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by javert 4y ago
How are they spending so much that they have a $430M loss with $1.165B revenue? I don't mean that as a judgement, I'm just actually wondering.
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by javert 4y ago
I don't agree that the characters do things no normal person would do or that they are perfect. That just isn't the case at all. If you read the book, you will see. There is a a lot of depth and variety in the characters. All of t
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by javert 4y ago
It has a peg. All that means is that they're targeting a particular exchange rate and managing to maintain it. The allegation is that it's not fully backed.
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by javert 4y ago
> No, but calculus is demonstrably valid and has real-world benefit. Rand, on the other hand, is fantasy for assholes. I've put up with your rude and relatively empty comments nicely and patiently for 2 comments now. But calling you
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by javert 4y ago
So you are a typical Rand nay-sayer in that you haven't actually read the book. Lots of people love her books and don't view reading them as self-flaggelation, including myself. On the other hand, lots of people view reading a bas
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by javert 4y ago
Right. We are not in disagreement.
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by javert 4y ago
The characters are not meant to represent ideological extremes. Rand was a novelist primarily and a philosopher only secondarily. She got into philosophy because she wanted to figure out what humans at their best would look like and be like
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by javert 4y ago
I would encourage people to read Rand on their own instead of going by untrue comments like this one.
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by javert 4y ago
> Less money on nice dorms and endless administrators This is a fantasy. Whatever feedback mechanisms existed in our society in the past to keep things from getting out of hand, are gone---whether in academia, medicine, or any part of go
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by javert 4y ago
I basically agree. "Selfish" is a sloppy word that combines unlike things. Which means it's a toxic word. People should be self-interested. We are organisms, after all. Like animals. However, people should not be fixated on t
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by javert 4y ago
Those are not complex behaviors. An instinct is a complex behavior, like migrating for the winter or building a nest. The problem with claiming that humans have instincts is that it gives cover for bad theories of mind. For instance, the Na
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by javert 4y ago
How did you find out that the US will allow you to renounce and make yourself stateless? I'm genuinely curious, and also slightly skeptical that it's really true.
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by javert 4y ago
I would happily trade my US citizenship for an EU one. You are lucky.
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by javert 4y ago
There are moral and practical arguments for renouncing US citizenship. It's not just about saving on taxes.
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by javert 4y ago
Is this viable? As in, is there a reasonable pathway for renouncing US citizenship and then getting citizenship somewhere else? I wonder if this opens up pathways to citizenship that aren't available otherwise. The "passports fo
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by javert 4y ago
If anybody wants an opposing view to this, read Ayn Rand.
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by javert 4y ago
In my view they aren't using different definitions of faith.
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by javert 4y ago
Obviously you can't give an example, since we don't have instincts.
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by javert 4y ago
I'm a normal person, which I think is morally better than being an ascetic, but I only eat once a day.
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by javert 4y ago
Humans don't have instincts, except a little baby's instinct to suckle. An instinct is a pre-programmed behavior, not a desire. Only non-human animals have instincts. Motivation is never something to overcome. Motivation is powe
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by javert 4y ago
That's like saying if the government had created its own version of PayPal in 1995 and it had failed, it would finally end the idea that dollars can be used for day-to-day transactions.
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by javert 4y ago
Is there a place I can go to play with GPT-3? Like a web form where I can just put in a query and get an answer.
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by javert 4y ago
I'd be interested to hear people's thoughts on the Zettlekasten system from people who have actually used it.
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by javert 4y ago
I would only repeat what I already said. I think you would have to be dishonest in your internal thought process to believe in that project, much less promote it. I say no to shitcoins. I say no to nonsensical economics. I say no to UBI whi
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by javert 4y ago
When the only positive thing you can say is "backed by Gitlab CEO," it doesn't make your shitcoin look better --- it makes Gitlab look worse.
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by javert 4y ago
The quote is about moral strength and virtue, not muscles.
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by javert 4y ago
This ignores the positive case that bitcoin saves lives, and thus seems like a dishonest argument. Would it save more lives than it would end, if it were to replace fiat currency? I have no doubt that the answer is overwhelmingly "yes.
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by javert 4y ago
Can you explain what you mean by that?
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by javert 4y ago
The bitcoin community hates NFTs and shitcoins much more than the anti-crypto community does. I'm basically an anti-crypto bitcoiner.
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by javert 4y ago
I feel like this is a rude thing to say. The psychoanalysis just isn't necessary or appropriate.

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