Comments by Zhicong

Priest Martin captures my feeling at the moment... Let's reiterate:
I am tired, God.
I’m tired of the unwillingness to see this as an important issue.
I’m tired of those in power who work to prevent any real change.
I’m tired of those who say that gun violence can’t be reduced.

According to Trump, we should keep whining till we win.
I am not opposed to gun ownership. For now I just want to ban automatic/semi-automatic weapons. Also in the future, AI weapons with face recognition. Let the person take ultimate control and fire his own shot.

That's a good argument. No one really likes estate tax except thieves, and I also think estate tax should either tax everyone above a much lower threshold or be eliminated altogether. Circumstance prefers the former (we have a huge national debt.). If it cannot be done (for Rs it is almost unthinkable.) then we should just repeal it. If repealed, it is hard to achieve balance though.

Nonetheless, the tax reform should be pro-growth and good for good guys. Trump said it is not good for him, but he also said he is not a bad guy. Contradiction does not exist, so either only one of them is correct or non are.

wow, effectiveness of antivenoms can be region based! a group of more complicated species than previously thought... does that mean the chemicals of venoms and the effectiveness of antivenoms are highly correlated to what the snakes eat?

love the serendipity of astronomy and astrology to show Pluto is a planet for transformation and regeneration.
prepared to learn from more star images :)

Not the bad kind, but the kind with government oversight to provide a guarantee.

yea, experience will teach me soon enough. Financial industry will come up with innovation and push for reform. Just so you understand.

A wise person like you knows there's solution on this.
If a person chooses to invest recklessly and lose, shouldn't he be left on the street or to charity? Majority will choose to go for a guaranteed retirement plan and I do think financial industry can offer better products.

So, that's it then -- a pyramid of enslavement and what you need are willing participants?

Rght on! Lol.

IMO, I think there's a case for privatization. Wonder if Paul Krugman agrees.
For one thing, I can can manage my retirement plan better than the government. Private companies can be even better in offering such plans with more choices.
Eliminate the cap is like dropping the pretense that it is a pyramid scheme.

Mr. Macron is right.
I wonder when we can have our reform on the out-of-control social security, Paul Ryan? It is unpopular but long overdue.

sorry, I almost forget the woman in the photo is not her... lol, but nonetheless she was a truly happy woman.

One can see it from her smile -- a magnificent woman who was truly happy.

I don't think we have ever looked for advances in technology from the social China but laborious results.

Macron is so attractive; I hope he will be so successful making our heads spin.

Let me give you an example to bridge the cultural divide.
Quran said earthly life is but an illusion (play, adornment, etc.). We can agree in the following sense:
God is Almighty, hence, any desire he has, he can satisfy himself, i.e., he is perfectly happy. A perfectly happy being does not need to act (reader: human action by Mises). Yet, he still imagines. Since imagination, as long as it is consistent, can generate new information out of nowhere (reader: quantum mechanics), it is reasonable to say God, he himself has quantum capability, can generate new information out of nowhere and we are living in his imagination, or equivalently, earthly life is but an illusion in his perspective.
Next, generation of consistent information (identification) is by no means human action, nor does it define human action -- it simply is a pre-requisite of/for human action. We choose to act on God's behalf (with our partial quantum capability), because it is the right thing to do. We will paint a beautiful and consistent picture, because that’s what God wants all to see. We can be friends each other, because we are all his children. Those play, adornment, production, etc., belong to our human action. It is up to us to make or break this “illusion” we call life – an upright posture to continue our personal legend.

For me, the solution lies less in regulation than in education (ideological debates between the non-violent and violent forms of Islam ideals). Any person can pick up Milestone and become radicalized without proper discussion with the Islam community, esp. when the person is discriminated against, lacks convictions, and has almost nothing to lose.

It is weird that there are very few online articles/videos to critically defend the non-violent Islam ideals against the violent ones. Saying it is evil is not convincing... Picking up sentences in Quran for defense is more convincing.
Media is afraid to talk about it in fear of spreading hatred/discrimination -- a sign of closed society.
Freedom and education go hand-in-hand. Break one and you lose both.

I see -- it is cute to stay in academia and avoid those forces.

it seems the author(s) already know the answer: be commercial, then use the profit to grow and/or help the causes you care. what's the drawback?

for the good/bad case, it should happen through the invisible hand not the helping hand.
Also, for the big/small case, under higher minimum wage, it is the small business and start-ups who suffer most and/or assume higher risk.