jivardo_nucci
Since the results of the process (birth and rearing) cannot, in a free society, be taken away from an individual and used to benefit others, then what might you propose as a socially acceptable solution? Perhaps a "white man's tax" to be paid by all men/women lucky enough to be born white? Or, to generalize, a "race tax" to be paid by all based on the current social or economic status of each race in the society? Perhaps a tax to be paid by anyone lucky enough to gain entrance to an Ivy League school (or Stanford) and so forth.
2. Concerning your second argument (success due to others):
This argument was presented by Obama in his "...you didn't build that..." speech of July 13, 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_didn't_build_that
3. However, in summary, both arguments, although well taken and each worthy of discussion in it's own right, are clearly not the same as the findings that Bouchard & Mezard et al present.
Furthermore it is important to distinguish them from Bouchard & Mezard's. Merging these arguments together with Bouchard & Mezard's in public discussion would erroneously conflate all these arguments and weaken the impact of Bouchard & Mezard's findings.
All my life I've assumed that, when people had a going concern or were rich, that they _earned_ their wealth. But Bouchard & Mezard says they're, for the most part, simply very lucky.
If luck, rather than skill, is the source of one's wealth, then has one "earned" that wealth? How can one lay exclusive claim to something given by chance? I would contend that no such claim can be made.
In particular, I would contend that income gained through luck is fair game for government acquisition through taxation, and if it is possible to distinguish that portion of wealth due to skill from that due to luck (and such appears possible), then the "lucky" portion is open game for acquisition to be spent or redistributed as decided by the powers-that-be.
Wealth Condensation: Why the Rich Get Richer (and the poor poorer): http://iwillknow.jesaurai.net/?p=387
The Mathematics of Inequality: https://www.austms.org.au/Jobs/Library4.html
FWIW Bouchard & Mezard are not the only researchers whose models say this:
Chance helps the rich get richer, simulation study finds: http://www.world-science.net/othernews/110722_chance.htm
False.
Any business in good financial condition can obtain loans easily, especially in the current economy.
And why would the need to "liquidate the business" be bad? The seller still gets the value of the business plus the flexibility of investing that value forward.
I found USENET and associated newsgroups to be better than the WWW, especially for discussions of software. I once even promoted the use of internal newsgroups w/in a corporate environment, where a history of topics (discussions, problems, and decisions) would have IMO proven extremely useful.
But the idea never got traction: people were unwilling to participate because newsreaders were too different from the browser and they'd had enough trouble learning to navigate the WWW. Once blogs and browser-based "newsgroups" and forums began showing up, the handwriting was on the wall. In the end, the WWW browser's low bar to entry ate USENET.
I still value the treasure trove of information stored in the archives. And some people still actively participate in USENET and other newsgroups, just as some still participate in IRC (Internet Relay Chat, which also is fading). I think these are valuable tools with a lot of greybeard expertise held in reserve.
There's a sort of Gresham's law of the Internet: "The browser drives out every other interface."
Furthermore, root canals require different training and are (usually) done by endodontists. Dentists usually handle the more mundane and more tested procedure of dental fillings.
My point is, root canals are much more invasive and have their own problems(not associated with dental fillings).
I've had women friends who fit into the gorgeous category. In time I found that they were introduced to sex at an early age by adult men. They all had ongoing sexual affairs with multiple older wealthy men, and all were damaged goods mentally. The relationships often started as professional, e.g., doctor, optometrist, psychologist, etc. and became sexual later.
Certainly one could understand why the dental industry would avoid the meme "root canal = bad!", but in this case the patient has little to lose, his future being lost already.
Our physical intuitions are Galilean, not classical, mechanics (that is, they are non-Newtonian). For example, our intuitions tell us that an object set in motion eventually slows down and stops. That's Galilean (also termed "folk physics" or "naive physics", usually by cognitive scientists).
Most of us had to study formal physics to advance to Newtonian classical mechanics.
Quantum mechanics (QM) is completely non-intuitive, at least as far as intuition about either folk physics or Newtonian classical physics is concerned. IIRC Feynmann says as much in his book "QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter", Chapter 28 beginning:
"I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. —Richard Feynman
The quantum theory is not explicable in commonsense terms..."
