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by forensic 16y ago
I wouldn't be enjoying what others don't have. I would be enjoying what I DO have. Which is the ability to pay others to do whatever I want. I want massages and blowjobs and chefs and chauffeurs and butlers and servants. Who doesn't want th
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by forensic 16y ago
>If I can see my (future) children grow up happy and healthy, keep learning my whole life, earn my living solving interesting problems If you're rich you can still do these things. Whether you're rich in Ancient Egypt or rich in 1973 yo
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by forensic 16y ago
If I can have dinners at expensive restaurants, yachts, manors, apartments throughout the world, unlimited access to high class prostitutes, the respect, deference, fear, and love of the masses who stand in awe of my wealth... rich in prett
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by forensic 16y ago
I read about the case study in this book: http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Dawn-Prehistoric-Origins-Sexuality... don't have a page number unfortunately
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by forensic 16y ago
This has been done. Individuals have been taken from tribes and allowed to integrate into western society. They usually choose to go back.
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by forensic 16y ago
>it's up to you to deliver the citation. "Read book X" isn't sufficient. What do you think a citation is?
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by forensic 16y ago
There is a big difference between "primitive civilizations" and hunter gatherer tribes. People often forget that the Aztecs were an agricultural civilization. So were most Native Americans like Pocahontas -- yes, Pocahontas' dad was a farme
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by forensic 16y ago
Unfortunately I think Hacker News, in this thread, is providing support to the thesis that there is something about the engineer mindset that is inherently authoritarian and extremist. http://www.slate.com/id/2240157/
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by forensic 16y ago
I wasn't the one making the argument that these people are experiencing misery/suffering. Misery and suffering is no more objective than happiness and satisfaction. I would argue that both of these things are objective and can be observed i
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by forensic 16y ago
There are degrees of agriculturalism. How much of their diet is from foraging and hunting? Also there is still a big difference between cultures who cultivate fruits and cultures who cultivate grains and legumes. If they adopt grains/legume
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by forensic 16y ago
They go into various statistics yes. But on a more qualitative note, tribal societies gain little from total war. "Total war" is the modern concept that every war is a struggle for existence and every avenue must be utilized to destroy the
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by forensic 16y ago
The shortness of tribal people's lives has been greatly exaggerated. In fact, it's pure myth. The book Sex at Dawn demonstrates this using the latest anthropology and archaeology if you want to know more. Until recently, it was normal for t
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by forensic 16y ago
>Preserving their backwards culture so they can continue lives of misery and suffering is just as disgusting as the Prime Directive. The point is that they are not suffering. Modern anthropology and the best science actually indicates t
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by forensic 16y ago
>Interestingly, whereas open-source code expands the market (and rates) for programmers Has this been proven?
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by forensic 16y ago
I personally know people who are passionate for construction work. I asked a construction worker straight up - if you won a billion dollars, what would you do? He said he'd go on vacation for a few months and then probably come back to the
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by forensic 16y ago
I like Paul Graham's essay where he points out that society can adapt to not have these things. He uses the example where people used to have live in servants. Now people aren't willing to be butlers so the wealthy just go without. A simila
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by forensic 16y ago
It's because people know how much money to expect. A company that requires significant physical capital investment won't bother with YC. Now they can. For instance I bet this will produce more hardware companies like WakeMate. Companies tha
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by forensic 16y ago
It's a government-enforced monopoly.
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by forensic 16y ago
>With all due respect to the Canadians here, it's not really that bad at all. Life goes on, and it actually seems to be a pretty good life too. You do realize you are being horribly ripped off? It's true that life goes on, even for slav
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by forensic 16y ago
The fact that the CRTC is stacked with former Bell and Rogers employees and NO ONE to represent the public or small ISPs also helps. The CRTC is just a stooge pretending the play the part of opposition, while they are actually a collaborato
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by forensic 16y ago
>Entrenched aristocracies happen when you have old money that looks down on the "nouveau riche". That's not the cause of aristocracy, that's the effect.
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by forensic 16y ago
You're just noticing the difference between a 1000 year old aristocracy and a burgeoning one. Aristocracy always begins with a way to define the elite. Over time social mobility will decline and people will start to notice that it's mainly
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by forensic 16y ago
I agree, but then again I've always been a monarchy-sympathizer.
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by forensic 16y ago
>If we could offer packages that would be available to everyone but easy to buy at the same time, wouldn't it be good for everyone? For example you can pay $X for the "lexus lane", $X for another privilege, etc. - this way if someone ac
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by forensic 16y ago
Scott Adams is just talking about moving towards a visible aristocracy. These are the first baby steps. Soon the rich will have special privileges just like the old days.
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by forensic 16y ago
The people commissioning these studies need to somehow be liable for the accuracy of the results. If you were doing a private study where the results would only be for your own private usage, you would go the extra mile and pay the extra mo
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by forensic 16y ago
The model has changed. Now it's about the ability of Paul et al. to pick horses. (Also the Ycomb environment and all that too)
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by forensic 16y ago
>I don't really care because I got paid anyway. Right, and loads of authors won't get paid without copyright. So they need it.
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by forensic 16y ago
That's a job for law enforcement. Let them do their job and you do yours.
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by forensic 16y ago
no-knocks pretty much don't need justification anymore The laws are so vague and the precedents are so sweeping when it comes to no-knock raids.

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