Year: 2017

A) Um, all aggregate measurements are misleading. If in a country of 1M people, they make $1 a day and I make $1B a day, the GDP/Population will be 365M + 365B/1M, giving the impression that everyone in the country is making more than $300K per year. B) Resources are a curse, because they lead…

We actually have quite a bit of data. The data I have seen is cross compiled from a number of surveys and has something just under 100K samples – which is about what you need for something of this size. (No studies of less than 1000 are meaningful, and at 10,000 we begin to see…

Yes. Should a journalist be fired for saying jewish, black, or hispanic people are evil? RECIPROCITY IN EVERYTHING. https://www.quora.com/Should-journalist-Lara-Witt-be-fired-for-saying-white-people-are-evil

I ANSWER UNPLEASANT QUESTIONS AS TRUTHFULLY AS POSSIBLE You know, I answer controversial topics, because that’s my job, and I know the data. And so I’ve ended up being one of the people that counter-signals anti-everything. So I sort of get angry now when I get asked to respond to questions like this, only to…

Dishonest (Postmodern) question in my opinion. The USA prosecutes many more minor offenses than does any other nation which accounts for our ability to leave our doors unlocked, and not fence in our yards, or put bars or grids over our windows as does the rest of the world. The only places where we must…

China is a very poor country. But it has more population than the Western world, more population than the African world, about the same or more than the Indian world, less population than the Muslim world, and perhaps most importantly, greater racial and cultural homogeneity than any other people other than the japanese – and…

It is possible to transfer traits (we can do that) but genomes contain a great deal of error checking and redundancy, and proteins work together in a complex ‘cellular ecosystem’ where small variations can produce catastrophic consequences to the organism’s ability to survive. So to say we can cumulatively transfer traits between our species is…

Man is a rational actor. If people disagree with you, it’s because they have a good reason to disagree with you. There are no common goods other than productive, fully informed, voluntary, exchange, free of imposition of costs upon others by externality. Everything else isn’t reason – it’s excuse making. That’s what Rationalize means. That’s…

We are unequal. Markets consisting of voluntary exchanges eliminate extreme fantasies. Any ‘collective agreement’ is of necessity an extreme fantasy. https://www.quora.com/If-humans-cant-agree-on-anything-from-Donald-Trumps-sanity-to-the-existence-of-God-how-can-one-make-an-objective-rational-decision-Is-there-any-scientific-way-to-cut-through-the-noise

Participation in the World Wars. German was in the right both times. If we did anything at all, it should have been to fight alongside the germans to defeat the Russians, and to defeat the Chinese. Pretty much, the USA is always wrong. Always has been. Puritanism, social democracy, and Communism share the same origins.…

block the wire transfer system, visa, mastercard, banking. That was the threat they gave putin when he invaded Ukraine. https://www.quora.com/How-could-the-US-cripple-the-Russian-economy-and-military-in-one-move-without-them-seeing-it-coming

its not. its that we prosecute minor crimes aggressively. https://www.quora.com/Why-is-crime-rate-so-high-in-the-United-States

It’s on natural law. The constitution was an attempt at natural law. Period. https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-demonstrate-that-the-US-is-not-founded-on-Christian-morality-and-ethics

Read a LOT of history.Study Law and Economics.Learn an uncommon language. https://www.quora.com/My-dream-job-is-a-diplomat-Im-in-8th-grade-What-should-I-do

Work at Starbucks, Mcdonald’s, or the shipping department at Amazon. If you can’t calculate it, it’s just fiction.The only political sciences I know of are War, Law, and Economics. Everything else (philosophy) is just excuse making to justify priors.War, Law, and Economics are empirical (and unforgiving). There is no skin in the game in argument.…

I find it the most shallow. That’s for sure. I much prefer eastern europe. https://www.quora.com/Would-you-consider-the-United-States-the-least-boring-country-to-live-in

The only reason to go overseas is to avoid taxation or to obtain cheap labor. As emerging economy labor increases the value of low cost labor diminishes. However, the primary reason is simply cultural and institutional. It’s just a lot easier to do business in America than anywhere else on earth. The entire society is…

Perjury is very common, especially in family court, less so in criminal court, and less so as we move to less and less serious crimes. However, the law distinguishes between false testimony, obstruction and perjury. And in general, these matters are resolved in the court room, because such things are fairly obvious to all concerned.…

It depends upon the fissionable material, but roughly 11–30lbs. It’s possible to make a backpack weapon of about 50–70 pounds and it’s ‘rumoured’ that the Russians tried to make one or more of them. That would (I am guessing) result in an explosion on the scale of 10–20 Tons of TNT. Which is a lot…

Yes, and very proud of it. https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Are-you-white

GOOD QUESTION, AND THE ANSWER IS “EASILY”. Quite easily. Statistically it is very close to a certainty. Why? Becuase (uncomfortable truth) the difference between first world and third world countries is the size of the underclass. First world countries, during the medieval period, were successful in reducing the underclasses through aggressive use of law, war,…

Trump was â??hiredâ?? to gut the federal bureaucracy – especially that bureaucracy built under clinton/obama that was attempting to use the USA to finance and force a â??single world governmentâ?? or what is colloquially called â??globalismâ??. This is the dream of the communist/socialist/postmodern left. By eliminating competing states, they eliminate competition, and eliminate choice. https://www.quora.com/Is-Trump-intentionally-â??dumbing-downâ?-federal-agencies-with-unqualified-appointments-to-better-exert-personal-control-over-them

Because being kind to people creates a sense of obligation and we do not want that sense of obligation to others unless they are the very few people closest to us. Otherwise it limits our ability to act in our self interest. (yes, that is really why) https://www.quora.com/Why-the-more-I-am-kind-with-someone-the-less-he-respects-me

Ontario is bankrupt and attempting to use immigration to offset the problem temporarily, which only exacerbates the problem long term. It’s not so much that Toronto will suffer a recession but it will (like Detroit, Hartford…) eventually end up with vast ghettos, and an inability to maintain its infrastructure, followed by an inability to justify…

GOOD QUESTION, BUT NOT QUITE RIGHT. Because by and large, use of the scientific method (using observation and measurement to eliminate ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, fictionalism and deceit, eventually, incrementally, provides more and more precise descriptions of the universe – even if it is very often, two steps forward and one step…