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by HSO 11y ago
ZenoArrow just asked me to tell him or her a fact.
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> truth is not a single point, it's a range Uh, that really depends on the domain. I agree that politics is the art of compromise but that does not mean there are no facts and logic.
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Wasn't there a change of ownership a few years ago? If so, I'd also tend to a wait-and-see attitude until it's clear what changed and what didn't.
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Let me quote from http://www.paulgraham.com/ineq.html : > when I hear people saying that economic inequality is bad and should be eliminated, I feel rather like a wild animal overhearing a conversation between hunters.
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> When PG says "income inequality isn't bad per se" I take it to mean that he sees the current level of income inequality, for example, in the US, as not bad, Well, then you are more generous than I am. To me, it is a cl
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From skimming the links provided, my impression is that these authors or texts address increases in inequality or the importance of the middle class (which presumes inequality). Can you show more directly where someone is arguing for&#x
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> But economic inequality per se is not bad. Both essays feel like they are built on a strawman argument. Nobody serious said inequality was bad or good, not even Piketty. The discussion is about degrees, and PG adds nothing to it by a
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> But economic inequality per se is not bad. Both essays feel like they are built on a strawman argument. Nobody serious said inequality was bad or good, not even Piketty. The discussion is about degrees , and PG adds nothing to it by
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For the record, I said your assertion that Apple's cash position was due to Double Irish tax maneuvers on US income is wrong, and that net cash (once you account for debt issued to pay dividends) is significantly lower, both in absol
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> That's how they ended up with $200bn offshore and only $10bn or so in the US. Wrong. They initiated a capital return program a few years ago and ran down their US cash holdings while taking on debt "against" part of th
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OT but I hate this kind of language. First, "white" is not a color? And much more importantly, so-called "white" people are not white at all. They call themselves white because some racist wingnut in the past designate
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On the recommendation of another comment here, I just discovered something that seems like a direct answer to your question: http://fivebooks.com/interview/roman-krznaric-on-the-art-of-... I especially liked this: &quo
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The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by HSO 11y ago|0 comments
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I usually just upvote but this is a very good comment. Thank you!
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It already exists. It's called "books". ;)
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alternative link: https://mobile.twitter.com/ProtonMail
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> Steve Jobs was quite happy to allow dreadful products like [...] the original Retina MacBook to go to market despite a litany of issues. What are you talking about? I got the first rMBP right out of the gate and was blown away. After
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by HSO 11y ago
Not true. You can allow/disallow network access for each individual app, even system apps.
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Sherry Turkle’s ‘Reclaiming Conversation’(nytimes.com)
23 points by HSO 11y ago|8 comments
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Sorry for the wall of text but this passage from Kundera [1] always comes to mind when I realize (or remember) that noise, somehow, is taken for granted by most people I know: I complain, and they say "stop whining". But it is e
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Sherry Turkle’s ‘Reclaiming Conversation’(nytimes.com)
2 points by HSO 11y ago|0 comments
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Safari Blocker seems good (and honest, so far)
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I shouldn't even comment on this BS article but here we go, duty calls ( https://xkcd.com/386/ )… 1) First of all, let's make clear that there are no "the economists" and there is no "economics
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by HSO 11y ago
Only they: terrorists Only you: freedom fighter, liberator Only they: imperialists Only you: protector Only they: baby killers Only you: collateral damage I'm sure George Carlin could come up with more expensive shots… Man, I miss him.
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I use adblock, ghostery, several JS blacklists etc., uninstalled all Flash from all computers years ago, and still I regularly catch "funny calls" to strange IPs I don't even visit in Little Snitch. Highly recommend this li
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> Rational expectations and heterogeneous expectations don't conflict with each other. Good point, although I didn't say they did. One can indeed view RE as a special case of heterogeneous expectations, and in fact that is es
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> There is only one thing being valued by a rational investor: net present value of future cash flows. This only holds under the assumption of rational expectations. Under the more reasonable assumption of heterogeneous expectations,
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I'm tempted to say: "Such a rube! Welcome to the world." ;-) Of course there were going to be problems. I used to be a huge Apple fan, but my enthusiasm has been badly tempered by experience. All the cloud and software-rela
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Has been expanded by the author into a book: [1] S. Montgomery. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness. Atria Books, 2015. This story made my day, and it's not even noon yet! 😊 Looking forward
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At the risk of being a moralizing bore, may I remind everybody that "Germany", "Greece" etc. are not people, and that people are not countries? I am surprised by the national coloring, however faint, of some comments her

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