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by yequalsx 9y ago
Would you be OK allowing two consenting adults to fight to the death for pay? Most people would not be for allowing this. A lot of people are willing to work in very risky environments because they feel they have no alternative. Should co
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Because they hope that the jobs created will provide enough of a boost to the economy to offset the cost of providing services for the land. Sometimes this is done in the hopes of encouraging other companies to set up shop in the area. So
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I never disputed this or implied otherwise. It's quite clear from what I have written that I acknowledge there will be some benefits. It's equally clear from what I've written that the lack of articles on this is not indica
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I was responding to this statement: "It is also absurd to be so certain about our potential impact on something as complex and chaotic as climate." It is possible to be certain about impacts on climate. Increase CO2 in the atmosp
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"It is also absurd to be so certain about our potential impact on something as complex and chaotic as climate." This is where you are wrong. You may not understand it but the science is solid. It is well known what happens when
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This is not at all relevant to the discussion. The one getting murdered is newsworthy and noteworthy. The many that do not is not newsworthy. Rapidly increasing the temperature of the planet will have devastating consequences. Write news
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Yes there is a paucity of articles on the benefits of climate change. Is it because of conspiracy or because the effects are overwhelmingly bad? Overwhelmingly physics grads enter grad school believing that the Earth revolves around the su
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What evidence do you have that there is such a bias? Have you considered the possibility that the prevalence of bad news as you call it is indeed the truth? That the absence of good news might be because the positive effects are dwarfed b
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Do you really believe there is a conspiracy amongst the experts who study these things? Are there other areas of science in which scientists conspire to withhold information? If not why would you think this is the unique area of science t
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From what I've read school funding for k-12 varies widely throughout the country. http://www.asha.org/Advocacy/schoolfundadv/Overview-of-Fundi... http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/20
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Sure. But many of the worst performing schools are under funded. You can find outliers either way. There's also the fact that the way k-12 schools are funded causes socio-economic segregation. People with means congregate together
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To fix inequality of opportunities one would be well advised to start with the way k-12 schools are funded. It's too late for most disadvantaged students by the time they are old enough to go to college.
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I don't have statistics to back me up but I wonder if using stun guns means police don't feel the need to learn de-escalation tactics. There have been a number of situations where police use taser on kids, or repeatedly use a tas
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If you watch/read/listen to pundits you'll see lots of polarization. Or go to Facebook and look at the comments on articles. Liberals are evil. Conservatives are dumb. You'll see all sorts of such comments. Conservati
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Well let's say I take as my axioms all true statements about the Natural numbers. Let's take the Goldbach conjecture. Is it an axiom? No one knows because no one knows if it is true or not. When you say "small agreed upon
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Yes. Mummert is far more qualified than I am on these matters. Here is a line from his reply that is important: "So, even though Z2 with full second-order semantics is categorical, for any sound effective deductive system there are s
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At the beginning of the 20th century is when abstraction in mathematics really took off. Things started getting abstract quickly. There was also Russell's paradox and the work of Cantor that dealt with infinities. It became clear th
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I know this post is aimed at laymen but this sentence is not correct. "A bit more precisely, the Incompleteness Theorem shows that human beings can never formulate a correct and complete description of the set of natural numbers, {0, 1
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I like the downvote I got. It reinforces the point I made about humans being emotional creatures!
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You make excellent points and are, logically speaking, correct. We are emotional creatures and we usually respond emotionally. If the list was called "hitler is my hero" there would be a visceral reaction. The framing, the cont
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I was a math Ph.D. student at Purdue University and studied commutative algebra. I understand what you were getting at. My comment was mostly tongue in cheek. For someone not versed in mathematics what you wrote could be ironic in a slig
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I think there is a lot of unintentional irony in what you wrote. You start out saying, "There's a lot of hand waving in that phrase..." and then go on to write: "Start by using bivectors to represent reflections, then t
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Because the Americans that people in Germany interacted with weren't making the decisions. Use Google. Research it. It's not a controversial topic in terms of historicity. Germans as a matter of deliberate policy were prevent
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Being German does not preclude you from being ignorant of post war German history. Google it. You can find lots of information on the Allied occupation of Germany. It wasn't until the Berlin airlift that feeding Germans became fashi
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America did try to punish the Germans. Millions starved as a result of deliberate Allied policy. It wasn't until the schism with the USSR that policies shifted. Eisenhower in particular wanted Germany to be an agrarian society.
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I think this is an important endeavor. In the U.S. we tend to be too much focused on punishment and retribution. No one benefits by preventing ex convicts from an attempt at a normal life. I hope you succeed and wish you well. I do think
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I lived in Kruezburg and agree with you. As the Peter Fox song says, Kotze am Kotti.
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You haven't made an argument. You've just stated an opinion without providing evidence or reasons that your opinion ought to be considered. The article, by comparison, is well written and provides cogent reasoning.
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Any term/phrase can be rendered meaningless by overuse and misuse. The person you are responding to isn't claiming AI, as it actually is and what it actually means, is meaningless. They are claiming that "AI" the phras
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I'm certain people will do the work for $1 million per hour. Thus it seems a valid conclusion that $25/hr in California for this work is not the market rate.

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