chottocharaii

Bad analogy. A puddle is a local system, governed by local random conditions (e.g. the sun as in that example)

The strong anthropic principle makes a statement about the fine tuning of the one and only, non-random, system that governs all systems.

I.e. the rudimentary physics & chemistry that happens to favours determine carbon based life generally.

Most unskilled labourers are presented with non-routine problems frequently throughout their work

I took the SAT from Australia and was blown away by how ridiculously easy it was.

Maybe it’d be a better predictor of ability if they made it a bit harder.

Humans are not biologically adapted to surviving on Mars, and for that reason, any settlement to Mars is bound to fail in the long term.

‘Normally I would say A, but I do not trust X so I will say B’

Is an implicit comparison between X & an unstated Y

(d) is objectively false

It depends on the crime. Sometimes an ‘objective’ view of morality is an element of an offense. E.g. in fraud (and potentially, this charge)

Perhaps, but the body of law point means we’ll never find out if you’re right or not.

It seems you didn't read the article closely.

They didn't just plagiarize the slides, they neutered them, and then attempted to pass them off as Stanford endorsed research; all without permission from the author.

The distinction is that if your company boycotted another, is unlikely to ever be diplomatically or politically important; unless you work at Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, or Google

Sometimes they can be so manifestly and obviously bad so as to be objectively bad.

They also check whether the bond has been lodged at the govt authority (this is mandatory)

The question is who owns the technology we are improving. For whose financial interests does that technology work?

When in an early iteration of Apple Music, the app ‘accidentally’ erased all of my music library except that which I’d explicitly bought from the iTunes Store; they burned me as a customer forever.

The market solution is a non-starter. We need laws.

I heard from a Chinese legal academic that when China is diplomatically isolated, the two provinces tend to be left alone to enjoy the benefits of their independent foreign ties. When China is more politically feeling comfortable, that is when the pressure for conformity tends to come from Beijing.

Why is the possibility of a wheel being reinvented a desirable thing?

Easy for you to say. You're probably not bonded to your employer like the OP. Get your head out of the sand.

and how do you get such things addressed at a legislative level?

Maybe unions can be useful after all!

Indeed. Arts degrees have suffered large funding cuts in Australia in recent years. Perhaps for the reasons you describe.

The only % you pay, is on the money above the threshold amount. So if you earn 52k, you only pay the 8% of your student loan back on the 2k above the threshold.

So yes, it is stepped, and no, there is no incentive for staying below that threshold.

re: your second point, there is no 'incentive' to study in those fields, it is merely possible to do so. It is good, as fields that are low-earning like literature and art; are not reserved only to people in society who have parents with disposable income. It's an egalitarian policy, more in line with Australian cultural values than American.

re your third paragraph: indeed. The result of our system however is that the vast majority of students major in commerce & science; perhaps because the incentive of a lucrative career is enough to stop everyone pursuing arts.

They are under Australian copyright law

We’re not going to have a market solution, only a regulatory one; if one is coming at all

All traditional markets require the use of force; just its limited in effect by consent in contract.

He probably assumes becoming mega rich requires a certain form of sociopathy that ditinguishes the group from the rest of us.

Many of the greatest minds of the academy of the last 3 centuries were active in politics.

Montesquieu, Burke, etc...

Academic ideas renew society.

campaign finance will never be reformed, political movement needs to be able to operate in spite of money contributed

I doubt Citizens United will ever be overruled

Hayek, like Adam Smith, has been quoted to intellectual death by libertarians who haven't actually read him.

The stock market has priced in those future increases in the present day inflated stock price. That's a pretty decent indication.

Try Australia.

For a great book on how these 'charities' are corrupting American politics, and the specific tax loophole that enables them; check out the book 'Dark Money' by Jane Meyer

Reforming this law would cause outrage among the non-profit and charity sector, because it would instantly dry up alot of US philanthropy. It still seems like a necessary reform however.