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by hn0 8y ago
I hate the one-dimensional taxonomy generally used. I wish one of these would be adopted in the media: https://www.politicalcompass.org https://8values.github.io (there’s more) Classical Liberalism is sometimes consi
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by hn0 8y ago
Antitrust to break up monopolies?
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by hn0 8y ago
The regulation was because the companies were NOT competing in the market for phone chargers through vendor lock in. I don’t know about you but I’m glad I no longer have to keep a box with 30 different chargers anymore. More electronics jum
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by hn0 8y ago
In the current economic system new national currency is created through 3 ways. 1. By banks when they extend a loan (likewise it gets destroyed upon repayment) 2. By the government when it deficit spends into the economy (destroyed through
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by hn0 8y ago
So if I take a truckload of 100$ bills, a bottle of gin and a can of gasoline, drive into the dessert, out of sight of the authorities, and burn the entire lot, then the next night all retailers will have a vision which tells them to lower
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by hn0 8y ago
But who wants to be the loser that’s so unattractive and socially inept that he can’t get an actual woman to be interested in him?
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by hn0 8y ago
> Don't get fooled with 'democracy' thing. Election and democratic process are the way for the elites to decide matters between themselves without resorting to civil wars/violence, in an orderly, regulated manner. The
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by hn0 8y ago
You appear confused, I only mentioned the USSR once as a figure of speech. Communist countries were run by blind ideologues and I would never use those as good examples of central planning.
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by hn0 8y ago
I think there’s too much talk about regulation and not enough about market structure. We can find examples of central planned economies that were succesful and ones that were abject failures, ditto for laisez-faire. There’s different metric
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by hn0 8y ago
Not really, tbh. You’re certainly right that design is oppinionated. It might be useful to have some different styles for different feels.
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by hn0 8y ago
Sadly, those space wasters apparently sell better on touch devices, which is why they’re so popular. Most designers also prefer them. The alternative of information dense interfaces is generally prefered by hackers, which are accustomed to
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by hn0 8y ago
The title is somewhat loaded, Islam is also found to be problematic, albeit less heavily correlated. In danger of stating the obvious: the quality of life in nations that find themselves in opposition, isolation or subservient position to t
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by hn0 8y ago
You seem to imply other frameworks look bad, but when I look at your examples they look pretty much like the stuff you seem to be comparing yourself with.
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by hn0 8y ago
Hmm, complicated? I think JS’ type rules are much more weird and complex than the average static type checking solution.
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by hn0 8y ago
The biggest plusses of representational democracies imo, open opposition and replacement of the leadership every few years.
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by hn0 8y ago
There’s a lot of ninja downvoting on seemingly thoughtful comments going on in this thread.
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by hn0 8y ago
The age old liberal hymn. I’m not going to say this is wrong, but it’s a very black and white stance in the matter. Plenty of succesful economies have been centrally planned and/or protectionist. Likewise speculative booms in unregulat
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by hn0 8y ago
That’s interesting, I’ve read articles stating the operational costs were supposed to be much lower than the F35. In my country there’s now pushback against the F35 but there seems to be a push to obtain them irregardless of criticisms. Thi
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by hn0 9y ago
Indeed. You can probably operate 4 or 5 SAAB Gripens for the cost of one F35, even though they are individually inferior.
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by hn0 9y ago
Belgium as well. Geopolitical and commercial ties to our great liberator I suppose.
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by hn0 9y ago
tldr; Night Owls May Die Sooner * (* when living in a morning person world)
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by hn0 9y ago
The dominant factor driving house prices is mortgage credit inflation, not supply and demand, both the hypothesis and the data for this are very strong. See for instance: https://seekingalpha.com/amp/article/416199
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by hn0 9y ago
According to Jason Hickel [1] global poverty has been rather constant throughout the century, and what he calls “the good news narrative” is based on heavily doctored figures by the World Bank and profit driven NGOs to camouflage their abje
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by hn0 9y ago
It’s an easy conundrum to solve: nations need to start deficit spending once more, better the living conditions of minorities and invest heavily in energy efficiency schemes. Like the author however, they seem to have bought into the idea t
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by hn0 9y ago
Oh, the joy of the marginalist supply and demand theorem! Here's an excerpt of Alan Greenspan’s Feb. 26, 1997, testimony before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee: "The performance of the U.S. economy over th
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by hn0 9y ago
They paid substantial taxes in grain. They were pretty much considered the private property of their landlord. If they wanted to get married they first had to be allowed so by their lord, and then pay him as compensation for being so nice t
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by hn0 9y ago
> There is still a direct correlation between work and benefit, as in if you work more, you make more, but you keep more. This correlation isn't all that direct in my experience.