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    Or you could have a flat tax combined with a guaranteed income. It's not just the simplicity of the flat tax that makes it desirable, but also the fewer perverse incentives it has on economic output. There are other reasons, such as a flat tax + guaranteed income being very close to optimizing social welfare: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/econ/conference/taxation-theory/documents/Henriet-Pinuts-Trannoy.pdf http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/4263739/Mankiw_OptimalTaxationTheory.pdf?sequence=2 Arguably it is in some cases, for example when income density has a linear likelihood ratio and consumption utility is logarithmic.
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    Well I argue that genetic sex and phenotypical sex are distinct as well.
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    Unnecessarily complicating the tax code is generally not a good idea.
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    Ploting ln GDP per capita PPP vs military expenditure as a percentage of GDP for the developed G20 countries excluding the USA (the USA is an outlier) and performing a quadratic fit suggests that GDP per capita is optimized with military expenditure is ~ 1.6% of GDP. If you take into account the loss of consumption due to higher military expenditure, then consumption is optimized when military expenditure is ~1.35% of GDP. If you consider the geographic isolation of Canada, a 1% GDP military expenditure level seems reasonable. I see no reason Canada should commit to the 2% military expenditure NATO target. This is pretty weak empirical evidence, though better than nothing. A cross-country regression might be a good way to take into account the positive externalities associated with military expenditure.
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    Ploting ln GDP per capita PPP vs military expenditure as a percentage of GDP for the developed G20 countries excluding the USA (the USA is an outlier) and performing a quadratic fit suggests that GDP per capita is optimized with military expenditure is ~ 1.6% of GDP. If you take into account the loss of consumption due to higher military expenditure, then consumption is optimized when military expenditure is ~1.35% of GDP. If you consider the geographic isolation of Canada, a 1% GDP military...

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      expenditure level seems reasonable. I see no reason Canada should commit to the 2% military expenditure NATO target. This is pretty weak empirical evidence, though better than nothing. A cross-country regression might be a good way to take into account the positive externalities associated with military expenditure.

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      expenditure level seems reasonable. I see no reason Canada should commit to the 2% military expenditure NATO target. This is pretty weak empirical evidence, though better than nothing. A cross-country regression might be a good way to take into account the positive externalities associated with military expenditure.

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    Of course an internet troll can be an MRA. Just not all internet trolls are MRAs and if you see an internet troll, you can't tell if it's an MRA or not.
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    @ cybercoma - thank you for correcting me on the 911 thing. It's not disturbing that they complained. They should have complained. Professors should stick to class material during class and not try to go off on tangents, especially ones that are politically/sexually inappropriate.
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    You are generalizing a very large and diverse group of people based on the actions of a few. It's like saying all muslims are terrorists because ISIS. Not only that, but a lot of this so called harassment done by MRAs is done by internet trolls. Plus people that support men's rights get their share of bomb threats, doxing, etc. Milo Yiannopoulos received a syringe, a dead animal and a bloody razor blade in the mail for example.
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    Demand for oil is not very elastic. And the Saudis pumped 10.6 million barrels per day in June. http://business.financialpost.com/news/energy/saudi-arabia-hikes-oil-production-to-record-high-as-opec-expects-stronger-demand-in-2016
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    Sorry if I offended you. But I am concerned. I know people in my life that have schizophrenia.
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    Dressing in drag to raise money for children is now considered a hate crime against trans people: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11818229/Charity-race-for-childrens-hospice-where-runners-dress-in-drag-is-a-hate-crime.html

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    Santa Clara University tells students to call 911 if they witness 'microaggressions': http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6738 Rutgers University declares that freedom of speech doesn't exist: http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6749
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    So you don't think it has anything to do with how boys are treated by the school system or the university incentives? If we have all these initiatives to 'empower' girls and tell them to do well in university, have various groups that try to encourage girls to get a good education, and have lots of female only scholarships, is it any surprise women now outnumber men in universities by over a 2 to 1 ratio? Maybe we should encourage boys to get a good education as well... Anyway, I'm going a bit off topic.
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    You say that yet women have a 2:1 hiring advantage in STEM fields. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/14/study-finds-surprisingly-that-women-are-favored-for-jobs-in-stem/ Society has long since passed the point where the 'men are privileged, women are oppressed' narrative makes any sense. We live in a highly gynocentric society where it is taboo to discuss men's issues (to the point where doing so publically will result in death threats, bomb threats, assault attempts, disrupting events by pulling fire-alarms and people blockading people others from hearing the opinions of men's rights activists at our universities). Go to 2:11 to see the horrible 'misogynists' that wish to hear men's rights issues discussed:
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    The gender wage gap all but disappears once you account for various factors such as hours worked, experience, education, type of occupation, etc. In countries like Canada, USA and UK it favours women for people in urban areas below 30. The reason you see politicians like Trudeau and Obama go on about the 77% wage gap is because they used outdated data and don't take anything into account (they just divide total earnings of each gender). But since our society is gynocentrist, they aren't called out on it since doing so would make you appear 'anti-women'.
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    A more interesting question might be why gender-specific scholarships are overwhelmingly female when over 60% of university students are female? Boys are falling behind but society doesn't care. Because society gender roles are such that only women can have problems and men need to 'man up', 'grow balls' and never complain about issues facing them.
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    I would. Since I was born in Alberta, I'll have to wait to see what kind of changes the current government makes with respect to changing your birth certificate. Exactly. The sooner we support the large diversity of gender identities, the sooner all this sexist nonsense comes to an end and we start treating people equally. Intersex isn't a gender identity. You are confusing gender identity with sex.
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    "fthe frequency of the motion of the gravity moved between m1​ and m2​ , or the ​​cycles of the motion of the gravity moved between m1​ and m2​ in one second." How do you determine f? Could you please explain this to me? I'm also unclear on the definition. What do you mean by 'the cycles of the motion'?
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    To be blunt, this receiving messages from 'super-meditation' sounds like schizophrenia. Maybe you need to get mental health help? The webpage you linked to doesn't answer my question about testability. Could you please quantify the magnitude of the difference in G that you would experience on Earth vs Mars?
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    With 'allies' like this, who needs enemies? Apparently 'allies' fund the spread of wahabbism, which leads to terrorism. Also, 'allies' commit genocide against apostates and LGBT people.
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    Saudi Arabia has the world's 4th highest military expenditure, use their oil money to spread wahabbism and control Mecca and Medina. They are far more than a regional power.
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    What's behind the 'oil crisis', Saudi Arabia. Why? Well the Saudi's hit multiple birds with one stone here: ISIS, Iran, Russia, Canadian Oil Sands, US Shale Oil.
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    Could you please define 'super-meditation' for me? Does it involve 'receiving messages'? As for G being different on Mars compared to Earth, roughly how big of a difference would it be and is it large enough to detect?
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    This reminds me of Kaluza-Klein theory as well as the eleventh dimension in M-theory. Does your model have any testable predictions?
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    So apparently, not only does Roosh V not identify as a Men's Right's activist, but he considers MRAs to be sexual losers. http://www.rooshv.com/mens-rights-has-become-a-euphemism-for-sexual-loser You guys are wrong in trying to associate this guy with MRAs.
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