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Really? I thought a couple of Muslim fanatics do the job quite well. To say that the West is truly hostile towards Russia is nonsense. The West is sur...

Trump is making his best effort to get the next economic slowdown to start. Just in time for the 2018 elections. After all, he's best at shooting hims...

The problem is that Putin needs the West to be an adversary, and after attacking two of it's neighbours, likely has succeeded in that. (Attacking one ...

Let's just remember that those economic sanctions were put into place because Russia attacked it's neighbour, annexed part of it and still is supporti...

I'm wondering if Bitcoin was the canary in the coal mine. The indicator that the long bull run from the financial crisis of 2008 has finished. Of cour...

I think it's simply about negative self reference. The negative makes it problematical. Otherwise it would be just circular and then perhaps meaningle...

Another car story: I was planning to sell my Alfa Romeo 159 and buy a new BMW. The car dealership noticed that the old Alfa had many things to repair,...

Well, this is a philosophy forum... Here's a discussion of "philosophy" that would fit you Sam now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETEqNlJo_ks Perhap...

Once I with two of my friends decided to buy one of our mutual friend a Porsche if he would graduate before the end of the Milennia. The friend in que...

But they aren't. Starting from the obvious fact that people behave differently with men or women. Besides, it's unlikely that in any work organization...

No, we don't. As typical with Mathematics, you can say something differently from just another point of view and still both are correct.

Gödel shows how limited is our ability to give direct proofs. (Just like, well, Turing did also.) Gödel's theorems simply show how tricky self-referen...

He might not know what the actual definition of a racist is. Who would know?

Even if I'm not a Marxist, I would emphasis the economic reasons in a society here. If there is unemployment and widespread povetry, that leads to les...

One can argue that the World or reality is deterministic. But that is a useless model for us to use in many instances, because we are a) part of the W...

A parabolic move in price means that there has been a huge "mispricing" for some reason. Either the a) reality and information has changed dramaticall...

Exports don't tell much about the whole here, US defence expenditure as the percentage of GDP tells a lot more. And there you can see that the Cold Wa...

The utter ineptitude of Trump as a leader, his ignorance, racism, over the top narcissism and the Russian help he got all make it too easy for the dem...

For the plunge to stop I think the changing of accounting rules had an effect. It surely is one of the factors. But there are naturally others, of cou...

Thank's for that article, Uneducated Pleb. There's a lot wrong in Pinkers approach. One of the basic issues is treating modern society in a very simpl...

Nouriel, you aren't alone with that opinion. Many people have noted that there is less conflict than before and the conflict is less lethal. And this ...

There are two different occasions that you talk about a vicious circle in philosophy. First one refers to Russell's Paradox or some similar instances....

The total ineptitude of Trump is quite obvious. You just look at how Trump performed at the televised DACA meeting, where he was totally unable to eve...

You noticed? And not so meaningless that we got rule 13 from Janus. ...which is also meaningless. But what wouldn't be meaningless yet true in this Wo...

Rule #12: Rule #12 is abiding and cannot be overruled, changed or amended by any later given rule or by referring to any earlier rules. http://slidepl...

Why? Well, When there's an stock market crash, the collapse of stock prices has a real effect on the economic situation of companies even if they othe...

In my view (pun intended) the "problem" of subjectivity isn't just limited to this. You see, sometimes in order to make an objective model of reality,...

Yep. And individuals don't have to mark-to-market their wealth. Corporations can have this sometimes ugly feature to do, that is that if their stock h...

Actually, owning shares is very different. You are then an owner of a company. Companies usually pay dividend, hence typically shares provide an incom...

I thought one has profits only when one cashes out, sells the investment and makes in this case capital gains. Seems like speculation has gotten to PF...

I think one can brush off the Trump-level climate deniers from any rational discussion, but the truth is that things are in reality complicated. Hence...

Don't underestimate the actual economic boom that the whole fracking/horizontal drilling revolution created to states like North Dakota. Two digit GDP...

I think that you can easily make the case even by "economic" terms. Offshore drilling, fracking and using something like tar sands to get oil is extre...

Especially when it comes to warfare, real world "ethics" are totally different starting from laws and jurisdiction of a nation, the international laws...

A lot. Of course, it depends what you want to change.

Yep. This is one thing which the cryptocurrency believers talking about a new paradigm usually don't assume: that the new technology is simply harness...

Metaphysics and metaphysical questions are typically disregarded, which is a bit of a shame. I think there is value to thinking about them, even if by...

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Oh they don't. Anything that Washington Post post is fake news for the true Trumpists. Any Wapo article can be immediately dismissed. Trump believers ...

Already in 2013 was assumed that the creator(s) of Bitcoin had roughly about 1 million Bitcoin wealth. (See article The Well Deserved Fortune of Satos...

I'd go on the limb and say it's bull trap time... Enjoy one of the really classic bubbles of our time. Right before our eyes.

I would enlarge that to other social sciences as well. I think one underlying fact that fundamentally makes social sciences different is that the obje...

There are also those people who are ignorant of some academic field of study and proclaim it to be non-scientific and wrong and consider the truth of ...

As said, Marx bases his theory of value on the total amount of necessary labor required to produce a good, rather than by the use or pleasure its owne...

Actually your example is a great one for the thread. Yes, you might think your poetry has no economic value, but if you write a poem let's say to your...

Let's start with things like the functions of money and why it's important for any government to have control of that money as legal tender. Being a "...

Well, Hopefully we agree that price depends both on demand and supply and is the amount when the seller and buyer agree to make the transaction. As va...

And how is that above scientific? And your definition btw. ignores the value of things produced and basically anything else than production tools.

The difference with Marx is that he looks at value from his own theory, the labour theory of value. The idea is that the value of a good or service is...

Why not? What's so bad about it? Don't we all value things that others don't give such value? Preferences after all differ from people to people. Just...