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by yequalsx 14y ago
It was nice to read the article. My dad died last year. He was an infantryman in 1944 & 1945 in the 3rd army. He lost a lot of friends and my uncles told me that the war fucked him up. He became an alcoholic and never could fully sh
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by yequalsx 14y ago
I don't think there is a tipping point. People are already trained to give up their data to Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc. Governments will share this data eventually and amass a great deal of its own curated data. People in general do
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by yequalsx 14y ago
Google Checkout had a fatal flaw when I looked at using it many years ago. It required that a buyer have a Google account. Paypal doesn't require this. A buyer can use their credit card. They don't need to sign up for anything. This si
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by yequalsx 14y ago
Outcomes not being well defined != unnecessary or worth getting rid of. You seem to confuse physical existence and idea. Presumably a physical object can be painted but ideas can't. Lot's of things exist that can't be verified by sight, t
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by yequalsx 14y ago
Then the output isn't the same if not all students had the same outcome. Furthermore you used day as the time period when talking about programming. I assumed as a matter of consistency you meant to use roughly the same time period for t
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by yequalsx 14y ago
I gave an example of something that almost everyone agrees exists but is very hard to define or quantify. Anyone can play the game you are playing here. How do you know your measuring device really exists? Your point is without merit.
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by yequalsx 14y ago
Maybe it isn't possible to adequately measure this. I'm reminded of the, "I know it when I see it" reasoning famously employed by the Supreme Court. (IN reference to pornography.). I doubt that it is possible to develop adequate metrics t
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by yequalsx 14y ago
The post is a parody. It points out the flawed reasoning used in the parent. It appears you are claiming that when you taught the output was the same each day. Each day you taught your students learned calculus and understood it. Each da
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by yequalsx 14y ago
When a market is flooded with easy, cheap money distortions occur. Witness the housing excesses in the U.S. prior to 2008. This is a phenomenon of human nature. Excess credit inevitably leads to too many bad loans.
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by yequalsx 14y ago
You are committing an argumentative fallacy. That other wrongs are being committed does not detract from the wrong being talked about.
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by yequalsx 15y ago
This is a gross mischaracterization of what Krugman believes. All of your statements about his ideas are wrong as can be easily verified if you read what he writes. A quote from the first link of a search of his writings that debunks your
732.
by yequalsx 15y ago
Social Security pays some benefits to people who have not fully paid enough into the system to have their benefits covered. I wished to exclude these people from consideration and talked about the portion of beneficiaries who have. The la
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by yequalsx 15y ago
From the document: Under its extended-baseline scenario, CBO estimates that over the next 75 years, the program has an actuarial shortfall equal to 1.6 percent of taxable payroll, or 0.6 percent of GDP (see Table 4-1). Thus, to bring the p
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by yequalsx 15y ago
Social Security is a pension system and should not be counted as an expense. Or, at the minimum the payments to vested retirees should not be counted. Social Security is not in trouble and the part that has trouble is easily fixable. Medi
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by yequalsx 15y ago
It's my understanding that overseas profits are only taxed when the money is brought into the U.S. Do most countries do this? Is this abnormal?
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by yequalsx 15y ago
Taxes are at a 50 year low. The current deficit is large with most of it coming from non-recurring expenses but with long term deficit of around $500 billion. Corporations are having record profits and are sitting on over $1 trillion in c
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by yequalsx 15y ago
The federal road system is not paid for by gas taxes. The soft power wielded by the U.S. is not paid for by gas taxes or by corporate taxes. The are a lot of very large companies that pay no tax despite reaping great rewards for using the
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by yequalsx 15y ago
The first part of the article was about Apple avoiding California taxes by having a small office in Reno. You haven't shown that Apple pays its fair share of California's road system (don't ignore the federal road system), schools, sewers,
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by yequalsx 15y ago
Indeed. As it is mobility barriers partially serve to keep masses of people stuck and this could possibly lead to a new, modern form of feudalism.
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by yequalsx 15y ago
I fully agree that the losses from the War on Iraqis/SS/medicare/etc don't outweigh the profits made by taxing Apple/etc and providing them with a few cheap services (corporate registration, enforcement of contracts, etc). That's a separat
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by yequalsx 15y ago
Your first sentence of your last paragraph shows one of the problems with globalization. We have seen in the U.S. municipalities competing with each other to see who can give the most subsidies to large corporations. The effects have not
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by yequalsx 15y ago
The point I made in showing that yummyfajita's remarks to be wrong stand. I might be wrong on my belief that repealing the Bush tax cuts would greatly improve the fiscal outlook of the federal government but this does not in any way detrac
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by yequalsx 15y ago
What you say is true. What I said is true too. Both statements are true. Bush II tax cuts are a very large portion of the current deficient that we have. Taxes are currently at a 50 year low as a percent of GDP. Bush II taxes greatly i
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by yequalsx 15y ago
Well Bush II lowered taxes to the point of unprofitability (I assume you are speaking from a national governmental view). Governments engage in deficit spending and some foolishly lowers taxes at the behest of its monied interests. You app
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by yequalsx 15y ago
I don't think they have Summers' info on their rolodex. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjJgUlme1XQ
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by yequalsx 15y ago
I don't think Keynesians advocate "spending more than you have" forever. The thrust, as a I understand it, of their arguments is that deficit spending can be useful in getting out of a downturn and can have beneficial aspects. Of course,
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by yequalsx 15y ago
True but in a country of 300 million people the measure is meaningful. There are not[1] a lot of such examples. It's not merely tweaking an accounting identity. It can be but in the aggregate, with a sufficiently large number of people,
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by yequalsx 15y ago
Indeed, the patent wars are in full swing. Newcomers can expect to be frozen out. Apple , Microsoft, and Google may agree to not sue each other into oblivion and gang up on any newcomer. Perhaps they will start acting like a cartel.
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by yequalsx 15y ago
There is no effective (computable) procedure for determining when a statement is an axiom. However, sometimes humans can make such a determination. Fundamentally a computer wouldn't be able to since there is no computable way of making su
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by yequalsx 15y ago
Great transit links? Not by airplane in my experience. Also, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich are closer to other large, rich European cities. Berlin is dreary and, in my opinion, a clusterfuck. Obviously my judgment is clouded by the fact th

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