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by yequalsx 9y ago
People are free to spend on what they want, within the bounds of the law. I think you fail to see how badly society is doing when selling organs to pay for education seems reasonable. Education is a public good. A startup is not. Educa
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by yequalsx 9y ago
It was the sell organs to pay for college that I was referring to. What a terrible society to live in where people think this reasonable. Perhaps society should just properly fund college education so that the harvesting of organs from pe
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by yequalsx 9y ago
I agree with your sentiment that people should talk about benefits to dying. But your comment really says a lot about where the United States is at as a society. Selling organs to put grandkids through college. Wow.
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by yequalsx 9y ago
I was a student of calculus once. But it was long ago and I no longer remember what it was like. Human memory is bad and we are prone to hyperbole when it comes to recalling struggles/good times. A reminder is not a bad idea from ti
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by yequalsx 9y ago
The article is about finite subsets of N. N is the initial segment in every non standard model of PA. Hence your in=bjectiinnin your original post is not valid.
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by yequalsx 9y ago
All non standard models of PA have the natural numbers as the initial segment. There can't be an infinite number of elements less than n where n is a natural number in any nonstandard model of PA.
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by yequalsx 9y ago
The first order Peano axioms are not categorical but are recursively enumerable. The second order axioms are categorical but not recursively enumerable. There are statements that are true in Z but not true in a non-standard model of the f
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by yequalsx 9y ago
I think bankruptcy is nothing to be ashamed of. The only people who tend to think bankruptcy is something to be ashamed of are middle class and poor people. Rich people and corporations have no issue with bankruptcy. The President of the
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by yequalsx 9y ago
Indeed one does. One also needs to brush up on argumentative fallacies. It's quite bad to criticize the author's reasoning whilst yourself engaged in bad reasoning. To be clear, your original post was mostly reasoning along the l
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by yequalsx 9y ago
You know for all three years worth of people that the experience wasn't transformative? You know it didn't have an effect on opportunities or employability for these 3000 or so people? I doubt you know all these people that well
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by yequalsx 9y ago
You mention the author confusing correlation with causation and then mention your experience. One data point. Perhaps you are engaged in fallacious reasoning.
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by yequalsx 9y ago
What is the point you are trying to make with? If the headline included that this time it's largely due to human activity would that placate you? It's an implicit assumption with such artcles that the alarm comes from this time
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by yequalsx 9y ago
I don't think it was personal. I don't have a history of making personal attacks. It's clear that society in the form of government has a role in moderating exploitation. Someone who doesn't believe society should exi
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by yequalsx 9y ago
I think ricardobeat is pointing out that it says something about the current VC climate that something as dumb as Juiecero got $20 million more funding than something as potentially important as Organivo.
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by yequalsx 9y ago
Swindling shouldn't be a crime? Doing a con shouldn't be a crime? Society is a mirage? It clearly isn't as you are living in one and benefitting from it. You may not want it to exist but clearly societies do exist. It&#x2
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by yequalsx 9y ago
300 million people can't do this. By and large, save for very few people, we all have to participate in the housing market. There are also long term, detrimental effects of having a large percentage of the population living on beache
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by yequalsx 9y ago
You didn't address any of the points I made. It's like libertarianism. Sounds right at the individual level but it doesn't scale. You also completely ignored price gouging and other factors that distort market forces. You
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by yequalsx 9y ago
Price gouging. It's not really free trade when options are limited. It's not really free trade when "free will" has been subverted. The notion of free trade sounds good at an individual level but does it really exist a
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by yequalsx 9y ago
i read dependent as child. Yes if they are true dependent you are correct. Remedies can be created in such cases and it isn't necessarily true that dependents in 100% estate tax societies have to be destitute. Policies and programs
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by yequalsx 9y ago
All money is taxed multiple times. The basic principle behind taxation is that when you receive a profit you pay a tax on it. There are exceptions. The money I earn is taxed. When I spend my after tax money to buy a car it gets taxed. T
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by yequalsx 9y ago
I think in a country as large and as complicated as modern societies one will encounter edge cases regardless of inheritance laws. If I walk down the road and find $1 million I owe tax. If I win the the lottery I owe tax. If I work for th
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by yequalsx 9y ago
The percentage of people who can not make a living for themselves is quite small. The number of people who can not make a living for themselves who have rich parents is quite small. My use of the word 'necessarily' was to highlig
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by yequalsx 9y ago
The word 'necessairly' is not unimportant in what I wrote. Over the centuries many societies and cultures have formed various ideas about how to deal with inheritance. Presently in the U.S. inheritence is as you say it should be.
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by yequalsx 9y ago
It wouldn't necessarily leave dependents destitute. Adult children generally can make their own living.
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by yequalsx 9y ago
I'll answer by giving some examples. National Parks in the U.S. are owned by the federal government. State parks by the state government. County parks by the county government. City parks by the city. Each level of government is a
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by yequalsx 9y ago
Look up usufruct and Jefferson's views on the topic. He believed that when a person dies their property should become community owned. He didn't think the next generation ought to be bound by the previous generation's wishe
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by yequalsx 10y ago
It's hard to imagine you really understand Bayesian statistics when you mention what happened the last time as support for your point. It is quite hard to believe that you know with reasonable degree of accuracy the probabilities invo
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by yequalsx 10y ago
No. But it does not apply in this case. It may turn out to be coincidence or stupidity but claiming that it is likely to be thus because of Hanlons Razor is wrong and bad thinking.
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by yequalsx 10y ago
Hanlon's Razor is not an established law of reasoning or of philosophy. Quoting it is not a valid counter argument without additional reasoning given.
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by yequalsx 10y ago
There is no question, at least in my mind, that womens' rights in Muslim controlled countries lag very far behind those is non-Muslim majority countries on average.

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