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- Thu Jun 21, 2018 2:08 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: Trump presidency
- Replies: 8379
- Views: 702983
Re: Trump presidency
Even if you are a shithead who cares about money more than people, the economic cost of immigration is less than criminally prosecuting and indefinitely detaining everyone who tries to enter the country. Only if you assume that not treating them horribly won't increase the number of immigrants sign...
- Tue Jun 19, 2018 8:34 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: Trump presidency
- Replies: 8379
- Views: 702983
Re: Trump presidency
trpmb6 wrote:A rigorous entry requirement is no excuse for entering a country illegally.
I agree but that's not the point.
The point is, if you assume there is an easy guaranteed way for these people to get in, then it follows that they are either idiots or up to no good. In most cases they aren't.
- Tue Jun 19, 2018 8:16 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: Trump presidency
- Replies: 8379
- Views: 702983
Re: Trump presidency
Now we just need to figure out how to communicate to them to just go to a port of entry instead of crossing illegally. God, you are serious. Listen. If all it took for someone to get into the US was walking to an embassy while being threatened to be killed, people would pay coyotes to threaten them...
- Fri Nov 24, 2017 2:14 pm UTC
- Forum: Serious Business
- Topic: Let's talk about Net Nutrality in 2017
- Replies: 120
- Views: 28874
Re: Let's talk about Net Nutrality in 2017
Net neutrality is complicated, and I'm not too on board with it. On one hand, internet access obviously should be considered a public utility. But should, for example, 1080p Netflix qualify? Seems like a luxury to me, and properly regulating the boundary is hard (and something lobbyists do quite wel...
- Sat Oct 21, 2017 2:11 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: SCOTUS Biased Against Basic Mathematical Arguments
- Replies: 47
- Views: 17422
Re: SCOTUS Biased Against Basic Mathematical Arguments
Yeah, as much as I like fivethirtyeight, this just sounds like hard science people having a go at law scholars by picking on clumsy wording when talking about math. The idea that objective metrics should inform SCOTUS decisions implies that the proposed metric perfectly encapsulates what they should...
- Fri Oct 20, 2017 1:39 pm UTC
- Forum: Science
- Topic: Why do they ship with dry ice instead of salted ice?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6236
Re: Why do they ship with dry ice instead of salted ice?
Also, you need a lot of salt to get water to freeze at -20C (about 25% in mass), so it's probably not that cost effective unless in bulk. Regarding food, usually you want either to refrigerate (coldest possible without ice crystals forming, breaking tissue and changing the texture) or to freeze (the...
- Fri Sep 22, 2017 2:32 am UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: Antifa & neo-Nazi Ned in: "Too Many Violence?"
- Replies: 409
- Views: 72331
Re: Antifa & neo-Nazi Ned in: "Too Many Violence?"
Not just "meh they're only Nazis getting punched so I'm looking the other way", which I would get, but actively encouraging people to go do more of it? Not actively in defense of self or others, not in any way that's going to do any practical good, all of which I could get behind dependin...
- Tue Sep 12, 2017 5:57 pm UTC
- Forum: Science
- Topic: Why is there red on both sides of digital rainbow images?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5188
Re: Why is there red on both sides of digital rainbow images?
Ugh, back to the rabbit hole... So, I googled this a while ago... and yes, those sensitivity charts are very fishy. They either come from measuring how the pigments in the cones absorb light, or from "do you see the difference?" tests which attempt to isolate one kind of receptor ( link )....
- Mon Jul 24, 2017 5:32 pm UTC
- Forum: Religious Wars
- Topic: Graph theory terminology
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9060
Re: Graph theory terminology
Does anyone really say "line"? I've heard "link", but not that. And "arc" is usually only used in the directed case, in which case you could also throw in "arrow" as an option. I was never taught graph theory formally and neither were my peers, soo... anythin...
- Fri Jul 21, 2017 3:08 pm UTC
- Forum: Religious Wars
- Topic: Graph theory terminology
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9060
Re: Graph theory terminology
Does anyone really say "line"? I've heard "link", but not that. And "arc" is usually only used in the directed case, in which case you could also throw in "arrow" as an option. I was never taught graph theory formally and neither were my peers, soo... anythin...
