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by yequalsx 12y ago
His advisor, T.T. Moh, would not write letters of recommendation. This confirms my low opinion of T.T. Moh. I had him as an instructor at Purdue during graduate school. The worst teacher I ever had.
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by yequalsx 12y ago
I mean stop it in the sense of the perspective of the photon. I don't know enough physics but I suspect that from the photon's perspective it hasn't stopped. This is because there is no time elapse from the photon's pe
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by yequalsx 12y ago
I think the rub is in the, "if we could stop a photon...". We can't. From the photon's perspective there is no time elapse. The photon doesn't believe time has lasted forever. I imagine it would not even underst
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by yequalsx 12y ago
Think of the real number line. We are at some point t that represents our current time. If time goes back forever, that is had no beginning then it means (-∞, t] represents all the time up to t. How did we get to t? I would take an eter
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by yequalsx 12y ago
I'm not a philosopher and may be misinterpreting the quote in question. The philosopher is not claiming that infinite sequences can't have a distinct start. He is claiming that an infinite amount of time could not have elapsed b
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by yequalsx 12y ago
The American view of prison tends to be one of retribution and punishment. The European view tends to be one of rehabilitation. An American will typically see this case and hope this judge suffers immeasurably for his crimes. You can coun
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by yequalsx 12y ago
Perhaps you misspoke or I'm not understanding correctly what you mean but from the book: "Another thing we can see from Fig. 1–4 is why ice shrinks when it melts. The particular crystal pattern of ice shown here has many “holes” i
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by yequalsx 12y ago
I'm a Zonian. I remember well October 1, 1979. That was the day that the Panama Canal Treaty started its implementation. That was the day the Canal Zone ceased to exist as a territory of the United States. I lived near the Thatcher
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by yequalsx 12y ago
The percent of income (let's include capital gains for the year since this is where really rich people derive the increase in their 'money') paid in sales tax by a rich person is far less than that of a poor person for a give
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by yequalsx 12y ago
In terms of what the phrase "regressive tax" colloquially means it is clear that sales tax is a regressive tax. The percent of wealth poor person pays in sales tax is greater than the percent of wealth a rich person pays in sales
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by yequalsx 12y ago
All money is taxed ad infinitum so to speak. Reagan believed the tax on capital should be more than the tax on labor. On this I think he was right. That wealthy people pay a smaller effective tax rate that someone making $50,000 a year i
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by yequalsx 12y ago
Instead of reading Megan read the report she cites. The Canada number is self reported by those surveyed and it isn't known if this is from the bills themselves or from loss of income due to illness or a combination of both. If it is
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by yequalsx 12y ago
Your last sentence is not warranted and has no place on this site. The Medicaid bump only applies to states that enacted it. It is also a recent thing. People without healthcare insurance often find out they have cancer far too late. Whi
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by yequalsx 12y ago
I believe you are incorrect. The law is targeting mostly people in group health plans. Think employer provided plans. So if a person loses their job and then gets a job without a group plan they may be out of luck. It also requires peop
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by yequalsx 12y ago
Hospitals are not required to treat people regardless of ability to pay. Hospitals are merely required to stabilize a patient before dumping them. The U.S. spends around 16% GDP on healthcare. This is by far the most of any industrialized
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by yequalsx 12y ago
Welcome to the neighborhood. I live on 9th street two blocks west of the taproom. I was at the event yesterday. I'm glad you guys decided to give downtown St. Paul a try. The taproom is great and allowing people to bring in food is
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by yequalsx 13y ago
This claim is only true if Canadian military spending were to increase if the United States decreased its military spending and if such increase in Canadian military spending came at the expense of its healthcare spending. Do you have evide
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by yequalsx 13y ago
I don't know about Al Gore's prediction or the basis of it. He is not an expert but perhaps his prediction was based off of the opinion of experts. The opinion piece you linked to hardly qualifies as a valid counter to alarmism.
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by yequalsx 13y ago
My girlfriend is a psychiatrist and we've had discussions about over medication. One thing she said to me stuck with me and may be of help to you in your current situation. She says stimulants work right away (unlike medication for d
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by yequalsx 13y ago
It doesn't allow use of digital ink on Mac. I'm quite disappointed in this. In older versions on Windows one could drag and drop PDFs and images. You can't on the Mac version. The layout is great and it looks and feels li
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by yequalsx 13y ago
"You'll definitely have a positive effect on people by teaching them about western business practices." This is the most ethnocentric thing I've read in quite a long time. Much of the world would be better off, in my op
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by yequalsx 13y ago
Assuming the professor's wealth is around average for professors it does not seem likely that the professor's buying power would be sufficient to act as a greater signal to 'the markets' than the paper written. The prof
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by yequalsx 13y ago
I believe it has been translated as the root of all evil for a long time. It is only recently that it has been changed to 'all kinds of evil'. I have been under the impression that this change occurred in English translations du
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by yequalsx 13y ago
The scientists who develop such drugs generally do not do it to make billions of dollars. Their salaries usually are in the 6 figures and I see no evidence that fewer drugs would be developed if society paid for development through univers
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by yequalsx 13y ago
That is quite a bold claim there. Do have any evidence that it is true? Are there studies you can cite or data that you can refer too? Your claim is that absent an economic or a personal ownership stake then one can not have an interest i
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by yequalsx 13y ago
Thank you for your contribution to the discussion. I too am shocked. That the United States actively supported the Apartheid regime is a great national shame. I'm friends with a woman who grew up in South Africa. She is white. The s
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by yequalsx 13y ago
Do you believe his jailors deserved to go to jail? What about his prosecutors? The results of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission clearly indicate evilness of the apartheid regime and those in control of it. That Mandela's resp
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by yequalsx 13y ago
Given your username it appears that you may be an Austrian in your economic views. Citing one paper that purports to dispute one paper of Cowen hardly qualifies as enough evidence that he has no credibility on economics. Perhaps a bias in
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by yequalsx 13y ago
I have recently come to the conclusion that ultimately problems like this stem from high income inequality. Humans have a tendency to compare themselves to people who are better off than them. Fifty years ago doctors were very well off in
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by yequalsx 13y ago
From my listening to talk radio and reading conservative American news articles I have come to a different conclusion than you. As a matter of policy many people spout out and believe such things as the "magic of free markets" an

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