digislave

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by digislave 5y ago
Why not? Suppose you have to choose between two dog walkers for hire, one who is will to write essays about Russian history and one who is not. You happen to be very interested in Russian history. Why wouldn't you prefer the dog walker
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by digislave 5y ago
You are totally in your rights to fire your dog walker if they refuse to write you an essay about Russian political history.
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by digislave 5y ago
Germany
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by digislave 5y ago
Vancouver is famous all over the world as an attractive city (for example I live in Berlin, Germany, and many people I know would like to visit Vancouver). I've never been there, but I have heard it is next to the sea AND next to the m
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by digislave 5y ago
But isn't that also a factor of what people prepared to pay? Like if some people are prepared to pay 50% or more of their income to live in an attractive location, prices will rise so that to live in that location, most people will hav
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by digislave 5y ago
In my country, there are cheap houses in the countryside, and housing in attractive locations is very expensive. Perhaps the factor of demand is underrated in the discussion of housing prices.
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by digislave 5y ago
People can only ask for as much money for houses as people are prepared to pay. It isn't true that speculators can simply drive the price up as high as they want. If investing in housing is a good way to make money, it is an incentive
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by digislave 5y ago
Why not? It seems obvious that cheap credit would drive up prices. For example people could just be bidding up to what they can pay off in about 30 years. If they simply do that, cheaper credit would rise house prices.
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by digislave 5y ago
Instead of fretting about people who became successful, we should think about how we can help more people become successful. Which incidentally seems to be a huge part of what PG does. Even poor people today live better than kings in the pa
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by digislave 5y ago
Climate always changes, the question then is, is it extraordinary change because of CO2. I don't think merely counting record events is a good way to determine that 40 years is also not a very long time span.. Also it seems likely that
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by digislave 5y ago
Local records are normal. There is variation in weather, and there are many "local" spots on earth. There are also coldness records every year, but there is less reporting on it.
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by digislave 5y ago
Well the most important factor of economic mobility has historically been women marrying up. So you might be on to something - it seems doubtful that wives who were able to marry up work that much harder than other wives.
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by digislave 5y ago
You have just become lucky because you stumbled upon the article and can act on it. So it is not necessary to mention luck, because the readership of the article is already selected for luck. The article also mentions the necessity of talen
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by digislave 5y ago
Yeah because their parents are better educated and pass on their values to their kids. So what? I am frankly tired of this modern idea that is is somehow unfair if parents pass on their advantages to their kids. That is what nature has alwa
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by digislave 5y ago
PG talks about that in other essays, on how you should probably move to the right location. He compares Milano to Florence - it is unlikely people in Milano were less intelligent, but all the famous painters emerged in Florence. Nevertheles
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by digislave 5y ago
Your story doesn't actually demonstrate that you have to know Warren Buffet as a child and attend an expensive school to become successful. I don't think anybody here claims that working hard automatically makes you successful, ei
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by digislave 5y ago
A lot of censorship is mandated by governments. Here in the EU companies have to pay huge fines if they don't comply with censoring laws. The problem might not be venture capital, but simply there being entities (companies) that the go
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by digislave 5y ago
But maybe no government is better. It only says all other forms of government are worse.