Again I'm responding very late to the discussion, this time starting from page 4 and then commenting the later debate. Then your body, your liberty is...
Actually no. You can say conventions are institutions. Hence 'property rights' is exactly a very specified institution and those kind of things what h...
When throwing billions of years one has to be cautious: https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-5c1764a22dcb1bc1c89cc6123449863a.webp https://transitadd...
Even if this is a bit off topic, I noticed the same thing as T Clark. A volcanoe that has erupted one billion years ago would have people arguing that...
Yet we typically then just end up attacking caricatures painted typically by those who oppose the school of thought. Anything called 'mainstream' is t...
That's not new. Especially in the Middle-East. Starting with the Isreali Arab conflict as a whole. (Btw. the most objective reporting from Lebanon I f...
That really isn't an answer. The simple fact is that these types of jihadist movements are linked to the salafi movement even if not all salafists acc...
They have a different logic. The simple fact is that so-called natural monopolies don't emerge on the free market. In a free market, it simply doesn't...
But they simply are salafi movements. Al Qaeda might have been a tiny cabal, but you simply cannot say that about the now largely defeated ISIS with m...
As attack is the best defence, which has been shown well in history with the examples of "pre-emptive attacks" like the Six Day War, the issue of war ...
Having been a way for a while I'll respond to your answer on the first page, although I understand that the discussion has moved ahead. As I said, the...
Taleb is known for other things than being an Middle-East expert. I guess many would have a distaste of his views about what are good movies too, but ...
As people hate so much authorities today, they tend to sometimes misunderstand what healthy skepticism is and notice when that scepticism of 'the auth...
One basic problem with the theory of the free market is that even if it comes close to describing reality, it doesn't get the cigar. What the global m...
Pragmatism or the much dreaded 'common sense' do make sense here. Especially when we make the assumption that something presented to us as a fact woul...
More in a way that it (science) answers everything. Yet the fact is that we have extremely important and necessary questions that are simply subjectiv...
Well, an economic downturn can happen in the fall too. In the end, it's not a big hassle that you need a visa for a longer stay in the UK or when the ...
Ah, the bromance between Alexander Boris de Pfeffel and Donald John. https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/5d22f185a17d6c35f1522672-750-375.jpg Perha...
Trump actually would have likely lost to anybody else than Hillary, actually. The demographic shift is why Republicans saw themselves as underdogs eve...
I still know that there are principled Americans, even if they are a small minority perhaps. Well, I got disappointed at how the Democrat supporters, ...
No matter how much you research the voter base and political trends, there happens all the time surprises that the pollsters and campaign professional...
Easy. the white, evangelical/born-again Christians favour 75% the GOP. They just hate the godless Democrats, that's why. Trump is far more better than...
Isn't the City of London basically a city-state inside Greater London already? You know, the City of London Corporation headed by the Lord Mayor of Lo...
No system can assume that 1) everybody has a clear understanding about the issues and, above all, 2) that they would agree on what issues are right or...
Not likely. Those Pseudo-English don't have the stomach to get independent. Heck, their pro-independence politicians don't have the guts to make Scotl...
Surrealist paintings themselves are nice. Yet I find the surrealist painters to be annoying charlatans that try desperately to be more than they are. ...
I agree, yet when modeling reality, it's apparent that there are approximations and generalizations etc. that simply don't make sciences as rigorously...
Not to the thief. Hence a stolen car has a lower price than a car bought in the dealership. Why on Earth would you feel powerless? That's the whole pr...
When people believe nothing cannot be done about something, that is equivalent of being OK with the issue. I can whine about the Finnish summer having...
So in the way as history is a science? Some in the natural sciences would shudder at the idea, but I'm totally OK with it. No. I think it is you who d...
More of the same is enlarging your base? Interesting. To depict the democrats to be woke socialists who'll ruin the country is very conventional GOP p...
Povetry stats are typically made using a relative measure, of being some percent of the median income. Yet there is the measure of absolute povetry, y...
NO ONE is telling in either of the two parties to be more moderate. That (being moderate) is seen as a losing strategy. Let's face the reality: Trump ...
Basically corruption has been made quite legal in the US and Americans are totally OK with it. Just like they are with the most expensive health care ...
Yet it's obvious that what is infected is the Republican party. It simply cannot shake the Trump disease. I just came back from a trip with my family ...
It's a subtle point only. Mainly that if for every consistent formal system there exists specific true but unprovable statements, that doesn't actuall...
Fair enough. First of all, with 'scientific' we describe that we are using the scientific method, an empirical way to make objective observations, exp...
Does the Incompleteness Theorems say really this? Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't (the first Gödel Incompleteness Theorem) say that for any 'set ...
I think Wallows chart (on the first page) shows the truth quite well: those fields that actually have something to do with understanding how economies...
Trump is more of an investor-owner than a CEO. CEO's typically are career professionals that are hired for the job and are responsible for the board, ...
So basically your argument is the vagueness of the language. Ok, it's seems you didn't get my point, because I don't find anything close to my reasoni...
I think we're approaching some kind of agreement. If people get puzzled with the Sorites paradox, then yes. I think my point is that the so-called "pr...
Ah, the Epstein thing! Wonder when that would pop up to the surface like a ballooned rotting corpse that the gangsters failed to put into cement and w...
Ok, you said: "You have to draw the line somewhere" is itself the problem. When you don't have a common measure, just how are you going to draw the li...
And for this you need arithmetic to apply and there needs to be a number system. Actually, it really doesn't genuinely apply. It's as wrong as to try ...
You aren't getting the point. The measurement system of heap of x < mountain of x isn't straight forward calculus as you cannot answer exactly how muc...
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