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by yequalsx 11y ago
Nice usage of the word 'confiscatory'. My experience with people who use this word in relation to taxation is that they use it in derogatory sense and is used primarily by conservatives and libertarians. I don't know if tha
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by yequalsx 11y ago
It started in the early 80s and culminated with the kidnapping of Jacob Weterling. During this time local and national news portrayed pedophiles and rapists as serious, common threats to children. There was the absurd McMartin daycare no
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by yequalsx 11y ago
What's offensive is that you had no moral problem giving money to such a brutal and repressive regime while believing said regime is a stain on the soul of humanity. you talked, in another post on here, that one can bicycle in North K
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by yequalsx 11y ago
I have a hard time understanding why someone with a conscience would spend money in a brutal, repressive regime. Do you have any compunction about giving money that supports such a regime? Is there a level of brutality and oppression that
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by yequalsx 11y ago
Your last paragraph indicates that you agree with me. I did specify that at this time the world can not all live like Americans. I left open the possibility that in the future this might no longer be true. Hence I don't understand t
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by yequalsx 11y ago
It's a bit curious that the response to population concerns is that we can feed ourselves. There is much more to life than mere subsistence. The world can not all live like Americans. There aren't presently enough resources for
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by yequalsx 11y ago
But this isn't what the parent wrote. I think it is what he/she meant but it isn't what was written. The probability that the other lane is faster is still 50%.
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by yequalsx 11y ago
I believe your analysis is incorrect. There is a 50% chance the other line will move faster. With no additional new information, once you've chosen a line to stand in, the probability you chose the slower line has not changed.
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by yequalsx 11y ago
Your comment indicates that you think that in the lender/borrower relationship only one side has responsibilities. The Germans via the ECB flooded Greece, Portugal, Spain with easy money in the early 2000s. It is incorrect to say, &q
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by yequalsx 11y ago
You have missed mhays' point. Focusing on what you perceive to be a problem of an abundance of lawyers detracts from the essence of the issue. Namely, "... in the sense that my generation has to take out extraordinary loans to ac
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by yequalsx 12y ago
I believe your position is overly simplistic. It is quite clear that the power structure of the country (U.S.A.) is not concentrated in the working class. It's not simply a matter of 'change the law as a voter'. Besides, v
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by yequalsx 12y ago
Your second paragraph seems callous to me. Going to war for the sake of not wasting one's hard training, so to speak, is not moral. At least as I look at it. War is horrible and should be avoided at all costs. Sometimes it is justifi
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by yequalsx 12y ago
I'm a teacher and I can't remember the last time I needed more than one port. Printing is always done over a network at my college. I haven't plugged in a printer in at least 10 years. I never liked trackpads until I used
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by yequalsx 12y ago
I can't remember the last time I had more than one port in use. With battery life as good as it is in modern laptops one port is all I need. I like that there is no fan in Macbook and it is thin and highly portable. By the time my R
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by yequalsx 12y ago
What surprises me the most about the headline is that humane treatment of prisoners is considered radical to the American public. I find this especially disconcerting given the large numbers of conservative Christians in the U.S. and their
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by yequalsx 12y ago
This was me 10 years ago. I got rid of my cell phone and got rid of internet service at my house. I had to go to a local coffee shop. After a month or so of regularly going I met some people. I also took up racquetball and jiu-jitsu. G
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by yequalsx 12y ago
I used the phrase "almost surely" because there are occasional counterexamples. It is hardly normative that in an area of science where 95%+ of the scientists believe something and have that belief backed by evidence that they ar
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by yequalsx 12y ago
I don't know the answers to your questions. I do know they are natural questions and that it appears you are not an expert in these matters. Thus it is almost surely the case the experts have thought about these questions and have an
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by yequalsx 12y ago
Your comment comes across to me like someone without kids complaining about school levies simply because they don't have kids. You've solved your commute problem and that is great. However, some day your commute problem may not
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by yequalsx 12y ago
I didn't read enough of the paper to see how bivector multiplication is defined. I'm assuming everything is in the exterior algebra and thus made my comment with that assumption.
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by yequalsx 12y ago
I'm not a physicist and don't understand their perspective on these matters. I say it is mathematically unsound not because it isn't rigorous. I'm not expecting rigor. However, I do expect well founded definitions and
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by yequalsx 12y ago
My brief reading of this suggest it isn't mathematically sound in terms of its presentation. On page 9 he discusses what he calls the geometric product. The problem is that the geometric product of two vectors is not a vector. This m
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by yequalsx 12y ago
I believe your interpretation of the Dunning-Kruger effect is slightly wrong. The effect is not that the least skilled estimate their skill to be above average. The effect is that the least skilled tend to overestimate their skill level g
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by yequalsx 12y ago
Your response was on point, concise and well made. I was going to craft a many paragraph response but yours summed up the essence of mine in far fewer sentences. Well done.
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by yequalsx 12y ago
I don't understand the downvotes to your comment. It is overly simplistic to say that Apple's success is merely due to marketing. As you pointed out, Samsung spends more on marketing (not sure if it is multiples more). About 6 y
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by yequalsx 12y ago
There are lots of extreme examples one can come up with to show why caring how your neighbors use their land is warranted. Think dumping toxic waste, using their land for as an outdoor shooting gallery at all hours of the day, etc. Just a
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by yequalsx 12y ago
Most of the culture in the Minneapolis metro area is in Saint Paul and Minneapolis. Downtown Minneapolis is not in any way a slum area. There are lots of luxury condos and apartment buildings on the Minneapolis skyway. The same for downt
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by yequalsx 12y ago
That's what the balance sheet aspect is. There is a due date on the securities purchased by the Fed. Thus there is a time a limit. The Fed does not consider quantitative easing as just printing money. I think if it were just printin
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by yequalsx 12y ago
From the FED: " The term "printing money" often refers to a situation in which the central bank is effectively financing the deficit of the federal government on a permanent basis by issuing large amounts of currency. This si
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by yequalsx 12y ago
I don't fully understand QE but I believe there is a balance sheet. It's not like money was created out of thin air as such. It did not increase M1. I'm guessing it did increase MB but I don't know. Of course my perc

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