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middle man increases uncertainty, which is your friend

someone failed thinking 101

God called one of his angels back to heaven

I have an acquaintance whose main method of argument is shouting out names of logical fallacies without pointing out to the person he's arguing with where and how it applies. This …

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minimum wage earners lost $125 a month due to cut hours.

Because...

That QM is random to us is no more correct on its face than a dice roll being random. A dice roll follows rules of classical physics and given enough information about the state of…

Did he just assume their gender? Did I just assume his gender?

Didn't read the article. But the answer is yes.

I ain't try any trick yo

"Crazy" suffices to say that the behavior set is far outside of regular norms as to be unworkable with normal reason. It doesn't have to imply the actor is schizophrenic or anythin…

And it's mediocre because?

And this single line you plucked out of Atlas Shrugged is mediocre because?

Give one example of a "mediocre idea."

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Yes, the characters are intended to be one dimensional. You'll notice all the characters have differences from each other in important ways, because they are meant to show how cert…

I love articles like these because it's nothing but regurgitated BS by people who don't get Rand, about people who aren't really 'devotees'. Writing caricatures of people and ideas…

Bahahaha. That's funny. ESPN's entire business model is based on being just popular enough that any cable company not carrying it would go under so they can demand something on the…

You should always trade by specifying your own limit.

It's not even controversial to anyone who knows math. It's a consequence of the intermediate value theorem.

What if Bigfoot is dressed in a burka? Under your assumptions your system is logically sound and under the system you can conclude, but in broader context you assume that which you…

Other people don't factor into this. Proving to them is not necessary. Once an event occurs, it occurred. Your knowledge of what that event or the total state of that event might b…

Not true. Given a hypothesis "there exists" the first observed instance is proof of the positive. The inverse however, again, requires you to sample the entire population and colle…