andriesm

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by andriesm 5y ago
I fought like a mad man, because I had to try to become rich in shithole country that was busy imploding and erecting discrimination laws against my class of people... so it was not easy, but success already can be quite hard without a bit
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by andriesm 5y ago
GENDER WARS - just stop already. Is anyone else tired of this obsession with the genders of people? I don't care that women are underrepresented in garbage collection, construction, pilots or ceos. Or that they are now overrepresented
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by andriesm 5y ago
I agree with your experience - to me it also seems I used to enter a search phrase and get back a page of results that exactly match it, these days, I often get things that only vaguely thematically relate to my search phrase instead. Somet
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by andriesm 5y ago
It would help if you can list the good facts, especially when it comes to free access of information by citizens, or their desire to swallow up the independence of Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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by andriesm 5y ago
You say the bond market doesn't care about inflation ? Well, it should, especially if it isn't transitory. If you really think one should not care about inflation, then one of us will be proven wrong. (I have put options - i.e. mo
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by andriesm 5y ago
I agree with your argument that a Baron could be gorging himself while a begger starves to death... this is a definite disadvantage of capitalism, but does this disadvantage outweigh the advantages? And how do the alternatives compare... I
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by andriesm 5y ago
You say by DEFINITION of social utility everyone's contribution should have equal weight? Are you saying the fat lazy guy sitting on his arse eating cheetos and playing viddeo games have as much value to society as the cardiac surgeo
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by andriesm 5y ago
Maybe we should just reform money then, capitalism is fine according to your problem description, the problem is fractional reserve banking. Maybe bitcoin, gold, or some similar idea would solve your entire concern? Often times people refer
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by andriesm 5y ago
exactly. But it has been an all round perfect storm, aided by both circumstance and policy WHILE keeping the money slauces wide open. Money printing is the base driver of inflation. BUT: the best anti-dote to inflation is productivity growt
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by andriesm 5y ago
Wait, HOW does inequality render assumptions about free markers maximising social utility invalid? You cannot just make such a profound statement without fleshing out the argument for it at least a little bit. (I'm ignoring the 2nd par
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by andriesm 5y ago
People often say the rich must "pay their fair share"... but how is it fair than some people pay MILLIONS of dollars in taxes, while others pay 100s or nothing? How about reforming the something more towards you pay for what you u
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by andriesm 5y ago
It may be an unpopular view, but I don't believe we should attach ANY MERIT AT ALL to, as you said "women FELT" harassed. The only yard stick should be actual concrete actions of harassment, and those should be dealt with str
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by andriesm 5y ago
Wait, I'm getting confused about the difference between a vaccine and a therapeutic?
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by andriesm 5y ago
Mcafee is turning around in his grave... to give you a chuck norris thumbs up!
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by andriesm 5y ago
Have "we" ? I certainly didn't. Can I opt out of this "protection" racket please?
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by andriesm 5y ago
I am just as frustrated as the author with the low level of accountability for poor outcomes that public servant leaders face, he misses the point that not everyone agrees on how different trade offs should be weighted. Sweden received majo
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by andriesm 5y ago
Avoid or illegally avoid obviously not. Optimise, of course. Who wouldn't. Now the question about "fairness" that rich people can structure to pay less tax than others - they don't - The top 1 percent in America earn 20
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by andriesm 5y ago
What indication do we have that environmentalally unfriendly companies are murdering activists? I cannot imagine that being their best PR strategy, not to mention the fact that murdering your opposition attracts a lot of scrutiny, investiga
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by andriesm 5y ago
Because criminals exist, everyone should lose their privacy. Great logic! They did the same with privacy centric messenger applications, demanding that Signal and others create and hand-over "master"-keys to decrypt all private me
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by andriesm 5y ago
In most places in the world, most doctors refuse to give you things that could massively improve your quality of life, lifespan or reduce risks of you getting things which you could get. I am talking about doctors NOT giving metformin or be
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by andriesm 5y ago
It seems like a double standard to sue the producers of fossil fuels, but not the users who actually burn them and polute the air with them. I say sue every person who has ever driven a gas vehicle. This would only be fair, right?
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by andriesm 5y ago
I'm just glad that this completely not-racist scholarly masterpiece passed peer-review in such a prestigious journal.
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by andriesm 8y ago
I really liked a couple of the ideas here. What wasn't too clear to me, was the distinction between a component, and it's many instances... I suspect this is a deliberate and actually quite good design decision.... many instances
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by andriesm 8y ago
Wow, the arguments are just so bad, I feel dumber after having read this article. My first hint of trouble ahead was when the author wrote that Eth lost 10X it's value. You can lose 90 percent, but not 10 times. You can GAIN 10 times.
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by andriesm 8y ago
Defense lawyers tried to keep the 81-year-old out of prison while he appeals his conviction, saying he's frail and legally blind. Judge Steven O'Neill refused their plea for Cosby to remain on house arrest, ruling Tuesday that Cos
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by andriesm 8y ago
Geeze this conclusion seems rather counter intuitive, a much smaller human population's pre-modern agriculture had enough of an impact on climate so much as to prevent an ice age?
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by andriesm 8y ago
Maybe instead of calling peope "denialists" the respectful and correct term would be "sceptic". I.E. Someone isn't an evolution-denialist, but rather an evolution-sceptic. Or vaccination-sceptic. Or climate change s
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by andriesm 8y ago
How about it is his money, and he gets to decide what he can do with, including burning it.
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by andriesm 8y ago
Fellow Afrikaansie here. There were some very novel Afrikaans words for computer terminology in that school computer science handbook... However none of it seems to be that useful or much used at all, and English accesses the latest tech an
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by andriesm 8y ago
>>I don't see an obvious reason why online dating would make things harder for men but not harder for women and vice versa. I think the broader trend in online dating is that it's harder for unattractive people to find partn

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