- Tue Jun 27, 2017 3:31 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: Trump presidency
- Replies: 8379
- Views: 702983
Re: Trump presidency
Remember, these marketplaces are a thing that the free market has failed to create. Which is why Obama made a law and then commanded a federal agency to make one. Honest question: why? Every time someone explains to me how the average american gets health insurance, it feels something is missing. I...
- Mon Apr 17, 2017 11:22 pm UTC
- Forum: Science
- Topic: the ultimate car physics Problem.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3495
Re: the ultimate car physics Problem.
Yeah, as somitomi said, this is complicated to properly model. But in the case of simulated physics in a game, maaaybe you can get away by using 3 different friction coefficients: one for side slip, one for longitudinal slip (when braking), and one for regular longitudinal (when not braking). Then y...
- Thu Apr 13, 2017 1:13 pm UTC
- Forum: Religious Wars
- Topic: What is log² x?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7532
Re: What is log² x?
Ugh, all 3 answers are equally bad. I'll go with log(log(x)) if it's in print, and (log(x))² if it's handwritten. log(log(x)) is clearly the correct one, but using it as (log x)² is much more useful when writing stuff at hand because "o shit I forgot to open the parenthesis now it's too late wa...
- Tue Apr 11, 2017 1:15 am UTC
- Forum: Science
- Topic: Supersaturating Rechargeable Batteries
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2570
Re: Supersaturating Rechargeable Batteries
Don't do it. Also, probably wouldn't work. Reasons: - Battery capacity has nothing to do with conductivity; - I have no idea why heating a metal would somehow increase its ability to "contain electrons". I strongly suspect it's the opposite; - Even if it does, in a battery you don't store ...
- Fri Nov 11, 2016 5:02 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: 2016 US Presidential Election
- Replies: 8482
- Views: 1074072
Re: 2016 US Presidential Election
It leaves the obvious question: if there is such a big divide between city and country, and the key demographic is angry small town people looking for an asshole (their word) outsider to rally behind. Shouldn't the winning candidate be a small town asshole? The US is big, you surely have one or two...
- Wed Nov 09, 2016 5:54 am UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: 2016 US Presidential Election
- Replies: 8482
- Views: 1074072
Re: 2016 US Presidential Election
He does care about the white constituents, I think. After all the tax cuts are said and done, I think they'll get their abortion restriction and their social security. Anything else is a wildcard. I may be giving him too much credit, but IMO Trump is not likely to lower the overall tax burden. I sa...
- Fri Oct 21, 2016 7:49 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: 2016 US Presidential Election
- Replies: 8482
- Views: 1074072
Re: 2016 US Presidential Election
Does any county have a multiparty system *and* a separately elected head of state + government? Brazil has that. Our system has a few quirks that arguably stop it into devolving into a two-party system: mandatory voting, a two-round system for executive elections, and rules that try to make electio...
- Tue Sep 27, 2016 3:04 am UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: 2016 US Presidential Election
- Replies: 8482
- Views: 1074072
Re: 2016 US Presidential Election
He lost really hard in the beginning, but managed to recover somewhat. My take is:
10-7 Hillary
10-9 Trump
10-9 Trump
Since MMA scoring translates directly to votes, Hillary will get a 1% bump and Trump will lose 1%. Science.
10-7 Hillary
10-9 Trump
10-9 Trump
Since MMA scoring translates directly to votes, Hillary will get a 1% bump and Trump will lose 1%. Science.
- Thu Sep 22, 2016 12:33 am UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: 2016 US Presidential Election
- Replies: 8482
- Views: 1074072
Re: 2016 US Presidential Election
sardia, I'm pretty sure Yakk isn't disputing that Trump's case is some egregious bullshit. I was the one who suggested bullshit like that probably isn't that uncommon. Maybe they set up charities because they have the power to fund worthy causes, and doing it out of your personal bank account is a h...
- Wed Sep 21, 2016 3:11 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: 2016 US Presidential Election
- Replies: 8482
- Views: 1074072
Re: 2016 US Presidential Election
I wonder how Hillary could capitalize on that. The "crazy bigot" angle has only strengthened his narrative so far. Maybe she could suggest he only did those fiscal maneuvers and isn't releasing his tax records because he isn't so rich, after all. Take the "successful businessman"...
