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> It was never fun to grind through killing 100 Goblins, but you did it so that you could get the magic sword at the end. I think you're taking exactly the wrong lesson from that. …

...except that it's not true [1]... [1] https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/jul/18...

(Edit: pondering the down-vote. Is it because you don't like what I am saying, or that it's factually not true?) The problem with the Carbon Tax is that right wing parties across t…

"Minority" is not the opposite of "Privileged". When we speak of wanting to assist minorities this is when they are disadvantaged minorities. i.e. they are the opposite of privileg…

No "Privileged" means having advantages that others don't. Being white is highly correlated with being privileged due to historical circumstances, but it is only a racist reading o…

Yes, it's Hedonic Quality Adjustment [1]. If you follow through the example on the link, you see the negative CPI component, even though a) you can't actually buy the old version a…

Another economic number I ponder over is inflation, and the economists method of revaluation of goods called the hedonic quality adjustment [1]. If you follow the example on the li…

Sigh. If you want to be closed minded, and not accept that you are choosing your axioms in the same way as someone else exposed to different upbringings is - as per my examples, th…

> Simply put, those who are attacked will fight back. Well not that I'm Christian, but Christian teaching is basically the opposite of this (Matthew 5:39 - i.e. turn the other chee…

Which was exactly what the parent had said. i.e. > This is why rights are codified in laws and agreements. Which is what the US Constitution is. (Just because the say "We hold thes…

New Zealand in the 90's was trying to have an integrated policing system designed by IBM which burnt a lot of money (in the order of 100 million) and was abandoned [0]. I was worki…

As non-american, living outside of america (but having lived there for a year and a half starting January 2000), I concur. I still follow american politics quite a bit (too much fo…

>> NZ is a small, ethnically (and therefore more importantly culturally) homogenous country Not according to the CIA Factbook it isn't: NZ: European 71.2%, Maori 14.1%, Asian 11.3%…