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by amadeuspagel 8y ago
> The only way India can develop its own companies is by creating an artificial scarcity thru regulation. Programmers that don't work at tech companies work somewhere else, investors that don't invest in tech companies invest i
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by amadeuspagel 8y ago
I'd use great. Good people is usually used to mean decent people, whereas great people is used to mean impressive people, which may or may not be moral, as in great man theory of history.
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by amadeuspagel 8y ago
A few ideas: - Link the name to a list with all the recommendations by that person, use the date for a link to the place where the recommendation was made (using the date for a permalink is convention). - Link tags. - Show everyone who reco
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by amadeuspagel 8y ago
Learned helplessness means that people gave up trying to help themselves, it doesn't mean that people will not accept help. Someone who wants to do anything someone else tells him to is free to do so, even if he isn't enslaved. So
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by amadeuspagel 8y ago
Mind-body duality has nothing to do with the question of whether mental illness is a useful term. Every character trait, whether it's called an illness or not, has biological roots.
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by amadeuspagel 8y ago
I don't deny that people sometimes make bad choices, and sometimes need help because of that. I'm just pointing out that there's a difference between involuntarily committing someone to a psychiatric hospital, forcing him to
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by amadeuspagel 8y ago
> But there are a variety of conditions, including slavery, addiction, and psychosis, where people may voluntarily enter them but then cannot leave without help. In the case of slavery, the slave doesn't want to do something, but is
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