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by I-M-S 4y ago
The totality of my life experience has shown me it's precisely the other way around - it's the reckless people who punish and impede us all for their sake. Just like there are no all-knowing bureaucrats who can detect Ponzi scheme
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by I-M-S 4y ago
The cleave-line IMO is very clear: the have and have-nots. People who live of capital (i.e. rent-seeking) VS those who live of their labour (or rather increasingly don't).
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by I-M-S 4y ago
It not the small doses that makes it ok, it's the fact the speaker is small. If however, the speaker gains a following and the systems starts to perceive it as a threat rather than a nuisance, the reaction is much different.
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by I-M-S 4y ago
You probably meant 2nd millennium (VS century). Is this script available on the Black List?
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by I-M-S 4y ago
Yeah, about that whole owning land thing... We might have made a wrong turn there ( especially without land tax as a balancing mechanic)
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by I-M-S 4y ago
End to NIMBYism. Current homeowners should not be able to block new developments and encase a neighbourhood in amber.
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by I-M-S 4y ago
Joke's on them, in the last 2 years QR codes made the greatest upset of all times
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by I-M-S 5y ago
How does classicism differ from racism? The fact a neighbourhood association would welcome a Black cardiologist but not a white barista doesn't make it any less nefarious.
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by I-M-S 5y ago
This is an ad nauseam repeated false statistic. That number counts household members - meaning ~70% of population owns property when you account children in those households (and grandparents). And those children are definitely going to n
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by I-M-S 5y ago
Two other languages I speak refer to noun "child" in neutral gender, so maybe English is the outlier here.
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by I-M-S 5y ago
Wikipedia has an extensive entry on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inequity_aversion_in_animals
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by I-M-S 5y ago
Indeed. In fact, OP's quote is considered and dismissed by Graeber in Debt using precisely the same example : "Occasionally, we can even find some kind of currency beginning to develop: for instance, in POW camps and many prisons
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by I-M-S 5y ago
I am deeply convinced economists fulfill the same function in our society that priests did in earlier ages - they flatter and influence the powerful, and avert people's attention from obvious injustices by packaging their hardship into
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by I-M-S 5y ago
If you're going to dismiss all economists & anthropologists that do not subscribe to your opinions, you're not going to advance your opinions very much
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by I-M-S 5y ago
One is a choice the other is not
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by I-M-S 5y ago
Who are they beautiful for, if there's no people to appreciate it?
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by I-M-S 5y ago
Thank you. The Globe and Mail did mention the trampling incident and Ottawa Citizen is definitely not an US source. I only know of Adam Vaughn from his stances on housing which have discredited him in my eyes.
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by I-M-S 5y ago
Downvoted you until you provide sources
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by I-M-S 5y ago
One of my professors said (or quoted) that Ulysses is "a good write rather than a good read", which I still think is the best description of the book
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by I-M-S 5y ago
Religiously using condoms is not using them very much
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by I-M-S 5y ago
Sortition was part of election process for Venetian doges - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_of_Venice
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by I-M-S 5y ago
If anyone else is interested in the author who exerted such prescience, Wikipedia has an article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._L._George
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2001: A Space Odyssey “Stargate” Sequence Reimagined by AI in Style of Alex Grey(youtube.com)
3 points by I-M-S 5y ago|0 comments
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by I-M-S 5y ago
Saying we need to "de-politicize" things is akin to saying we need to "de-human" them.
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by I-M-S 5y ago
> In the 30-60 day window, you should set goals with your boss if that’s not already done. Drag out the newbie card and claim slow ramp-up time. Identify what absolutely needs to be done, communicate that as your goal, and meet them. In
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Inflation in the Housing Market(awealthofcommonsense.com)
2 points by I-M-S 5y ago|1 comments
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by I-M-S 5y ago
If we count all the lives saved by extra organs donated, maybe?
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by I-M-S 5y ago
How old were you when you left USSR?
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by I-M-S 5y ago
Irrelevant, really - HN doesn't support tagging (for better or worse)
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by I-M-S 5y ago
This week two years ago, I launched my fiction podcast The Program audio series on HN. Since then, the show grew to 22 episodes and has recently surpassed 300,000 downloads. I wanted to mark the occasion with the third instalment in a serie

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