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by hx87 10y ago
In the long term, yes, but the labor market is quite inelastic in the short term, and without a strong and robust safety net, short term effects dominate for most workers.
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by hx87 10y ago
Exactly, and once these sorts of videos become common enough in society that everyone has at least one, they won't even harm your chances at employment.
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by hx87 10y ago
> It seems contradictory that the hive mind of HN argues for decentralized technology and Internet governance, while also arguing for a globalist agenda and top-down international cooperation. You and I must read very different parts of
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by hx87 10y ago
That's because in most countries that take refugees, average people own no capital (except maybe housing, an illiquid and unproductive asset) and can only contribute labor for income, resulting in a situation where "jobs" are
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by hx87 10y ago
Don't know about you, but the second headline grabs my attention much better than the first.
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by hx87 10y ago
Why would it be mental illness? Does it affect my ability to live my life, or anyone else's to live theirs? After all, I make decisions that carry moral weight based on my moral, not aesthetic compass.
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by hx87 10y ago
I'm not arguing against the idea that government needs coercive powers. I'm arguing against the idea that states are the optimal organizational level to have unitary and sovereign governments.
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by hx87 10y ago
At its core, the problem is that the DEA has a monetary incentive to seize cash, since it can keep the cash for its own use. What if that were no longer possible, and all money confiscated by government agencies are incinerated under extern
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by hx87 10y ago
In a lot of cases though, states themselves are too diverse and unwieldy to govern as a unitary entity. Texas and Massachusetts may have their differences, but Houston and Austin have much more in common with Boston than with a small town i
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by hx87 10y ago
In the modern United States, states are a particularly poor level of organization to have a unitary government--it's small enough that regulatory capture is too easy but too large to be responsive to people's concerns. If we want
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by hx87 10y ago
As a 1st generation Chinese-American who has seen more than his fair share of cooky, isolated, romantic and ill-informed Western expats living in East Asia, I'm not sure I'd trust their opinions on the societies they live in, espe
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by hx87 10y ago
If that is true, then "racist" is a poor signal of anything, including dealing with controversial topics and conclusions.
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by hx87 10y ago
You don't need to be that "advanced" to cause real trouble to other countries around the world, and strong countries generally have more stake in the international and are less likely to rock the boat, which in turn favors ot
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by hx87 10y ago
So did the US foment the Arab Spring or did it try to stop it? I'm having trouble getting all these conspiracies straight...
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by hx87 10y ago
The stick has to be paid too--otherwise things don't go very well for those who wield it. Saddam at least had enough of a domestic economy to tax to pay for the security services, as well as a loyal extended family that actually did so
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by hx87 10y ago
Something can be aesthetically beautiful and morally terrifying and wrong at the same time. Please disentangle aesthetics and morality, since not doing so tends to debase both.
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by hx87 10y ago
> I'd disagree and say that in overpopulated areas there is a higher rate of depression, obesity and psychological problems than in places with lower populations What scope and scale are you looking at though? Because within first w
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by hx87 10y ago
Continuous economic growth is a relatively recent phenomenon closely coupled to continuous technological and scientific innovation. Economic growth for much of the premodern era average out pretty close to zero (and on a per-capita basis, n
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by hx87 10y ago
Wouldn't the /lack/ of a demographic shift fuel major wars? After all, it's a lot easier and more likely to have a war with populations full of young people than one full of old people. Besides, unlike oil or water, heal
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by hx87 10y ago
Every year labor is becoming less and less necessary for economic production and capital is becoming a better and better substitute for labor, so our economies /are/ capital-bound.
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by hx87 10y ago
I'm not sure why "contraception by default from birth with free reversibility" would be an unpopular opinion. People who don't want kids would be happy, people who want kids but want control over timing would be happy, e
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by hx87 10y ago
It's public ownership + periodically auctioned leases, so it's hard to calculate a LV rate equivalent. The closest arrangement I can think of with respect to land would be Chinese real estate, where "title" is legally a
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by hx87 10y ago
Even if you do change the world, the world changes you. It's not a zero sum game.
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by hx87 10y ago
That's true if determining whose kneecaps you need to break is either trivial (e.g. open dissidents and protesters) or can be easily achieved using social engineering (e.g. anonymous print pamphleteers). If doing so is a /technica
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by hx87 10y ago
A third possible position would be the government stating "we need transparency everywhere, including for ourselves"--I would be that people would be much more accepting of transparency when government is totally transparent in re
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by hx87 10y ago
Breaking kneecaps is expensive though. You can't just set up a ring of roadblocks around a city that kneecaps everyone passing through as a matter of course.
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by hx87 10y ago
That's like saying there is no middle ground between product X being free and being infinitely expensive. Even if product X has a price I can afford, I have to consider the trade-offs between buying it and other uses for my money. If i
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by hx87 10y ago
> Your encrypted machine, on the other hand, does not listen to judges. My machine doesn't, but I do, unless I am willing to face the consequences of being in contempt of court.
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by hx87 10y ago
With end to end crypto, if the government wants something from me and has acquired a warrant for it, they are still reliant on me to produce the decrypted data, but I refuse it they can hold me in contempt of court. It's not like they
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by hx87 10y ago
Maybe it's just that the rebels these days are quieter and more establishmentarian, because they have /become/ the establishment. TBF, I quite like this state of affairs and don't miss the rebellion-for-the-sake-of-rebel

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