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by chiaro 11y ago
Ludonarrative resonance. It's fun to see the critical/theory sphere develop alongside the medium. We sometimes forget just how young videos games are. Compared to film, they're completely in their infancy, and narrative film
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by chiaro 11y ago
The voluntary gifts aspect is interesting. In the FAQ, there's mention of the option to tip someone whose investments you've shadowed, if you've been successful. If you capitalise on this social, community aspect, I'd be
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by chiaro 11y ago
I was curious to see if my country (Australia) had a similar bad habit of wrapping up bills in rhetoric buzzwords. I found only eight bills (on the digest archive) that mentioned the word "Patriot" and, hilariously, they're a
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by chiaro 11y ago
The Chicago school is a driving force behind the NIT, and I'm pretty sure Friedman wasn't secretly shilling for the Mossad or whatever the intelligence agency du jour may be. Dismissing ideas based on disagreement with some of the
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by chiaro 11y ago
Was not the opposition of equal participation based on enforcing traditional gender roles? My apologies if you mean something different, you just can't ignore that this position is very strongly aligned with conservatism as most unders
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by chiaro 11y ago
Capitalism uses the market to allocate resources, but it is not the only system that does so: [1][2][3] From what I can gather, you're limiting the role of government to a very libertarian role, and not finding any feasible solutions.
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by chiaro 11y ago
This ignores the fact that new citizens are also workers and contribute to, rather than drain, the economy. Median estimates of the effects of opening world borders predict a doubling of GGP (Gross Global Product). http://openb
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by chiaro 11y ago
And what's your point? That the efficacy or applicability of these ideas is somehow diminished by their presence in the political rhetoric of European minor parties?
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by chiaro 11y ago
BI/NIT is a separate issue, agreed, though the threats of technological advancement coincide somewhat with the problems they alleviate. A somewhat scifi concern is that technology will advance at such a rate that displaced workers can
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by chiaro 11y ago
A strange point to make, given that the second biggest factor leading to economic growth over the last century (after the information revolution) was women joining the workplace post WW2.
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by chiaro 11y ago
Except, well, the Luddites. The benefits of automation are largely diffuse and society-wide, outside of the few directly involved in the new, smaller industry. Those displaced would be at a net loss, save any Kaldor-Hicks type interventions
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by chiaro 11y ago
Poverty is not considered to be a unsolved problem in academic economics. An NIT has wide support as a way to both directly eliminate poverty while taking away the need for distortionary measures such as minimum wage and the administrative
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by chiaro 11y ago
The way they are normally referenced glosses over the fact that the Luddites were a group of people with actual, real concerns about their future. The industrial revolution was good overall, in net, but it was not a pareto improvement and p
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by chiaro 12y ago
If you've looked at reddit and come to the conclusion that people who are concerned about social justice is the most pervasive problem with the site's community, don't be surprised if people dismiss you. Perhaps /pol&#
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by chiaro 12y ago
Well, yes, that was my point. However, that particular subreddit has been reincarnated as another I have no particular inclination to name. As yet it's unbanned. By banning that subreddit, and creep pics etc. the admins have already ma
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by chiaro 12y ago
Your omission of which subreddits specifically is notable. Please, tell me why the site's reputation, community and society as a whole is improved by enabling r/niggers with a platform.
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by chiaro 12y ago
Really, the social justice movement is poisoning the site? Please, tell me how you've been made feel unwelcome by that. I'm sure it'll be very revealing.
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by chiaro 12y ago
Paper: The antidepressive effects of exercise: a meta-analysis of randomized trials. Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19453207 From the abstract: > ...the current meta-analysis examines the effects of exerci
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by chiaro 12y ago
A quote from an econ professor: "Economists hate war because it's the equivalent of taking your economy out the back and shooting it"
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by chiaro 12y ago
Any interesting point, though it'd be hard to believe that'd come anywhere close the amount of lives saved by ensuring food and medicine are safe.
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by chiaro 12y ago
Very well put. The phrase "perfect storm" crossed my mind when I first heard of this.
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by chiaro 12y ago
Reading through the specifics, you are right, it seems that the FAA is not doing as good a job as it should be, with episodic laxness in safety checks. It's a leap to say that the industry would be safer or otherwise better off without
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by chiaro 12y ago
1. That's kind of the catch, isn't it? All the government agencies that do their job with efficacy wouldn't be the ones you'd be made aware of. Only when something goes wrong do you become aware that your local water boa
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by chiaro 12y ago
A shame the point needs to be repeatedly made. A five minute foray into the wasteland that is twitch chat will show some pretty stark differences between how men and women become targets for trolling and vitriol. While some of the concerns
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by chiaro 12y ago
He writes well, and it's an interesting look at how intertwined the government has become (was it ever not?) enmeshed with corporate empires. Unfortunately in the wider population, Google's image is nigh unassailable. The average
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by chiaro 12y ago
I think the central thesis of BNW, insofar as it is relevant to western societies and their possible futures, is that escapism is bad in excess. In the information age, access to entertainment is utterly unfettered, and it's shockingly
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by chiaro 12y ago
It's very interesting to consider what kind of social structures could eventuate in a post-scarcity society.
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by chiaro 12y ago
While true, it's a pretty uniquely American problem. Not many other countries even allow for prescription medicine to be advertised to consumers.
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by chiaro 12y ago
The US is big exception here, and the supposed inverse relation between sexual liberty and incarceration rates evaporates when you look at the bigger picture. Western European countries are arguably more liberal in this area (take a look th
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by chiaro 12y ago
It does cherry pick from Huxley to make the point. There's little uptake of genetically engineered class systems in modern society, for example. Regardless, I think that between the two texts, 1984 is by far the closest to our reality.

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