Forum: Diavlog comments
09-23-2010, 10:14 PM
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Forum: Diavlog comments
09-03-2010, 01:55 AM
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Forum: Diavlog comments
10-06-2008, 03:46 PM
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Replies: 29
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Re: Free Will: In Defense of Not Voting
I wonder if a wide spread public sentiment that ignorant voting is not acceptable would be effective in eliminating ignorant voting. We could even eliminate the secret ballot so that a person would...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
09-21-2008, 10:18 PM
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Replies: 33
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Re: Free Will: The Virtues of Hypocrisy
This was a very thought provoking diavlog. I wasn't totally convinced by it though.
At first blush it seems it would be best to drop the sanctimony and the deception. For example Mitt Romney,...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
09-15-2008, 11:51 PM
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Replies: 9
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Forum: Diavlog comments
09-01-2008, 12:11 AM
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Replies: 12
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Re: Coffee in the Veins
Does anyone else think it is scary that Edwards had an adviser who researched the way demagogues can take over a government?
Of course I am (mostly) joking. On a more serious note, honest...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
08-07-2008, 05:29 PM
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Replies: 97
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Re: The Temptation of Eli
While high oil prices do legitimately have some benefits (slowing global warming), I'd like to push back on the way Bob tried to sell it to Eli. The idea that high crude oil prices are going to...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
08-01-2008, 02:37 PM
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Replies: 175
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Re: Frum Justifies Big Government
Wow, I think I struck a nerve. The benign bjkeefe shows his true colors. First of all I don't claim to have any guys. Second, by "some in the media" I was specifically referring to the quote that you...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
08-01-2008, 05:34 AM
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Replies: 175
Views: 44,177
Re: Frum Justifies Big Government
Indeed (http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/07/01/just-how-big-are-obama-s-small-donors.aspx).
Addendum:
Interestingly, reading through the linked study...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
08-01-2008, 04:18 AM
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Replies: 175
Views: 44,177
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Forum: Diavlog comments
08-01-2008, 03:35 AM
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Replies: 175
Views: 44,177
Re: Frum Justifies Big Government
What you seem to misunderstand is that Frum is a BIG government conservative, a neocon. Of course he is going to try to justify (certain) federal government interventions. Unwittingly though, he...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
07-12-2008, 04:00 AM
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Replies: 26
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Forum: Diavlog comments
07-12-2008, 01:45 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 9,987
Re: The Week in Blog: There's Water In Them Hills
I don't understand this obsession the media has on the second order effects of offshore oil drilling (decreasing oil prices) when the first order effect is far more important (the fact that the oil...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
06-15-2008, 10:57 PM
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Replies: 110
Views: 69,428
Re: Free Will: Evolution and Morality
I think the question that Will raises at 30:00 was answered, at least partially, by a paper in the literature of the evolution of preferences by Samuelson & Swinkels...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
05-03-2008, 07:15 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 14,488
Monty Hall problem?
Why was there no discussion of the recent "Monty Hall" criticism (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/science/08tier.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=chen&st=nyt&oref=slogin) of these studies recently described in...
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