igorkraw

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by igorkraw 5y ago
We can multitask. All of these are bad, but it seems to me, you are wasting energy being angry at this person dealing with her problems of choice instead of fixing the ones you use here as a cludgel. How are is shutting this person up goi
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by igorkraw 5y ago
For a large part of the population (though probably not yet the majority) the reaction to this would be "...yes? That's why we are calling for policy changes and changing our consumption patterns"
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There are people (free market people, not communists) who'd argue the idea of owning land as a private person and extracting rent/speculation is folly itself and who'd argue you should either pay much higher taxes (Georgism)
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Vote for parties willing to push GDPR style regulations and push for enforcement. Turn the data from valuable asset into toxic sludge that contains some valuable nuggets that can be carefully extracted, with the remainder not collected or a
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The difference is that from then perspective of the critics, cryptos burn the energy needs of multiple small country for Ponzi schemes. Purely to represent the opinion of the critics now, aluminum smelting might be and, but at least aluminu
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But Zuckerberg hasn't done any of them. It's like ascribing Newton's accomplishments to the royal in power when he was alive
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To clarify, your point is that for economy to be growing one of the following must be true (or some mix of them) 1. There is increased consumption (as in, increased unlocking and using of energy and resources to fulfill human desires we alr
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I'm open to doing those arbitrarily fine grained stats as a workable compromise, but the ability to have journalists or citizens check for inconsistencies in tax reports or use the raw data for other research seems positive for me, as
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I partially agree with the first class ticket being a bad example, but the basic idea stands, normally price discrimination just benefits the rich. As for your last point, I'd be against fixed definitions (as you are I think), but i h
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Publishing stats would be a good start yeah. If you can justify paying less, it's negotiation time right? This just sets the starting point. The rest I won't address because it's a boring argument to have where you call me
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This is a nonsequitur. Both variations apply to everyone, it's just that not publishing the financial information mainly helps the rich, while the poor suffer in subtle ways. This is about which rights we grant, not to whom.
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If you can afford a house you can afford it. You said "they don't fit into that neighborhood", you can't deny a sale at an advertised asking price for "not fitting into the neighborhood", that triggers discrimi
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Which individuals though? This seems to highly benefit th many poorer people, at the expense of mainly the rich elite. As a member of that elite who understands where my quality of life comes from (robust social contract enabling wealth cre
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You are arguing a straw man though, nobody is talking about standardization, we are talking about transparency. If you as a manager can justify the difference then having the salary transparent shouldn't be a problem. If you can&#x27
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If the country has a wealth tax it will also show how much you have, regarding your edit.
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To answer the question - unbiased Salary data, making union negotiations and expectations of new grads grounded in reality, unlike the reporting bias of levels, Glassdoor etc. This is why management hates people sharing salary info - maki
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First one I don't buy (someone will still do the things worth doing because they will make some more, they will simply have more competition...I also believe in antitrust), second one...no, aside from what we do anyway ? Every develop
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The first one I'd call "system working as intended" ,the second one would be illegal in my country.
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No comment about the rest but for the last part, I specifically meant people who rent an expensive car and try to flaunt their "wealth" and act cocky without actually being wealth. Aside from the professional grifters ("i af
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This is one of the few things that people seem to take their privacy serious on and I don't get it, possibly because I'm too poor and trust the social fabric too much to worry about people using my tax return to scope kidnapping m
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Why? I think it's great, salary transparency, makes tax evasion harder, less information about your life's than is sent to credit agencies for them to leak or Facebook...
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Why? Honest question from someone with a radical-transparency conviction
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It seems to be quite destabilising for autocracies. Some might consider that a a good thing though
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I'd call you an unproductive cynic, point to the rise in eco and vegan labels that empirically provides counter evidence and move on. This perspective adds nothing but a feeling of superiority, I'd rather think about how to replac
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No it doesn't. It just creates the illusion of this and allows you to build systems with different tradeoffs.
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...and society to run the internet you depend on
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Google and Facebook will simply adopt web3 if it takes off (see Facebooks existing attempts). So maybe, but less so
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I think it's both sides, but asymmetrically: I'm not being paid to not (re-)invest into crypto, and while I might make less than the true believers, there's an incentive to not be idologically skeptical (unlike some narrative
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You use it to find the code and data of a paper - since it also lists other implementations - to run additional baselines on Imagenet in order to appease reviewer #3( who has no idea why your paper on convex optimization has nothing to do w
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The French wrote a (actually two, with the latest one formalising the first hacked up one) compiler for their tax code https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/a-moder...

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