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by gnaritas 9y ago
> Never? Not ever? Not even 1% of the poor? Not even one person? When you stop reasoning by anecdote, you'll look back and see how absurd your views actually are and how not based in reality they are. It is you who is making the mo
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by gnaritas 9y ago
You live in a class based society, poor people are poor because they were generally born into it and denied the privileged of the education necessary to escape it. Stop victim blaming.
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It's not unacceptable, it's just incorrect and frankly vile.
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> It's a shame this is getting downvoted because it's not really inflammatory or even untrue. Actually it's both inflammatory and untrue; spoken by someone who's obviously never been poor or known many poor people. B
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> But a huge proportion of poverty stems from bad work ethic. Such thinking is the problem, it's juvenile, simplistic, and wrong.
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> because the sole purpose of patents is to prevent competition. No, the purpose of patents is to make trade secrets into public information so knowledge isn't lost; allowing inventors limited monopolies isn't the purpose, it&#
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No, he's not, you are. The social programs required to get those things done aren't going to come soon enough due to the cultural rejection of this kind of socialism in America. You're glossing over the hard part, as if &qu
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It's not about having something to do, hobbies don't put food on the table, or provide a table, or a roof to go over it. Our current economic system has no answers for a world where labor isn't valued because it's all b
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> Mathematical notation is basically a programming language. A very bad one that can only be executed by brains with the requisite existing historical knowledge; in fact it's more like bad pseudo-code that lacks the explicitness nec
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You're rather missing the point; AI will create a shortage of work to do. The alternatives you mention aren't things that pay a living wage so yes, people will be without livelihoods and something akin to UBI will be necessary.
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> The Jobs That Artificial Intelligence Will Create Won't be remotely enough to replace the jobs it destroys leaving us with mass unemployment.
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And that's the problem of managing a public company, share holders care about the wrong thing; they've confused the tail with the dog which is what leads public companies to do stupid shit that hurts the business long term to pump
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No, I'm not confusing anything. What they're putting into growth are undeclared profits, that's a simple fact. When a business subtracts the cost of doing business from revenue, the remainder is profit, regardless of whethe
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This is true, but it's not predictable which one you'll be. This line of reasoning is akin to claiming your car insurance should be cheaper because you'll never get into an accident. It's simply not logical. You canno
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> Nowhere. I haven't claimed that. yes you did with this comment... > while in the same breath calling for the oppression of those you disagree with. You accused me of calling for the oppression of those I disagree with, so pleas
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> But not everyone is (or becomes) healthy or unhealthy to the same degree. Incorrect, everyone gets sick to the same eventual degree: death. You will require medical care. > or I simply want to take a chance that I'll remain he
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> but nobody should be forcing their opinion/worldview on others who don't agree. And where in this thread has me or anyone forced our world view on you? Not allowing you to force your view on others isn't forcing our view
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You're very confused, I haven't called for the oppression of anyone. Disagreeing with people isn't oppressing them, stopping them from oppressing others isn't oppressing them. Stopping a bully from picking on someone is
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> There's a significant part of the U.S. population that wants to roll back gay marriage. Oppressing others isn't something that should be allowed to happen, period; those people are simply wrong, the position is immoral and in
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The party at fault may not have assets nor a job, your solution is is not a solution and doesn't help the person harmed when they actually need it, at the time of the accident. > Financial responsibility is something to be enforced
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> How do you justify the healthy paying for the unhealthy? Over the course of time, everyone falls into both categories; this idea that there are healthy people is silly, everyone's health fails eventually and often randomly. Health
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> Business is almost always all about share price for the shareholders And there's what wrong with the world in one short sentence. The market was supposed to be about raising capital so companies could go out and earn profits, the
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Reinvesting profit doesn't make you not profitable, it just means you've decided to grow with your profit rather than extract it. Amazon doesn't have small profits, they've just plowed their money into growth.
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Yes but these are recoverable states whereas threads suffer from partial reads in the middle of updates resulting in undefined unpredictable behavior. It's not a good metaphor to compare threads to processes as they suffer from vastly
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by gnaritas 9y ago
No, the problems of threads don't carry over to processes, what you just said is exactly wrong and misunderstands the issues involved. Databases have transactions and processes don't share memory, those solve the problem with thr
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> How would you measure a CEO's performance of a public company if not share price? Wow... um, how about profit, it is a business after all. Business isn't about the share price.
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Yup, incentives matter and people aren't as good as they tend to think they are or others are.
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> What are you even arguing at this point? Ask yourself that question.
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I didn't mention psychopaths, however you implied a positive correlation between ethical behavior of CEO's and being top talent; my questioning that implication doesn't imply the opposite, it could be there is no correlation
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> I'd think top talent would, you know, behave ethically That's more likely a projection of how'd you'd behave in that situation that it is a reality.

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