DarylZero

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by DarylZero 4y ago
Whatever you want to call it, you need coercion to enforce the exclusivity. That's a difference between physical objects and trading pure labor itself (like the trading foot massages example).
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by DarylZero 4y ago
It's very unrealistic, one might say childishly naive, to assume that this is how income is distributed.
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by DarylZero 4y ago
Equating people's income with "the fruits of their labor" is ridiculous. (Might as well claim that the government's income collected through taxes is the fruits of the government's labor.)
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by DarylZero 4y ago
Enacting property rights over those natural resources is the initial act of coercion that makes trade possible. Merely using resources isn't coercion but it doesn't "result in property" unless you also apply coercion to
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by DarylZero 4y ago
No, the code that uses the library is a derivative work of the library, whether or not it modifies the library. GPL still allows commercial use in any case, it just requires you release your code under GPL.
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by DarylZero 4y ago
You still have to build it out of something. An economy of pure traded labor, like trading foot massages or whatever, wouldn't actually have property.
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by DarylZero 4y ago
> psychology is based in neurology It isn't though. It's not like math, built on axiomatic foundations. Psychology predates the discovery of neurons. (Math isn't really like that either.)
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by DarylZero 4y ago
There still needs to be an initial act of taking by force to set up the initial ownership, creating the possibility of trade.
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by DarylZero 4y ago
I've heard BoomerBook
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by DarylZero 4y ago
This is the real question. How can the ether rot? Is it not eternal?
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by DarylZero 4y ago
Yeah we need to use a good mocking nickname for that company.
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by DarylZero 4y ago
Blackmail is a specific type of extortion, but people often use the word "blackmail" when they mean extortion in general.
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by DarylZero 4y ago
There's an established word for it: "framing" (or "frame-up").
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by DarylZero 4y ago
All very good points. I'd like to add that several of the advantages you list also apply to the old-school mouse vs. the touchscreen & touchpad.
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by DarylZero 4y ago
> For example, advances in DIY biohacking tools might make it easy for anybody with basic training in biology to kill mil- lions; novel military technologies could trigger arms races in which whoever strikes first has a decisive advantag
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by DarylZero 4y ago
The filesystem provides its own ACID guarantees too. Well, some filesystems.
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by DarylZero 4y ago
Not clear how long your "sessions" are but they have poker tournaments where the same people regularly make it to the top.
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by DarylZero 4y ago
Just make all the benefits universal, so they never go down no matter your income. This is the right solution mathematically. Politically though it's divisive because it also makes the programs harder to repeal in the future.
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by DarylZero 4y ago
Well if you only have $2.5k and no income it's probably going to housing costs. (Am I here to answer stupid questions...)
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by DarylZero 4y ago
In practice you can just keep your savings in cash and not disclose it.
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by DarylZero 4y ago
Well your previous logic is refuted and now you're just moving on to some other shit like you never said it. Not a good look.
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by DarylZero 4y ago
Yeah it's a dumb idea. Making people spend down their savings when they have no income to pay for food.
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by DarylZero 4y ago
That's a good example of the kind of practical thing that people in poverty are more likely to know. Of course it's an example of a strategy for coping with poverty, rather than a step out of poverty. (A common misconception is t
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by DarylZero 4y ago
Well, it's not a simulation.
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by DarylZero 4y ago
Yes poverty is caused by people not knowing certain strategies, and those strategies are of course known by people who are not poor... come on.
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by DarylZero 4y ago
Seems silly, this isn't going to be like poverty at all. Poverty isn't just low levels of routine spending. A better poverty simulator is, maybe, go ahead and keep your high level of consumption, but cancel all your insurance pol
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by DarylZero 4y ago
Not sure if you're aware of this, but it's just a lie, and the goal of telling that lie is political conservatism.
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by DarylZero 4y ago
Or here's an interesting fact: SNAP (food stamps) have cost-of-living adjustments. When food prices go up, SNAP benefits go up. But SSI benefits count SNAP as income and there is a dollar-for-dollar downward adjustment for every incre
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by DarylZero 4y ago
Making the benefits universal would increase everyone's personal budgets to compensate.
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by DarylZero 4y ago
It has a convoluted mess of programs, often mutually exclusive, that each have separate requirements and "churn" people off their benefits regularly with complicated and recurring bureaucratic burdens. It's not actually &quot

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