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by camelNotation 8y ago
If every single dollar in the economy is invested and nothing is spent on real products, it's fake money and will inevitably collapse. Investment is not wrong in itself, but investment that is out of balance with spending on real goods
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> when landlords receive higher rent, that money is either being re-invested or spent on "real, useful products" in the end. This is simply untrue. Wealthy people do not eventually hit zero on their balance sheets, they typical
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by camelNotation 8y ago
We always draw a line somewhere when we write a law. Saying "I don't want to draw a line at all" is an attempt to abdicate our responsibility to protect weaker members of society under the guise of some higher ideal that is n
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> Similarly, gentrification is about people wanting to pay higher rent to live in a nicer neighborhood. Yes the landlords get more money... but the tenant gets the nicer neighborhood! (Or closer access to more jobs, or whatever.) That&#x
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by camelNotation 8y ago
Sure it's important and maybe one day we will understand: 1. Why it happens 2. Whether or not it is positive or negative 3. How to engineer society to work differently But as it stands now, we don't know any of that and programs t
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by camelNotation 8y ago
It blows my mind that so many people are still unaware of the gender equality paradox. People constantly bring this up, constantly ask that same question, constantly get the same response. Women self-select into certain fields at higher rat
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One thing I've noticed that makes it such a wonderful experience is that the trains still use the old tracks (not literally the same metal, but the same paths) that were laid down decades or even centuries prior. So as you roll through
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None of them will actually retire in any meaningful sense. You have to change so much of yourself to become that type of person that even after you reach that early, luxurious retirement number, you won't take it because there won&#x27
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by camelNotation 8y ago
You should look at brands like Garmin and Polar, then. Samsung and Apple put these bright, colorful OLED panels on their smartwatches and drain the batteries too fast. Garmin in particular does a good job of building smartwatches with almos
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by camelNotation 8y ago
As it should be. It's not appropriate to unilaterally exert power over people who have not consented to it through the establishment of a constitution, legislative controls, and shared ideals that hold that power as authoritative. The
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Yes, I think underlying my criticism is the important fact that trains are not planes or cars. Trains do not slide on rubber tires the way the other two do and are, in fact, very capable of traveling from point A to point B in inclement wea
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by camelNotation 8y ago
What I mean is that social science research will only ever be able to speak to the samples they are studying. That's usually okay, though, because typically in an experiment with difficult variability, you can gain certainty through re
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by camelNotation 8y ago
Amtrak with kids is a dream come true on long trips. So much room, so much freedom. Our kids could literally just sit and play on the floor in front of our seats, then we could walk them to the dining car or someplace else when they wanted
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by camelNotation 8y ago
Randomization solves for the problem, that's true, but that isn't what people are arguing when they criticize social science research like this. Theoretically, if you have X number of factors you can't control for, then there
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by camelNotation 8y ago
Many roles we classify as trades are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from the roles we typically associate with college education. This is partially due to the fact that they are increasingly technical, partially due to the f
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by camelNotation 8y ago
> If we tell women their whole childhood that some jobs are for men and some are for women and vice versa for men then ask them when they turn 18 what job they want we'll get horrendously unequal outcomes even though people are comp
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by camelNotation 8y ago
It is exhausting. Lots of amazing experiences are. I know many parents who lament the sleepless nights and dirty diapers and impossible choices they have to make, but apart from a few overly ambitious people who work too much and care too l
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by camelNotation 8y ago
This horse has been beaten to death, beaten again, and is now resembling something less than horse-like, but women that are given equal opportunity to pursue any career path they want will choose paths they enjoy instead of paths that offer
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by camelNotation 8y ago
It's not the same as birth, but it is the same as "we have a new child in our lives and we need time to bond and learn to live together" which is really what parental leave is all about. When my wife gives birth (I have a lot
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by camelNotation 8y ago
Major banks do a good job with this. They recognize that this is not just a matter of gender equality, but LGBT equality as well. They give equal parental leave to both sexes for both birth and adoption (for family bonding), which allows fl
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by camelNotation 8y ago
I agree. I wish there were more jobs like that, where you could work 3-4 days, at the same rate per hour. Maybe if we solve for a lot of the additional per-worker costs around healthcare and such we would be able to see that emerge in the m
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by camelNotation 8y ago
It may be that they were simply paid less than optimal salaries before and increasing their wages per hour actually improved their productivity, incentivizing them to accomplish in 4 days what they previously accomplished in 5. It would be
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It has a direct relation if the religion requires you to believe in God. If atheism renders the religion useless, then atheism is untenable.
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Do those accomplish the multi-generational social fitness testing I described? I've never been to a conference that did. Sounds like more of a distraction than a religion.
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>The idea of having a sense of community and values that can be communicated over generations is fantastic, but it does not require superstition any more. Sometimes you need to rip the band-aid, and sometimes you need to be more gentle.
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My entire post was about how they are power structures.
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Yes.
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A lot of modern people think of religion as some combination of fairy tales that provide meaning and comfort paired with some moral principles to follow. That is a very poor assessment of what it actually does, though. Religion is better un
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Always. The question with any form of process optimization is how much smaller does the human presence need to be? The idea that we would replace people entirely is a sales pitch.
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I had severe acne for many years. I tried a lot of different things, but I discovered that I had a personal trigger - if I ate a lot of carbs and fats together combined with irregularity of my bowel movements, I would break out. So I basica

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