e_i_pi_2

11 ms·

91.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
It seems like they're not matching donations or anything - are they just saying "hey we just got a nice donation - why don't you also donate?". I feel like I'm missing something My understanding was that they were d
92.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
You don't need malice to go to jail - ignorance is more than enough, especially if it's in a financial/legal/medical context
93.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
This reminds me about how humans may naturally think of numbers in logarithms[1] and the way we teach math is a lot of pushing back against that intuition and getting people to think about it the unintuitive way [1]: https://www.
94.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
I think the problem is incentives - it would be way more effective to cover the cost of decentralized solar panels, but then you don't have to charge for the power and there's no way to "recover" the investment. I think
95.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
A car isn't analogous to legs though, that would be the closest analogy with respect to the rights we have. You're always allowed to lose a license, nobody has any right to drive a car, so the concern is where you're allowed
96.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
I think a good analogy is other planets - can I say I own Mars and anyone who goes there has to rent the land from me? Without a government that's not going to happen, and with a government it only happens through force which invalidat
97.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
> Do you mean because it's immobile? Yeah I'm talking about personal vs private property, generally defined by movability, so like a house itself is private but the land isn't > Not so much in the US. There are some dis
98.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
That's also how I live my life haha, much less stress about people judging you if you can write it off as "yeah but I'm cool in other ways"
99.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
For a measured response - yes I agree, it's a combo of luck and effort, but the effort can't compensate for the luck. For my true response that probably isn't as popular - he may have an amazing work ethic but that's als
100.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
I think this is a side effect of "what is measured is managed", combined with people always trying to game systems. If you establish a system to measure how fast people make meals you're just going to get false estimates. The
101.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
Aren't you already not in control of where you go on foot? We have plenty of restricted areas for everything from anti-terrorism, govt buildings, and private property. There's even private roads for driving - this doesn't rea
102.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
Can I reapply for a patent every week until I can prove that someone else demonstrated the tech, then claim their developments? We already have patent trolls, I don't think this would necessarily help. I think the better solution would
103.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
My main criticism for it being a pyramid scheme is that it's basically a very old version of self-help seminars, which overlap heavily with pyramid schemes, and they want a percentage of your income (your "downline"), and are
104.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
> the Church teaches that offering some form of material support to the Church is obligatory for all Catholic adults who are able to do so, it doesn’t specify what percent of one’s income should be given I wasn't raised Catholic so
105.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
Governments are also controlled by the people and use that money in the way we decide. The church has none of those safeguards so it's more like a private company that doesn't offers a debatably valuable service. I think of it sim
106.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
My argument is that even without property taxes the land ownership isn't real - someone can have a piece of paper and a government to back them up and say they "own" the land, but ultimately it's not the same as personal
107.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
I think what they're saying is that some people are Peter Norvig and got lucky, and other people won't get there with any amount of study or practice. He's definitely not an average engineer, and as a result most people shoul
108.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
I can easily see the argument for owning personal property like a phone, but how can someone have a true ownership claim over land? For personal property there is a production chain with labor that went into the item, but for land it's
109.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
Church-goers pay money to their local church in tithes (generally suggested as 10% of pre-tax wages), local churches pay to their regional church, regional churches pay to the Vatican, it's a bit of a pyramid scheme but people feel lik
110.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
Those don't apply to "at-will" employment - you have freedom of speech in that you won't be sent to jail, but you can easily be fired for something you say. That law actually doesn't apply here because the situation
111.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
I think they need a middle ground - perhaps some way for users to submit new answers weighted by how recent they are and then have other users vote to override the previous answer
112.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
Not sure about other countries, but the US also made this worse by encouraging people to use housing as an investment and retirement vehicle, so you have a lot of people who really don't want housing to get cheaper because it means the
113.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
Possibly, but you'd need some big evidence for that, it would need to be a huge population that was hidden from the world in order to make up for the difference. Population stats are pretty hard to hide, so "disappeared" peop
114.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
I'm more saying we'd let the private market do it's thing, but then once we realize there's some core needs - search, basic social media, forums, etc - then we can make a public alternative that's free to access and
115.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
We have one of highest (or the highest) incarceration rates in the world, we have 4% of the world population but 20% of the prison population[1]. If the solution was putting people in jail then we'd have the lowest rate, so it's g
116.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
I feel like it's confusing to talk about gun deaths and focus on homicides when the biggest contributor to gun deaths (in the US at least) is suicide. As far as I've seen the biggest thing to prevent suicide is delaying and eventu
117.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
This is something we actively try to take advantage of at my company - we know that we've grown comfortable with architecture that may not make a lot of intuitive sense, so when we have new people join we try to make a list of confusin
118.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
Oversee and regulate in general, I'd go a step further and say once the private market discovers something like this we should have some part of the government develop a public alternative - that would solve a lot of the issues we&#x27
119.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
Yeah, when it comes to reporting and language in general "objective" is a subjective term
120.
by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
This makes sense, but I think we also need some of the protections other countries have, like if you're doing a mass layoff you need to cover wages for a month or two after, you need to prove you're not going to be rehiring for th

More ›