jasonisalive

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by jasonisalive 12y ago
It's nonsense like this that makes me really doubt whether Europe has a future. So much negativity.
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Welcome to popular economics!
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Thanks, since the post I was replying to was clearly an example of this, I'll assume you're just being helpful.
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Sorry, but you're forgetting: - shadowy allegations of conspiracies - caricatures of corporations as all-powerful Machiavellian forces wielding the very levers of global history - castigation of "overly" aggressive and "
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
The fundamental ideas behind the movement led to things like universal public education, national investment in the sciences and arts, as well as universal public healthcare. These are all things which almost every modern nation recognizes
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
I think he answered your question already: "Some are good, some are terrible." Try reading the parent a little more thoroughly.
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
She's very good, but great? I don't know about that. I've really enjoyed many of her books, but at heart they seem to me to be the books of an author who isn't particularly conscious of her privilege level in the world.
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
I find it odd that you seem to find my outlook pessimistic. Quite the opposite: I would argue fervently that I absolutely believe in a world of flight. It is a world underpinned, a world that must be underpinned, at heart, by one utterly
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Sorry, but I'm not the person who made the original claim, just someone who is in agreement with them.
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
In a word, yes. Although: 1) I don't necessarily agree with your claim "through democratic institutions can shape their societies as they see it" - democracies are quite a bit messier than that. 2) I wouldn't use the wor
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
I'm not aware of any major countries unfortunately.
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
I work as a sales rep in-store for a telco. From a security perspective, it's ridiculous. We use computer monitors which customers face from the same angle as us. I'm sure someone thought it would make the retail scenario more inc
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Please try not to ask such difficult questions. It takes some serious mental gymnastics to justify and endorse all the various restrictions of free contract and conduct legislated under the name of social justice - it's really not kind
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
I work a minimum wage job. Save, save, and save some more. The only people I could reasonably blame for my position in life would be my parents, not wider society. Maybe people should blame their parents more instead of vague shadowy corpor
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
He's a libertarian. A real libertarian argument would be something like this: "People should not expect to receive unconditional support in the event of losing their job or suffering financial hardship. People should factor such r
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Thanks for contributing something that helps Americans see beyond their own gloomy and parochial perspective on healthcare!
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Wow, I liked Marc already, but after reading this, I love him. This should be required reading for everyone. Edit: I really admire the graceful way he handles the hard questions about libertarian philosophy - social welfare and job loss. Ev
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
The rhetoric of medical reform draws mostly on economics: Experts differ over, among other things, how to structure “insurance mandates” and what constitutes “overutilization” of a rapidly expanding array of high-tech procedures and diagno
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
This is the right answer, unfortunately most people are unfamiliar with or unwilling to trust this sort of logic, and so we end up with efforts to actively fight the problem with prescriptive regulation, which just make things worse. Societ
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Sorry I'm not getting it. Feel free to correct me at any stage if I'm wrong. 1) You can drive a car in Germany if you meet some basic legislative requirements (Führerschein etc.) 2) You can carry a friend as a passenger - perfectl
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Banning Uber (or upholding laws that restrict market-entrants such as Uber) is just another example of banning "Walmart Scotch." Recommended: http://theumlaut.com/2014/04/30/how-net-neutrality-hurts-
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Thanks Jacques, I do understand that we are talking about laws here. I don't personally endorse Uber's business practise of breaking local laws to force the debate. I'm arguing about the rationality of these particular laws.
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Sorry, how is your point relevant to the rights of individuals to freely choose the seller and nature of transportation services they purchase?
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Sorry, what? I actually come from a country where vehicle insurance - even third-party - is completely optional. It's called New Zealand, pretty decent place to live all things considered. Anyway, why can't we just let Uber driver
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
No, that's not true. Free != permissive of nonconsensual interactions. For a free market to work, there must be common respect for individual autonomy. People must enter into contracts of their own free will.
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
0-hour contracts for the whole workforce, forcing farmers to earn less, stocking food of dubious safety If you can find people freely willing to provide labour services at the price you offer, I see no problem. As far as "forcing&quo
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Modern browser features have led to higher battery consumption on the whole. The number of sites that can peg a CPU core is staggering If people are having consistently poor mobile experiences because of poor battery optimisation across w
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
I disagree. The marginalising, discriminatory effects of web developers using the state of the art is critical to moving web technology forward as quickly as possible. By penalising users who use antiquated browsers or computing devices, it
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Gunman kills two at New Zealand unemployment benefit office(stuff.co.nz)
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
NZ works excellently. That is a pretty big claim... Have you ever actually lived in NZ and experienced the realities of paying for this system via taxes and claiming its services? Have you monitored the incessant demands for more services

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