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by chalst 5y ago
Capital gains taxation is not double taxation: it is taxation only on the increase in value of assets. CGT generally has the same rate as income tax: the reason why the rich are better off earning through capital increases than wages is tha
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There is something like a global market in stock markets: capital trade gravitates to the "fittest" stock markets. And in the long term the fittest stock markets are without exceptions ones with transparency rules and rules protec
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The Amrock vs HouseCanary judgement was ordered to be retried on Appeal last year and this year the Texas Supreme Court killed the case. https://www.law.com/texaslawyer/2021/07/19/texas-supreme-cou... It
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The Curious Case of the Trade Secrets That Weren’t (2019)(ipwatchdog.com)
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> HUDSON: This was the one thing that Alan Greenspan contributed to economic theory: the Traumatized Worker Syndrome. He said, the reason you’ve had this huge productivity gain without any wage increase is workers are afraid to go on str
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by chalst 5y ago
F-Droid's repository excludes several projects because it might cause them trouble. For example, they block forks of the Signal client that connects to Signal's servers, a violation of Signal's TOS but not F-Droid's. Hos
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by chalst 5y ago
Equity is a term of law that means all parties are treated fairly. Given that critical race theory originated among legal theorists, I would not be surprised to learn that they make heavy use of the concept. Critical social justice is a por
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by chalst 5y ago
The main thing I found strange about F# was that, having prior familiarity with Ocaml and SML/NJ, was that what F# calls modules are completely unlike the module system of any other ML-inspired language, being instead an adaption of C#
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by chalst 5y ago
Duplicate story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28850852
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> Most of the time I've tried to get clarity on your opinion Which must have been frustrating for you, seeing as I was resisting being pinned down on what I regarded as overspecific details not related to the reasons for my original
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by chalst 5y ago
> I am pretty honest about my position. This is normal honesty: you say what you think, and your feelings are in harmony with your thoughts. It is good enough for normal life, but it is not what I mean by intellectual honesty, and it has
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> Is it correct that you believe in that an individual having wealth in the US is a good signifier for an individual acquiring it through the family history of slavery? If not, how can redistribution of wealth because of slavery be right
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> We already established that you do not agree with critical social justice that identity groups such as race has salience... This is rather stronger than what I wrote. I don't think that race is coherent in the sense that there is
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> You did express support in another comment for the DEI (Diversity, Equity, and inclusion) identity-based redistribution initiatives that are currently deployed. I think you will find that if you check what I wrote before, you have got
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> So considering that "people are not defined by group identity", how do you justify "redistributing resources and position based upon group identity" as right? I doubt it is possible, but I don't discourage peop
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You have entirely misread what I wrote. I have answered two questions of yours and made no argument, so the problem lies entirely with the fantasy argument you claim I made but is based on massive extrapolation from what I wrote. The proble
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Both your charactisation of what I said and many of your guesses about my beliefs about what's best for EU member countries are quite wrong.
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I'm inclined to think that people do not have a consistent group identity, and I strongly believe there is more to what we are than our social relations. Nonetheless, social motivations are very powerful, and I respect some people who
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Very problematic article. The lede shows the headline is at least somewhat misleading: > New wood burning stoves billed as more environmentally friendly still emit 750 times more tiny particle pollution than a modern HGV truck, a report
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This is not quite true, but indeed it is typically true that there is some ability for certain politicians to veto the appointment of judges, and in some countries (esp. the US) this has led to politicisation of the whole process of appoint
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Are you aware that your posts in the last few days strike other people as hypocritical? You draw attention to what you regard as logical errors in the arguments of others, but you do not observe the formalities that norms of logical argumen
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I am not going to explain your error to you if you have a track record of not admitting problems in your argumentation when they are pointed out to you. Seriously, you wrote the above just after I wrote the following: > To be clear,
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by chalst 5y ago
To be clear, the problem kordlessagain is referring to is that if you make the effort to make explicit what the X and Y are, the response will rarely include the slightest explicit acknowledgement of any incoherence. Generally, if a fallacy
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Your insertion of the word "critical" is making a strawman out of the assertion you replied to.
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For an example of when efforts to get people to get along are actively bad: > It's hard to beat the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for the engineering of the profoundly undemocratic Oslo peace accords, that led one of the recipients
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> I think we have different ideas of what "bad" is. I think we don't: I think we have different beliefs about what the most important facts of Brexit are. I guesstimate Brexit will cause more suffering to the British peopl
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Giving career politicians the power to exercise discretion in the process of selecting judges does end the rule of law, and that's true even if their are shell committees formed to hide this exercise of power from those who don't
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It's hard to beat the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for the engineering of the profoundly undemocratic Oslo peace accords, that led one of the recipients to start the Second Intifada (i.e. a revolution against the deal that he himself
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You're mischaracterising the criticism. The problem is not that it's surprising that trade deals are hard, nor even that the ones got so far are either relatively low volume affairs or involve concessions that some (all?) experien
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I'm British, with the snippet of legal training appropriate to a one-time would-be chartered accountant, and I'm acutely aware that the German legal tradition is hugely different to the British one, so while i have taken care to u

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