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by clavalle 12y ago
Which small innovative competitors are being hampered?
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by clavalle 12y ago
It's tricky, no doubt about that (I am not worth nearly that much but members of my family and some friends are fairly far north of that). Family first. No matter what, your lasting real human connections are your family. If you have
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by clavalle 12y ago
>More money leads in almost all people to artificial value, short term superficial happiness, degradation of the soul. I could not disagree more. In the vast majority of cases, money leads to less misery. Then you just lead your life w
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by clavalle 12y ago
It is interesting. 99% of the time you don't even think about it, or write it off with half a thought as you are busy and want to eat healthy, quality food but occasionally it occurs to you "You know, I don't even have to th
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by clavalle 12y ago
How do we pull up the poor when the elites filter the entire economy through their pockets? If the goal is to pull everyone out of poverty, is there a way to accelerate the process? I'd say, yes. Predicate the elites selling their pe
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by clavalle 12y ago
So, what is the answer? Wait for poor-people parity? We can only move forward in the US if all of the other poor people in the world are at the same level? And, if that is the case, which direction do we go? Do we push the poor people in
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by clavalle 12y ago
In many cases you don't know. You have a suspicion. It is probably nothing. Nope, it was something. Don't underestimate the human capacity for denial. On top of that you have interesting incentives that you get to think about
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by clavalle 12y ago
>Another one that you're due is realizing money is just an indirection for labor. That doesn't imbue it with any special properties. I am not vilifying money. Obviously it is a very useful medium of exchange. I just don'
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by clavalle 12y ago
See here is an example of the 'everyone is stupid' mindset: I am pretty sure everyone on HN understands how wealth is created through exchange. That is Econ 101 stuff. If that is the aha moment, you are many years too late. I ju
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by clavalle 12y ago
>The anarcho-capitalist position doesn't define markets particularly rigidly at all. "voluntary exchange" is pretty much it. Then what about the exchange between the organization we call a State and the people? For example
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by clavalle 12y ago
Gold is a currency. I've read a bit of literature -- I don't know how canonical it was because it was stuff I was pointed to in the middle of chats like this one but I found most of it to be very 'happy path philosophy'
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by clavalle 12y ago
This is what this conversion always boils down to: use of force. Here's the problem with that 'bedrock' you are standing on: the vast majority of us are not coerced at all. We've happily agreed to this system. Have y
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by clavalle 12y ago
The depth of Anarcho-Capitalist or strong Libertarian pessimism astounds me. > because paying more taxes to the US government is never a good thing. > not everybody wants to fund the US's empire building overseas wars, torture ca
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by clavalle 12y ago
If Amazon prime's streaming interface wasn't so terrible I might agree with you. Occasionally I try to watch it (I have Amazon Prime anyway) but they make it so hard to navigate that I usually give up after a few seconds. It is
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by clavalle 12y ago
Do you believe that commercial software shops are dedicating resources to completely understand their software and 'all of the potential future ramifications'? Or are resources dedicated to pushing out product and moving on to the
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by clavalle 12y ago
I put 'no' but my brain seems to be a pretty good ad-blocker so I haven't found a need for another one.
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by clavalle 12y ago
I hope he means 'abandoning it to people who will develop it further so more people can enjoy it: I'm not going to deal with that aspect anymore'. But I could just be optimistic.
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by clavalle 12y ago
That is three minutes of my life I'll never get back. The author seems to spend an entire page refuting his own headline in the most scattered way possible. It was like listening to a friend who'd had a few beers try to explain an
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by clavalle 12y ago
Oh? With what would you start your inquiry into the existing research? Would that be a guess, would you suppose? Or is it hard data all the way down? Even inquiries into research can contain bias. But your pithy attitude is noted.
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by clavalle 12y ago
I would guess that you would find significant mental health benefits, as well.
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by clavalle 12y ago
I would build a general profile of the application and then drill in as needed rather than try to grok the whole buffet at once. If the idea is to rebuild the application I would start at the beginning: what is the input and output? What
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by clavalle 12y ago
'Apparently'. It isn't the indictment that causes financial institutions to collapse, it is the exodus of clients. For this 'death blow indictment' theory to hold water you'd have to assert that many more peopl
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by clavalle 12y ago
As far as I know, all of these companies have the option to have their day in open court. I think the likes of JPMorgan can handle defending themselves legally without falling into commercial ruin. Usually, with extortion, these kinds of op
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by clavalle 12y ago
But does that interaction have to come in the form of a rigid and traditional teacher to student series of interactions? Or could study groups fill that need?
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by clavalle 12y ago
Isn't there a limit to how far 'teaching dependent learners' can go? Why spend so much time and effort accommodating people who are, by definition, self limiting?
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by clavalle 12y ago
>The report noted criminals using automated cars would have both hands free and be able to take their eyes off the road during a car chase. They would also be remarkably predictable compared to a human driver.
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by clavalle 12y ago
I was not aware of this. Do you get to chose the book?
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by clavalle 12y ago
I regularly have four or five books from my library (one or two tech books, a fiction book and two or three comics) at any one time. Not to mention the, literally dozens, I get for my kids every month. I use the library to sample books and
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by clavalle 12y ago
Sounds more like a cluster of tactical problems that can be solved individually than an overall strategic failure. I don't think it is a matter of the smartest minds of our generation trying to solve long term unemployment, but rather
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by clavalle 12y ago
School districts don't make a profit but they do create value, but that is a digression. >I agree with this, but it doesn't disagree with the idea that rich people create jobs. Rich people can create jobs, but we shouldn't

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