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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Of course they can. They can report the unemployment rate as "percentage of the population physically capable of working who do not", and then provide other terms to refer to "people who are looking for a job but can't f
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
A recent example I saw was a friend of mine on Facebook, who posted a snapshot from an MSNBC program. It was an attack on Rex Tillerson, in the form of a bar graph of profit potential for ExxonMobil by country. The countries seemed pretty r
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Is it happening everywhere? I haven't heard of a replication crisis in physics, maths or computer science. There do seem to be problems with replication in studies of people.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Inflation statistics have the same problem. They typically don't include house, stock or bond prices. At best, they include some convoluted and highly questionable derivative of house prices like estimated rents. At worst houses don&#x
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
This is a key problem fuelling climate change skepticism. People look at the structure of academia and notice that the way to get money in such a system is by convincing committees of your peers that your research is more important than oth
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
There are plenty of alternatives to statistics and expertise, as the sibling comment points out, letting people get on with things themselves (i.e. the default action of do nothing) is essentially a delegation to the wisdom of the crowds. G
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Clipper could have been fixed. The flaw in it was repairable. It was dropped instead because the idea was already politically weak so it didn't take much to push it over the edge.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
By definition if you're banning people it's not an open conversation. That's fine. Not all conversations have to be open. Twitter can go ahead and eliminate their users who don't fit their preferred political profile, it
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Blind to her own hypocrisy it seems: The idea of a platform for new ideas, open conversations, and positive interactions on a global scale was powerful and compelling She praises new ideas and openness of conversation, then tells Twitter
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
How did Crypto Wars 1 not have a political solution? Export controls were dropped, the Clipper chip was canned. It was mostly due to the political arguments being made at the time, not some unstoppable technological breakthrough.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
No offence, but saying it's a great place to work doesn't really address any of the concerns people have about Uber as a sustainable business.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
How is this off topic? You may think it wasn't very nice but it's about the article and topic at hand.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
That's not the definition of feminist I'm using, nor is it the definition I ever see actually in use. That's what it used to mean, maybe, but these days it refers to someone (usually but not always a woman) who has built &quo
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
The UK appears on the WTO's member list: https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/tif_e/org6_e.h...
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
And when is the issue of feminist overreach discussed, except when a feminist's actions have triggered discussion? Do you have a better "room"? When people like you try to shut down debate by saying now is not the time, all y
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Not appropriate? You may not agree, but how are my opinions "not appropriate"? I was obviously talking in generalities: if the EU banned or tariffed its citizens from buying service X from the UK, that doesn't mean it has to
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
That's exactly the opposite of reality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament From the first paragraph under "powers and functions" The Parliament and Council have been compared to the two c
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
It was discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9835375
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
The problem with the bankers analysis is that the EU has already tried to force clearing out of the UK, by passing regulations that openly violated the EU treaties themselves. The UK had to go to the highest courts to get the rules rolled b
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
America does pass laws like that, frequently. Things related to defence, for example. The EU can absolutely impose trade sanctions on the UK in order to force business out of it. The UK can do the same in reverse. Brexit is a trade war, hav
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
The type of legislation in question is quite familiar to us when named as it normally is: as a trade sanction. Essentially the EU just passes a new regulation (note: EU Commission can make new law that overrides national law and it is not a
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
But this is my point - the EU is a project to try and force people to accept ideas they think are bad ideas by artificially tying them to cooperation and trade. Instead of letting each idea be individually tested in the marketplace of debat
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
You see, this sort of thing doesn't make self-proclaimed "European citizens" popular in the UK. The EU should stand or fall on its own merits. The moment people start to think, we have to make it painful for people to leave,
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
It has never been defined. It is a purely political decision, which is why everyone is acting as if it doesn't exist: the EU will never follow the spirit of its own laws if there is perceived political advantage to not doing so.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
jobs that work inside that system now have to move somewhere else since London won't be in the system anymore It's a false statement. The EU wants you to believe that. It is entirely false. There is no "have". There is
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Congrats, you are also proving my point. You don't even consider that maybe the EU could just ... not do anything. There is no problem with euro-related transactions being handled in London. The vote was not a decision that you weren&#
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
You're also proving my point. There is no actual, fundamental requirement for anyone to move anything anywhere in the wake of Brexit. The reason people have described this as "inevitable" is because the EU can be assured to m
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
You're proving my point. From my post: You can always tell when there's a true fanatic in the room because the reasonable people start blaming each other for the "inevitable" consequences From your post: The UK voted
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
MiFiD II says that any country that has regulatory 'equivalence' effectively gets a financial passport, EU membership not required. The UK would obviously qualify, as it's currently obeying all the same regulations as other E
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
US, Russia, Asia don't care. London does clearing and derivatives work in dollar, renminbi etc without any of those countries having problems with it. If you check, you'll find it's only the EU that has a hangup about the phy

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