JesperRavn

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by JesperRavn 11y ago
so you say something is a myth, not because it is untrue, but because you want it to be untrue?
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
To clarify, the theory behind the free market is that the seven figure salary in finance represents a greater contribution to the net social good than a teacher. You personally might not agree with this, but you are completely misrepresent
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What I'm suggesting is a balance between natural rights and consequentialism. The current situation where we only care about natural rights is also horrific, so there is no ground for a slippery slope argument. Adults and even children
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
Changed the wording. Do you honestly believe your second sentence?
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
I think the onus is on you to prove that, given that it places you in such a tiny minority
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Euthanizing children with this condition at birth should not only be legal, but encouraged. Because of the enormous suffering they experience.
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
The physical world is much less flexible and forgiving than the world of software. A civil engineer can't say "this beam will break every week, so I'm just going to put a robot next to it that will attach a new been when i
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
I can see progress. Better languages: {C#, C++14, Go, Rust} > Java, {ES6, TypeScript} > JavaScript, and Python keeps getting better thanks to Python 3 and an better libraries. Scaling: OpenCL and CUDA have both taken off, delivering
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
She never said finance was sexist, only that people were rude in general. I'm not making any claims myself, only relating the experience of a colleague.
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
Friedman and Stiglitz yes, but they are not very recent (in terms of when they produced their main work) but for the others Tyler Cowen [0]: So I take the Georgist view to imply two claims. First, it is easier or better to tax barebones la
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
true, but that didn't happen to my colleague. I'm just pointing out that one data point for people who are suggesting "ask your female colleagues".
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
Hope this helps. Was that intended to convey that you are speaking authoritatively and I'm uninformed? If so, what is the basis for your authority on this topic? The vast majority of economists recommend income, consumption or valu
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
That's the problem with simply saying "taxis are regulated because of externalities, so they deserve special privileges". Taxis are among the worst, most aggressive drivers on the streets. Medallions mean there are less of
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
I asked my only female coworker about this, and she said she had never experienced sexual harassment, and found tech culture tame compared with finance, where people would shout at programmers over the phone if things went wrong. Just one d
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
Although I don't work remotely, I can get most of my work done from my laptop even with very low bandwidth wifi. So even $35 for a 6 hour flight is a good deal for the company considering I'm getting hundreds of dollars worth of
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
the LVT is highly regarded among economists as among the most efficient taxes. Almost no mainstream economists recommend a land value tax. For example, consult any graduate or undergraduate textbook. I would challenge you to find a sing
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
I've always been afraid of intravenous sedation (="twilight anesthetic" in other English speaking countries) for the same reason. The only time I experienced it was for an endoscopy. Because I was a heavy drinker at the time
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
No, it has to be someone human. Without taxation, people would consume a certain amount. When you tax, someone's consumption has to go down, in order for the government to have something to redistribute/spend. In your example, w
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
No you really do need a model, because right now you are talking about the whole economy, but only analysing a part of it. If you want to talk about the mechanisms by which the economy operates, such as consumption driving economic growt
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
But tax has to hurt someone, and having a job is the least discriminatory way to assign this. Income is a measure of how fast your wealth is growing, and so by taking a proportion of your income, the government takes a proportion of your w
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
If they were, that is extremely suspect, since you can't just create an accurate simulation of financial markets in a lab (while you can easily simulate the trading performance of an individual). Nonetheless, they have no finance peop
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
Current taxation (e.g. income tax) should be completely fine. The government needs money to redistribute to people who are not doing well financially for any reason. But there is no particular reason to be more generous to people whose po
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
While I support redistribution for its own sake, the idea that the economy is driven by consumption is false. Even Keynes would not have said so: it is only during recessions that Keynes (correctly) said that the economy needed to be stimu
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
By reducing the effects of hormones on trading, “you should get better returns and longer period of stability where people make money,” Roberts said. “That’s beneficial to everyone.” I don't see how everyone can make money in what is
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
You'll have to explain that better. Stop trying to shut down debate with the R word.
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Tracy Jordan's entire character is not being a Black stereotype, and making fun of the discrepancy between his character and the stereotype. Jian Yang is an Asian stereotype.
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It's hard to make humorous shows without exposing some group to ridicule. While males are of course an acceptable target, but then the show looks too "PC". So in order to show that we're totally cool and not PC, a safe
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
Please be civil, I'm not going to "fuck off" just because you argue in an aggressive manner. All your verbal arguments are obfuscation. This is simple arithmetic. What we would like to measure is the total post-tax and pos
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by JesperRavn 11y ago
I found the Jian Yang entry offensive. Within liberal culture, it's typical to allow offensive stereotypes against Asians, on the basis that it is actually mocking the stereotype, not Asians. But this is inconsistent, since no one wo
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Here in Switzerland black Swiss do not commit more murders than other "races". [citation needed]

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