- Fri Aug 26, 2016 12:54 am UTC
- Forum: Mathematics
- Topic: Misunderstanding basic math concepts, help please?
- Replies: 338
- Views: 72772
Re: Misunderstanding basic math concepts, help please?
This is the direction of my overall argument: meaning can only derive from the full context. Nothing has any meaning by itself (see the argument above regarding partial description). Yes. And that's why mathematicians don't really bother with this "meaning" thing. Actually, that's not rea...
- Fri Jun 24, 2016 9:41 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: British EU referendum in June [update: Leave wins 52% - 48%, politics ensue]
- Replies: 1296
- Views: 206775
Re: British EU referendum in June
At best we'll have the same deal as before except lose our rebate. The rebate is calculated based on contributions to the EU. Yes, the rebate will disappear, but so should those contributions (and EU investment on the UK). So the net result would be 0, but the UK can choose exactly where to spend t...
- Fri Jun 24, 2016 7:59 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: British EU referendum in June [update: Leave wins 52% - 48%, politics ensue]
- Replies: 1296
- Views: 206775
Re: British EU referendum in June
The EU does prohibit individual countries from making trade/immigration deals. And it has a pretty high incentive to force a bad deal on Britain. Forcing a deal that is economically bad for both sides for political reasons would also make the EU look exactly as tyrannical as they are painting it to...
- Tue May 31, 2016 8:22 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: Society pays tab for personal liberty
- Replies: 70
- Views: 13997
Re: Society pays tab for personal liberty
I think the value of years of life is irrelevant in this regard. If we assume the smoker was informed properly then the smoker chose to smoke and thus chose to lose these years of life. 22,200 euros is about half of Finland's GDP per capita. According to the wiki, their tax rate is 43.6% of the GDP...
- Tue May 17, 2016 4:06 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: 2016 US Presidential Election
- Replies: 8482
- Views: 1074072
Re: 2016 US Presidential Election
"Racism" is a great word to win debates with precisely because it is bad communication: for some people, the word describes are overt, conscious bias against people of certain races. For some, unconscious biases also qualify. For some, what really qualifies as racism is structural oppressi...
- Wed Apr 13, 2016 7:17 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: 2016 US Presidential Election
- Replies: 8482
- Views: 1074072
Re: 2016 US Presidential Election
Trump will need to significantly backtrack on a huge number of his statements and actually apologize (He still hasn't backtracked on the Muslim Database or hell, Obama's silly birth certificate yet, but he has backtracked on Nuclear weapons for Japan / South Korea, NATO, and Abortion). And even the...
- Fri Mar 04, 2016 4:30 pm UTC
- Forum: Mathematics
- Topic: Is math real?
- Replies: 105
- Views: 17956
Re: Is math real?
You seem to be very intent on needlessly complicating everything. In reality, Newtonian mechanics are an exercise in simplicity: 1. F=ma (or more fundamentally: p=mv and F=dp/dt) 2. The gravitational force between two objects is MmG/r2. These two, by themselves, say absolutely nothing about geometr...
- Thu Mar 03, 2016 10:45 pm UTC
- Forum: Mathematics
- Topic: Is math real?
- Replies: 105
- Views: 17956
Re: Is math real?
We develop mathematical language based on what's important. I can write gravity as G=T and electromagnetism as d*F=J because we have loaded a whole lot into these symbols. Fair point. But still, even if you incorporated all the defintions along the way, I doubt the resulting statement would be more...
- Tue Feb 23, 2016 2:29 am UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: 2016 US Presidential Election
- Replies: 8482
- Views: 1074072
Re: 2016 US Presidential Election
We know what trump is doing. Now why would the primary voter lap it up over the mainstream candidates? Trump and Cruz combined have almost 50% of the vote. Trump works as a candidate because he is the living antithesis of the leftist strawman: overly sensitive college students who will make a scand...
- Wed Feb 17, 2016 1:12 am UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: 2016 US Presidential Election
- Replies: 8482
- Views: 1074072
Re: 2016 US Presidential Election
Ninja'd already. Big overnight stock price changes are a symptom, not the cause, of market failures. A very benign symptom by the way. Proposing to tax overnight trade is just populism to take advantage of the negative feelings many have against traders and Wall Street. There is plenty effective ant...
