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You are right. I have overstated my case. I maintain that vegetarianism is often anorexia in disguise!

I though RN was always boring. All they were doing was doing something that others had done before (e.g. Oval), and it was a thing that was most interesting when it was new because it was radically different from other things.

Looks yummy! Vegetarianism seems to be a very prominent form of annorexia though. Berlin isn't a world food capital in my experience!

I don't understand. The people who have (or are belived to have) generated that wealth are dead! So they certainly don't worry about being taxed any more. Ideally the money goes into infrastructural work that enables society to be more efficient as a whole. A special case of this is in...

It is very common und completely understandable to pass on wealth to your children. But almost all of a humans most productive period, is between maybe 35 and 60, about 20 years before one's own death. It seems clearly the case that humans aggregate wealth to support their children while they...

I don't understand. (1) the point is to force people to educated themselves and generate wealth by themselves, rather than being parasites. (2) Redistribution of wealth by tax isnt entirely arbitrary. Maybe i misunderstood your point then. But if you argue for a partial inheritance tax, some...

Well, hope is fine, but i don't belive that this is a truly significant motivating factor, casual anecdotes nonwithstanding. you are just clutching straws.

Well the majority of serious inheritances are frittered away. hence it doesn't make a difference if that wealth is returned to general circulation by tax or by carelessness, except that in the former case, the inheriting parties are more likely to be productive members to society and not...

You talk about food all the time ;) are you sure that this obsession with food is just an ill understood symptom of annorexia?

I drink LOTS of milk. probably on average 1/2 liter a day, often much more. I have been doing so all my life. I am very healthy, I have never been to a hospital for anything other than broken limbs. I fall for flu about once every 5 years on average. Same for my parents and siblings. I have NO...

The most obvious is that one does not know when one dies. Hence nobody really works to give things to their children at the point of death. The converse is more interesting: what incentive is there to work or to educate yourself if you can reasonably expect to live off your inheritance?

I think it's phantastic. It has peculiar oscillations in style. I wonder about the background of the producers.

Well, each piece of music can be interpreted in many ways. It's possible to read upside-down as 13/17th rhythm. but that would be an extremely complicated and unnatural way of understanding that piece. If you look at how people dance to upside-down you'll find that everybody interprets the...

I agree, the harmonic rhythm is another indicator of downbeats, as are the weak and strong jumps in melody, and significant changes in volume. if one form of rhythm anchors the downbeat firmly, other forms can vary more freely.

The four letters C and U and B and A need more exposure in this thread! Shame about the boycott!

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This is true but at least in parts misleading, because by definition risk is an abbreviation for "something we don't understand (well enough to predict its future behaviour). So a farmer may take out an insurance on the price of grain next season, precisely because s/he doesn't understand the...

The way i hear/feel it is more like: the bar before the chorus goes at full length through 1 2 3 4, but at double speed, thus giving the chorus a massive energy burst.

Wrong. The CH is provably undecidable in ZFC. In other words, if ZFC is consistent at all (i.e. does not prove falsity), then both, ZFC + CH and ZFC + negation of CH are consistent. So you can take the CH or its negation as an additional axiom for set theory (or add an axiom that implies CH...

There is no reason to believe that "risk management" as done today is optimal. For a start there is not enough transparency. It would probably be beneficial if all participant in financial market had to make public all their positions, i.e. no company secrecy.