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by forensic 14y ago
Overly cynical. If doctors did not have a professional association their conduct would likely get worse, so there is a public interest being served when professions self-regulate for quality. There is also an anti-competitive factor, but co
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by forensic 14y ago
Your point, in short: non-professionals work really hard to present themselves as professionals, to the extent that actual professionals now shun the word. The word has a strict technical definition, however, and that definition is all abou
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by forensic 14y ago
It's better to describe regulators as captured rather than complicit. Regulators have no chance when the people they are supposed to regulate have hundreds of times more power than the regulators. Allowing unlimited wealth concentration gua
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by forensic 14y ago
>Goldman wasn't obligated to put up a shingle reading "We are losing our appetite for CDOs, and so can't take your money if you think they're still a great investment." This is the problem. They should be obligated. Being a professional
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by forensic 14y ago
It's better cause it's a little bit faster. That's all.
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by forensic 14y ago
That's a non-sequitor and you have now changed the goalposts of the discussion. The discussion is about what got Apple its marketshare in the first place.
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by forensic 14y ago
The whole point is that the engineers did not rule. Jobs and the other "humanities" types ruled. A Zen meditator ruled and the engineers and supply chain nerds had to sing to the tune of the "artists". Lots of engineers run companies and mo
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by forensic 14y ago
>I'm not sure that Apple's UX is that much better than Windows7/Gnome/Unity. ... this is insanity. These UXs you refer to are Apple copies that were released years after the Apple UX. Windows7 has a nice UX because Apple forced it to. P
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by forensic 14y ago
Anyone genuinely interested in these facts could check Wikipedia, Google Scholar, or a Google Books textbook and find copious citations. To be perfectly honest, I find your behaviour more interesting than the actual topic. Why do people who
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by forensic 14y ago
>I have yet to see any evidence social media has the same effect. Have you looked for these studies? Are you an expert on this corner of the literature? There have been studies and they do show that internet socialization has an effect
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by forensic 15y ago
I read a book and a bunch of research on sociopaths and then to serve the HN community I spent my own free time to do a write up. I cite an extensively researched high quality source, which actually addresses and supports every single state
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by forensic 15y ago
Good question. The Deptartment of Education is controlled by the power elite and by the masses who elected stupid represetatives. The issue is democracy - better called dumbocracy. Rule by the dumb. In a democracy, the government at best ca
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by forensic 15y ago
Not a single source? Can you read? I cited an extensively researched book by an academic. I mentioned Dr. Martha Stout on multiple occasions. RTFA you tool.
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by forensic 15y ago
So much faith. Which evolutionary strategy succeeds is entirely dependent on the environment. Capitalism and the modern metropolis is the perfect environment for sociopaths to thrive, and research on sociopathy shows it is increasing in the
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by forensic 15y ago
4% of the population commits the far majority of atrocities. That 4% is made up of the psychopaths - people genetically endowed with no conscience. Psychologists and sociologists studying sociopathy have estimated that there are huge number
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by forensic 15y ago
Anecdotes are intellectually dishonest. Statistics show that social mobility in the USA is low and in sharp decline. Your selection of 13 out of 50 indicates that 75% of even your sample inherited their privilege. So my statement about the
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by forensic 15y ago
This is hacker news not Nature. You provide no evidence either you hypocrit.
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by forensic 15y ago
You're an ignorant uneducated anti-intellectual with strong opinions on stuff you have no experience with and have spent no time investigating. You repeat the slave morality taught to Evangelical Christians by the Goldman Sachs psychopaths
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by forensic 15y ago
Social science is based on statistics and philosophy. You betray your ignorance. Right now you are entrusting your future to Rupert Murdoch and the Chinese Communist Party. They are the actors who will most shape your collective future. Sci
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by forensic 15y ago
The current ruling elite are flaming the fans of theocracy. They are responsible for pushing the slave morality of evangelical Christianity on the pathetic and miserable masses. If we don't disrupt the growing master/slave relationship occu
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by forensic 15y ago
It's bullshit. They were born into connected families and simply built on the advantages they already had. It's not meritocracy when one person goes to an inner city ghetto school and another goes to an elite private school. It's not merito
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by forensic 15y ago
The direct cause of poverty is the police. A naturally born human goes into the forest and hunts for deer to eat. Then the police arrest him and throw him in jail. He was not born poor; he had a forest full of food. The police made him poor
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by forensic 15y ago
There is a happy medium between outright fucking communism and outright corporate fascism. The superrich acquired their wealth through illegitimate means: nepotism, cronyism, bribery, monopoly, oligopoly, war-mongering, and all sorts of pre
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by forensic 15y ago
Then you're blind. The far majority of the superrich inherited their wealth. This is called nepotism and it's bad for meritocracy. The far majority of corporate and government leaders are there through cronyism. This is corrupt. Mega corpor
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by forensic 15y ago
Scarcity is a myth. There is plenty of food and shelter for everyone. If there are no jobs then take the wealth from the superrich and use it to feed the poor. Human life trumps property rights. The superrich job creators are not creating j
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by forensic 15y ago
When 51% of the population decides that taking the money is legitimate and a good idea, it will happen. The poorer people get the more people hop on board.
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by forensic 15y ago
Who said anything about communism? The French revolution was ultimately a huge success that robbed countless monarchies of their power. Instead of requiring teachers to slave away on wall street before they teach, we should just pay them fo
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by forensic 15y ago
The lives of the poor are of equal value to the lives of the rich. So the calculation must include the suffering throngs created by privileged and selfish nepotists and cronies. Literal guillotines are unnecessary. Just take away their mone
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by forensic 15y ago
You're so timid. The solution is obvious. Take wealth from the privileged superrich and use it to educate the poor. And I mean actual education, like khans academy, not fake education, like American public schools (politically correct obedi
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by forensic 15y ago
Economic development doesn't end slavery, enlightenment values do. It was the intellectual enlightenment that modernized Europe. Slavery is not a transitory "stage" it typically lasts for thousands of years.

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