpeo 10y ago
Well, this largely explains the vague cardboard smell and taste of commercial tobacco.
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by tpeo 10y ago
Doesn't sound like it would work, because there are at least two problems with that. The first problem would be a kind of rendez-vous game [0]. Given the available information, seller and buyers have to choose their location such that
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by tpeo 10y ago
You mean "opting out" without ever leaving the system. Everyone can always opt out if they're willing to drop enough things. A trivial way to opt out is to commit suicide. But are other ways too, such as moving into the wilde
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by tpeo 10y ago
I'm no physicist, but isn't the cold a result of the second law? Or is the second law a consequence of the dissipation of heat? Also, is thermodynamic entropy applicable to organized matter?
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by tpeo 10y ago
"There is no Dana, only Zuul."
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by tpeo 10y ago
Well, good writing is unlike mind control in that it's an actual thing. But I get the point: in the end, you've got to question yourself about what you're really trying to do here. What is it that you're trying to convey
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by tpeo 10y ago
Well, some think it was to show off their writing. Personally, I think it was feature of a more oral age, because run-on sentences and otherwise odd gramatical structure are way more tolerable when read out loud. And if you're dictatin
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by tpeo 10y ago
These are good exercises, but you'd think that Franklin would have figured out some principles to writing beyond just trial and error. If there's one thing which can vastly improve writing, it's knowing how to write in simple
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by tpeo 10y ago
Hitler wasn't democratically elected. The Reich Chancellor was appointed by the President. It just so happened that then president Paul von Hindenburg was convinced by people on his staff to form a coalition government with the NSDAP,
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by tpeo 10y ago
You mean your particular sect of christianity. Christian Gnosticism and Catharism are just two historical christian sects who denied the reality of sense-perception, and who were purged for that. Not to mention christian mysticism, speciall
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by tpeo 10y ago
I am not a historian, but the Romans seem to have grown at the expense of weaker and more disorganized foes, who either didn't have any form of centralized leadership prior to contact with the Romans (like the Gauls and Iberians) or wh
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by tpeo 10y ago
You're right in pointing out that there might be unnacounted variables which might confound the impact of the minimum wage hike. But the majority of people running around saying that higher minimum wages cause unemployment do so on the
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by tpeo 10y ago
Streets and roads aren't useful only for wheels. Try taking a mile-long walk through a (seemingly) flat field and through a paved surface as an experiment. The first one will be much bumpier and tiresome than the second for any given s
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by tpeo 10y ago
I mentioned power poses and psychology because it occurred to me as an example since you happened to mention psychology. I don't personally have any knowledge regarding your attitudes towards psychology nor did I intend to frame what y
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by tpeo 10y ago
There's a difference between "thinking for yourself" and "uncritically discouting past work". And that's the difference between asking yourself whether power poses really work and and coming in kicking doors, y
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by tpeo 10y ago
"So common" compared to what?
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by tpeo 10y ago
That's a great example of a mutually beneficial but morally repugnant trade, but markets generally don't coerce people in this sense. Markets more often reach the fairest possible solution given an initially unfair situation (say,
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by tpeo 10y ago
I wouldn't say that's the case for most songs, but rather only for simple melodies. But yeah, a graver voice would sound better in most cases. Consider the beggining of Bach's "Little" Fugue in G Minor (BWV 578), wh
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by tpeo 10y ago
Well, I'm assuming that the ease or difficulty of recognizing the difference between two notes bears some proportion to difference between their frequencies (the frequency of one minus that of the other), and not just their relative fr
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by tpeo 10y ago
Well, I'm not a sound engineer, but I think it's conceivable that 432Hz tuning might sound better due to entirely non-mystical reasons. From the perspective of harmonic entropy, or at least I think so, the tighter differences betw
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by tpeo 10y ago
I did read the article. But I didn't consider the first bit as a throwaway, and this might be the key issue here. If there's a situation where priming might work, it's when the person being primed has either no particular opi
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by tpeo 10y ago
And it has the potential to fail catastrophically for the guy doing this, too. Can anyone still take the other side in a negotiation (or any other situation, really) seriously if it becomes know that they're trying to pull this parlor
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by tpeo 10y ago
Care to supply examples? But yeah, ideally the media should as unbiased as it is realitistically possible. If things are truly bad, then they'll be recognized as such without the need to distort the truth. The media can only hurt itsel
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by tpeo 10y ago
Just (adverb): 1. Exactly. 2. (ironic, oblivious) Used to imply that an otherwise impossible task is just the opposite. Time travelling is possible. We just need to get our hands on some of that negative energy.
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by tpeo 10y ago
This doesn't seem useful. Innovation has an always unpredictable character, in the sense that it might occur in unlikely places. Unforeseen consequences might make workers no better than chance in predicting the outcome of the majority

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