danharaj

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by danharaj 11y ago
GDP measures GDP, not 'real value' or 'productivity'. Also, just because the mean is increasing does not mean the median is, too.
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by danharaj 11y ago
Hierarchy and structure has costs. Maintaining hierarchy requires inertia and increased transaction costs. Capitalism is predicated on hierarchies and market structures. A lot of jobs exist just to prop up the order of things.
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by danharaj 11y ago
Because people have been killed by people who are convinced they can force those people to conform to their values.
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by danharaj 11y ago
That's all very fair. I think we've pinned down adequately where our differences lie. I spoke about property intending to mean the notion of property, not the physical things that we call property, to clarify. In fact, I see entir
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by danharaj 11y ago
My personal views on property are most certainly fringe. However, I couldn't get by very well without understanding its logic as it is implemented, as other people understand it, and enforce it. If you are talking about theft legally,
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by danharaj 11y ago
Loaded question much? Property is a social construct. If humans decide these are the rules of property, then they are the rules of property. If your username is indicates your position, your beliefs are outside of the mainstream and your de
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by danharaj 11y ago
What is the difference between horrible and not horrible in this case? NYC is not in flames.
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by danharaj 11y ago
All I hear is: The poor do not deserve to live anywhere desirable.
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by danharaj 11y ago
> I know liberals like to try to make unicorns exist but economics cuts through most of the lies and bullshit of politics. The irony of advocating for a liberal housing market, then turning around and claiming that this is not only apoli
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by danharaj 11y ago
If you can get a hold of it, I absolutely love Ursula K. Le Guin's writing about Lord of the Rings in The Wave in the Mind, one of her nonfiction collections. Lord of the Rings has true depth and longevity.
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by danharaj 11y ago
That's a delightful observation. Is the book worth reading?
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by danharaj 11y ago
I think the solution is fewer solutions. When I am working well with others, there's nothing much to fuss about. When there are conflicts, it's not ideology or a system that wins the day. I think we two would collaborate just fine
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by danharaj 11y ago
> Rather than tell us how much you hate the military and capitalism maybe you can figure out a better way. Well, knowing a few scientists, I can say that I know well the creative and inquiring spirits that advance us. The world is struct
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by danharaj 11y ago
I would not have wagered the world for what we got out of it. The fact that we're around to talk about it is fine and all, but the last century is not a good model for any century.
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by danharaj 11y ago
Are you extolling the virtues of a world that was shaped by the threat of nuclear annihilation for multiple generations?
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by danharaj 11y ago
I don't aspire to be any sort of capitalist.
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by danharaj 11y ago
Totally true. My claim is smaller than I made it seem. I don't like Marxism even though I find some of the analytic tools it provides to be very useful. Even so, I have to give it credit that its largest experiments were very popular w
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by danharaj 11y ago
Are we going to ignore the largest carceral state in the world? We can have a sober criticism of all forms of states and capitalism without insisting on one hand that there are only two possibilities and on the other hand that we must choos
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by danharaj 11y ago
> It's things like this that make it really obvious that we're primates, hardwired for status. Or maybe it's an indicator that our incredibly hierarchical society inflicts psychological violence on people because it holds
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by danharaj 11y ago
Well, then it seems that I take issue with your statement purely because I'm a jerk who thinks that the idea that philosophy should leave you less frustrated rather than more frustrated is a bad idea ;)
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by danharaj 11y ago
I didn't intend to imply that one should search for absolute philosophical truth. In fact, such an idea comes readily into conflict with my statement: it's just the search for an item on the menu that satisfies one completely exte
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by danharaj 11y ago
Wittgenstein himself went on to criticize parts of the Tractatus later in life. It's a bad idea to treat philosophy as a menu from which one can choose the most appealing items and be left with a satisfactory understanding of the probl
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by danharaj 11y ago
You don't have to reach into science fiction to see this. The concept of biopower outlines how modern ideologies mold human life to their structures. Feminism has always been allied with radical and revolutionary biopolitics. It does n
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by danharaj 11y ago
I think it is a terrible summary, but I'll assume it's because of a failure to communicate on my part. (3) does not follow from (2) and (1) together. What does follow is a need to analyse the argument further. I didn't make t
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by danharaj 11y ago
I'd much rather prefer to lurk Hacker News but these comment chains have just been so exasperating. I'd like to know how many people actually believe that science is engaged in a widespread effort to dissimulate the truth of sex d