asgard1024

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by asgard1024 11y ago
Well, here's a model I propose. So-called "market equilibrium" is actually a steady state of various powers at oligopoly-oligopsony price point (therefore, there are non-zero profits and above-subsistence wages, unlike in the
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by asgard1024 11y ago
I propose a mechanism of free market being the wrong model of reality. ;-) Some people are simply greedy and they will pay less at the expense of having less capable employees. These people will "poison the well", so to speak, for
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by asgard1024 11y ago
What you propose is a free market solution - make property out of it. (And I don't think free market is actually desirable for most people but that's for another debate.) From a practical point of view, it's complicated to du
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by asgard1024 11y ago
I guess you're right, that's a big loophole. In any case, I actually don't like trade secrets either. If anything, they are completely against the logic of free market (free choice).
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by asgard1024 11y ago
Most software corporations are actually wary about LGPL more than BSD. There is a valid reason, at the same time, it may be interpreted as trying to screw LGPL choice. Yeah you can use LGPL software, but with libraries and stuff that can be
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by asgard1024 11y ago
Well, in arts, OK, you can make some case for it. But I don't see why the plumber should need to have copyright for his "piping design" in my house.. The same is true for programmers, you would simply be hired to fix some pro
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by asgard1024 11y ago
I upvoted you, and I agree. However, as a professional developer, it is nice to be able to use OSS at work because you are sure it will always be available. Therefore developers who release things under BSD license have a very good incentiv
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by asgard1024 11y ago
Yes, but it is also kind of trivial. I mean isn't this philosophy something that every agent ultimately follows? I would like to see an example that would be useful to classify social systems, as ctlby attempted to do. But I don't
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by asgard1024 11y ago
> Now you argue that killing another human being for philosophical reasons is always collectivist according to your [asgard1024's] definition. That does nothing whatsoever to make the quoted statement true. What I said is true of (a
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by asgard1024 11y ago
OK, consider this. Every (moral) philosophy exists to motivate other people, as a code to follow (if it didn't you wouldn't have reason to tell anyone!). This means there is a group, or a collective , which supposedly holds these
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by asgard1024 11y ago
> So if 1990s Russia and Pinochet's Chile are examples of extreme free market experiments You're confused. They're examples of free market experiments, however the Pinochet's deaths had nothing to do with the free mar
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by asgard1024 11y ago
You have presented a logical tautology. Killing another human being is always collectivist according to your definition. However, that doesn't say anything about validity of ideas of free market or communism. What does say a lot though
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by asgard1024 11y ago
OK, I'll bite. Most girls/women have a very sensitive detector of social status or it's various proxies, because that's what they sexually select for. (It's kind of similar to how boys/men are attuned to detect
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by asgard1024 11y ago
> these are probably the biggest (in terms of $) examples of rent seeking in the US LOL. You forgot big banks and "too big to fail", military-industrial complex and all the wars.. Your examples are peanuts compared to these.
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by asgard1024 11y ago
> could you explain No. I am not in a mood to receive a false accusation of sexism.
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by asgard1024 11y ago
> I disagree. As long as you're referring to a non-coerced transaction If both parties receive the benefit, obviously you can still model that as power exchange where both parties apply their power to the other party. Just like phys
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by asgard1024 11y ago
> Other things being equal, a high inequality society is going to be less happy than a society with moderate inequality. This is actually empirically true, someone recently mentioned the book The Spirit Level in another HN discussion abo
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by asgard1024 11y ago
It's not really a subset, it's more like an intersection. But to your example - I will be long time happy with social (in)equality before we get to 1% differences in income. I think in your example Joe absolutely deserves the unha
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by asgard1024 11y ago
You're correct (that's why on second thought I put "evolutionary" in parens), but I also argue that ability to deny bad offers (or revolt or whatever are the various forms this takes) is a good trait for people to have.
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by asgard1024 11y ago
I think the above explanation I made with ultimatum game may provide some insight. People have a notion of fairness, which is more subtle; they don't just want to force everyone on the same level.
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by asgard1024 11y ago
> This used to be called "envy", and seen as a vice to be avoided. There are two sides to the coin. What you call "envy" has a very good (evolutionary) reason for its existence. Take a look at ultimatum game ( https:&
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by asgard1024 11y ago
Why not, but how? No matter how you want to dance about it, money are strongly related to power. (To most girls this is probably obvious. :-)) It's not just literally true - you can exchange money for raw materials and energy (power),
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by asgard1024 11y ago
Actually, I think I understand your position lot better now. :-) > The comparison with theology is weird, considering that theology is based on the premise of revealed knowledge about the world. Every book on libertarianism I have seen w
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by asgard1024 11y ago
I have seen it in market for Asus EEE PCs with Linux. There was a demand here in Czech Republic but Asus was not interested (it wanted to push Windows to the market). It had nothing to do with Linux being not in demand (the laptops were und
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by asgard1024 11y ago
Actually you don't have to be member or insider of any particular social group to attend most of them. It's really just register, send the money and you can go. Regarding terminology, I struggled with that too, to explain to my am
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by asgard1024 11y ago
> It reduces inequality between people, such as an American auto worker and a Chinese auto worker. Between some people yes. But here's the big problem; we know the causal force for this "inequality reduction", and it'
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by asgard1024 11y ago
> globalization drastically reduces inequality Maybe it reduces inequality between countries, but does it reduce inequality between people (different social classes within countries)? > some people (e.g. American auto workers) held ex
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by asgard1024 11y ago
I am not aware of any, unfortunately. NotOscarWilde above described it correctly, IMHO.
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by asgard1024 11y ago
If the CPU bottleneck is on the store, maybe you need some sort of transactional store, where the change is signalled to the views only after a transaction completes? Just thinking out loud. I am not sure what exactly is the original author
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by asgard1024 11y ago
I thought than in flux, the worker thread could send "push button" message to the dispatcher and it will deal with it asynchronously. Likewise, the updates to the views are asynchronous (and can be potentially multi-threaded) to t

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