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by hayst4ck 2y ago
I have a puzzle for you: Let's say we have a democracy where the only rule is highest vote wins. Let's say 51% of the people vote to enslave/oppress the other 49%. Maybe they vote for literal chattel slavery. Maybe they vote
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Russia has elections, but the elections don't matter. The elections are ritualized consent for a despotic state. American elections are already ritualized. You can't really vote for an anti-oligarch/regulate corporations cand
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Admiral Rickover, the father of the nuclear navy and one of the greatest engineers of the last century, purposefully "over" hired. He was a major critic of private nuclear venture because business concerns being above engineering
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I'm on your side, but that's not a good argument. Nancy Pelosi openly stated she has a right to be financially entangled with the companies she regulates. At least 60% of the democratic party is firmly pro-oligarch, too. Just like
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> You're either building towards economy of scale (lower unit price), economy of scope (lower marketing cost), or innovation (speed of product). Did you come up with this or did you read it somewhere?
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Crowdstrike isn't even the worst case. The SolarWinds disaster is the worst case scenario. You have a closed source rootkit designed for finding data in raw memory (like passwords from an unlocked password manager), loaded into many ga
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
No. This is not how reality works. They are not starved of engineers who "give enough fucks to speak up", they are starved of management who are invested and take enough responsibility to solicit direct feedback from the "ass
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I don't think the US government even has mechanisms by which they can forcibly take money from the rich and the country is so corrupt that enforcing any kind of rule of law (which means law that applies to the rich, too) would cause la
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
The words are shortcuts for larger more complex ideas about primary motivations and goals. Reward structures learned as children and maturing young adults are definitely going to influence, subconsciously or consciously, adult behavior and
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Doctor, lawyer, and athlete are "jock" professions, while software engineering is very much a "nerd" profession. These words represent status and general level of attractiveness and therefore access to attention and sex.
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> creating an intrinsic tax on wealth It's worth pointing out that it is not a tax on wealth, but a tax on both savings (held in cash) and lending (through reducing what paid back debt can buy). Most forms of what people consider we
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Ray Dalio exactly answers your first question in this video(45m): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xguam0TKMw8 The short answer is war, likely with China. The long answer is civil unrest. Billionaires who feel threatened b
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> without all the bullshit What does this mean explicitly? Can you give examples of "the bullshit"?
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> I wonder if they added the anti-crime as PR excuse. Having now done a bit more research than I care to admit to, this book, particularly the page 14 sample, suggests nuance rather than pretext, particularly that reduction of public uri
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If you go to a university's library, the librarians there are frequently quite good at least finding sources that can lead you to other sources if not directly answering your question. If all else fails, they can probably help you fin
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I think you should step back and appreciate the implications of the 22nd amendment, including when it was enacted and why. I am pretty confident that most of our founding fathers would disagree with your complacence.
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I've watched a fair number of weed smoker's lives (~10) and they fall into two distinct categories. One set smoke weed and then partake in creative, explorative, or otherwise effort filled pursuits. Generally I feel that weed has
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Big business is easily won over with tax cuts and cheap labor. I don't think there is any question that big business prefers the "lax" regulatory environment the GOP offers. You hope the deep state and big business can limi
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The only fix is quality forward thinking details oriented leadership. Given that corporate America has decided that all employees are meant to be replaceable and therefore transient, it is not rational for any individual to orient thems
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It isn't that important because there is "deep state" (entrenched bureaucracy), but what were trumps first actions? To install kiss the ring loyalists into as many positions of power as possible and bleed the diplomatic corps
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> Human societies are in a constant game of evolution against each other, since time immemorial. I don't know if you are aware, but you've almost directly stated the core thesis of Mein Kampf. Here is a Yale professor of histor
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CGP grey did a great video on The Dictators Handbook : https://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/rules-for-rulers It is well worth a watch. Anyone with an interest in democracy (or corporate politics or dominance hierarchies) defi
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I think if I were living in the third world those would give me hope that if I had a child they would have a better life than I had, not very compelling for a privileged white American. I think for the world at large, more people, means mor
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Everyone thought Russia wouldn't invade Ukraine until they did. Everyone thought two countries having a McDonalds meant peace between them until they didn't. Denial and delusions are the most basic of mental health defense mechani
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"Hope is not a strategy" is exactly meant to disarm this type of blithe thinking. Global warming is unaddressed and China is actively building a military to confront the US promising WW3. We have at least 2 major active genocides,
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> - There’s actually a profit-sharing program that I'm experimenting with. Basically if a trip you create makes money you share in the revenue. The site isn’t actually making any money right now so the details of this is still being
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When you won't sacrifice for society, no one else will either. You are statistically probably well educated, probably working in tech, and probably earning 2x or more than a police officer with none of the danger. As a tech person, you
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Feedback: I feel like this is a platform for exploiting free labor more than a useful tool to help plan traveling. I do not feel "open source" spirit. I generally don't believe you are an avid traveler building a platform to
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I think if you draw out the logical statements I've made one implication correctly. I claimed A implies B is a true statement and that if A implies B is true, that doesn't mean B implies A or ~A implies ~B. (although ~B does imply
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What's funny is that Thiel is a believer of nominative determinism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39172475

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