Of course Feynman used his real-world physical intuition all the way through to his most abstract work. In one case he characterised the internal structure of the proton as being like "marbles inside a tin can." Try and write those equations!
http://cs.brown.edu/people/tld/publications/archive/Marcusan...
- Buy a container of your favorite _plain_ yogurt and a gallon of milk,
- Boil the milk in a pan,
- Cool milk until it is warm (usual baby formula test - you can drop it on your forearm w/o hurt),
- Add the plain yogurt and stir well,
- Cover pan and put in a warm place, e.g., inside your unlit gas oven (pilot light should be running) and forget about it for 8-12 hours,
It will become thick tasty yogurt. Save some for the next batch.
They have no SS? Absurd, why not?
- my inheritance: my spouse can get my SS income when I die, my wife inherits my goods by default, etc. Now gays get the same treatment.
- taxes: are different for married and non-married folks. Now gays get the same treatment.
IOW "follow the money".
This ruling will change how much money the government pays to its citizens and how money is passed among its citizens (after marriage and death in particular). But nobody ever discussed the ramifications of this and the entire discussion was based around a bunch of bombast.
So we're not simply "changing the name".
Give a freestyle swimmer the same fins and (s)he'll blow the underwater swimmer away.
Uh, perhaps you meant "delegation"? No one uses the term "empathy" in reference to any OOP languages AFAICT except the authors of that non-text searchable paper written in 1987 that you reference. Even if _they_ used the term "empathy" it would have been better to use "delegation" in describing the paper, because to not do so reduces the empathy of your audience.
[I am thorry, I could not resithd, but muth go now becauth I have an appointment with the delegation of the ambatthador at the the U.S. empathy].
IOW "The wealthy were able to migrate to safer places and restart their lives more easily."
No surprise there. So it was their wealth, not gold per se, that made their move safer and restarting easier.
Gold is the most useless element in the world. But greed has no bounds and the love of men for gold seems endless.
The difference is generational: the ultra-bright and creative Boomers used Tinker Toys and Erector Sets; the comparatively dull bricklaying Lego generations followed in the Boomers' wake. So much had to be changed to suit the latter:
- TinkerToys abandoned; Legos promoted.
- Cursive writing discarded; printing promoted.
- Pen & paper downgraded; typing promoted.
- SAT tests downgraded; quotas promoted.
- The rise of illiteracy and innumeracy in the USA falls in there someplace.
To recover old info, first concentrate on it and recall as much as possible (what you call "metadata"), and then simply cease focusing on it. Your mind will "re-hydrate" the archived experience in the background. Sometimes this may take a day or two, but usually it requires less than 10 minutes.
Reconsider the memory periodically: each time you should feel an indicator of whether progress is being made (even though the memory isn't yet fully recovered).
http://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-professionals/clinical-upd...
Most facilities do it the fancy way (use a tube down the nose or up the rear), run tests and, as usual, charge you and your donor out the a! But I've read of DIY'ers who simply spun out the solids, held their nose and swilled the goods(I suppose a real man would use a spoon) or took them in an enema:
http://blogs.plos.org/publichealth/2013/05/29/why-diy-fecal-...
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27503660
Either way it works.
"Compatible" donor? Healthy family member(s).
As the author of the article notes, probiotics can't possibly match the variety of organisms that a typical human has in their gut.
Business proposal: a repository where people deposit feces prior to taking strong antibiotics, so that, should they find themselves consequently absent intestinal flora and fauna, those could easily be restored. Kind of a new twist on the old curse "Eat shit and die!"
Urban designers for densely-populated countries should plan instead for people and industry to spread out as much as possible to eliminate the effective damage of WMDs. I think there was a sci-fi novel (by Asimov?) where people no longer lived or even met with each other, fearing death through either disease or malfeasance.
And the way drones are progressing, we'll soon have some like those in Dune - "bugs" that fly to their target, identify him/her and kill only that individual. I haven't heard of anyone working on a bug spray yet.
One solace: all the above was brought to us, one way or another, by democratically-elected large powerful national governments. Guess we wanted these things, eh?