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by challenger22 7y ago
Wow. The criticisms I've seen about using flying-wing designs for passenger aircraft (planes that look like the B-2 bomber), are often focused on how bad the boarding process is for the movie theater seating they require. This design l
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by challenger22 7y ago
Do you think the other shareholders would have voted to dump Zuck if they knew he did not have a majority position? This act could have been a protest vote knowing it would only reform his behavior, not remove him. Similar to how people spe
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by challenger22 7y ago
The more society becomes increasingly oriented around thought-work the more these problems will manifest. Humans evolved to cooperate, but we didn't evolve to spend all day thinking about long-term work-related stressors that are only
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by challenger22 7y ago
Anyone that thinks you should steal the property of a company because you disagree with their stances on social issues is a disgusting idiot.
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by challenger22 7y ago
>As it turns out, it was a little too huge. According to Dot Esports, one commentator for the first-person shooter Quake received a $300,000 salary in exchange for live commentary that was poorly received. Counter-Strike players received
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by challenger22 7y ago
Let's say you had a version of the prisoner's dilemma where 7 billion people had to cooperate for the highest payoff to occur. Would you cooperate?
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by challenger22 7y ago
People die due to the lower economic output of a recession. Lower GDP is a sign that we are not solving the world's problems as quickly as we had been previously. There are real negatives to be feared. https://www.businessin
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by challenger22 7y ago
Most of Peterson's experience with Marxism is through reading about it's effects (Gulag Archipelago, collecting soviet era propoganda), not reading about it's philosophy. The philosophy can be understood pretty easily from so
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by challenger22 7y ago
>Their minds have hijacked the public trust, each one acting as the pinnacle of intellect, an individual example of brilliance to cut through all the dullness, before sacrificing the very rigor that put them there in order to maintain th
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by challenger22 7y ago
https://www.statista.com/statistics/184272/educational-attai... The percent of people who have completed a 4 year degree has been on a continual increase. This will drag down the net worth of young folks who give
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by challenger22 7y ago
>Burman proposes a way to pay for the Universal Earned Income Tax Credit: a new value-added tax of 11 percent. Pretty steep.
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by challenger22 7y ago
You accept that it describes what people think it describes, so the concept exists. You also give an example of the concept being applied, so it is not only a concept, but it exists in reality as well. Sounds to me that you think it is a th
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by challenger22 7y ago
To me, when the social signal is valued more highly than the negative outcomes caused by the action, it becomes a bad thing. The action does not reduce gun violence, but hurts both customers and profits.
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by challenger22 7y ago
First, you claim that it virtue signalling is made-up nonsense. Then, you claim that use of the term virtue signalling is an instance of virtue signalling. Your statements contradict themselves. Describe your position more accurately, pleas
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by challenger22 7y ago
Because access to nature is an aspirational form of wealth.
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by challenger22 7y ago
I strongly believe this will not reduce gun violence. I also concede that it is impossible to measure. I think their CRM software (and other software) is about as integral to the sale of a gun as the Doritos for sale in the gun retailer&#x2
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by challenger22 7y ago
Your argument does not appropriately address the concern. Donating real cash to an effort actually helps. Withdrawing CRM software from gun retailers does not accomplish anything to reduce gun violence. Virtue signaling, as a term, is inten
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by challenger22 7y ago
If you accept the propositions from my first post, and suppose that the owners of Salesforce value this virtue signalling more than they value the profit they lose, there is no problem for them. But I would also argue that this would be sil
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by challenger22 7y ago
The question to me is whether salesforce executives really think they can stop their customers from selling guns, or whether they are just virtue signalling. The reality is that retailers that sell guns will continue to sell guns, and sales
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by challenger22 7y ago
Has anyone done the math to determine what fraction of global warming is just from the steady-state relationship between heat production and radiation into space, regardless of changes in albedo? Always been curious about that one. i.e. In
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by challenger22 7y ago
Exploiting people's psychology to consolidate their resources for yourself is not tantamount to theft.
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by challenger22 7y ago
You make it sound like all possible paths suck. To an individual decision maker, just do whichever path sucks the least. If college is getting less and less likely to be a path to prosperity, I wouldn't be too upset. College is already
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by challenger22 7y ago
I will now invent Basiscoin, which, as part of its cryptographic hash program, encodes the cost basis at which it was last sold in each transaction, and generates 1099 forms automatically. Never again will users have to manually calculate c
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by challenger22 7y ago
>even when you discount the money they give to the church is key.
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by challenger22 7y ago
On average, religious people are more charitable than non-religious people, even when you discount the money they give to the church. This is a good outcome and is evidence that religion is good.
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by challenger22 7y ago
Dumb people are not happier. ( https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/significant-results/... ). That would also do nothing to disprove anything I said if it were true. Religious populations that murder irreli
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by challenger22 7y ago
>Of course correlations are not causation, and the negative correlation that I expect between religiosity and happiness does not mean that atheism makes people happier, or religion unhappier. What it means—and this is supported by severa
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by challenger22 7y ago
Religious people are happier than non-religious people. This replicates fairly well across many countries. This should be a fairly convincing argument all on its own. It is entirely possible to be religious without rejecting rationalism, as
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by challenger22 7y ago
Are you living a bare bones lifestyle? If so, and you're still stressed out of your mind, it's a tough battle. You have my empathy.
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by challenger22 7y ago
I'm married. My wife is pretty much just as frugal as I am.

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