Forum: Economics, Business and Finance
3rd October 2023, 07:21 AM
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Replies: 152
Views: 3,779
It's typical in the long run.
Your view of...
It's typical in the long run.
Your view of annuities is fundamentally wrong. Risk and return are two sides of the same coin - inseparable . The annuity company is taking market-risk, and a...
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Forum: USA Politics
3rd October 2023, 06:14 AM
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Replies: 357
Views: 17,105
I don't understand why so many people accept...
I don't understand why so many people accept RFKjr as serious person. I watched one long-form YT interview and spotted half a dozen+ kook-theories.
Vaccines (COVID & polio), big-pharma,...
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Forum: Economics, Business and Finance
3rd October 2023, 05:52 AM
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Replies: 152
Views: 3,779
A first consideration are taxes. The next...
A first consideration are taxes. The next consideration is the net-present-value(NPV) of the annuity vs the lump-sum under some reasonable estimation of return and inflation. Also one must consider...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
5th August 2021, 12:45 AM
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Replies: 3,457
Views: 213,272
The original post claim is impossible. If we...
The original post claim is impossible. If we could reliably observe a phenomena in a lab then we would use the scientific method to create a natural model of it. It would not be "supernatural",...
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Forum: USA Politics
3rd February 2019, 11:18 PM
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Replies: 377
Views: 8,780
I understand that ~10% of Australians fail to...
I understand that ~10% of Australians fail to register (despite it being compulsory). In 2010 92% of those registered, voted (~8% scofflaws) but 6% gave blank ballots (an unknown number of donkey...
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Forum: USA Politics
2nd October 2018, 01:06 PM
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Replies: 485
Views: 19,681
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Forum: Education
2nd October 2018, 01:48 AM
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Replies: 123
Views: 8,927
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Forum: Education
2nd October 2018, 01:36 AM
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Replies: 123
Views: 8,927
Perhaps I skimmed over it. After all the...
Perhaps I skimmed over it. After all the righteous indignation personal attacks, dismissal-ism, a link to a single article with incredibly weak statistical power, and lots of self-congratulatory...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
15th August 2018, 12:33 PM
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Replies: 72
Views: 3,237
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
1st July 2018, 12:38 AM
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Replies: 658
Views: 188,864
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
30th June 2018, 10:36 PM
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Replies: 658
Views: 188,864
More properly it changes that state of the...
More properly it changes that state of the hardware, but not the hardware per se.
Of course, loading software is not 'learning', and software is merely an input to the processor (see Turing...
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
29th March 2018, 03:12 AM
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Replies: 63
Views: 7,321
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
29th March 2018, 02:53 AM
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Replies: 63
Views: 7,321
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
29th March 2018, 01:22 AM
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Replies: 63
Views: 7,321
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Forum: USA Politics
17th February 2018, 05:39 PM
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Replies: 176
Views: 10,297
WTF ? Who loves social security or medicare ?...
WTF ? Who loves social security or medicare ? They are both coercive, vastly overpriced and mismanaged. Medicaid is a redistribution/give-away for the poor, charity, and that's great - except for...
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Forum: USA Politics
17th February 2018, 02:16 PM
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Replies: 51
Views: 4,060
Hmmm - rethinking my statement for a moment. ...
Hmmm - rethinking my statement for a moment. Maybe ALL HouseReps should be elected at-large in each state. I can't see why geographic distributions of political interests should be any more (or...
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Forum: USA Politics
17th February 2018, 01:56 PM
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Replies: 51
Views: 4,060
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Forum: USA Politics
17th February 2018, 01:42 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 2,566
A main issue in this thread is that Left(Right)...
A main issue in this thread is that Left(Right) are ill-defined and therefore any measure is fluid/subjective. In any other 1st world nation the Dem party would be classified a 'socialist workers'...
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Forum: USA Politics
17th February 2018, 12:54 PM
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Replies: 158
Views: 17,475
LOL - certainly true.
However based on posts...
LOL - certainly true.
However based on posts from others on this list, we should suspect that Trump is having sex with everyone in the Whitehouse and firing all those who refuse to 'put out'...
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Forum: Education
17th February 2018, 12:40 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 3,227
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Forum: USA Politics
30th December 2017, 02:06 AM
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Replies: 154
Views: 17,881
Your argument looks like a variation of the...
Your argument looks like a variation of the 'broken window' fallacy. Shifting money from one sort of consumption to another changes the type of economic activity, but does not produce any net...
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Forum: USA Politics
29th December 2017, 11:54 PM
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Replies: 154
Views: 17,881
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
29th December 2017, 01:00 PM
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Replies: 390
Views: 38,526
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
28th December 2017, 02:54 PM
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Replies: 3,521
Views: 203,189
That IS the entire point.
The equation isn't...
That IS the entire point.
The equation isn't silly or dismiss-able (as many here would have it), instead it's a simple statement about conditional probabilities. The OBVIOUS problem is that...
