hx87

56 ms·

631.
by hx87 10y ago
I was a bit too broad--by "Europe" I meant France, as when French courts tried to apply the Right to be Forgotten principle to information about French citizens that was stored outside of Europe.
632.
by hx87 10y ago
Everyone compromises--it's just that Europe tends to err on the side of privacy, whereas the US usually errs on the side of freedom. From my American point of view though, Europe seems a lot more eager to "export" its prefere
633.
by hx87 10y ago
> Is there? Who have this option when the people in power is going to profit immensely. If those in power are corrupt to that extent, then the country is screwed no matter what the IMF does.
634.
by hx87 10y ago
Doing business in India still isn't easy at all, but it's definitely better than the hellhole that was the pre-1991 License Raj.
635.
by hx87 10y ago
Whataboutism: the radical idea that everyone be held to the same /lowest possible/ standard.
636.
by hx87 10y ago
Years of living in third world countries have taught me that if you are going to disregard traffic rules, at least have the courtesy to do so in a predictable manner.
637.
by hx87 10y ago
> but it won't help the dead cyclists any Perhaps if more bicyclists wore GoPros as a normal part of their travels (or more CCTV were pointed at bike paths), the legal system will reduce the number of violations and thus deaths.
638.
by hx87 10y ago
Whataboutism: check Grumbling about 'elites': check Complaints about 'mainstream media' (as if it were a monolithic institution): check
639.
by hx87 10y ago
True, native + nonnative speakers of Chinese > native + nonnative speakers of English, but the relation I'm talking about is: nonnative speakers of Chinese < nonnative speakers of English If the vast majority of Chinese speakers
640.
by hx87 10y ago
A home is a massively illiquid and spectacularly undiversified asset, and the same benefits can be gained by, say, investing in a spread-out housing cooperative with a diverse set of owners.
641.
by hx87 10y ago
or even better 3a) as in (3), but there are either no quantity limits whatsoever, or if there is a quantity limit the licenses are valid for one year only and are sold at open auctions at the beginning of every year. Travis Kalahnick might
642.
by hx87 10y ago
If that had happened in 2016, MA would be taxing GE to pay off the ice mafia.
643.
by hx87 10y ago
Yeah, if you don't remove the membrane from the egg during processing, they are fine at room temperature for a very long time.
644.
by hx87 10y ago
> Where did I conflate socioeconomic mobility and income equality? The first section of your comment was about socioeconomic mobility, but starting with the "two axioms" portion, you started talking about inequality instead. Th
645.
by hx87 10y ago
> What happens to an entire class of working people In a free market capitalist society, the most optimal case is that they spend a significant portion of their earnings buying capital (i.e. stocks and bonds), so as time goes on more of
646.
by hx87 10y ago
Or, you know, we could tax the disruptors (and the rest of the economy) and give everyone an UBI.
647.
by hx87 10y ago
If only taxi medallions were issued in a reasonably fair manner, such as a fixed fee with no quantity limits, or an annual auction with quantity limits... A better analogy would be if the government, starting in 1930, only allowed there to
648.
by hx87 10y ago
If their jobs exist only because of rent-seeking, they shouldn't in the first place.
649.
by hx87 10y ago
Low socioeconomic mobility is a problem because the potential for any individual to contribute to the good of society is at best loosely correlated with their previous socioeconomic status. If people who could have been top-notch scientists
650.
by hx87 10y ago
English is much more common as a second/third/... language.
651.
by hx87 10y ago
> I can't see any government allowing it What if they could apply a "time on the streets" tax?
652.
by hx87 10y ago
If all that happens is that my portfolio is a few points below what it would otherwise be, that's not much of a point. > Does your mind frequently attempt to lessen the blow by noticing the blow does in fact exist but is small? All
653.
by hx87 10y ago
If you live in a growing but development-constricted city, housing inflation alone would bring your personal inflation rate above 3%, but besides that (e.g. if you live in Houston) the prevailing inflation rate is still low.
654.
by hx87 10y ago
The only right way to do private prisons is to give each prisoner a fixed grant with which they can use to buy space in a prison. This is the only way the prison's incentive can match those of the prisoner.
655.
by hx87 10y ago
Unless your pension fund is absurdly ill-managed and/or corrupt, your exposure will be tiny.
656.
by hx87 10y ago
> Because the market for high end is much more profitable. Builders will build wherever there is profit, not only where profit is only the highest. Otherwise every watch manufacturer will be building bespoke Phillip Breugets and nobody w
657.
by hx87 10y ago
Sorry, I must have parsed your comment wrongly.
658.
by hx87 10y ago
> but I think that many historians, including myself, believe that every human life that was ever lived has some value and deserves to be remembered I agree with that, but the difference is that we have the ability to improve present and
659.
by hx87 10y ago
By that standard, every empire ever should be held in the same esteem as Nazi Germany. After all, almost every change of dynasty in China involved tens of millions of deaths.
660.
by hx87 10y ago
Construction isn't cheap, but making it more expensive or impossible certainly doesn't help things.

More ›