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by dmfdmf 11y ago
Yes, but what exactly do you mean by "tax money"?
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
Yes. How are these magically enforced if someone refuses to pay?
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
"...the advocates of nudging always seem to rationalize, minimize, evade and deny the fact that govt nudging occurs, ultimately, at the point of a gun." QED
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
Its not silly it is the crux of the issue that you evade. Tell me, what happens if you don't go along with govt nudges? Don't they fine you or sanction you in someway? And if you continue on this path, refuse to pay your fines a
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
>...it might be rational to nudge people towards healthier behaviors. Let's be clear on this issue because the advocates of nudging always seem to rationalize, minimize, evade and deny the fact that govt nudging occurs, ultimately,
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
Not complex at all, just political. Of course, nutrition guidance isn't really a proper function of govt (what does food have to do with force?) In any case, the problem the govt has now is that crow doesn't taste very good, i.e.
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
I hate to Godwin this thread right out of the gate but say Google is in 1930's Germany as the Nazis came to power, so they persecute jews or look the other way as many corporations did in Nazi Germany? This was legal and the "rig
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
That's funny because when Evernote got... flaky... I started to think about self-hosting a Wordpress and wiki server for my notes.
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
If you are a mouse.
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
I noticed how the only two comments by d_e_solomon and thyrus a) assume the author doesn't understand infinity and b)assume someone else has already proved him wrong -- neither position without proof, just a feeling. d_e_solomon just r
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
This is part of the presidential election, to smear Chris Christie and keep the GWB closure in the news. NB: Not a Republican or fan of Christie, just an observer.
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
Depends on what you mean by "work". They are not economically valid but today are a political means to use the power of govt force (i.e. the gun) to transfer benefits from the property owners to the renters.
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
For me the harbinger of the death the rule of law was Bill Clinton getting away with lying under oath in court. The announcement that we now live under the rule of men and not laws was the US government's abrogation of asset-backed bo
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
Reports of Capitalism's death have been greatly exaggerated.
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
The author correctly rejects the rampant (and false) Platonism in modern mathematics but (implicitly?) accepts the Kantian version of the same error via the Analytic/Synthetic dichotomy. This is as far as he'll get unless he defi
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
This is my reaction. I don't want cloud connections and MS/NSA surveillance and key loggers in my OS, so I won't be going to Win10. Hopefully there is enough backlash that MS is forced to allow user to opt out of this garbage
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
When KB3035583 GWX/Win10 Spam came out I removed it and put my updates into manual because I figured it won't be long before MS put out another updated to push Win10. This is much worse, now I find out there are a number of updat
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
Sarcasm in general is a destructive act and a type of passive aggressive behavior. It generally arises when a person is unable or unwilling to overtly express opposition or disagreement, so it comes up in the work environment because of th
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
I'd be curious to know your background such that The Romantic Manifesto was an "easy" read. It was not easy for me. As for the difficulty of that book, the topic is one of the widest possible integrations in that she explains
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
Does our disagreement make you anxious?
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
"Anxiety" typically means an irrational or unfounded fear. We have legit reasons to fear the NSA spying after Snowden.
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
The title as written is a smear against Snowden. "How DDG Rode a Wave of Post-Snowden Security Concerns to Massive Growth"
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
“You can never know objective truth, because you’re stuck inside your own mind.” I’ve heard this argument many times. Supposedly, we cannot know anything about the world because we cannot “get outside our own minds” to verify whether our c
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
I reject his premise that consciousness and purpose are "mystical". But I agree intelligence is essentially computation and that computers will continue to advance. The danger of AI is not that it will become conscious and purpose
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
> I think a lot of innovation will spring from this too Me too. Like new ways to spy on, enslave and control those cursed with ability and forced to create the "shelter, food, clean drinking water and telecoms" that your utopia
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
I would recommend Rand's Philosophy: Who Needs It then Peikoff's Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand . The Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (ITOE) is good but is a bit technical and not everyone has the interest
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
Why was that thread "flagged"? What does that mean?
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I find it hard to believe that bad literary technique could elicit a sneer. Stilted dialog might result in, at most, bemused indifference or perhaps sadness at witnessing a failure. I'd bet you don't sneer at flat-earthers because
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
Nice to see an intelligent comment from someone who actually read Rand (and sounds like they got something out of it) instead of just mouthing things that they heard about her. For reasons that I won't explain, I think you are right ab
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
Your footnotes notwithstanding, your comment makes no sense even on its own terms. Regardless of their feelings or lack thereof, what sociopaths and psychopaths have in common is they don't survive by reason and creating value but by u

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