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Estimating the number of jobs lost is very different than estimating the sign of a difference of a fixed "error-prone method for measuring jobs lost" The former is asking "are my w…

If honest, the error bars would be so large as to make drawing conclusions from these numbers seem pointless. Certainly, both jobs growth and jobs loss are within the CI. What's ac…

Computer scientists generally struggle with intensional contexts, ie., the sense in which sqrt(4) isnt (1 + 1); or the sense in which I believe(that sqrt(1101) ~10) but I dont beli…

It also assumes that "intelligence" is a limiting factor. It's hard to imagine there are any domains today, or almost any, which are bottlenecked on intelligence.

Probability distributions don't generate data, they describe our uncertainty about its generation retrospectively. So there is no answer to that question. The lack of such an answe…

If they deleted the blockchain db from the nodes, this is still lost. Blockchain doesn't have anything esp. to do with data loss. It solves exactly one problem which is distributed…

Possibly but this act of governmental self-harm is useful to The People. We live in a world where if your valuation is ~1T you can more or less just do what you like. And the work …

Sanctuary! mercy from grey font

I think preferential attachment and the Pareto process world that we live in, means, that its in the nature of wealth to accumulate in proportion to wealth. And the only way to mak…

No one has claimed that. You're the only one claiming a border immigration policy needs to correctly quantify over the universal non-citizen class. No state in the world today, nor…

Sure, i mean there's lots of highly credible polling. I didnt choose the hypothetical carelessly. Western states are by far and away the only places that maintain these liberal isl…

If citizenship isnt a line between two classes of people to which states owe obligations, then why isnt the USA obligated to pay for the healthcare of everyone in the world? Why do…

States are not the creations of the enlightment I'll await your grant of medicare to the population of africa

State policies do not operate in this fashion. See, for example, the reality of importing 1 million people. The existence of a state pressuposes two "classes" of people: citizens a…

> cultural and economic phenomenon

Right, so what's the state policy you advocate here? Import 1 million people, 800,000 of which are racist, sexist, homophobic and militantly conservative -- and you'll do that beca…

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I'll refer you to article 50 of the constitution of the USSR, > Article 50. In accordance with the interests of the people and in order to strengthen and develop the socialist syst…

So suppose there's a large group of people arriving into your country en mass, you poll them about eg., women's rights and you find that 80%+ of them hold highly regressive views t…

What's the relationship between race and immigration status? It's not entirely clear what the argument which unites them is supposed to be. This unification is always in the mind o…

The CJ decides who writes the opinion of the majority if in the majority, and the dissent if in the dissent. Its the job of the CJ to bring sides together in clear oppositions, and…

No one is curating vast amounts of data for them in other domains. Programmers send programs with fixes

If we take the video game example literally, we establish a fictional context for the language in question, so we read all questions as in-game.. the answer to the character's ques…

Yes, so your semantics of langauge make such questions incomprhensible. It's like if someone said, "what's the radius of this circle?" and you had defined "circle" and "radius" suc…