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by yequalsx 9y ago
It doesn't get ugly fast. The tax rate for the wealthy used to be 90%. There was a time in the country where it was recognized that robber barons were not in our collective interest. This is not an unsolvable problem.
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by yequalsx 9y ago
Would you be OK if one person controlled 99% of the world's wealth? If so then what percent of the world's wealth concentrated in one person would make you uncomfortable? Why this percentage and not a lower one? As it stands now
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by yequalsx 9y ago
One should also compare effective tax rate on overall wealth. Comparing the top 1%, 5%, and 10% to the bottom 50% would be interesting. Low income tax states generally get a higher proportion of their revenue from regressive taxes and fees
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by yequalsx 9y ago
Considering that you are a not a city dweller and most people are (I include suburbs and exurbs in this) I think it quite possible your view is not normative. I don’t hate cars. But I can’t wait for the day I can go without ownership of o
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by yequalsx 9y ago
The broken windows fallacy is not apt in terms of what lobotryas wrote. If we had enough resources so that everyone had a home, health care, and access to a livable amount of money each month then that would be good. Wouldn’t it? Lobotry
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by yequalsx 9y ago
It may appear obvious to you but you don’t really know that there is a current AI bubble. There’s an economics adage that seems apt: Economists have predicted 15 of the last 10 recessions.
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by yequalsx 9y ago
For me Touch ID has been only slightly better than using a code for unlocking the phone. It can be as fast as Touch ID in the sense that by the time you can physically get the phone in position to do something it’s unlocked. You can’t unl
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by yequalsx 9y ago
If it’s done right then I would expect Face ID to be as fast, fewer false positives, fewer fails. I don’t know if Apple has accomplished these goals but if they did then I'd consider their implementation innovative and would not assum
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by yequalsx 9y ago
EDIT: I understand your response now. Thank you for providing such an example.
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by yequalsx 9y ago
The innovation is in implementing it well. I have no idea if Apple has implemented this feature well but if they did then it’s innovative. The innovation is not in being first it’s in doing it well first. EDIT: It is innovative to do thi
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by yequalsx 9y ago
You appear to be assuming that integrating Touch ID into the display was Apple's first choice. If face ID works as promised I can’t see why anyone would prefer Touch ID over Face ID. Even if your assumption is correct Face ID is stil
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by yequalsx 9y ago
Infinities show up in currently used models to describe physical processes. Is there an actual infinite quantity in nature? I’m a mathematician and not a physicist but it always seemed to me that the answer is no.
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by yequalsx 9y ago
Perhaps you are assuming your particular experience is normative. I think it is not. To attribute the demand to nothing more than “I feel special” needs more justification than what you've provided.
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by yequalsx 9y ago
The P/E ratio being low does not imply it is a good value. Indeed, the most reasonable assumption would be that the market does not think highly of its future prospects.
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by yequalsx 9y ago
I think your comment would be much better without the first part. Just say, It's a long strange article without much coherence about anything, including America, and the title is rather misleading to boot. And then add, "I don&
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by yequalsx 9y ago
It's because people are voting up the title thinking it is an anti-American article, It seems like you are projecting here. Do you have evidence to support this belief?
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by yequalsx 9y ago
True, but if it lasts all day I don't see the problem with charging it when I'm not using it. Also, should they not produce the device because of this pain point? With new technology there will be pain points. This is to be exp
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by yequalsx 9y ago
30 years ago some would have said the idea of not being able to years without a battery recharge seems....
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by yequalsx 9y ago
How many of these botched death-penalty executions you speak of resulted in the person living and living in such a way that the authorities did not know the person was alive?
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by yequalsx 9y ago
I understand your point but without a diversity of degrees I think there will also be a loss. Perhaps not an obvious, quantifiable loss. If everyone got a STEM degree in Denmark (include economics and finance) I think the consequences wou
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by yequalsx 9y ago
What I presented was an extreme example but the point stands. Obviously things like Windows OS, iOS, etc. are projects that benefitted from an increase in manpower and this increase in manpower did not stifle development or cause delays.
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by yequalsx 9y ago
I don't think it's universally true that adding more manpower to a late software project always makes it later. The Mythical Man Month takeaway is that things don't scale up linearly when adding manpower but they clearly can
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by yequalsx 9y ago
Why do you believe this? I think they are. They provide a nice example of using logic and axioms. I don't think one will be able to have a proof based course other than geometry before calculus. Students just aren't mathematic
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by yequalsx 9y ago
Most animals reach satiety relatively quickly when it comes to food and don't overeat. With drugs satiety is hard to control or achieve. The article mentions the zebra fish exhibited drug seeking behavior. The researchers almost cer
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by yequalsx 9y ago
Sure but the person I responded to made was making a point about basic economics and, at least to my reading of the comment, seemed to be of the opinion of let the market decide. Sometimes the market decision is not a good one.
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by yequalsx 9y ago
Some things have negative externalities that ought to dealt with. Market forces are such that these negative externalities sometimes exist and so just resorting to, "This is what the market demands" is not sufficient and is bad p
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by yequalsx 9y ago
This is sufficiently well known that it doesn't need repeating every time a weather anomaly occurs. It seems to me that the post in question has come to be a rallying cry for climate change deniers. It has become coded language for a
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by yequalsx 9y ago
True. But whenever things like glaciers melting, Arctic sea ice melting, etc. get brought up as evidence for global warming someone inevitably mentions that recorded time is quite small in relation to geologic time. It's a response t
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by yequalsx 9y ago
Those are not fights to the death. They are deaths due to fighting. There is a significant difference. We do not allow two people to fight to the death for money. I'm surprised that anyone would be in favor of allowing it to be leg
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by yequalsx 9y ago
You'd be OK allowing two people to fight to the death for pay? I'm stunned. You are the only person I know of that would be OK living in a society that allowed two people to fight until one of them dies for pay. I'm glad y

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