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by arkis22 8y ago
FPTP elections are where the candidate with the most votes wins. By that definition, it ALWAYS delivers results that reflect the desires of the electorate. I think you're overstating it when you say that it leads to situations where an
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No, Atlas is people like Galt. The point is that the looters pushed the weight of the world on to them, and that's the failure of their society.
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The value she provides is running the railroad well, unlike her brother. Are you making the case that a well run railroad does not provide value to society? Perhaps you don't remember the incident in the book of the train running throu
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I disagree. In the book society was already collapsing. Plenty of regular people in the novel realized something was wrong and removed themselves from the looters' economy to roam the country. Galt simply refused to be the one to prop
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Switzerland has been manipulating their currency for almost a decade now. The central bank has been consistently selling reserves to keep their currency low. The USD is the world's reserve currency because we have a balance of being th
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Ironically, Rockefeller's wealth grew quickly because of regulation. Trustbusters broke up Standard Oil into different companies and investors kept bidding up the prices of the different pieces.
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Exactly, because most people that design a bomb have no intention of using it. /s
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That's kind of a silly thing to say given that the government of SF spends hundreds of millions of dollars on the homeless a year.
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Deadwood is excellent. The Larry Sanders Show is one of the best comedies ever.
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And if people were paid relative to the difficulty of their job no one would have an incentive to make things simple or easy.
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The largest portion of our taxes does not go to defense spending. It goes to entitlements.
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It stands for "fucking Illinois bastards" I love Wisconsin.
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And they can get the dopamine hit of fame and thousands of likes
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You are still comparing sales to game engagement and longevity. You also need to shrink the amount of D3 sales to compare it to D1/D2 sales because the game market has grown wildly since they released. Then adjust that because it was a
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by arkis22 8y ago
Gamers don't judge a game based on its financial performance. They say "is this fun and do I want to continue playing it?" They decided no with D3, as did I (I played D2 for probably 7 years...) How else would you judge a pie
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Ahem, it's a decentralized donation.
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I know I will miss him. Say what you what about Fox, but I always saw him as intelligent, eloquent, well reasoned, and perhaps most importantly: respectful. Here's the WSJ obit: https://www.wsj.com/articles/pulitze
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You can't think of a single instance where people have thought poorly of business guys for firing people?
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There's also the possibility that the human male who is less prone to aggression and warfare is the most adept at warfare. An interesting parallel would be Starcraft AI. It excels at micro, but fails at macro, like tricking the opponen
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Excellent: “The Republican Party as now constituted is obviously too stupid to survive…. What is to be done? Of course, that was Lenin’s line and the only lucid one he ever wrote. The answer is nothing. America’s position is unassailable. W
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The nuance of male friendship and popularity is probably just as complicated as female friendship and popularity. Complicated in a sense that I doubt any questionnaire captures the real truth.
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You have the right to be dismissive, but you don't have the right of proving me wrong without arguing against my point with a coherent argument. You are basically saying that women have never treated men differently based on their attr
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It is not dismissive if it's true.
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What you're calling empathy can be rephrased as "you go girl!" Not sure I'd call that empathy.
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Are you saying that the men here aren't being empathetic because they feel like when they talk to women they get called creepy and therefore don't want to? Please, be specific. Otherwise it just sounds like the pot calling the ket
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>Between the ages of 16 and 24, girls have more sophisticated social lives than boys of the same age. Young women talk to their friends more often [1], care more about their reputation [2], spend more time talking about their friends [3]
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by arkis22 8y ago
I'm not surprised your feeling has dissipated. A computer really can do anything you can think of. After that, I'm not surprised your utility from that has disappeared. There are a lot of different types of jobs in the world. Most
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You can't focus on the long term at the expense of the short term if in between you're bankrupt.
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A little more context from the WSJ article ( https://www.wsj.com/articles/teslas-elon-musk-turns-conferen... ) >“We’re going to go to YouTube, sorry. These questions are so dry. They’re killing me.” He directed the op
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There are, but few of them are one man operations like me. There will be even less one person startups (or none) now. The compliance tax burden for American companies varies by state. I'm lucky to live in one that isn't onerous. L

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