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Forum: Economics, Business and Finance
15th December 2017, 03:20 AM
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Replies: 208
Views: 34,740
No misreading. The fuel is a capital...
No misreading. The fuel is a capital expenditure for a delivery service, and remains capital in the tank. I was recently reading American Airlines quarterly numbers where they list fuel stores...
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Forum: Economics, Business and Finance
14th December 2017, 02:07 PM
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Replies: 208
Views: 34,740
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Forum: Economics, Business and Finance
14th December 2017, 01:52 PM
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Replies: 208
Views: 34,740
I'm not convinced "many" applies. According to...
I'm not convinced "many" applies. According to Moody's 70% of this are overseas profits where the US HQ is trying to avoid the penalizing and peculiar US double-taxation system. Current US tax...
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Forum: Economics, Business and Finance
14th December 2017, 12:38 PM
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Replies: 208
Views: 34,740
You are clearly not the only one in this thread...
You are clearly not the only one in this thread with a shallow understanding, however you are the only one w/ the courage to admit it, rather than creating straw-men & dismissal-ism of things you do...
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Forum: Economics, Business and Finance
8th November 2017, 02:05 PM
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Replies: 208
Views: 34,740
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Forum: Economics, Business and Finance
8th November 2017, 01:29 PM
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Replies: 208
Views: 34,740
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Forum: Economics, Business and Finance
3rd November 2017, 10:11 AM
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Replies: 208
Views: 34,740
Were you considering only marginal rates - b/c...
Were you considering only marginal rates - b/c that will get you nowhere. Pre-Kennedy the top marginal personal tax rate in the US was 90%, but effectively no one paid that rate. The very rich...
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
2nd November 2017, 12:46 PM
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Replies: 367
Views: 47,715
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
17th October 2017, 08:37 AM
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Replies: 579
Views: 78,671
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Forum: Book Reviews
15th October 2017, 11:10 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 12,165
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Forum: USA Politics
9th May 2017, 03:03 AM
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Replies: 110
Views: 14,442
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Forum: USA Politics
9th May 2017, 02:35 AM
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Replies: 110
Views: 14,442
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
9th May 2017, 12:19 AM
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Replies: 580
Views: 190,465
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
8th May 2017, 11:43 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 4,625
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Forum: Economics, Business and Finance
8th May 2017, 11:36 PM
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Replies: 142
Views: 23,050
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Forum: Economics, Business and Finance
8th May 2017, 09:25 PM
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Replies: 142
Views: 23,050
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Forum: Economics, Business and Finance
8th May 2017, 07:32 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 4,360
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Forum: Economics, Business and Finance
8th May 2017, 07:00 PM
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Replies: 5,058
Views: 477,373
Nonsense. First, the relationship is not...
Nonsense. First, the relationship is not "direct". Then you seem unable to recognize that "money" (currency or other forms) are just a medium for exchange.
It's a silly argument, like claiming...
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Forum: Economics, Business and Finance
8th May 2017, 05:15 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 6,440
Ethics are often (not always) corruptible, and...
Ethics are often (not always) corruptible, and has nothing to do with "upper reaches" of your classist biases. WRT ethics, I'll wager you, and certainly most ppl, could be corrupted for a lot less...
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
8th May 2017, 01:19 PM
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Replies: 580
Views: 190,465
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
1st May 2017, 08:42 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 5,030
Is the condition real ?
Is the diagnosis...
Is the condition real ?
Is the diagnosis accurate and reliable ?
Is the suggested treatment safe and effective compared to all alternatives ?
What is the medical necessity that dictates treatment...
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Forum: Economics, Business and Finance
1st May 2017, 06:46 PM
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Replies: 3,843
Views: 432,187
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Forum: Economics, Business and Finance
1st May 2017, 06:38 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 6,440
Yes, very interesting article. I read T&GR...
Yes, very interesting article. I read T&GR probably circa 1990. At that time it seemed very dated, and had a good measure of voodoo "law of attraction" type junk, but a small smattering of decent...
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Forum: Economics, Business and Finance
1st May 2017, 06:16 PM
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Replies: 142
Views: 23,050
A/ you failed to address my objection.
B/ In...
A/ you failed to address my objection.
B/ In the era of transition from horses to autos (etc) it was clearly NOT "automation" "creating new jobs for people". The automation of transport reduced...
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
30th April 2017, 03:00 PM
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Replies: 74
Views: 12,340
Become a rational skeptic.
There are lots of...
Become a rational skeptic.
There are lots of illogical, irrational and counter-factual beliefs documented (including this website). Ultimately the only protection is to review the argument...
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Forum: USA Politics
27th April 2017, 01:30 AM
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Replies: 210
Views: 30,170
If you are willing to redefine terms in such...
If you are willing to redefine terms in such arbitrary ways, then anything, except contradiction, can be true, and we can 'fix' the 'contradiction/tautology' problem by merely redefining 'true' and...
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