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by jahaja 8y ago
I guess I'm breaking the rules of "good" argumentation described in that article/essay now, but I'm yet to see anyone that links to "slatestarcodex" or similar "rationalist"'ish site, link t
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by jahaja 9y ago
Excuse the bluntness, but given the cocksure manner of the reply I'd assume that you can read about it on his/her site.
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by jahaja 9y ago
Plausible I guess. However, the charade of an extreme regime seems to me to be much easier to fall off and stop caring once the "cheating" begins. Also, I would speculate that an eat-less (calorie-counting if you will) regime prep
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by jahaja 9y ago
Yup, in that case, definitely.
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by jahaja 9y ago
Why does it seem to be such a challenge for people to eat & drink whatever they did before - including beer, fast-food and what not - but just less? Too often it's the extreme changes that's being touted about together with so
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by jahaja 9y ago
What's the value of this point-in-time, and inherently case-by-case, data?
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by jahaja 9y ago
> I don't think the site is arguing for historical ratios or that changes of opinion are bad. It is arguing against orthodoxy: situations where certain ideas become so sacred that questioning them is no longer tolerated. Paradoxical
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by jahaja 9y ago
> Since people are notoriously bad at being self-skeptical, the best way to learn what is actually true is by encouraging viewpoint diversity: https://heterodoxacademy.org/ I don't know if this is because of my Euro
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by jahaja 9y ago
I find it interesting how the same people that have no problem accepting that the last 10% of a random software project accounts for a significant portion of the total time spent, can at the same time be so unreasonably optimistic that a wh
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by jahaja 9y ago
Since mid '90s is "rather recent" for me in this domain. I'm talking about the significantly reduced tax burden for the wealthy and corporations due to various tax cuts and abolishments.
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by jahaja 9y ago
Regarding taxes: In Sweden this is a rather recent change pushed through by right-wing parties. This wasn't the case when the foundations of social-democracy was set.
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by jahaja 9y ago
My entire point was that the fact that they are not paid enough - including the loss of rights and benefits which translates to labor costs - is a feature not a bug. The core feature. I have no idea why there is this insistence on some kind
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by jahaja 9y ago
I'd like to point out that the difference between contractor and employee is even larger in Europe since more rights have been fought through to the same "Everyone will become unemployed!" cries of capital during the whole 20
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by jahaja 9y ago
The main thing the so called gig-economy brings to the table is a regression in workers rights and benefits. That's the core. That's the profits. I can't understand why people are wilfully accepting that this is somehow the i
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by jahaja 9y ago
What did you find provoking? My intention was just to say that I personally find it harder to work with a language that has a high cognitive load to interpret.
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by jahaja 9y ago
I've come to realize that the main thing that is making me procrastinate giving Rust a proper go is entirely superficial at this point. Basically it looks like a "clever" programmers dream language - which is usually not my c
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by jahaja 9y ago
I think people vastly underestimates the social factors involved (e.g. status) and are willfully assuming that there is some rational economic factors to explain it.
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by jahaja 9y ago
I think a lot of "normal" people can rationalize away these things to get into positions of status and authority. The shame is that they still somehow have that status is western culture.
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by jahaja 9y ago
I'm not sure what you're even talking about. All I'm saying is that given the vast progress we've made, leisure for the masses has been disproportionately disfavoured. To say that, if I follow you correctly, this situati
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by jahaja 9y ago
I really think it's important to highlight one of the points being made: That modern society - even western if you'd like - while begin awfully smug about it's freedoms, rarely translates this to literal freedom - leisure - f
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by jahaja 9y ago
The sad thing about this is the fatigue caused by the whole "well, of course they're cheating, they always do.". When the powerful/wealthy get caught the result seems to be just further apathy, rather than outrage with c
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by jahaja 9y ago
> I'd be interested to see any sources showing a similar number of deaths under a capitalist government Have you ever tried yourself? It's not a very hard thing to start to compile. The problem here is ideological though. Every
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by jahaja 9y ago
Well, the history of killing each other (and others!) in western civilization is nothing to brag about.
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by jahaja 9y ago
This is basically my observation too. That it seems hard to distinguish it from "smart & fancy algoritms". The marketing and hype around it do however imply that it's much more a path to intelligence proper, hence the que
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by jahaja 9y ago
Going out on a limb here, but why is taken for granted that the tech sector should be the driving force in AI? For me it makes much more sense if it were in the field of neurology or whatever medical science sector that is appropriate to fi
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by jahaja 9y ago
For me this is just too much giving the benefit of the doubt. I find it much more likely, and I'm pretty sure that most historians agree, that they were dropped to deter the USSR. Japan had lost the war, to assume that there was only a
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by jahaja 9y ago
I'm afraid this is a case of when the winners rewrite history. Unfortunately the 40-hour week seems to have been among the last big wins of the US labor movement. Hence the popular (on HN at least) idea that this win was the result of
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by jahaja 9y ago
It's clearly an exercise in futility to engage further with such an ahistorical world view. It would go too far off-topic as well. Thanks though. However, I'll give you a starting point for compiling a list by the same yard stick;
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by jahaja 9y ago
It's certainly not widely accepted. Almost only libertarians have such a dogmatic understanding of the meaning of voluntary - simply because it defies common sense. Furthermore I have no idea where I defined it as including "putti
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by jahaja 9y ago
> In order for language to be useful we have to assign a reasonable range of meaning to a word. It's just too convenient to define the range to what amounts to a modern version of the divine rights of kings. Where certain meanings -

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