Bran_son

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by Bran_son 3y ago
It would be interesting to see a list of all the people known to (or "said to") have met with Epstein, and compare it to the list of people the NYT or other outlets have reported (in titles) to have met with Epstein.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> It just gives a huge attack surface for lobbyists and rent-seekers to complain and whine and get their way. Lobbyists and rent-seekers are the ones writing trade deals.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> If trade deals were passed like legislation in a parliament or Congress, with time in committee and lots of room for individual legislators to add their input You're conflating transparency with the process. The deals could be neg
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by Bran_son 3y ago
But they're not secret from industry trade groups , on either side of the negotiations. They're just secret from the public. That tells you everything.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
I thought the users already paid to get that traffic delivered to them. And the tech firms also have to pay for their bandwidth. But I guess 'fair' has nothing to do with it.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
UK net migration hits all-time record at 504,000 - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63743259 That's enough to make the UK ~40% immigrant in one lifetime (80 years). Given how rare it is for countries to change so sig
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> black-and-white thinking like this What does "this" refer to? I am not advocating for zero inheritance tax (though it should be low) or zero income tax (current level seems to be in a reasonable range) or zero trust-busting
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by Bran_son 3y ago
Odd. You would think the most obvious move would be to imitate what China has done to be so successful.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
I.e. make it illegal to rely on anyone but the government to provide for your children. I'm sure unlike the last few times it was tried, this time such centralization of control and severing of parent-child relations will work out wond
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by Bran_son 3y ago
"Stealing" is an action that does not depend on who or what the perpetrator is.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
I thought we were talking about relevancy of the style, not how difficult it is to make a living competing with Beethoven. If people still turn up in droves to perform and listen to Beethoven, that seems very "relevant" to me.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
By this standard, Beethoven's 9th Symphony is also no longer "relevant". The first to do something are remembered, those who come after must be significantly better or different to be recognized. If someone wants to see Carav
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> Artists of the past were basically human rendering engines A lie promulgated by modern art as justification for forcing out all prior art styles and aesthetics, but nothing could be further from the truth. Have you ever seen photos lik
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> I read lots of children’s books [..] virtually all of these books were written by people in the New York area. And virtually all the movies we watch are made in Hollywood. I've always found it sad how impoverished this makes our m
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by Bran_son 3y ago
In Ireland, perhaps soon: Irish Citizens Could Soon Be Jailed for ‘Possessing Material Likely to Incite Violence or Hatred’ - https://www.foxnews.com/media/irish-citizens-jailed-possessi... If you don't trust Fo
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by Bran_son 3y ago
Then they will reveal the real reason they oppose immigration: to reduce competition of their genetic in-group with other groups.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> we can change the reason for the statistical correlation: poverty. Even within the same income bracket, the black homicide rate is an order of magnitude larger than the white one (and after 1975, the homicide rate of the richest blacks
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> And yet, there are no calls from them for a restriction on male immigration. I'm pretty sure they call for restricting immigration of both sexes. Besides, if you believe violence is partly genetic, then a sex-based immigration res
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> You're assuming your family is entitled to keep forever everything that it happens to have received in its economic activities. That would be ignoring income taxes and VAT. And I'm well aware of the failures of the free marke
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Social Fascism(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Bran_son 3y ago
Fine, lose (1 - 0.75^4) = 68% of everything. Plus what is lost to inflation. Thank you for such meaningful criticism.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> A key reason there are such large soon-to-be-inherited sums is the uneven way boomers superbly benefited from price growth in the financial and housing markets. While their point about financial markets is valid, framing rising house p
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by Bran_son 3y ago
A 25% inheritance tax, i.e. lose everything your family worked for in just four generations. That's ignoring inflation. The logical conclusion of the idea that where you are born is just an "accident", and you have no legitim
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> emails of people who have clicked on an ad, or entered their email saying they support A, B, or C and give them permission to post a comment on their behalf Even supposing they did it this way, and people gave their informed consent (f
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by Bran_son 3y ago
It applies always. But I don't see contractual consent as the highest moral virtue.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
The company consented to have its contracts limited by continuing to do business in the EU.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> Do your part and say no. I'll do my part and vote to make it illegal, and not reduce myself to a mere consumer. Just like companies don't, and lobby for restrictive patent laws. What happens when one side limits itself to jus
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> You agreed to it, it doesn’t matter how one sided it was. The libertarian philosophy in a nutshell. It doesn't matter if society turns into a corporate fiefdom, as long as contracts and property rights are upheld.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
Given that it is near impossible to participate in modern society without patronizing contract-abusing corporations, we should ask ourselves: Do we want to be ruled by laws, or by contracts?
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> you entered a contract in which IKEA rented you a house I love how any interaction with a company means we enter into a one-sided contract with them and own nothing, despite spending money. Don't like it? Just go live in a cave! I

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