Xirdus

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by Xirdus 1mo ago
Yep, exactly.
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
It wasn't unproductive at all! Can't you see we just about worked out a consensus?
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
If there's no electronic record, then there's nothing for tax authorities to compare your declared revenue to. If you say you earned only $1000, then for all intensive porpoises, you earned only $1000 and that's the end of it
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
I'm the immigrant in question. I pay with card for literally everything online and offline, except two things - my haircuts and my wife's nails. Both of which accept credit cards. I go out of my way to withdraw cash (10 minute dri
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
There is a world of difference between "is a physical trait" and "is attached to, associated with, or correlated with physical traits". The way I see it, saying that intelligence is correlated with physical body features
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
I could link to a bunch more studies that find more direct genetic links to musical aptitude in particular rather than musical perception in general. But I'd rather skip the busy work and jump straight to the point where we both agree
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
The question is what percentage of overall population are 1, 2 and 3 combined, and is it big enough to warrant the perception that high reward cards are only for high earners/spenders. My instinct says hell no, not even close.
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
Based on the downvote and your reaction, I assume I misread something. We're talking about why Americans sometimes prefer paying with cash over credit card, no?
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
My first US credit card was a 4-3-2-1% rewards program and I had literally zero income at the time. I was told by the banker, "oh you can't do that right away, you must first get a secured card to build your credit score, after a
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
A lot of it is to enable the small business owners to hide their real income. At least that's how it works in immigrant communities.
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
But musical skills are largely genetic. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4073543/ I still refuse to call playing piano a physical trait.
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
> You are arguing that intelligence is primarily trained and not primarily a physical trait, no? No I'm not. Not as stated. You are correct in that the more trainable intelligence is, the less people care about IQ. Coincidentally, p
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by Xirdus 1mo ago
> So why do you believe someone with 180 IQ is that much smarter than 100, if you agree there are no metrics to back it up? Because that's how it works for most other learnable, trainable skills that aren't dependent on physica
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
> "can workplace democracy enable workers to live happier lives?" Compared to what? The most pro-employee capitalist business imaginable? No, not really, the most pro-employee capitalist business imaginable already provides me
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
It feels like you are saying that you are aware that most democratic workplaces would become highly dysfunctional in a short time, and you are okay with it. But then the question is - what exactly is the benefit of workplace democracy if it
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
Admittedly I skimmed most of your comment. I'm not masochistic enough to enjoy reading what an idiot I am or whatever else you wrote there, and I come to this site for enjoyment. Let me know if I missed something important, like not un
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
> Hehe I don’t need to argue every wrong thing you say No you don't. But if it's a central point of my argument, and ESPECIALLY when you throw it in my face later on that I based my argument around it - it feels like I wasted a
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
Okay, let's step back a little. When you said "there are good reasons to assume IQ works the same way [as the hypothetical HQ]" - what exactly did you mean by that? Did you mean to imply the ratio between intelligence of some
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
Well, you made the arguably far less substantiated claim that intelligence is a physical attribute and thus bounded to +/-20% range for most of the population... And that it can't be trained, despite all the evidence to contrary
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
And yet, people who do IQ tests a lot score better. Sure, you can claim IQ test solving skill is not the same as intelligence - but then why are you measuring intelligence with IQ tests?
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
Cooperation is easy when everybody cooperates and has the same goals. Even in a 100% privately owned company with strict hierarchy and egomaniacal CEO. The problems start when the goals stop aligning or people stop cooperating. And it doesn
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
> Because intelligence is a physical attribute I question this assumption. Especially considering you can train intelligence .
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
> There are good reasons to assume IQ works the same way What are these reasons? For most abilities not tied to physical limits of the body (reading speed, musical skills, memory, bow/gun shooting, bowling, bull riding, knitting), t
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
Cycling is something your body must physically practice in as close to race conditions as possible to get good results. Programming is not, it's all in your head so to speak. I've been programming from my phone as early as 2013. Y
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
Able to vote for their leadership - check. Voice has a place - check. Incentives other than monetary - check. Chance to dictate more of their lives - check. Mass consensus - check. Maybe I'm missing something but I really don't se
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
Congratulations, all 3400 of your fellow workers cast a vote, and 2800 of them voted to stop mandatory voting. And if they cannot vote on that then what can they vote on?
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
It's not a punchline at all. If HOAs are pure democracy, and businesses should be as democratic as possible, then naturally the ideal structure of a business is very close to HOA, if not identical to HOA. As far as I know, the vast maj
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
And you expect democratically run companies to have higher voter participation why exactly?
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
At the risk of being accused of reductio ad absurdum - do you want companies to be run like American HOAs? If so, do you expect the results to be the same or different than with HOAs?
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by Xirdus 2mo ago
Why? There were a lot of people who didn't own a personal computer before 2000 too. It just wasn't needed. And nowadays, it also isn't needed, albeit for different reasons. The time window where it was actually a reasonable a

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