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> All of which still ignores how wildly unlikely it is that such a high degree of similarity occurs by chance. It is wildly unlikely that I should exist through the process of evol…

> Even if I hadn't, what point to claiming authority on that basis? Oh, this was a direct response to the fact that you repeatedly implied that I was ignorant and hadn't done basic…

> no sign of apprehending I apprehended it perfectly well; I'm still in disagreement, since my argument is unaffected. > so contradict all available evidence It doesn't, and that's…

> Happily, the paper does not only do that! Yes, happily! Since, as I was saying in my first comment: I didn't agree with this part of the paper's abstract being relevant evidence,…

Even with all this 'trivial literature review', there still remains the possibility three fish might have randomly walked [or non-randomly walked] into the same solution with the s…

> On what basis do you hold any such expectation?... The paper explicitly contrasts its subject with several examples of convergent evolution producing functionally equivalent, but…

> that three species should have a near-identical sequence coding for a near-identical protein suggests rather strongly that this version of the gene arose in one species and was t…

Yours is an anti-capitalist take which I don't see as a criticism of VW specifically here. The reason this service can potentially exist is only because Tesla is charging such a hi…

> no one has really approached this type of bet sizing from a rigorous perspective beyond the relatively simple Kelly Criterion. Kelly Criterion takes into account your bankroll at…

This comment is right - and the study began shortly after Ohio's peak of infections. As such, most infected participants would have been recently infected in a situation with low a…

> This is a "no brown M&Ms" kind of violation. I see it more as a "no brwn M&Ms" violation. We would all assume the intent was to say no brown M&Ms, rather than imagine that no act…

> It would push us a lot closer to a world where people don't own anything anymore besides their own houses (maybe not even that) and the government owns everything. I'm really str…

London's transport strikes have been shown to ultimately benefit the wider economy, as people have broken out of their local maximums and found more efficient ways to travel around…

Ctrl-F "federal government" suggests otherwise. This is now really a bad faith argument. You've moved the goalposts (again), and declared that your new goal wasn't met (when, in fa…

> In 1990, twelve countries in Europe had a wealth tax. Today, there are only three The "Today,..." claim is is simply false (both when the article was written, and now). Wikipedia…

I would say in general that you want to motivate money to move as much as possible - and the problem with excessive wealth is that the money is not moving. In an ideal world, I wou…

First, this is not true. I live in a country in Europe and I paid a wealth tax today, in fact. Second, please re-read my comment above as to why you might have understood that.

> Basically zero support for it. Wealth taxes are extremely well-supported, despite the media as an industry [and politicians] being owned by people strongly motivated to campaign …

Regarding the government's ownership of real estate, I suggest you are simply mistaken, e.g.: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bisnow/2017/04/11/solving-the-m...

As best I can tell, Bitcoin has moved more than [it has so far today, ~6%] on 42 days in the last year, and 38 days the year before that, considering open-to-open values. 10% daily…

I'd wager it was passed as a message in the ANOM app. I don't think it's coincidence that these were news-worthy on the same day.

> once the government can own stocks and portions of real estate, I'm sure it will seek to incrementally increase its benefit from doing so. There's nothing stopping the government…

> But....shares are useless until sold. This is clearly untrue. At least they have use in the ongoing option to sell. I can use them as collateral to borrow at least as much as, an…

OK. You seem to be agreeing that this would be a fine system with those caveats. So: Exemptions specifically covering residency already exist in finance law. If you go bankrupt, yo…