david_w

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by david_w 6y ago
I agree with you which is why I got downvoted too. People with nothing better to do in their lives than get paid to downvote on public forums. My solution I guess is to leave this forum and find one that doesn't enable downvote brigade
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by david_w 6y ago
Yeah, you're right. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/758803/Oxfam-scandal-sex-a... https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/918425/OXFAM-SCANDAL-chari... https://www.
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by david_w 6y ago
At least some of life for some people is luck in the real sense that undeserving people (Joe Biden's son, say, merely to cite one example) are lifted up thanks to who their parents are. Bad luck is when you're effectively ruined b
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by david_w 6y ago
How about the future value of dollar spent today? What the best and brightest do is advance science, including the science which later alleviates the issues plaguing the the bottom 1%. This is the whole idea of universal education in the f
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by david_w 6y ago
2). If you include civil war and if you allow that civil war to be a war of factions within the CCP then you're wrong. There will be a new leader of the CCP, call him / her China's Gorbachev (and SARS2 is China's Cherno
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by david_w 6y ago
Consumers are expert at detecting what has value for them. Putting the "correct" price on it means locating it on the can-pay / will-pay / will-pirate normal distribution of price vs profit chart you've seen . If so
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by david_w 6y ago
Someone, a woman, I forget her name, a physicist has lately questioned the parsimonius assumption or more accurately the whole beauty assumption, meaning, roughly, the most beautiful or parsimonious theory is correct. Just a data point to
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by david_w 6y ago
Not parsing it quickthrower2. I get two possible parses: Bisons (Buffalo) bewilder (buffalo) Buffalo bisons (Buffalo bisons) confuse (buffalo) annoy (buffalo) and vexate (buffalo) other bisons (buffalo). But that is not grammatical. Neit
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by david_w 6y ago
Sure. In Java a class named : ArraysOfConcreteParameterizedTypesAreDisallowed The body of this class is a proof of this fact.
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by david_w 6y ago
>>But once we reduce things down to simple logical axioms and constructs, these exist as much as anything can be said to exist. I agree. But this assumes logic and at least the principle of non-contradiction: not both A and not A - is
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by david_w 6y ago
Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. Bisons hailng from Buffalo, N.Y. confuse confound and befuddle more of their own kind.
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by david_w 6y ago
I always hear this back from people, but it's a failure in understanding what's being said. You can't conceive of any future "knowledge" or state of being or most broadly, "configuration of reality" whic
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by david_w 6y ago
I have a folder named "proofs" on my machine which is just this. About 1500 and counting little programs that demonstrate or prove that something works some way or another. The class name expresses the proven fact. When I find o
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by david_w 6y ago
This. It is discovered in the same sense that humans "discover" facts about humans via science- we're not born with perfect self-knowledge. It is "created" because there is no guarantee that our efforts correspond
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by david_w 6y ago
All religions have a mystic branch which describes an awareness , usually transient, of a higher order to reality in which the suffering of people is "redeemed" or put into perspective or somehow negated. One interesting thing is
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by david_w 6y ago
Luxottica is an unusual case. Most monopolies aren't that durable and Luxottica has challengers now. Also, the law in the US which says you can't buy glasses unless you have had an eye-exam in the past year is an anomaly amongst
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by david_w 6y ago
Not to be cruel, but the preexisting, running total of human suffering and tragedy in this world points to the fact that transcendent reality, the realm of God or a God, must have an alternative interpretation for human events, one which h
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by david_w 6y ago
I find I just can't relate to what you're saying although I can tell you're perfectly sincere and what you say makes sense insofar as its coherent and on topic. I get your point, I just disagree. What you're citing as s
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by david_w 6y ago
OK let me get this straight, just so I understand. It's flamebait to recite the material and relevant facts about the Chinese Communist Party / dictatorship including the fact that they murdered the doctors who were trying to war
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by david_w 6y ago
You're conflating ideas. The virus started in China. The virus spread from China because of of the Communist Chinese Party's denial and lack of response. Those are, in turn intimately connected to the fact that China is a one-par
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by david_w 6y ago
A treatment will be the first through the gate. Then a vaccine. But a treat will be enough to get people out again. That and the discovery through testing that people are immune.
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by david_w 6y ago
Yeah those three nations are not that different from each other relative to the spread that exists between them and other nations. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-daily-cases-traject... If you look at who has
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by david_w 6y ago
What you're describing is "the best way to do science, so we can make some progress". That's all well and good but what other people are talking about is the nature of reality which, in pursuit of, those crazy people, th
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by david_w 6y ago
> and yet it doesn't seem to trouble anyone. Do mathematical things exist independently of the minds who conceive of them ? The ontological status of abstract things, right? My point is, materialists deny these kinds of things. Tha
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by david_w 6y ago
>What is an illusion? To my mind, an illusion is a perception or inference thereof that, taken at face value, entails a falsehood. But that is not the part of the illusion we're interested in. The part of it we're interested in
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by david_w 6y ago
Recapturing the supply chain is not hard to do. Even the cheerleaders from the 90s for neoliberalism, which lead to "that great sucking sound" Ross Perot warned about, now admit they made a mistake. Formerly, before COVID-19 and
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by david_w 6y ago
Just for the record, every single time I make a post even mildly criticizing China in any thread, it gets downvoted almost immediately.
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by david_w 6y ago
I don't agree with any of your characterizations.
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by david_w 6y ago
Sure. Communists gone from China by 2035. Latest. 15 years across multiple administrations across multiple nations. It's just like before WWII. Some people see the mortal danger and realize by hook or by crook something HAS to be done
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by david_w 6y ago
But ArialMinaei there's not that much more they could have done. It still would have had 20x the mortality rate of the usual flu strain and it still would have had an RO of 3 or 4. Once something that fits those parameters is loosed on

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