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by adamlett 11y ago
I'm all for blind auditions and eliminating discrimination. Good for you, but that wasn't really the point of that example. The point was that there is no good reason to assume that the same dynamic that caused women to loose au
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to forcible attribute achievements to a specific sub-group claiming that they earned those achievements in direct competition will the all group As the example with the symphony orchestras showed, it is entirely possible that the achievem
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by adamlett 11y ago
Yeah, it's just that the subjects women tend to dominate pay less than the subjects men tend to dominate. Go figure. By the way, read this http://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2013/oct/14/b
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by adamlett 11y ago
Can you walk me through this? Read the last sentence in my post: It is understood that being old is in many ways a handicap, and by discriminating positively, we seek to lessen that handicap. You wrote: but it's still ageism - dis
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by adamlett 11y ago
My argument was merely that it is not unreasonable to be in favour of positive discrimination if you believe that this evens out some handicap. And if you don't think that merely being woman it is a handicap, I would ask you to ponde
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Being anti-rascist or anti-sexist does not necessarily imply being is anti-discrimination. To give an example, in many places positively discriminate old people by offering lower prices or better seating. Yet it would be absurd to claim tha
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by adamlett 11y ago
There has never been an argument on how concepts like .map, .reduce, .filter, functors, promises, futures are inferior to what Go programmers currently use. With regard to futures and promises, I find the article What color is your funct
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Software has bugs. This is normal(m.signalvnoise.com)
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Consumption is differentiated from investment in that consumption is stuff you intrinsically want, while investment is things you don't want except because it gives you other things later. That’s fine, but as I've argued previou
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Your entire argument is focusing on the micro, not the macro You were the one suggesting that investment should be exempt from tax. That requires a definition on the micro level of what constitutes investment, otherwise how do you determi
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by adamlett 11y ago
Yes, I probably am a little bit confused as to what exactly you mean when you talk about investment. Is buying a house an investment? How about a yacht? What about a vintage car? Stock? From a social point of view these are all more or less
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As I tried to get across before, most of what we think of as investment, doesn't actually create value. Buying land does not create value, buying stock does not usually create new value (unless it's from a new offering). Owning as
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What then would you tax? Yachts and jewelry? At what rate? Do you think you could run any society on what could be collected on taxes on non-essential consumption?
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First of all, yes, consumption is almost always preferable to "letting your money work for you". Contrary to what you seem to think, most people who have more wealth than they need for consumption, don't use that wealth to fu
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Taxation based on consumption is a horrible idea, because it impacts the people with low incomes much more than the people with high incomes. Everyone must spend a fraction of their income on consumption merely to exist. The poorer you are,
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Less than 1% of the wealth created since 2000 has gone to the poorest 50%(independent.co.uk)
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I'm also from Denmark, and I find it hilarious that you think it's a problem that people prioritise free time. Do you think that all a society should aspire towards is to have people working as hard as they possibly can? To what e
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If I keep a million dollars in the bank, the bank can loan out a million dollars, and I earn interest. If I spent half of that million dollars, then whoever got paid likely puts the money back in the bank and the bank can still loan out a
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But that's what they do! The ultrarich of the world can live handsomely off the interest of their fortunes and don't ever have to touch the principal, which just grows and grows.
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When you say the government "squanders" money on projects like the F-35, it sounds like you think that the money spent just disappears and is gone, and all we're left with are some fighter jets of questionable value. But the
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The consensus among biologists today is that group selection does not occur: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_selection
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> Most of the world doesn't. Technically true, but most of the world doesn't matter. Only the part which has disposable income does. The more disposable income, the more it matters. Last I heard, Apple had around 50% market sha
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It absolutely does provide value. Many (ab)users of illegal substances use them to provide relief from the emotional pain of traumatic experiences or mental illnesses.
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> stock buybacks (which improve the stock value) That's a misconception. Stock buybacks create value only if the stock is undervalued.
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> Ban flash. Biggest competition to native apps. Well, except native apps didn't exist when the iPhone launched and Steve Jobs was famously opposed to them. > Cripple the iOS web browser just enough that web apps trying to have n
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I wholeheartedly agree. A convincing argument can be made that the reason Apple is so successful is precisely because Apple business goals are in alignment with their customers' and users' interest.
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Your examples all have something in common which is that the harm is caused indiscriminately by which I mean that there is I reason to think that any one group of people is affected more than any other. In other words they are like car acci
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by adamlett 11y ago
Yes, excactly. Since you have to support all the browsers, you should be thankful that there aren't more of them. On iOS you only have one browser to test against and you're done. OTOH it's practically impossible to exhaustiv
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All those points have the implicit premise that every problem has a technical solution. Well, except 5 which isn't so much a solution to a problem as a statement about a desirable state of affairs. Software development seldom occurs in
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I think the point was that iOS as a platform presents far fewer challenges to web developers than Android does because of the multitude of different browsers people use on Android. PPK has written at length about the problem with all the di

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