ewanmcteagle

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by ewanmcteagle 17y ago
Yeah. Totally. It must be that people don't know what's good for them. What else could be wrong with the government providing more services? Nothing, that's what. Only if people could understand how much other people just want to help t
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by ewanmcteagle 17y ago
So we should let people die because it's better in this calculation? Out of all the ways of solving such problems isn't letting people die one of the least desirable?
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by ewanmcteagle 17y ago
By what process do you come to the conclusion that no labor is worth as little as $5/hour?
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by ewanmcteagle 17y ago
You realize, of course, if I ran a website criticizing something it would show a lot of hits for that thing right? Quantity alone doesn't tell us much here.
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by ewanmcteagle 17y ago
You are right. They will be affected. It is not practical to try to limit speech/ads etc. It's not one of the values we have traditionally had. What does this leave us with? Power will always attract money so let's have less power.
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by ewanmcteagle 17y ago
How is the economist Keynesian?
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by ewanmcteagle 17y ago
Yes, we're taking your stuff. Don't worry it's for your own good. If it's not then it's at least good for society. Look, we're taking your stuff here's a list of excuses just pick one.
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by ewanmcteagle 17y ago
In either case since you don't know what it is how much should you assume the child is not capable of?
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by ewanmcteagle 17y ago
I'm sorry but this is terribly thoughtless. When you are given something the giver may be impoverished (ignoring any pleasure they get from giving) but when you provide a service or sell something both sides are happy. One receives the mo
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by ewanmcteagle 17y ago
This is a problem with open source and an argument against it. Does it really make sense to give something away and then complain that people just don't pay enough for it and should be forced to do so?
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by ewanmcteagle 17y ago
Star Trek viewing correlated with higher IQ. Now what? Anytime you divide a population that's large along any category or measure you will find many many correlations.
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by ewanmcteagle 17y ago
I think this deserved pointing out. I'm not sure where this Don Dodge is great stuff comes from or what it's based on but these few posts about him do make him seem coin-operated. The best developer evangelists are able to be sincere, tho
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by ewanmcteagle 17y ago
What difference do the motivations make? Browsers are now free. If I can get a few more apps free with my OS, I'd like those too.
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by ewanmcteagle 17y ago
Where do we see these higher prices in the long term? Not in the browser market. Where else? I'm sure there are some examples but they must be few and far between. Not even Standard Oil got pricing power.
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by ewanmcteagle 17y ago
How is giving consumers more for less an abuse of power?
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by ewanmcteagle 17y ago
This was not actually Kasparov's complaint. He thought there was intervention during the game. He replayed a particular position through a PC and when given an extremely long time to think the PC did not find Deep Blue's move in the same
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by ewanmcteagle 17y ago
Free trade is the default. It has to deliberately made otherwise. Restricted trade serves only special interests and since the world is gradually trying to move towards undoing trade restrictions I don't see why this is a good argument.
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by ewanmcteagle 17y ago
It is not beyond supply/demand. If I can see the value of education for my lifetime of earnings is greater than what it will cost me I will do it. If it's not or I can't tell, I will not. Crying about the short sightedness of others on t
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by ewanmcteagle 17y ago
It's meant to be a criticism of the utilitarian view of taxation. Read this: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/06/defending-mankiw.html It's not logically inconsistent
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by ewanmcteagle 17y ago
It doesn't work nearly as well if you compare survival rates for serious illnesses.
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by ewanmcteagle 17y ago
I live nearby and the curriculum is very weak. No studying operating systems. No compilers. No proper survey of languages. Algorithms is very weakly taught. But you do get all the certs you want before you finish. They do get some gift
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by ewanmcteagle 17y ago
How is this different from pricing and special discounts?
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by ewanmcteagle 17y ago
Buffett's argument is that he's not a statistical outlier. That others who have taken his approach to investing have also been able to achieve larger than expected gains over time.
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by ewanmcteagle 18y ago
This is a rough correlate with intelligence testing. There's nothing wrong with that. The problem most people keep bringing up with these things is that you will miss some good people that they have worked with who couldn't have done thes
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by ewanmcteagle 18y ago
It's also a problem when people keep voting for expenditures by majority rule and deciding that a different minority group should pay. That doesn't seem right.
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by ewanmcteagle 18y ago
It's not a scientific debate and there may not be a definitive answer. This is where smart people often go astray. Not everyone has the same preferences or treats risk in the same manner. Anytime you start saying cost-benefit analysis yo
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by ewanmcteagle 18y ago
How is this supported by history? When immigration was freer were living standards not rising in many countries and not rising in others, instead of averaging? It is not true that the only way to increase wealth is to starve others of res
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by ewanmcteagle 18y ago
If you're a mouse, you are all set. If half this stuff would work in people....
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by ewanmcteagle 18y ago
This is exactly the issue. Making it easier to solve some problems that are very rare in the day to day lives of most of the world is not a good reason to force people to switch measurement systems.
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by ewanmcteagle 18y ago
You've convinced me. I say we renew a push for the decimal time unit as well. Apparently we're just waiting our time with degrees and such. The cleaned up, decimalised version (gon?) is available.

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