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by cherrycherry98 3y ago
I'm no fan of Google, but them bidding to be the default search engine on Apple devices seemed reasonable to me. If paying a third party to be the default is a crime they're both guilty of it. Microsoft and Google both made offers
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by cherrycherry98 3y ago
I was shocked to learn that this is a thing but it does happen. Organized crime groups steal art that they can use to negotiate lighter sentences. It is believed that the Mafia stole Rembrandt's "Storm in the Sea of Galilee"
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by cherrycherry98 3y ago
After their Hogwarts Legacy review where they gave the game 1/10 and talked more about the controversy around Rowling than the game they have no credibility to me.
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by cherrycherry98 3y ago
Agreed, we need larger denomination notes to keep cash usable. Despite decades of inflation the largest notes printed are $100 and it has been that way since 1969. Even $500 note doesn't get us back to buying power parity (it's a
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by cherrycherry98 3y ago
There's also real yield to account for. If rates are 0% and inflation is 2%, real yield is -2%. If rates are 5% but inflation is 7%, real yield is still -2%. Buying power is being lost even if the numbers in your account are going up.
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by cherrycherry98 3y ago
Essays produced for school aren't of much value for someone else to read. The value is to the writer who gets to practice synthesizing ideas and communicating them into words. There's still value to be had in learning how to commu
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by cherrycherry98 4y ago
Companies now have "inclusive language" policies. There are dashboards that track team compliance and people that cheer this stuff on. Master branch gets renamed to main meanwhile one can freely talk about how they used their Mast
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by cherrycherry98 4y ago
I had no idea they had gotten so big. Roughly 200k employees puts them on par with the size of Bank of America.
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by cherrycherry98 4y ago
I've been vaxxed and boosted but have accepted that we won't really know the true efficacy of any of the stuff that went on during the pandemic for decades. Any dissent from the official line was treated as heresy. Can't do a
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by cherrycherry98 4y ago
Economics is how we align goals. When using clean energy is better and cheaper than fossil fuels then people don't need to be coerced into adopting it. It's rapidly reaching that state and already is there for many.
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by cherrycherry98 4y ago
The insistence that climate solutions involve self sacrifice I believe is a misguided one. I view the transformation to a low carbon future as happening primarily through the existence of natural economic incentives to do so. People aren&#x
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by cherrycherry98 4y ago
This seems to assume that the government is benevolent, whereas private actors are not. I have come to view government programs with the perspective that they are intended primarily to benefit the politicians efforts to become reelected. Th
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by cherrycherry98 5y ago
Apologies if I came across in any way patronizing, my intent was to add some details for others in the context of Smith's views on the role of the state, which I felt were lacking in the wider thread in general. Your original comment s
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by cherrycherry98 5y ago
Exactly, this paternalism over (mis)information needs to stop. What kind of free society can we have if dissent is not tolerated? Some of that dissent will be nonsense but some of it will have some truth to it. It all reminds me of Paul Gr
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by cherrycherry98 5y ago
Smith very much supported the existence of the state for several purposes. If I recall correctly they are things pretty non controversial like defense, infrastructure, property rights, regulations that enable markets to operate effectively
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by cherrycherry98 5y ago
Banks only keep track of transactions they are involved in. Cash transactions are peer to peer, private, and anonymous. The US government has been effectively phasing out cash through inflation since 1969, as they haven't issued any no
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by cherrycherry98 5y ago
Unless it comes with safeguards regarding anonymity and protection from seizure, I feel that this will give the government too much power and surveillance. What will prevent the government from holding individuals accountable for making tr
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by cherrycherry98 5y ago
It's unclear to me why this is bad. The expat is not the cause of those people's poverty. The relationship between paid servants and employee should be mutually beneficial, as each gets what they desire, money on one hand, and con
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by cherrycherry98 5y ago
Business has purpose too. It's providing a good or service that someone is voluntarily engaging in because they derive some benefit out of it. That's exciting to be part of. If the business creates more value for people than it s
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by cherrycherry98 5y ago
I stated that it was rooted in enlightenment thinking, to be more specific it is an amalgamation of classical liberal ideas supporting individual liberty and limited government. Ideas espoused by philosophers like John Locke, Adam Smith, a
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by cherrycherry98 5y ago
Not legally, and with a large enough balance not practically either.
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by cherrycherry98 5y ago
I think it's disingenuous to call libertarianism fabricated, especially by people like the Kochs. This implies that those supporting its views are either manipulators or being ignorant of manipulation. It's a range of ideas rooted
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by cherrycherry98 5y ago
I agree with you, taxation does nothing but enable the government to work on projects it deems important in the name of helping the public. It's inefficient and obviously open to corruption. If we really think that it is unjust for mon
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by cherrycherry98 5y ago
Doesn't sound weird at all. They all share a collectivist ideology, which requires some degree of authoritarianism to operate. It's the elevation of the state or the collective over the individual and they differ only in their de
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by cherrycherry98 5y ago
Thanks for this explanation. There should be incentive for providing excess capacity but there are issues with the approach being taken. If I'm not mistaken, customers have little idea that a price surge is in effect and what the rate
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by cherrycherry98 5y ago
I'm in favor of removing the race question from the census. It proliferates collectivist thinking (my people/kin vs others, based on bloodlines or appearance) over individualism. It is also used as a justification for implementing
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by cherrycherry98 5y ago
I agree with you except for your thoughts regarding paying to educate doctors. Indeed we do benefit from people becoming doctors and they are well paid, have prestige, and are generally one of the most well respected professions. This shou
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by cherrycherry98 5y ago
They may ask for pay stubs.
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by cherrycherry98 5y ago
My understanding of the philosophy of open source is different. I believe it was always more fundamentally about freedom and specifically encouraging a marketplace of ideas. Going back to the early days with Stallman and the GPL it was abou
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by cherrycherry98 5y ago
My objection to the parent post is the notion that a business which can't pay a living wage shouldn't be in business. It insinuates that businesses should be responsible for paying a living wage out of some sense of it being moral

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