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by chillacy 6y ago
> the only way to ensure equal access to a service is via regulation as a public utility Right, but afaik the reason water/power/etc are made public utilities is because they are natural monopolies: > Public utilities, the c
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by chillacy 6y ago
Wow that’s some pretty important context. The parent comment is extremely misleading for leaving this out.
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by chillacy 6y ago
1. That case ended with the conclusion that the bakery could deny service because it would otherwise be “compelled speech” 2. Political beliefs are not a protected class like sexual orientation (should they be?) Given that, this seems like
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by chillacy 6y ago
Internet hosting doesn’t have as strong a geologic component though. Power and water are utilities because they are “natural monopolies”. UPS and FedEx are not utilities since they have less fixed infrastructure.
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by chillacy 6y ago
The author implies it’s worse to be censored by a company because with government you in theory can influence it with voting... but in practice you have about as much direct influence as reversing tides in the ocean by splashing against the
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by chillacy 6y ago
Well, it's not provable whether or not something has qualia... but I will grant that if something can fool others into thinking it is sentient, and someone who believes in its sentience inflict harm upon it, it is still sadistic.
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by chillacy 6y ago
I'm all for acknowledging the problems of free speech but I don't like the emergency powers argument either. It's far too easy to sacrifice your virtues, whatever they might be (sacrifice some privacy to catch terrorists, sac
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by chillacy 6y ago
Given the deontologists and consequentialists have not quite reached a definitive answer, I'm not sure how everyone would agree with this definition of "more ethical".
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by chillacy 6y ago
Here's a big one: > We do not pay interest on account balances above $100,000 https://www.hmbradley.com/apys
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by chillacy 6y ago
American free speech is way more broad than European free speech, they’re different legally. You could have a similar argument between American freedom of religion and French “freedom from religion”. Not an apples to apples comparison.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Psychology research would say that building a shed together or surviving a bear attack together would lead to people getting along even better afterwards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realistic_conflict_theory
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by chillacy 6y ago
I also find common argument tropes pretty tiring, and I feel like I've typed out the same responses again and again, but pointing out the inconsistency is probably the best way... and in a year maybe you see someone else pointing it ou
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by chillacy 6y ago
* when moderating But touché, I could have been more clear as to the scope of my statement.
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by chillacy 6y ago
There is no popular position with moderation, everyone hates the umpire. On the flip side, if everyone hates you equally you're probably on the right track.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Some people probably _did_ sign up for the armed forces in the middle of the Iraq war. Not that I agree with them, but they probably saw themselves as patriots. Sometimes people just have different morals, try speaking to people who work in
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by chillacy 6y ago
I remember this fortunately got at least a bit of debate time in US primary season. It looks like (as many things) there are multiple causes, and automation is definitely a huge one that can’t be ignored when talking about losing manufactur
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by chillacy 6y ago
Etherium seems quite promising. They recently moved to Proof of Stake, which gets around many issues with Bitcoin like energy consumption, miner consolidation, and 51% attacks (it would by definition be more expensive to pull off than you c
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by chillacy 6y ago
I very much want this to be true but it seems you’ll do fine if you can confidently spew off another explanation. https://religiondispatches.org/a-year-after-the-non-apocalyp...
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by chillacy 6y ago
Not brave enough to do that myself, but I respect that you're putting some skin in the game.
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by chillacy 6y ago
> regarded by many to be one of the best macroeconomic thinkers By whom? She doesn't seem to have a wikipedia page.
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by chillacy 6y ago
From a podcast I listened to, Michael Saylor does not have "future of money" in his investment thesis at all. He doesn't see this as currency. Instead, he sees bitcoin as something more like gold, but much easier to move arou
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by chillacy 6y ago
I think it's safe to say that the BTC community has pivoted to a more fitting use case for their technology. The Bitcoin Cash fork and Litecoin made scaling choices that make it better for payments.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Ebay did this 7 years ago, not sure how it turned out though https://hbr.org/2013/03/did-ebay-just-prove-that-paid
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by chillacy 6y ago
The first book is the slowest, the second is thoroughly entertaining, the third is a wild roller coaster ride across unfathomable time and space in a universe that doesn’t care.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Afaik Taiwan considers (or considered) itself to _be_ China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan,_China#Background_and_a...
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by chillacy 6y ago
The tricky thing here seems like customer acquisition of a two-sided marketplace: you need job searchers to get job posters, but you need job posts to get job searchers.
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by chillacy 6y ago
I got nothing against Palantir (disclosure: I'm a shareholder) but you do have to acknowledge that people have very different definitions of "good" that factor into their opinions. Some people find that bringing technology in
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by chillacy 6y ago
I've been diversified into EM and it's mainly been disappointing so far but we'll see. One other issue is that a lot of foreign debt is denominated in US dollars. The US can print its way out of any crisis, other countries ca
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by chillacy 6y ago
> shown what a complete mess of a state that the U.S. is in I have found people more likely to believe that covid is fake or over exaggerated than leadership issues. > real estate... tanking Actually in some areas real estate is boomi
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by chillacy 6y ago
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel was published just a few months ago. 20 short stories about money, how to think about saving vs investing, risk and leverage, time in the market vs absolute returns.

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