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by aoeuasdf1 10y ago
I agree with you - but there are two advantages to giving perks like food: No transaction costs. Not just the actual monetary cost of the transaction, but no need to employ people to man registers, no need to wait in line to pay. And more s
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by aoeuasdf1 10y ago
"Has some negative effects" != "is overall negative"
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by aoeuasdf1 10y ago
Life does have meaning now - but if we could colonize the galaxy, there would be a billion stars with a billion people for a billion years. If their lives are equally meaningful, then these existential threats to humanity correspond to the
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by aoeuasdf1 10y ago
Putting on a label doesn't cost anything. I don't see why you think this would make (non-) medicine more expensive? Also, the FDA has the responsibility to make sure that fake medicine cannot be advertised as being medicine. It do
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by aoeuasdf1 10y ago
The U.S. government decidedly does NOT think climate change is economically advantageous, and they have fought any measures against it tooth and nail.
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by aoeuasdf1 10y ago
There's two parts that I'm still not sure about here - a question of moral weight W: 1 * innocent prisoner executed == W * innocent victim of crime and two epistemic questions, how many innocents X are executed per guilty person
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by aoeuasdf1 10y ago
No system can avoid failure 100% of the time. It may find itself going too fast with a unexpected loss of some control - brake failure, intentional sabotage, (imperceptible) oil slick, whatever. However, the system still has some control t
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by aoeuasdf1 10y ago
That's very interesting, I might consider doing this in the future when needed.
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by aoeuasdf1 10y ago
Thank you for the voice of reason
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by aoeuasdf1 10y ago
Dota 2 isn't going anywhere. The current tournament has an $18+ million prize pool (and rising) - meaning Valve was paid about $72 million in compendium sales. This is for a tournament that runs every year and is growing in popularity
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by aoeuasdf1 10y ago
I think you're confused about the mathematics here - cap and trade for cap (C tons) is EXACTLY equivalent to some carbon tax (T dollars) in the behaviors it incentivizes.
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by aoeuasdf1 10y ago
No, if they're producing by buying oil or coal. Just tax the source.
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by aoeuasdf1 10y ago
The problem is then the rich will do a simple expected value computation to decide whether to do fraud. A disproportionate and non monetary punishment will be far more effective at deterring them.
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by aoeuasdf1 10y ago
Thanks for saving me the time!
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by aoeuasdf1 10y ago
Really? How would you feel if an islamic terrorist group had funded it, and it circled Anglo-saxon names? Is that as defensible as getting business information about your contacts?
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by aoeuasdf1 10y ago
Something is seriously wrong with you if you don't think the explicit targeting of Jews online is problematic.
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by aoeuasdf1 10y ago
W2 jobs are not comparable. Driving for uber is flexible - you can drive whenever you want, for however long you want each week. Obviously that value will come at a lower price point for wages.
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by aoeuasdf1 10y ago
And? Are they supposed to let people use the house for free? It seems like communists are willfully ignorant of the time value of money.
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by aoeuasdf1 10y ago
Furthermore, basic income would likely get people out of unemployment benefits and food stamps and into jobs because they no longer have a DISINCENTIVE to work! I expect this effect would be about as large as the number of people who quit
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by aoeuasdf1 10y ago
Yes, you pointed out the main advantage - it's a bet against the stock price of the company. This lowers the volatility,and it doesn't lower expected earnings too much because if things go up you can just hire more people at lower
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by aoeuasdf1 10y ago
Absolutely, I don't understand how GP can causally accept how drugs damage thousands of people's health while harshly criticizing a different form of cheating which happens to use a different substrate than human flesh.
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by aoeuasdf1 11y ago
It's humor, not actual bike-shedding. Was that not obvious?
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by aoeuasdf1 11y ago
Well said. Google is hardly an American company anymore. Their EU workers pay EU taxes.
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by aoeuasdf1 11y ago
That's not sufficient. If you write 10 different models, each with 10s of thousands of parameters until you get the results you want, it doesn't matter how accurately the model seems to predict in the past. Modelling is a tricky
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by aoeuasdf1 11y ago
Dota 2 is absolutely unplayable above 150 ms. Last-hitting and denying get hard enough, but at an even higher level you MUST be able to react to in-air projectiles with abilities such as Black King Bar, Manta Style, Blink, Naga's Mirr
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by aoeuasdf1 11y ago
Yes, but employee stock purchase plans (~50% of the time) result in large capital gains.
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by aoeuasdf1 11y ago
The way you explain it, it's no different from functions and function composition; in which case, why invent new vocabulary? I do remember looking into them before and translating them into Haskell and they ended up not being identical
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by aoeuasdf1 11y ago
Agreed. Although, I'm a vegetarian and I'm salivating at the thought of a perfectly cooked and seasoned steak. :)
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by aoeuasdf1 11y ago
So, tl;dr, you consider "'Considered Harmful' Essays Considered Harmful" harmful? :)
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by aoeuasdf1 11y ago
Ok, that makes sense... but then why bother pushing the branch in the first place?

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