KorematsuFred

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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
> There's a democratic quality to waiting What does that supposed to even mean ? There is no virtue in needlessly waiting for something in a line. Assigning virtue to such inefficiency is dangerous. I am pretty sure people who are b
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
> it has certainly evolved since the time of Panini, just evolved in a way that doesn't break the rules set up by Panini. This is important. This constraint alone helps oral traditions a great deal.
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
I disagree. The key difference is here is that language sanskrit is unlike any other languages in the world. Somewhere during 400 BC. a grammarian named Panini formalized Sanskrit grammar as precise, formally defined 4200 rules. This book c
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
> But somehow somebody needs to pay for those services, which comes down to tax on individuals and corporations that reside or register in a country. In most of those cases, tax need not be the only way to pay for those services. Governm
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
> Because greed leads people to harm and neglect others for gain I accept a job offer than pays me more, that is greed but how does that cause anyone harm or cause neglect ? I think you are mistaking lack of compassion on charity to be g
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
None of that makes sense to me. Which company out there is not working for a profit ? Which company has to "sacrifice" anything for profits ? Amazon is working hard to get things to our doorstep for real low prices, is that a sacr
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
This classic example is why some journalists need some real good education in Economics. How many sq feet of land do you need to grow say 1000KG of wheat ? That number would widely vary. In Nevada that number would be really really huge com
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
There is absolutely no evidence that Amazon is a monopoly in India, Flipkart is their main competitor and e-commerce is one of the hottest markets in India we increasing competition from all sides. There is no evidence that Amazon will make
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
I am not sure why Amazon should care about anyone other than itself. To make profits though they have to serve an ordinary blok like me.
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
> regulatory evasion skills You will be surprised to know that from your corner store florist to Walmart and from Bank of America to your child's babysitter everyone is obstructed by regulators of all kinds and to some or large exte
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
It is not clear to me why being selfish is either antisocial or being greedy is antisocial. Almost all the better societies, more livable societies are where people are free to pursue their own self interest (aka greed or profits). The one
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
A lot of currencies in the world are not stable and some are worse than some shitcoin. Also, there are some ridiculous restrictions on what you can do with your own money. For example in India you simply can't leave the country with yo
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
> Could it be 2% or 3% etc. instead? Why should forcibly taking money from other people have earned be a good thing ? A perhaps better idea would be just to ban Starbucks from the country and let government run a monopolized coffee shop
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
> huge scandal in which the tax authority incorrectly reclaimed thousands of euro's These sort of things probably fall under the category of fraud, wrongdoings, crime etc. any ways and I do not imply that you should be proud of thes
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
> helping their wealthy be greedier. I fail to understand what is wrong with this. What is wrong in people keeping more of their wealth to themselves ? Heck I am not even very rich but would love to live in a country that does not tax an
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
> I think it is lack of education. I do not think you mean education as in formal education but rather people have not systematically thought about these things. And, I think people will never be educated enough on this topic. Inflation
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
Why they don't want to hear this ? Isn't it something the Dutch people should be very proud of ?
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
Without a doubt it is inefficient. Now US government can arm twist wist Visa and Mastercard to stop serving companies they dont like (Po*nhub). They can not do that to Bitcoin. This is the value the inefficiency adds.
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
Future is not for us to see and when it comes to predicting future of nations and societies we are especially pretty bad. Having said that sustainability is a first world problem. There is no point sustaining anything if 80% of your populat
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
Would I rather prefer the society of 1995 or of 2020 ? That is a very simple question for me. I do not find it very close. If I your were in India which was a deep socialist state in 1980s and 1995 just when the seeds of 1992 reforms were s
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
Oh my sweet summer child, thou has not seen the internal working of government contracts. In order to qualify to even bid on a contract there is a pretty high entry barrier. The amount of time it will take you to cross that barrier would be
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
Great example. Reminds me of Milton Friedman's "Nobody knows how to make a pencil" essay. A lot of human progress is result of human actions but not planning. Centralized planning around "climate change" would 100%
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
> Ikea is making furniture, something people really need. Why they have to explain themselves for doing something useful? What should they use to produce furniture? Would plastic be any better? Iron? Stone? Unfortunately we live in a wor
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
> You could built a national network of self-driving lanes for a fraction of that. You could build rail lines and subways in every major metro area. Most of them will be built by government making huge losses, they will go from nowhere t
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
None of them have to deal with fat tail risks. (to quote nissim ntaleb). I do not know about dbw pedals but power steering and anti-lock breaking operate 100% deterministically and the only true unknown is controlled by the driver.
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
> The gap between paying a driver and using cutting edge tech is super thin at best. The analogy is that the electric bulb did not replace candle as such but created entirely new possibilities that were unimaginable when the bulb was inv
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
> while naming the technology "Full Self Driving" and Elon Musk hyping it up every chance he gets on how it will be Level 5-ready by end of the year. I am an anti-goverment anti-regulation Libertarian and even I think the gover
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
To be honest FBI did see this and they did work to counter it but the Administration did not take their warning seriously. Donald Trump refused to deploy National Guard and Pence had to do it even though Pence did not have the authority. Yo
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
Unionization is an ideological flamewar to begin with.
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
> Teachers unions may care more about teachers ... Teachers union is easily one of the worst Unions in USA which has turned public education system into a wasteland of incompetent teachers protected at the expense of competent and unempl

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