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by grinnbearit 11y ago
But would you rather him not offer to trade? You could say no, how are you in a worse position after he makes an offer? Why would you rather he didn't?
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by grinnbearit 11y ago
> Is that the society we want? We get to decide the society we want to live in...It is all about aligning incentives. Why not? All thats happened so far is that you have produced and provided a free unit of work to the world and deferred
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by grinnbearit 11y ago
I believe aianus used "free market" here to mean free access to labour. I'm more interested in your views on "to maintain its lead over poor foreigners"
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Bayesian Cookies(sidhantgodiwala.com)
6 points by grinnbearit 11y ago|0 comments
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by grinnbearit 11y ago
No, yummyfajitas' numbers are right, given a 25% tax rate on capital gains and a 2.8% discount rate consuming immediately gives you 80% of income assuming you invested all of it, 80$ and made back 10$ which was then taxed at 25%, you&#
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by grinnbearit 11y ago
Its less about the chance to be born and more about the fault of being born. This is a moral preference issue and so we can have different views. Take a less contentious example, good looking people are often thought of as better than their
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by grinnbearit 11y ago
> But I also see no fundamental difference to say a planned economy Unfortunately from Arrow's impossibility theorem (linked above), there is no objectively "best" ranking for allocating resources so all plans will be sub
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by grinnbearit 11y ago
I should define my terms better. For this discussion, I'll initially restrict it to just "value subjectivity", i.e. a person's desires are dependent on their state of mind and that state of mind is personal and varying.
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by grinnbearit 11y ago
> that all individuals pursuing their best interests will usually result in a beneficial situation for society as a whole, The very next sentence I wrote disagrees. > Of course there are problems, every system has winners and losers a
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by grinnbearit 11y ago
I got into a long discussion with eli_gottlieb here but I don't think either of us got the answers we were looking for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9335125
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by grinnbearit 12y ago
I've always been curious about this. Sure human trafficking brings poor women in against their will but what happens then? They obviously can't work in legal brothels because they wouldn't have a work permit and I'm not
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by grinnbearit 12y ago
I don't think thats true, if that was the case, the price of prostitution would drop with experience/skill/quality. A quick google leads me to http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-average-prostitution-price... F
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by grinnbearit 12y ago
For the conversation so far, "Communism" only refers to the system that decides and maintains how resources are allocated. (Just like how I've been using capitalism). As I understand it, communism decides an allocation of res
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by grinnbearit 12y ago
Last time, because I really can't see why we're talking past each other. In this entire conversation Imagined Utopia of Perfect Markets , not mentioned once American Capitalism , not mentioned once Soviet Command Economy , not
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by grinnbearit 12y ago
> Just because you are not currently a moral realist, doesn't mean there's no such thing as moral realism. This is very important, more in a bit > You're talking about an imagined capitalist utopia. I really don't
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by grinnbearit 12y ago
> Value is objectively psychological: different individuals have different minds, but the workings of those minds are just as amenable to objective investigation as anything else I agree, but if you go down that path you realise that mor
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by grinnbearit 12y ago
I'll bite. Values are subjective. Resources are limited. Capitalism is one way to choose who's values are satisfied. It does this (in general) by giving points to people who satisfy other people's values and proportional to
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Continuous Bayes – A Maybe Biased Coin(sidhantgodiwala.com)
15 points by grinnbearit 12y ago|0 comments
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by grinnbearit 12y ago
> It's quite explicit, in the sense that Germans vote for a government which funds university education with taxes. I'm not sure you saw my related example, German education may be subsidised/free but I don't think it
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by grinnbearit 12y ago
Ah but unemployment where is the question, I'd (probably) want to be a low level Foxconn employee than unemployed in China. I certainly would rather be a low level Indian labourer than unemployed in India. And its about the morality of
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by grinnbearit 12y ago
> You can leave your job at any time, but when you do so you can't require another company to hire you Thats a fair argument, however I don't think "freedom to leave" would mean much if you couldn't leave a compa
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by grinnbearit 12y ago
I don't understand what you mean by blame the country, this is pretty much a discussion about morals and is therefore subjective. I believe that individuals separate from their ancestors? Saying its their fault for being born in a dif
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by grinnbearit 12y ago
A few issues with this 1) Is the German education contract implicit? In India if you attend an army subsidised school [1] you are liable to serve in the army which is an explicit part of the contract. Do you believe that some/all subsi
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by grinnbearit 12y ago
> Many get a lot, actually. Especially in ex-soviet countries. Many have excellent free education systems. Would you be ok with immigrants from countries where they don't? India provides very little in comparison and also has the hi
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by grinnbearit 12y ago
(I'll paste a comment I made somewhere else here) I understand your morals could be different from mine but heres how I see it. A Chinese or Indian citizen is an individual, like any other, just like you even. Through no fault of their
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by grinnbearit 12y ago
H1Bs are the only option for several potential immigrants around the world, I'm all for breaking this link but only if a better option existed. > The effects of brain drain on 3rd world countries where the brightest people flee to r
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by grinnbearit 12y ago
Being one of those Indian developers, I'd happily switch with you (assuming you're one of those US devs) Morally we'd both be better off, I would like a better quality of life (subjective I know) and you'd be able to con
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by grinnbearit 12y ago
> If you want to view yourself as having no more agency than a cat or a separate person in order to deflect blame for your own choices, I can't stop you. Agency is not separate from biology; Social pressure is also not agency.
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by grinnbearit 12y ago
From what I've understood, the reason the low carb diet seems to work is it reduces the intensity of the hunger signal. This is purely anecdotal and YMMV but I used to be ravenous by dinner time inspite of eating breakfast and a large
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by grinnbearit 12y ago
The problem is then deciding which ideas are deserving of debate and which should label the thinker "dislikable" What rule could I use that overcomes my biases and makes that decision?

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