TangoTrotFox

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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
I've been having the exact same issue. I tend to leave a relatively large number of windows/tabs open and Firefox is starting to edge towards unusability on a 4x3.2ghz + 16GB RAM system simply because its performance and memory co
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
Your argument fails to the same issue as the one you're responding to. There are countless countries with both extremely high and extremely low tax rates, but here seems to be little connection in general to economic/social develo
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
A little information is a dangerous thing. --- Sufficiently flawed journalism is perhaps one of the most severe problems in our society. People are fed half truths, and at times simply false information, and then go on to repeat it and
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
Then you have the privilege of having not been in independent game development before Steam then! Steam takes about 30% and that comes with little to no stipulations. You can go put your product on other platforms, you can generate steam ke
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
The blacksmith would indeed own his 'means of production'. The one and only reason he would have difficulty selling it is because of rules and regulations. This was rather the whole point of the example. As rules and regulations m
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
Mostly agreed - we're saying the exact same thing here. You'll also find that going back in time there were also far fewer rules against individual entrepreneurship. And where there were rules they were enforced in a more sane fas
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
The issues are intrinsically connected. People don't just start out e.g. going from nothing to building let's say a telecoms company. Entrepreneurship and creating businesses is a cycle of growth. For instance Bezos' first &#
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
FiveThirtyEight ran an article on ADHD prescriptions [1]. It's getting pretty silly. If people don't know ADHD was not recognized as a disorder until 1968. And the popularity of drugging people for it didn't really take off u
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
Artificially limiting the 'means of production' (which is such an increasingly inappropriate and dated concept to use for these sort of discussions) is precisely the issue. Imagine a kingdom where a king created rules that, in eff
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
No, it's not. As you can prove by a simple reduction to absurdity. Let's take a feudal system. But in this feudal system our lord will pass a law that effectively means exactly the king's 'chosen' is able to be a bl
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
There is a yin and yang to nearly everything in reality. Without this great evil, it's entirely possible humanity might have remained completely stagnant, or even have begun to regress. Stick 1000 people in a utopia where they have eve
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
There's one important nuance here. Those machines are playing against super human defense. In human chess there are countless positions that computers can easily defend whereas even the best players in the world would lose nearly every
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
I think the key distinction is capitalism vs corporatism. Corporatism is feudalism wearing a capitalist mask. The elite companies in the top do operate in a free market, but the story for the rest of society is radically different. I think
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
Do you know how to cook well? Go to the front of your yard, set out a table, and start selling your food. It's now a count down until you're ticketed and/or arrested, and the police also decide to take any money in your walle
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
He was mostly talking of for-pay goods and services. The current trend of offering "free" services, that are anything but, is severely distorting the market. It's exploiting a current gap in consumer knowledge where people ar
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
Just to provide some historical context, our space program that ultimately put a man on the moon was largely driven by Nazi science. In particular, Wernher von Braun was a key figure in the design and development of the Nazi's V-2 ICBM
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
Like many things here though there's a chicken and egg type scenario. Society mostly started with increasingly isolated tribal groups. Over time, and lots of killing, the most successful groups started to form into larger and larger gr
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
This is also why I think the idea of combating fake reviews is not really viable. I sell a widget for $20 with real costs of $8. I expect positive reviews will increase my ranking as well as purchase rate the order of let's say $5milli
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
There is 0 opt-out telemetry in most (all?) major flavors of Linux. But there's an even more important issue here. Even if there were some form of telemetry in Linux you'd be able to see exactly what it's collecting and whe
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
I think you're looking a bit further back than necessary. FiveThirtyEight oddly enough did a bit on ADHD pharmaceuticals here [1] that gives some numbers. So for instance just between 2008 and 2013 adult usage of ADHD medication double
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
Your IP makes incognito relatively pointless, and that's before you get into various clever forms of browser finger printing. If you want privacy you need to use TOR. Incognito should be treated as a convenient way to run without cooki
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
I think the argument here is directly analogous to why university prices started going loony. When it became impossible for even private education loans to be dismissed in bankruptcy suddenly education loans became seen as very near 0 risk.
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
I'm curious about your take on something. ADHD was not recognized as a disorder until 1968. And the popularity of pharmaceuticals for ADD/ADHD didn't really take off until the 90s when a pharmaceutical industry astroturfing g
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
I'd debate the degree to which China opened its markets, but that's an aside -- I mostly agree with you in theory. But there's one nagging issue. Countless other developing nations that have done things such as open their mar
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
China has gone from an undeveloped nation where people were literally starving to death by the tens of millions, to one of the most powerful and economically successful nations in the world. And they did this all in less than a single human
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
You've gotta look at things in perspective. When you live in China what you get is basically 0 crime, a very rapidly developing economy with huge potential for all sorts of entrepreneurship, extremely cheap cost of living with heavy su
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
It's interesting that this seems so futuristic and dystopic yet in reading about the specifics it seems oddly reminiscent to social systems many centuries past. In particular it seems to effect similar results to what exile would have
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
In would not underestimate the potential harm of pharmaceuticals, let alone psychotropics. Just because it's stamped by the FDA does not necessarily mean something is absolutely and inherently safe - it means that there is insufficient
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
A self declared mathematician that can't tell you what the answer to 4x + 7 = 19 is, is not going to be a good mathematician even though it's generally not the case that solving trivial algebraic problems makes up any meaningful
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by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
Think about the countless examples of individuals successfully publishing papers, in a variety of different academic fields, that were intentionally nonsensical or absurd. A big part of the reason they were able to do this is because academ

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