Curt Doolittle

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  • Why Do Some Economists Believe That American Corporations Will Close Down Their Overseas Factories And Come Back To America And Lower Prices And Hire Droves Of Americans When They Are Doing Just Fine Right Where They Are?

    The only reason to go overseas is to avoid taxation or to obtain cheap labor. As emerging economy labor increases the value of low cost labor diminishes. However, the primary reason is simply cultural and institutional. It’s just a lot easier to do business in America than anywhere else on earth. The entire society is organized to help businesses compete.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-economists-believe-that-American-corporations-will-close-down-their-overseas-factories-and-come-back-to-America-and-lower-prices-and-hire-droves-of-Americans-when-they-are-doing-just-fine-right-where-they-are

  • Why Are People So Sure The Current Experts In Science Can’t Be Wrong, When History Has Shown They Have Been Wrong Many Times Before?

    GOOD QUESTION, BUT NOT QUITE RIGHT.

    Because by and large, use of the scientific method (using observation and measurement to eliminate ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, fictionalism and deceit, eventually, incrementally, provides more and more precise descriptions of the universe – even if it is very often, two steps forward and one step back.

    Psychology was entirely pseudoscience. Social science is largely pseudoscience – and those findings that are not, are ‘unpleasant’, and avoided by the field. Much of mainstream economics is very close to pseudoscience, even if it is empirical. Most of political science is pseudoscientific nonsense. Most if not all of philosophy is pseudoscientific nonsense. However, if we look at the hard sciences, meaning physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, computer science, and mathematics, those fields (particularly physics) have been best at not claiming falsehoods. Whereas all other disciplines excel at claiming falsehoods. We are primarily constrained at this point by the fact that we cannot produce tools to test those things we wish to – they’re too expensive or require too much energy, and we don’t have the technology yet.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-are-people-so-sure-the-current-experts-in-science-cant-be-wrong-when-history-has-shown-they-have-been-wrong-many-times-before

  • How Often Does It Happen That Someone Who Testifies In Court Who Perjures Himself Is Convicted And Sentenced?

    Perjury is very common, especially in family court, less so in criminal court, and less so as we move to less and less serious crimes. However, the law distinguishes between false testimony, obstruction and perjury. And in general, these matters are resolved in the court room, because such things are fairly obvious to all concerned. The reason being that incentives are fairly obvious things. And people tend to judge on incentives not testimony.

    For example, of the tens of thousands of cases each year, it is pretty uncommon (I don’t have any data right now to refer to) for it to go farther than low double digits.

    https://www.quora.com/How-often-does-it-happen-that-someone-who-testifies-in-court-who-perjures-himself-is-convicted-and-sentenced

  • What Is The Minimum Yield Of A Nuclear Bomb? How Small Can We Make A Nuclear Explosion?

    It depends upon the fissionable material, but roughly 11–30lbs. It’s possible to make a backpack weapon of about 50–70 pounds and it’s ‘rumoured’ that the Russians tried to make one or more of them. That would (I am guessing) result in an explosion on the scale of 10–20 Tons of TNT. Which is a lot but it’s not all that impressive. Usually we measure weapons by the kiloton (1000 tons). Furthermore there is a sort of maximum value of practical nuclear weapons, because they get very heavy. So for example, US W-80 cruise missile yields 150kt.

    You would need about five of those for Manhattan, and I can’t imagine how many for los angeles (which is a huge territory).

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-minimum-yield-of-a-nuclear-bomb-How-small-can-we-make-a-nuclear-explosion

  • Are You White?

    Yes, and very proud of it.

    https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Are-you-white

  • How Could The Us Cripple The Russian Economy And Military In One Move Without Them Seeing It Coming?

    block the wire transfer system, visa, mastercard, banking. That was the threat they gave putin when he invaded Ukraine.

    https://www.quora.com/How-could-the-US-cripple-the-Russian-economy-and-military-in-one-move-without-them-seeing-it-coming

  • Can The Usa Become A Third World Country?

    GOOD QUESTION, AND THE ANSWER IS “EASILY”.

    Quite easily. Statistically it is very close to a certainty. Why? Becuase (uncomfortable truth) the difference between first world and third world countries is the size of the underclass. First world countries, during the medieval period, were successful in reducing the underclasses through aggressive use of law, war, malthusian crop yields, and disease.

    Today’s third world countries cannot produce goods and services of sufficient value to compete on the world’s markets. Ergo there is no means of organizing a voluntary organization of production (consumer capitalist economy).

    In painful terms, the reality is that as a nation’ s IQ drops below 100, the ability to compete on the world stage is increasinlly difficult, and as far as I am able to determine, that number will only increase over time.

    If you add to that problem, a regressive religion, or a familial low trust culture, or a tendency for corruption, or the ‘resource curse’, then the problem is impossible to overcome.

    As far as I know, south africa and brazil are the most likely futures available to the western world.

    Americans have imported vast numbers of third world underclasses who are breeding at rates far above those with superior genetic markers. So as far as I can see, there is no way of fixing this problem now.

    The only prudent peoples on the planet today are the swiss and the japanese.

    https://www.quora.com/Can-the-USA-become-a-third-world-country

  • Why Is Crime Rate So High In The United States?

    its not. its that we prosecute minor crimes aggressively.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-is-crime-rate-so-high-in-the-United-States

  • Is Trump Intentionally €œdumbing Down” Federal Agencies With Unqualified Appointments To Better Exert Personal Control Over Them?

    Trump was ‘hired’ to gut the federal bureaucracy – especially that bureaucracy built under clinton/obama that was attempting to use the USA to finance and force a ‘single world government’ or what is colloquially called ‘globalism’. This is the dream of the communist/socialist/postmodern left. By eliminating competing states, they eliminate competition, and eliminate choice.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-Trump-intentionally-“dumbing-down”-federal-agencies-with-unqualified-appointments-to-better-exert-personal-control-over-them

  • How Can I Demonstrate That The Us Is Not Founded On Christian Morality And Ethics?

    It’s on natural law. The constitution was an attempt at natural law. Period.

    https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-demonstrate-that-the-US-is-not-founded-on-Christian-morality-and-ethics