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by darawk 6y ago
That's fine for companies in industries that are reasonably mature. But if you want to start a new company in a dynamic industry, Germany is very much not where you want to be. German GDP per capita is about 45k, as compared to 65k per
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by darawk 6y ago
I don't think it's fair to call a modern mixed economy "Marxist". Marx didn't really advocate anything in particular in terms of economic organization. He had no clear idea of how his world would operate, and that&#
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by darawk 6y ago
NK essentially operates this way, at least nominally.
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by darawk 6y ago
The fact that a person was ostracized does not make them guilty of some unforgivable transgression. Without concrete accusations, we really can't evaluate what the truth is here, and afaik nobody has made any concrete accusations other
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by darawk 6y ago
This may well be true, but it wasn't the centerpiece of his cancellation. And if it is true, it hasn't been publicly articulated in any coherent way, as far as I can tell. I'm not saying that it isn't the case, it's
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by darawk 6y ago
We have to stop feeding the trolls. I think someone like Stallman probably made the choice to resign "for the good of the FSF". He probably reasoned, like so many people in this situation, that staying on would be detrimental to t
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by darawk 6y ago
Patrick runs his own software business afaik, so I think he definitely qualifies as a capitalist in terms of his economic role in society. However, I assume by 'capitalist' he meant more the suite of economic beliefs he subscribes
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by darawk 6y ago
I don't really know what to tell you here other than that that is incorrect. Not all asset managers are macro experts, you're right. But all asset managers that make market-relevant macro trades sure are. The kinds of people you w
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by darawk 6y ago
The people making these investing decisions are actually experts in their fields. If you're managing the kind of money that moves these markets, you are a world recognized expert in what you do. These people are not materially being
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by darawk 6y ago
But why are we assuming that they have needs that are not being met by the robots?
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by darawk 6y ago
The idea that Dalio published this in order to move markets in his favor is patently absurd if you know anything at all about the markets in question. The markets that would have to move here are the world's most liquid by a mile. Reta
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by darawk 6y ago
> Consider a case where person A builds widget X, and person B builds widget Y, and they trade with each other. Automation takes over, they lose their jobs. If they continue getting the widgets they used to trade for (which are now creat
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by darawk 6y ago
Is there any reason to think it's unlikely that mRNA defects would have the same risk profile as Ibuprofen? The body is full of thresholding processes, where up to X% blood concentration the organs filter things out fine, and there&#x2
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by darawk 6y ago
> I think there's two distinct ideas being discussed. Can people be unemployed because of structural, societal, or political reasons? Sure, and I think most people would agree. We have plenty of example of that happening - depressio
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by darawk 6y ago
Lots of people have a 10 mile or less round trip commute. At that distance, you can drive to and from work every day using this car. I don't think most people would want to rent a vehicle for this.
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by darawk 6y ago
Markets do fail in certain circumstances, but I outlined a specific mechanism. If you think there's a way for that mechanism to fail, i'd be interested to hear it, but just saying 'markets sometimes fail' in a generic se
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by darawk 6y ago
That's why it's a market. If they do that, and you seem the pushing policies that you don't think will work, you and everyone else who likes money can bet against them. Bribery would be prohibitively expensive relative to the
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by darawk 6y ago
> What? Not really. Miners do indeed dictate the protocol rules, its is the miners agreeing to following a certain version of the consensus algorithm that makes a blockchain do what it does. So they are partly responsible for more than j
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by darawk 6y ago
They've been investing money to make money. They're running a business, not a charity. Changes like these are part of the process of improvement, this is exactly what they signed up for.
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by darawk 6y ago
Of course they were a small percentage. That just means they imprisoned a lot of people, though. The absolute number of political prisoners was extremely large, in the millions.
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by darawk 6y ago
Your comment was a littany of attempts at character assassination largely unrelated to the work in question. The idea that Russian gulags were "just a prison" is a ridiculous characterization that no historian would agree with. Th
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by darawk 6y ago
Because Taiwan would like help, and it's in our interest to give it. It's not like the US is intervening against the wishes of Taiwan.
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by darawk 6y ago
There is a reason. Just not a technical one. It becomes obvious when you ask the simple question: why hasn't it already been done? The answer is that it's in no actor's local incentives to create the public commons. Why is th
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by darawk 6y ago
Your argument is that by evading jurisdiction, an act transforms from 'theft' to 'not theft'?
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by darawk 6y ago
People hosting pirated material often pair it with ads.
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by darawk 6y ago
I think the point is that the article feels a need to highly this, as though it is relevant. Primarily because they are trying to narrativize it in a certain way.
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by darawk 6y ago
Proof of work does not depend on the DLP. It depends on SHA.
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by darawk 6y ago
Has she given a contradictory version of events?
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by darawk 6y ago
So, you're opposed to the entire criminal justice system?
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by darawk 6y ago
Do you think the existence of a chilling effect is good reason not to do something? Policing literally anything in any way causes a chilling effect. The mere existence of a chilling effect is not an argument against doing something.

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