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by guylhem 14y ago
I'm a libertarian and I love the free market and pure capitalism. OTOH, the great depression made a strong case for an intervention by governments at the macroeconomic scale - if only to smooth out bumps that could certainly sort themselves
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by guylhem 14y ago
I'm sorry but that seems to go again the currently admitted way the IS/LM model works http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IS/LM_model A high interest rate means firms reduce their investment spending to avoid high interest payments ; or said oth
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by guylhem 14y ago
The ideas are interesting, but there is one really big suggestion: "we should instead make capital gains regressive over time" - this is the single best idea I've heard recently! It would encourage self-sustaining growth instead of fly-by-n
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by guylhem 14y ago
But that good news, and goods news don't sell newspaper so it won't be broadcasted. People want drama and suffering. Talk about a war instead and you'll get more listeners, and thus more money
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by guylhem 14y ago
Alternative vision : pessimists are good at sacrificing the future for perceived potential threats in the present.
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by guylhem 14y ago
Then name 3 of them, from memory, without checking wikipedia. Bonus points if their run talk show with a political slant like Colbert. EDIT: thanks for the downvote, but I'm still waiting for triplets.
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by guylhem 14y ago
It's so true that the human race has great prospects in the long term future. Yet some people lament about short term, inequalities, and so on. It just doesn't matter in the long term. What really worries me is when we start to sacrifice ou
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by guylhem 14y ago
So many example - I don't know if there is a generic answer! But let's take them one by one. Physical coercion is always wrong - it has a direct cost on others. Layoffs are fine - no one has a right to work. Hostile takeover - ownership rig
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by guylhem 14y ago
I'm totally motivated and committed to Mars. Would that commitment survive in a mission? IMHO, totally because I'd even say yes to a one-way trip with a time limit (ie your "life support system will stop working in 3 years") But the idea of
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by guylhem 14y ago
First, a reply to your original post : > In a box, on a dead planet, for life. Sign me up, right now!!! > Can we provide a reasonable quality of life for colonists? I don't care. I would need a) air+water b) food c) a place to sleep
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by guylhem 14y ago
Right, c is also possible, but I'd question the ratio - helped the world "more" is yet another specific case, which depends on values. Anyway, what are the odds? I'd say : a) 1% b) 97% c) 2% It seems to me like a bad idea, unlike you want t
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by guylhem 14y ago
If you fight this, will you : a) change the system and improve your success ? b) fail and lower your success ?
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by guylhem 14y ago
Interesting - when does the exhaustion function reaches a maximum ? I thought it was the hardest in the first 4 years. (regarding the difficulties of adoption, they could be compared to the outsourcing cost :-/ foster care is a great idea,
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by guylhem 14y ago
If you can make a resource by yourself, outsource- in this case, adopt. It will make some of the exhaustion go away, since it seems to be due to diverging circadian rythms between a newborn and an adult. A say 4 years old kid would logicall
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by guylhem 14y ago
I disagree with a lot of the comments - and with the article point. We should not think about taking any age seriously or not, but of the bigger picture instead, ie one's goals in life. Unfortunately, they are not written down for you, and
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by guylhem 14y ago
That's an interesting 5 letters reply. Does that means you have something to show which might stand the comparison? The guy did it, has a strong brand recognition and people who publicly expressed their sadness that megaupload was gone and
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by guylhem 14y ago
Through hard work and continuous innovation. Scientific innovation is necessary for long term growth.
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by guylhem 14y ago
I wouldn't call that a hole, considering that between 85% to 93% of muslims voted for Hollande (depending on which polls you prefer to take), the current president of France. It makes even more sense if you remember that these laws were mos
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by guylhem 14y ago
E. Schmidt meeting Hollande, France's president, is therefore quite interesting.
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by guylhem 14y ago
You know the saying - once is bad luck, twice is a coincidence, thrice is usually an enemy action. I see the google news strongarm with france and germany, the tax issues with other european countries, the reports about the stock lows in th
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by guylhem 14y ago
Is the cost direct or indirect? If it is direct, it means you are sacrificing others. It is not a good thing as said above. You can find happiness and be selfish in various ways that will not directly harm others. In Atlas Shrugged, refusal
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by guylhem 14y ago
says who?
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by guylhem 14y ago
You're right, they are different issues. It's just the timing of bring such issues to the attention of the public that seems suspect to me - especially after I noticed how the downs in google stock suddenly became newsworthy. IMHO, it's not
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by guylhem 14y ago
The quest of being happy is a selfish quest. Selfishness is a good thing to me. Helping other (altruism) is also a good thing - since it serves your own selfishness (makes you more happy to see people happy - especially if you made them hap
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by guylhem 14y ago
When you owe someone 10'000 Eur you have a problem. When you owe someone 1 Billion Euro, they have a problem. With the european regulation protecting interstate commerce, the Double Irish even with a Dutch Sandwich seems legally fine. It
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by guylhem 14y ago
I really do not agree with what you say afterwards, but you introduce it in a really beautiful way - "we can only win against nature when we've won against ourselves" is a great question. I do not have an answer, just a gut feeling that bot
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by guylhem 14y ago
if we do win over nature, why?
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by guylhem 14y ago
"dams burst (...) it'll only last as long as we expend energy to maintain it" - true But as our construction techniques improve, maintainance cost are reduced (or alternatively reconstruction costs are reduced - it's all a tradeoff) Also, l
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by guylhem 14y ago
The failed cancer cures were not just biomolecules - things like freezing the cancers in place, preventing the growth of new blood vessels, etc. If you're more into cooking, it is something we already do with various particles - and with mu
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by guylhem 14y ago
Nature wins until we manage to get better models and find ways to leverage so that we won't even have to deliver an enormous amount of energy but just the right amount at the right moment in the right place. We created dams, removed marshes

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