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by frgtpsswrdlame 5y ago
>More significantly, ideologies satisfy the needs of groups, individual needs being secondary. Marx and Mannheim recognized this, underlining the class basis of ideology. I can't speak to Mannheim but aren't Marx's ideas a
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by frgtpsswrdlame 5y ago
But if Sears or others are replaced with other monopolies then the point stands. For example if you imagine a market where every 20 years the old monopoly firm gets beat out by a competitive new entrant which very quickly establishes it&#x2
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by frgtpsswrdlame 5y ago
Capitalism is based on rules of property and ownership, basically that I can own something, that you can't take it away from me through violence and that I can hire people to improve that something and they won't have an ownership
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by frgtpsswrdlame 5y ago
Capitalism is not something that exists outside of government, governments create capitalism through property (and other) laws. And since capitalism forces firms to focus only on profit, it similarly forces them to attempt to corrupt govern
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by frgtpsswrdlame 5y ago
>The 70% is said to be an estimate. The commenter one up is correct, the number is complete BS which is why no one is ever able to explain how it was estimated or where it came from.
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by frgtpsswrdlame 5y ago
>Prosecutorial discretion is the law of the land, after all. I don't understand what you're getting at. She was given discretion and she misused it. That seems like a really obvious reason to go after her.
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by frgtpsswrdlame 5y ago
Two different bullet points for staying there are not asserting yourself?
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by frgtpsswrdlame 5y ago
The man in this article was broken, what would it have cost to fix him? We don't have the information you're assuming we do, whether the costs are monetary or otherwise there is no estimate for what it would have cost to fix the d
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by frgtpsswrdlame 5y ago
>At least I would respect the argument. Which really just means 'no.' So like I said, just a big waste of time, the argument for or against these drunk-driving systems is about whether the good for society is worth the cost not
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by frgtpsswrdlame 5y ago
You're right, 'A G-MAN' is so much better.
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by frgtpsswrdlame 5y ago
>Whenever someone is pushing a mandate on someone else, I wish they would be called out if they are already following that mandate. Why though? If you found out that many members of MADD had installed these devices would it change your
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by frgtpsswrdlame 5y ago
>In response to Nader's criticisms, GM attempted to sabotage Nader's reputation. It "(1) conducted a series of interviews with acquaintances of the plaintiff, 'questioning them about, and casting aspersions upon [his]
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by frgtpsswrdlame 5y ago
Your rules are good but this: >Palmitic acid is in everything. Should have no effect on our judgement regarding its safety. Probably the story of our times seen from the future will be how we failed to account for extremely widespread us
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by frgtpsswrdlame 5y ago
It's good that the ICIJ is getting this information out there, I just wish they'd stop removing prominent Americans from what they publish.
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by frgtpsswrdlame 5y ago
Autobattlers are probably the most recent innovation, funnily enough coming out as a mod of DOTA.
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by frgtpsswrdlame 5y ago
It's tough but the toughest part you're encountering is the newness of it. When my mom was diagnosed I was a wreck. Then it evened out a bit and now that she's nearing the end, I'm a wreck again. There's an emotiona
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by frgtpsswrdlame 5y ago
>Most people see potholes on their street and publicly complain that the government is terrible and works too slowly, instead of helping their local government become less terrible by working with them. The story here is that a CEO with
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by frgtpsswrdlame 5y ago
It seems more like you're the one imposing politics on it. Everyone knows the inflation is occurring, the debates are all around what to do about it and those debates all depend on why the inflation is occurring. Right now those in con
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by frgtpsswrdlame 5y ago
Interestingly Mark Cuban got taken for a small amount of money by this and is already calling for regulation around stablecoins: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-17/mark-cuba... I read about i
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by frgtpsswrdlame 6y ago
An article about housing on hacker news, let's see, let me put on my Carnac hat and guess this article is about zoning. Anyways, I think the pandemic has shown that the monomaniacal focus on zoning reform isn't actually well suite
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by frgtpsswrdlame 6y ago
>If I truly believe I have a better guess about whether a stock is going to go up than the general market consensus then I do stand a chance of making money right? Yes but options aren't just about direction, they're about timi
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by frgtpsswrdlame 6y ago
>They address this in the article. Meritocracy doesn't mean dropping your children in the forest and stripping all advantage from them. If there's no equalizing basis then you can't say it's about merit. Was feudalism
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by frgtpsswrdlame 6y ago
If you're fine with a system that rewards those who grew up in middle class and above families and punishes those that don't then I disagree but okay. But don't call that a system based on merit when you're quite transpa
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by frgtpsswrdlame 6y ago
Sure: >Despite a $2.7 billion transfer to the state treasury, the Alaska Permanent Fund earned enough from its investments to grow by $1.4 billion, or 2%, during the just-ended state fiscal year. As of June 30, the fund stood at $66.3 bi
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by frgtpsswrdlame 6y ago
>The political reception was... poor. Had to ditch it under pressure from AARP and attack ads from Democrats. Of course. Let people have defined benefits. Stop trying to turn every single angle on retirement into defined contribution.
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by frgtpsswrdlame 6y ago
Just raise taxes on rich people, use the funds to buy stocks in a social wealth fund and distribute the dividends and some proportion of growth to everyone equally every year. Plenty of countries do this (even Alaska) it's easy, it&#x2
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by frgtpsswrdlame 6y ago
Whatever you think of the opinion of some of the employees regarding FB's stance towards politics, they're just never going to get their way without a union. It's exactly right that FB is a monarchy and what we see here are a
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by frgtpsswrdlame 6y ago
Yes, the unhelpful part of these simplistic examples is that they show Comparative Advantage as a property that arises from the ether. It just happens to be that my island has easily accessible bananas and yours has easily accessible coconu
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by frgtpsswrdlame 6y ago
It's not a benefit to them both ways, it's only useful to them if there's a substantial amount of those 5%s in which case they're probably right that everyone else is underestimating uncertainty.
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by frgtpsswrdlame 6y ago
Setting aside the question of whether Lori and her husband are truly rich or not, you don't like that super rich people openly make donations to get their kids into school they don't deserve to be in so you're okay with other

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