MispelledToyota

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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
Presumably capital changing ownership will tend towards ownership by those who can deploy it more productively, so it doesn't seem like bits shifting around is positive evidence that it's value neutral or negative in real terms. O
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
presumably if a transaction is taking place, the parties involved value the state of affairs after the transaction more than they did what came before, so value is being created, even including the transaction cost.
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
Software Engineers use assembly.
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
Yes, we will have to see. I think my own attachments to liberal values don't provide much guidance for how humanity will be best served. But I hope whatever emerges or wins out does it somehow by making people live meaningful lives, an
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
You're at the mercy of powerful actors regardless of whether you consent to it. A law will affect me the same way regardless of whether I believe in it. A rock blocking my path blocks it whether I consent to it being there. Maybe I can
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
well said
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
I think this is magical thinking about what a government is. The social contract theory is a just-so story. It's not real. Governments exist because they are a tool for concentrating power and out-compete other social groupings in term
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
Then yes, rights don't exist at all. What we do have is something else, let's call it "rights(tm)", which are a social construct used to privilege and protect individuality. We use it as a tool when making decisions abou
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
If rights are unlimited, and only their expression can be limited, then it seems like it is a category that excludes nothing and so is basically vacuous.
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
The only right that seems even remotely plausible and socially independent was Hobbes's claim that we have a right to defend ourselves from being killed. Anything else just seems too ontologically and epistemologically suspect.
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
Rights are only a concept that exists within societies, so it seems like societies will either define rights broadly and then discuss tradeoffs, or they would need to define rights very narrowly so a tradeoff isn't conceivable. But the
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
I don't think that's how prototypes work in JavaScript though. The newly created objects refer to a chain of prototype references, and changes to the underlying prototypes will affect already existing objects.
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
I think Kyle Simpson's You Don't Know JS does a good job about this. But on the other hand, it seems like it's usually safer to keep it simple, treating it more or less as classical and using classes, to make a codebase that
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
I think the idea behind it is the parenting approach. A hypothesis about it is that it results in children earning more money, but that's not inherent to the concept.
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
The question was about how someone should form their opinions, and whether we can tell others how they ought to do that. Lots of our opinions do affect others (e.g., if they should be hired, if one should help them, how we treat their reput
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
You can tell someone what good criteria are for wines, why not forming opinions? They're not obligated to listen to you, but I don't get saying that you can't advise. Beyond that though, when our opinions have consequences, w
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
The whole point of accounting is to force black and white distinctions, especially in ambiguous situations. But in fact there is no ambiguity about this. Owing someone money doesn't earn you money. Owning an asset that you may have acq
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
Just because a mortgage is a liability doesn't mean it's a bad financial decision to incur a mortgage to own a house, agreed.
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
I totally agree. I'm making the narrow point that a mortgage is a debt, and classified as a liability. A house is an asset. The benefit of purchasing real estate with leverage vs cash doesn't change how they sit on a balance shee
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
that's a bit confusing. While you can sometimes get away with leaving out dependencies, and then you don't have to useMemo or useCallback as often, it seems like there is a much larger downside to having potentially stale values i
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
I think it's questionable whether top-down interventions could ever control the negative externalities associated with greed. The upside of character is it is a bottom-up limitation on creating negative externalities, placed on those w
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
What would be the coordinating factor? Surely its disappearance is the failing of some collection of some individuals?
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
It literally isn't. It's a liability. Debt being reduced by inflation doesn't change that fact.
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
And milky ways are assets too (inventory I suppose). Doesn't mean you won't go broke putting all your money into milky ways.
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
asceticism. I think we can all agree aestheticism is the highest moral accomplishment of all.
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
Yeah, I'm from the midwest and only would use it somewhat tongue in cheek or to mix things up. But most short-hands for American culture internationally seem to be focused on Southern/Western.
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
"Howdy" seems like a successful synechdoche for American dialect to me. Seems like what makes something a proper representation is somewhat personal.
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
doesn't really hold up. If there was one person left alive on Earth they would still speak a language, and there would be observable rules about it all the same.
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
that would be a fine thing to say. Seems like everything is fine.
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by MispelledToyota 5y ago
if it's tautological then there's no reason to attack it. It's merely uninteresting. If people still think they don't like it than the critique would have to something else.

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