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by glesica 13y ago
It is unfortunate that so many people are stuck in jobs that don't offer sufficient time off. It seems fairly common for employees to "start"* with just two weeks of paid time off (and many, I think, even lack access to unpai
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by glesica 13y ago
Physical assets are hard to move, and those are the ones we would want to keep. Who cares if they move their cash, see how long it's worth anything after the government stops standing behind it. And if it continues to be valuable (for
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by glesica 13y ago
Like I said, not that bad yet but moving in that direction. There are plenty of people already, I suspect, who feel as though they have basically nothing, especially if they face some sort of ruinous expense like getting sick while uninsu
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by glesica 13y ago
Fun story, some of the older (hehe, older as in "older than 30 or 35) people here might remember that in the 90s there was a startup that did exactly this but with a browser plugin as I recall (well, not exactly, they didn't hash
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by glesica 13y ago
> wealth destruction on a gigantic scale. Who gives a damn about destroying the master's wealth if you're a slave? That's the problem. To be clear, I'm not saying it's that bad, but things sure seem to be
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Some might argue that the same could be said of Bitcoin cheerleaders and deep economic understanding of money...
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I disagree, because I don't think Bitcoin is a very good currency, and even if it had the potential to be a good currency at some point in the past, that potential has been destroyed by speculative hoarding and a mining arms race. The
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by glesica 13y ago
I agree that un-bundling the escrow from the rest of the stack would be a good thing. However, I think it is important to keep in mind that replacing credit cards with something less effective (for whatever definition of "effective&quo
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by glesica 13y ago
So now the online marketplace has to run an escrow service as well. If they're going to do that, why not run an escrow service for credit card transactions? You pay the marketplace, the seller ships the goods, you confirm that you got
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by glesica 13y ago
If "objective" and "merit" are defined as "upper-middle class white men" then don't talk about IQ tests, just say what you mean. My point is that you can couch what goes on in whatever language you like, b
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The problem is that those tests probably DO have cultural or gender biases. GP was pretty specific about the fact that only SOME intelligence tests have been shown to be effective and free of cultural and gender bias. So then we're bac
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runako already dealt with this by pointing out that because poor areas are militarized, run-ins with the law are more likely even for "normal" law-breaking. What kid doesn't break the law? I did, tons of times. I wasn't
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by glesica 13y ago
Do I really need a person who went to school for "decades" to swab my kid's tongue to see if she has strep? Do I even need a person with "decades" of education to then write out a prescription based on the lab resul
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by glesica 13y ago
So then why don't startups hire based on the results of IQ tests, isn't this a meritocracy? You actually made my overall point stronger, because you demonstrated that this community clearly doesn't define "merit" to
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Your thinking on this subject is flawed, I think. > We all know war is hell. We know using weapons to attack people creates horrific, real human harm. So starting off listing the effects of weaponry on humans tells us nothing about d
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by glesica 13y ago
> A meritocracy based on raw intelligence and skill (measured by standardized testing) is not exactly what people mean today when they discuss "promoting diversity". Well sure, but largely because the standardized tests
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This is really a very tidy analogy, I like it! It can even be generalized to other problems, such as crime, where the response to some threat (real or imagined) yields an outsized response that ends up making the problem itself much, much w
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by glesica 13y ago
Yours have not been restricted. Freedom isn't always about YOU. Assuming you are white, for a moment, would you have disregarded the struggle for civil rights in the '50s and '60s because Jim Crow laws didn't restrict YO
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by glesica 13y ago
The suggested solution may have been a joke (although it is not without precedent) but the analysis was spot-on IMHO.
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by glesica 13y ago
I generally use !g if I want local results (say, looking for a restaurant) or I use !m if I want a map (which is really the same thing as local for me). I also use Google if I know my particular search is going to be obscure and/or noi
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by glesica 13y ago
Please explain why it is logically wrong, and also explain why an economic analysis of a situation has anything to do with being a judge. Judges don't use pure logic, they apply logic, and a whole bunch of other tools, to the law. My c
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by glesica 13y ago
It's a simple economic analysis. People tend (this word is important) to follow their incentives. If a person on welfare faces a high effective marginal tax when they start working (due to paying taxes plus losing benefits) they will
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And yet, you clearly still think like a child. So how exactly is this sort of charity supposed to solve homelessness and poverty? What about all the mentally ill out on the streets, do we teach them to code and maybe to manufacture their ow
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by glesica 13y ago
High taxes are fine with me as long as I, and everyone else, also get a high level of services. In some sense it is understandable that middle-class Americans have a distaste for taxation since most of the tax money just ends up being funne
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So what is actually wrong with it? Nothing you mentioned sounds bad at all (and the translation of that article seemed pretty poor, so hard to draw conclusions). I would LOVE to live in a more "socialist" country. I'd much
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Well I don't know if this is a solution, but a useful observation might be to point out that war and violence is extremely financially profitable for a large number of people. When we want more of something, we make it profitable (so
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by glesica 13y ago
Many carriers are starting to give discounts. T-Mobile does already. Also, I can use an MVNO for quite a bit cheaper than a subscription plan, but I need a phone to do that. Most of the MVNOs will sell you a phone, but it will be a either a
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by glesica 13y ago
Well I don't have an old Nokia, I have an old Samsung slider with a 2 MP camera, so for me there's nowhere to go but up. I, and I think most other people, are pretty easy to satisfy in that department anyway. Also, travel? Like, a
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I, and quite a few people I know (admittedly perhaps not average consumers) refuse to sign contracts partly because the phones are so expensive to replace, and breaking the phone doesn't get you out of the contract. That means you need
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This is actually why I've got a Moto G on order. This will be my first smart phone. Before I heard about the Moto G I always assumed my first smart phone would be a Nexus device, because I refuse to sign a carrier contract and I would

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