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by dventimi 2y ago
I apologize. I sometimes introduce typos, especially when using autocomplete on tiny mobile keyboards. I'm sure it's just me and never happens to anybody else. Anyway, I corrected that typo. Please, oh please, take me seriously no
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Through at least two administrations, Republican and Democrat, Bush and Obama, the U.S. has funded anti-leftist militarism in Colombia, to the military and to paramilitary groups like AUC. It's not just a fruit company and it's no
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And attorneys!
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Gibberish
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Nobody can predict the future, not even you. So you have no idea if that would have an effect on the economic output of those countries (which is what you mean by "wealth" even if you don't know it). One thing we do have
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Lame. Clearly, you made a claim because it seemed plausible to you, but you didn't bother to research it.
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That article describes a variety of different kinds of infinities, in mathematics, physics, logic, and philosophy, so you haven't made any progress in explaining which one you're using. Let me help you out, because I actually kn
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They didn't load when I first viewed the article, probably because the site fell over as was reported elsewhere.
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Rubbish
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I regard this as hyperbolic.
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It helps to have friends in high places. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32596903
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> As you wrote in your own comment, dollars are imaginary. Maybe they get paid in salary, maybe it's equity. Or benefits in the form of healthcare. Well, no, I didn't write that, but setting that aside, maybe you can pick whi
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The FBI sometimes does overlap with other intelligence agencies, rival them, and compete with them. In any case, "watch the sightlines, mind the exits, and don't get captured."
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The FBI could use this even for people who are not criminals.
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>> Which is better: 90% of people with $60,000 income and the top 10% with $600,000, or 100% of people with an income of $10,000? > Again, as I wrote the comment I'm talking about real value not just dollar values. In your
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It's at this point that you're going to have to explain what you mean by "infinite".
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> No, a flatter income distribution is not inherently better. I didn't say it's "inherently" better. I said it's better for "the non-tech workers", which is just a stand-in for "anyone below the m
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> for someone to gain someone else must lose equally Oh, you can gain love, satisfaction, respect, and all the other things that money can't buy and it doesn't cost anyone else a thing, but the minute you gain something that mo
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>> That's not a source. That's a cherry picked, politically motivated source about 400 billionaires? The average person getting a job at Tesla and competing for your apartment isn't one of them? > Want to try agai
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> But what happens if tech workers move out, and stop generating revenue for the city? Life would be even worse. No, a different mix of workers will move in. If they flatten the income distribution then life will be better for the n
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> Seriously, I can't believe how much time I've wasted on this. Then let's cut out fanciful stories of the planets and the birds and the bees and cut to the chase. In the 8 years between its IPO and Elon Musk taking it p
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"Searches"? Why would you have to search for evidence you already have in your possession, which surely must be the case? I mean, it's not like you would dream up a claim without evidence, is it?
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Yeah but the material conditions of an individual's life are determined by the goods and services they have, not by the total amount of goods and services that exist in the world. Moreover, certain material conditions--safety from harm
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>> If a person alive now, today, in the present, is unhappy because they have a meager share of the world's wealth, would you expect them to become happy once you've explained to them that the world's wealth will be la
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The magical thinking in this thread is breathtaking to behold.
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> Only with the qualifier of, "at one instant in time." That's a pretty important qualifier. > Now answer this question: in the real world, are we frozen at one instant in time? Or does time flow? That's two questi
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> Not all people on Earth exist in the present Correction: That should be, "Not all people on Earth who have existed in the past or will exist in the future exist in our present."
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It's technology, which is information not material goods. The technology--the information--necessary to create an iPhone didn't exist in the world 40 years ago, but it does now. So what? Armed with that information alone, is th
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Even if that were true, which I'm absolutely not willing to accept without evidence, trade is not the only way that wealthy nations impoverish poor nations. There are others: war, political instability, environmental degradation, etc.
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Yes.

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