At a guess, the majority would be correct. In general, physicians, like all humans, are incompetent and self-interested. Absolving yourself of personal responsibility by ceding your autonomy to an authority figure rarely works out. This is why I hate compulsory government healthcare: Physicians cease to be employees or voluntary servants who help, and become police (or tax farmers) who control and exploit. It is human nature.
You mean batteries and heating elements? No, to be less obtuse, I must infer: Clearly you mean the fluids.
Let me get this straight...you are actually claiming that regulation increases knowledge? The mind boggles.
That is a shocking and novel epistemological formula - although obviously it has been the implicit subtext of public education in the u.s. for over a century.
"Turn into" requires starting in some other state. I haven't seen a strong argument for that, and the inductive priors on this issue are profoundly prejudicial.
Yes, this. Hence its worldwide popularity. The dollar is the #1 u.s. export by an order of magnitude; because it is a terrible investment for u.s. persons and a marvelous investment for non-u.s. persons.
Of course it will not solve poverty. That's not the point. The point is that it will solve the self-destruction of social wealth. In particular, it will prevent the expansion of poverty to include the vast majority of currently wealthy persons.
The implication derived from a trivial probability argument is misleading. Failures are correlated, so 1-(1-P)^n is an upper bound, firstly, but secondly and much more importantly, the value being computed is the wrong value. Failure of a node is not partition. To non-trivially partition a cluster of N nodes requires (N-2) failures, when the cluster is fully connected, for example (as e.g. on any bus network). Handling trival partition is, well, trivial, in some important senses.
Very true, but... Eventually all that money shows up as inflation. Which devalues the SPX. The wealthy have been net sellers of SPX for over a year now. It is only the collapsing velocity of money which has prevented an inflationary tear so far...but that has a hard limit at zero ( unlike interest rates) which can only be reached by either obliteration of technological society or a reorganization of economic activity to be uncorrelated with money flows
As someone paid to do such looking for the past decade I can assure you that both econometric and market series' are subject to periodic, as well as quasiperiodic, chaotic, and exogenous forcing functions. Everything looks like white noise when your eyes are closed.
...which is very valuable. After all, we don't know when, if ever, a satisfactory explanation (by what criteria?) will derive. To defer all progress in the field until it should meet the standards of some other field would be a great loss, and might preclude any number of future further discoveries.
Yes. z.cash centralizes control under a corporation, which makes it vulnerable to legal process and political risk, and it is what is known in the crypto world as a "pre-mine scam".
It is absolutely insane that anyone, person or corporation alike, should pay taxes in the modern era. The government should just be honest and do in the open what they do by obfuscation anyhow: Print the money. It's the only way to avoid pervasive corruption.