akramachamarei

10 ms·

151.
by akramachamarei 6mo ago
> I'd certainly pirate less if I could afford it
152.
by akramachamarei 6mo ago
I shouldn't have to tell you that "but it's a conservative think tank" is merely ad hominem. If you think Jessica Riedl is misrepresenting the facts, I and many others would appreciate your elaborating. I'm afraid y
153.
by akramachamarei 6mo ago
The US tax system is substantially more progressive than you might think.¹ It seems unwise to make it even moreso. The tough pill to swallow, if we are to follow in e.g. Sweden's footsteps, is that you need to tax the middle class a lo
154.
by akramachamarei 6mo ago
What do you mean?
155.
by akramachamarei 6mo ago
Really, I don't know. But there is that underappreciated concept of "elastic demand" which I will gesture at even though I'm only casually acquainted with it. It's related to the vernacular fallacy of the economic P
156.
by akramachamarei 6mo ago
Envy is a deadly sin for a reason
157.
by akramachamarei 6mo ago
I think, like other disruptive inventions of the past, there will be pain for many, but it will pass. Society will grow and adapt. There's some statistic somewhere I will paraphrase and/or botch that goes like: 90% of the jobs peo
158.
by akramachamarei 6mo ago
It's an interesting question. Here's my reductive, off-the-cuff take: violence is justified when defending oneself or another from imminent bodily harm, or even under threat of imminent, considerable property damage. When a threat
159.
by akramachamarei 6mo ago
In line with developed countries except, for example, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands, and Sweden, each of whom previously levied wealth taxes on individuals, but apparently didn't like the taste, an
160.
by akramachamarei 6mo ago
Are you questioning someone's lived experience?
161.
by akramachamarei 7mo ago
Most of these comparisons do not make sense. Dare I say--AI slop?
162.
by akramachamarei 7mo ago
> There's no point in steelmanning opponents […] There isn't enough time […] to argue against […] gaslighting and logical fallacies. I think there's a separation in how people are using "steelman". A steelman arg
163.
by akramachamarei 7mo ago
This is a repulsive, fallacious, and unproductive comment. Hackernews is not the place for emotional venting.
164.
by akramachamarei 7mo ago
That may be true in some cases, but not in all. In particular, the Onion school shooting joke strikes me as a satire of a strawman. Whatever humor can be derived from ridiculing a stupid version of a position (like "school shootings ar
165.
by akramachamarei 7mo ago
How about start with the number that the regime itself admits to; namely, thousands of protestors killed.
166.
by akramachamarei 7mo ago
This is a pretty obvious misinterpretation. Protagonist bad ≠ antagonist good. This isn't even the law of the excluded middle because there was only ever a statistical relationship between the morality of narrative opponents.
167.
by akramachamarei 7mo ago
Carpetedness may make a big difference in this case.
168.
by akramachamarei 7mo ago
Interesting... do you know how well adobe stacks? That is, is it limited to mostly single-storey buildings?
169.
by akramachamarei 7mo ago
It seems to me that with sufficient insulation a modern or futuristic home could take advantage of the seasonal energy gradient to smoothe out the domestic interior climate, essentially acting as a battery or reservoir to capture energy in
170.
by akramachamarei 7mo ago
I was being sarcastic. Bitterly, sourly, saltily sarcastic.
171.
by akramachamarei 7mo ago
This notion discomforts me. It has poor implication for decentralization of decision making, i.e. federalism in school administration.
172.
by akramachamarei 7mo ago
Downvoting privileges can't come soon enough.
173.
by akramachamarei 7mo ago
You won't take me alive! :P
174.
by akramachamarei 7mo ago
You're asking the wrong question. Why should the government intervene in a transaction between knowledgeable consenting parties?
175.
by akramachamarei 7mo ago
Sounds like a worthwhile use of the taxpayer's dollar.
176.
by akramachamarei 7mo ago
> I asked a couple times why he didn't replace gambling with investing and never got a good answer There's a simple answer, which is that gambling is fun, and investing is not fun (my guess.) Your coworker is a pleasure seeker,
177.
by akramachamarei 7mo ago
Personally, I prefer my authoritarianism without a side of academic misconduct, thank you very much.
178.
by akramachamarei 7mo ago
Bold to assume downvoters vote on first-hand knowledge.
179.
by akramachamarei 7mo ago
Nintendo doesn't want users emulating Nintendo systems in the Xbox is my guess.
180.
by akramachamarei 7mo ago
> why stop at the species level? The stop isn't made at the species level, but at the intelligence gap. The gap between Tao and a random uneducated, malnourished human is nothing compared to that between the latter and any other ani

More ›