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by hayst4ck 1y ago
> how much implementation of the law in China, at every level, depends very much on who is doing the implementation. Is that is not true here? What you stated is true of all hierarchical systems. The criminalization of "driving whi
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> It's simultaneously amazing to see and a depressing reminder of how badly western societies are crippled by rules of their own making. It all comes down to corruption. In the west we are accustomed to thinking we are much less cor
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I dislike that quote. It's not knowing where to make the mark. It's that there's no one else who knows where to make the mark charging less that $9,999. Knowing where to make the mark implies that payment is proportional to a
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
That wasn't cogent. It didn't make any sense, nor was it a response to anything said.
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You realize our government built nuclear bombs, went to the moon, and in 4 years produced a nuclear powered submarine from scratch? Not to mention the interstate system, drinkable water in almost every home, and the world financial order
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Stock buybacks are a theft from the future. That's money not being spent on R&D, so it's another clear example of short term-ism. You see problems, but who do you think is going to solve those with what resources? > 5% whe
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
I don't follow what you're saying. If you're saying that people must empower themselves (by unionizing or the like) first because redistribution must follow power rather than power following redistribution, then I agree. If y
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
> Individuals going out and shooting people on the street is not an appropriate "stick" in a functional society I absolutely 100% completely agree, however you added "in a functional society" which is why that stateme
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The elephant in the room is that rich people need to be taxed and their wealth redistributed. If that happens , then there is a mechanism that prevents systems of compounding power, and the wages "stolen" by inflation are put bac
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Yeah I could see why you would say that. I linked the article to exorbitant privilege which states some of those advantages. If you are responsible with your levels of corruption, then fiat currency is generally very beneficial. So it ends
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system It was the end of the bretton woods system/the gold backed US dollar. The major consequences are inflation, which devalues savings and transfers the buying power
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
The liberation day tariffs were definitely something. The tariff numbers themselves were chosen explicitly in reference to trade deficits. Trade deficits are an exact measurement of the strength of the US dollar as a reserve currency. Reduc
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
I watched it and I found him less convincing than Dalio's Principles of a changing world order, which I found to be extremely intuitive although not at all rigorous. Ezra gave Rogoff a lot of push back and Rogoff came off as a guy who
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
The tree of Liberty must be refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants is true, that is literally spoken by a founder of the country and person who penned the country's founding document. It is a belief that you materially bene
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
You're original false dichotomy is also condescending getting you a condescending tone. There is nobody who believes in shooting whoever you disagree with. There is nobody who supports random shootings. The post you were responding t
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
This is a false dichotomy. The problem with your judgement is that it presumes that law is a limit rather than weapon, that it protects rather than attacks, and that the law can interpret and enforce itself. This is a form of privilege beca
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
> Peace implies disengagement by maintaining long-standing borders. Before I write a novel of a response, can you rigorously define "long-standing borders", as well as the implied words of "nation", "country&quot
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It's not bolshevism, it's jeffersonianism/locke-ianism and this administration is ticking away the grievances in the declaration of independence like it's a recipe. We have a consent based government, that's plainly
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
That's because there are no consequences for bad behavior, only reward. Game theory dictates that if bad behavior is a winning strategy it will be adopted and propagate until it is the dominant strategy. The only way it stops becoming
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Israel and Russia also want peace. China wants peace with Taiwan. The US wants peace with Greenland and Canada. You have to be careful with that word, peace, because all wars are defensive.
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> As general literacy declines, one of the consequences seems to be that words with multiple meanings or variations become compressed into a single vague meaning. Words don't have objective meanings. Words are indirect references to
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
Populism is to (small d) democracy like a popularity contest is to a job interview. Populism asks "which candidate do I like more" while democracy depends on asking "which candidate will perform the job the best."
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These people are implementing Skinner boxes[1] for children. There are literally "engagement" engineers actively doing A/B tests on children to see what makes them more addicted or gets them to spend more money or time on the
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That is legitimately horrifying, everything on that visa link is horrifying...
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This headline is one of the worst and is exactly the type of thing someone who thinks about manufacturing consent would write. It fails to make a judgement which implicitly agrees with his frame. By not contradicting someone who is objectiv
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It's not funny when your relatives or elderly family members unironically consider it/believe it.
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Huh? They used to ask brain teaser like questions, not anything that I would consider to actually be an IQ test or really even all that close to one in a legal way.
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I really don't know. This is spitballing, but I think maybe physicists are clever analysts while CS people are prone to "clever" implementations. I remember thinking "oh, you understand, like actually understand" to
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I don't know about that. I feel like if big tech moved away from IQ test like questions like the MS/FB of old then there was a reason.
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They also said shortage of skilled workers in the US. It's kind of upsetting because it's supposed to be the nature of free markets that demand increases price in order to better allocate labor resources, that means wages should b

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