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by yequalsx 9y ago
I'd say that a major part in his deciding to take $6 million in loans and signing an exclusive contract with Costco has to do with emotion and not purely financial reasons. It may be a good decision but at least part of the decision m
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by yequalsx 9y ago
Well, if those are side effects then it is intentional. There may be a good reason for it but it is intentional.
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by yequalsx 9y ago
No. But I don't go out of my way to intentionally inflict pain, ensure their lives are miserable, and kill them at scale. If your point is that people are hypocrites then this is nothing new or worth pointing. My hypocrisy does not d
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by yequalsx 9y ago
It's not binary. There's a whole range types of people, situations and forces at play. Not all are sophisticated, not all are dumb and probably are reacting to emotional forces that we aren't aware of. I frequently read st
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by yequalsx 9y ago
I'm not familiar with locale theory. Thanks for the reference. I'm guessing there will be some non-intuitive results. My non-expert impression is that whatever one chooses in terms of logic and set theory there will be bizarre
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by yequalsx 9y ago
Flip a coin 100,000 times. Make a list of the results. Now go to someone and say, "what's the probability of me ever flipping this sequence?" It's quite close to zero. But you did flip it. Calculating probabilities
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by yequalsx 9y ago
This link may be of interest to you: https://mathoverflow.net/a/30694
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by yequalsx 9y ago
Constructive mathematicians definitely do believe the reals exist and are uncountable. Not all reals are computable or definable. The set of computable reals is countable. There are different varieties of constructive mathematics. A ver
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by yequalsx 9y ago
If we as a nation are going to be as opposed to unions and collective bargaining then some other mechanism needs to be in place to give labor some pricing power. The tax on labor is greater than the tax on capital. The pricing power for l
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by yequalsx 9y ago
There is a theorem that states that either there is a nonmeasurable subset of the reals or that there is a surjection of the reals to a larger set. The theorem is by Sierpinski. This is way out of my area but I'm guessing ZF is not s
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by yequalsx 9y ago
The existence of the reals is independent of the axiom of choice. The collection of mathematicians that don't believe infinite sets exist has maybe a few members. Constructive mathematicians believe the reals exists. They can be con
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by yequalsx 9y ago
Without the axiom of choice you get similarly bizarre results. For instance wothout choice there exists a surjection from the reals to a set of greater cardinality.
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by yequalsx 9y ago
You believe that god exists or has existed. You believe god is complex. You believe that god did not have a creator and did not come from something. Therefore you believe it is possible for complicated things to exist without being create
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by yequalsx 9y ago
Thank you for your response. I do not deny that god could possibly exist. I don't currently believe that god does exist but I recognize that it is possible. I do deny the logic given in the post I responded to. If someone believes
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by yequalsx 9y ago
It's that second statement that is wrong. If that is one of the foundations of the ID movement then it is on quite shaken grounds. Let's suppose god exists and is extremely powerful and intelligent. The amount of information con
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by yequalsx 9y ago
We both agree the process exists. The overwhelming evidence is that species evolve over time. We can conclude that this is the process that won out evolutionarily or that God did it. I suggest God did it requires the most faith and incide
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by yequalsx 9y ago
There are more than two layers to society.
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by yequalsx 9y ago
I think you missed the point being made. TSA Precheck has not made things helpful. It has merely allowed people of means to return to the status quo ante before TSA existed. It has come at the cost of less freedom and a lowering if expec
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by yequalsx 9y ago
You should have stated it this way in your original comment. Instead your comment comes a across as snarky and unhelpful.
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by yequalsx 9y ago
I'll ask again. Do you have any evidence to back up your claims? You are arguing by assertion. Where is the evidence your assertions are correct?
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by yequalsx 9y ago
You are making factual claims without providing evidence. It might be true that advancements in healthcare wouldn't be st the level it is today without the U.S. but to ascertain that their healthcare wouldn't exist without the U.
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by yequalsx 9y ago
Every wealthy nation but the U.S. provides universal healthcare. They all provide much more subsidized higher education. They do theses things without taxing people to death. Do you have any evidence to support your belief?
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by yequalsx 9y ago
I'm not a labor economist but I suspect that unions work best for workers well below the $250,000 salary. For lower skilled jobs the pricing power for labor in the U.S. is clearly with employers. Unions can help with bringing pricing
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by yequalsx 9y ago
Unless you are a skilled labor lawyer you will not be able to bargain better than the union. In my union there is a tremendous amount of institutional memory and they know the consequences of management proposals. If you really think that
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by yequalsx 9y ago
You might be interested in reading about the free rider problem. This is a well known phenomenon in economics. Also consider that there are no instances of charities providing for the basic needs of a nation's poor. It was with gove
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by yequalsx 9y ago
I think most groundbreaking research is government sponsored. A lot of it at universities which are unionized. Instead of unions substitute the phrase "sane worker protections, pay, and rights". The U.S. is badly in need of bett
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by yequalsx 9y ago
Getting rid of unions will increase income inequality. Just compare for profit higher education with public higher education. The wages/benefits for workers former very much lag those of the latter. Private prisons pay way less too
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by yequalsx 9y ago
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or if you are being genuine here. I'm taking it as sarcasm. If so well done. Apple has hundreds of billions of dollars. They can focus on more than a few products. It's natural that they lo
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by yequalsx 9y ago
You're welcome. I think your understanding is correct. I will add one more thing for completeness sake. There are statements that are true of the natural numbers, the natural numbers that you and I think of when see this term, that c
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by yequalsx 9y ago
That is not quite correct. Some axioms systems are categorical. This means that there is only one model up to isomorphism. For instance, take the collection of all statements about the Natural numbers (using the standard model of them und

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