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Re:TTIP Leaks by gumby on Monday May 02, 2016 @02:31PM (#11614115)
> larger population [...] probably isn't a great thing.

Julian Simon would have strongly disagreed and he put his money where his mouth was in his famous bets with Erlich: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Simon

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Re:TTIP Leaks by odonnellryan on Monday May 02, 2016 @03:34PM (#11614767)
Yes, but he actually got lucky. Given the average of any 10-year period in the last 100 years I believe Simon would have been wrong.
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Re:TTIP Leaks by jessaustin on Monday May 02, 2016 @09:22PM (#11617159)
It might not have been Simon's good luck, because Erlich's luck when it comes to prediction has been consistently bad.
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Re:TTIP Leaks by gumby on Monday May 02, 2016 @11:48PM (#11617765)
Can you show some data online to back that up? I'm genuinely curious.
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