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by deciplex 3y ago
> done something grossly incompetent like used floats for those calculations So, in another life I worked on reporting software for a foreign branch of a US bank. You've heard of the bank. You would probably recognize the CEO's
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by deciplex 3y ago
> on the same device This is the issue.
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by deciplex 3y ago
At least with revenue share the amount you owe is bounded by the revenue you've realized from sales.
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by deciplex 3y ago
Agree on the first three of your four bullet points. You're kinda missing the point on that last one: if you can correctly identify the value of the labor (again, including capital goods) that go into making a product, then what you ha
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by deciplex 3y ago
There is the notion of "socially-necessary labor" and the amount of that required to produce a thing does depend on the capital goods available to the people doing the work (that is, the technological sophistication and level of e
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by deciplex 3y ago
> An hour of labor can produce wildly different amounts of value with different tasks, skill, materials, and especially capital equipment. This is what I mean when I say "you should understand the labor theory of value before critiq
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by deciplex 3y ago
What about the invention of currency negates it?
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by deciplex 3y ago
There is a distinction drawn in the definition between capital goods and goods in general. This is the classic "can you own a toothbrush in a communist country" argument and the answer is, as it always has been, of course yes.
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by deciplex 3y ago
> Labor theory of value is trivially provable wrong (daily fluctuating prices, loss of value because of introduction of better products, etc.). I think, at a minimum, you should understand what the Labor Theory of Value is, before claimi
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by deciplex 3y ago
I think part of the (perhaps unconscious) resistance to thinking clearly about the floor is that the hiring side (i.e. people who do this every day, rather than once every few years) have a knack for sussing out what that floor is and ensur
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by deciplex 3y ago
> the fastest way to turn around a failing company is to search through company e-mail archives, find everyone who has ever used the phrase "add value", and purge them from the company but you'd purge the entire c-suite if
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by deciplex 3y ago
Okay explain for us the realistic mechanism by which CO2 conversion technology allows oil companies to not only sell more fossil fuels than they do now, but most importantly does so with a greater ROI than the open bribery that our institut
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by deciplex 3y ago
Why spend on tech that might not be a sure thing when bribery has been working for decades?
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by deciplex 3y ago
what is historical fact compared to what my imagination tells me should have happened?
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by deciplex 3y ago
> A fossil fuels company has deep incentive to minimize the harm of fossil fuels. They have a deep incentive to capture the regulatory framework that might hold them accountable for that harm, which they have accomplished.
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by deciplex 3y ago
I didn't lose any money to SBF, or any other crypto schemes, for what it's worth.
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by deciplex 3y ago
Well, we evaluate them rather differently than the Sackler family, that's for certain.
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by deciplex 3y ago
> Is there some reason the SBFs of the world are "puzzlers" and the hundreds of thousands of other people in prison are just criminals? There were about 26 billion reasons for that, at one point. e: to be clear, I am pointing
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by deciplex 3y ago
> Hell, there's even one case where they tried to sue themselves. did they win?
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by deciplex 3y ago
I mean, everyone's gotta eat. I think there's plenty of instances of someone building a tool that they personally find useful and then making that tool available for free, unsure of what the reception will be and not expecting a l
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by deciplex 3y ago
Seems like a developer that is getting literally nothing for his app or plugin is more likely to sell it than a developer that's getting some income from it. At the least, the buyer would need to match the current value that the app pr
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by deciplex 3y ago
Note that I'm reading 'There's not much middle ground between "try to have some fun at work because there's no reason not to" and "don't do something someone might take issue with",' as a ge
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by deciplex 3y ago
In the context of our current work culture, yes I think I agree with that. But I think that's a symptom of how dysfunctional our current work culture is. edit: > Can you tell us more? I literally can't actually, at least not as
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by deciplex 3y ago
You don't see the middle ground between "make no one uncomfortable" and "make everyone uncomfortable?" It seems to me you're viewing this completely in black and white and then insisting that it really is bla
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by deciplex 3y ago
Completely agree with this, but at the same time there is something deeply dysfunctional about our mercenary attitude toward our work relationships. For any given individual I think they have no choice to approach it this way, but I do hope
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by deciplex 3y ago
> There's not much middle ground between "try to have some fun at work because there's no reason not to" and "don't do something someone might take issue with". What? There is miles of middle ground t
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by deciplex 3y ago
The CPC has nearly 100 million members. A hundred or so people who followed in the footsteps of their parents who were prominent party members in the past, does not make an "aristocracy." To compare this to a dynasty like the Rock
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by deciplex 3y ago
Again, all you're really saying here is "mass death and misery in the wake of the fall of the USSR was worth it because a handful of criminals got insanely rich" which is exactly the sort of demented take I'd expect from
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by deciplex 3y ago
That is not an aristocracy.
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by deciplex 3y ago
> Yes? That number is decreasing, is the point. This is factually incorrect, or perhaps more generously: out of date. SOE market capitalization as a percentage of the total has been increasing for about two years now, and the CPC has sta

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