- Fri Feb 05, 2016 5:29 pm UTC
- Forum: Coding
- Topic: Coding: Fleeting Thoughts
- Replies: 9924
- Views: 1884375
Re: Coding: Fleeting Thoughts
English words don't map very well to material equivalence and material implication . The English phrases "imply", "is equivalent to", etc express constraints on possible truth values, so they are closer to logical relationships . Material connectives in plain English are better e...
- Tue Feb 02, 2016 3:53 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: 2016 US Presidential Election
- Replies: 8482
- Views: 1074072
Re: 2016 US Presidential Election
locking in votes at the primaries wouldn't really solve them, and would introduce more. A straightforward way out: lock your vote to the candidate you voted in the primaries, not the party. So if you voted Trump AND he wins the primaries, you can only vote Republican in the main elections (or just ...
- Sun Dec 13, 2015 9:11 pm UTC
- Forum: Serious Business
- Topic: Social Justice: Noble goal?
- Replies: 109
- Views: 25755
Re: Social Justice: Noble goal?
Limiting the language of damage and problematic phrases is the first step to reordering social thinking towards a utopian inclusive playing field. More like last step. meanieheads want to eliminate social punching down, and whilst some are perceived to be behavioural police or doublespeak thinkpol ...
- Thu Oct 29, 2015 7:56 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: 2016 US Presidential Election
- Replies: 8482
- Views: 1074072
Re: 2016 US Presidential Election
KnightExemplar wrote:My gosh, can a candidate really get off with simple one-liner assertions without further elaborating any point?
Yes he can.
... sorry.
- Tue Sep 29, 2015 3:13 am UTC
- Forum: Science
- Topic: CO2 from the air processed into liquid hydrocarbons
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4827
Re: CO2 from the air processed into liquid hydrocarbons
Well, there's still cost per kWh. Tesla promises us 100USD/kWh by 2020, and this is way more expensive than the equivalent 600ml or so gas tank. Anyway, I always assumed fuel cells would be good at storing energy from solar, wind, and nuclear sources to the grid. I mean, it must scale well: after yo...
- Fri Sep 25, 2015 2:51 pm UTC
- Forum: Religious Wars
- Topic: Tabs vs Spaces
- Replies: 209
- Views: 136018
Re: Tabs vs Spaces
I have the solution: tabs should be always visible when coding. This way, you can clearly see indentation levels, and not get confused by ifs with multiple lines: --->--->if ( condition1 && --->---> condition2 ) --->--->--->dostuff() is better than if ( condition1 && condition2 ) dos...
- Mon Sep 07, 2015 7:52 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: Refugees travelling to Europe
- Replies: 139
- Views: 22596
Re: Refugees travelling to Europe
While in the short term the immigrants will obviously be a cost, they might be a neutral or even a benefit in the long term since the European population is ageing fast. It is no coincidence Germany is more willing/prepared to accept immigration: their are experiencing a shortage of workers, and alr...
- Tue Aug 25, 2015 2:00 am UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: #BlackMonday 2015: China down 8%+, Dow Jones opens at 15500
- Replies: 42
- Views: 7987
Re: #BlackMonday 2015: China down 8%+, Dow Jones opens at 15
And of course, a market drop like this will spook investors: companies like Uber or Tesla (which haven't had any real profits in their lifetime) may have their funding dry up as people reallocate their investments towards safer blue chips. I wouldn't bet in these two specific companies being severe...
- Mon Aug 24, 2015 3:31 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: #BlackMonday 2015: China down 8%+, Dow Jones opens at 15500
- Replies: 42
- Views: 7987
Re: #BlackMonday 2015: China down 8%+, Dow Jones opens at 15
And of course, a market drop like this will spook investors: companies like Uber or Tesla (which haven't had any real profits in their lifetime) may have their funding dry up as people reallocate their investments towards safer blue chips. I wouldn't bet in these two specific companies being severe...
- Tue Aug 18, 2015 5:08 am UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: Racial Wealth Gap Persists Despite Degree
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3940
Re: Racial Wealth Gap Persists Despite Degree
Saying this report proves racism is an error because the report purposefully left out the single most important factor: wealth. Because the goal of the report is not to quantify racism; it only aims to quantify racial inequalities. It shouldn't be too hard to correct for wealth, so I'm really bummed...