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by jdasdf 5y ago
There are more costs than just monetary costs. Convincing people to kill their neighbors is also expensive.
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>Why do you think that autonomous drones would make this worse? Because it reduces the costs of doing it.
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> Lots of jokes about invading or overthrowing the gov't but I believe they would just cut El Savador off from the U.S. financial system entirely. Good thing they're using bitcoin now!
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> One important part of the chip shortage is the massive amount of price gouging going on. There is no such thing as "price gouging". It just so happens that at this moment the price of things is higher than it usually is due t
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Hence the: >There should be nothing that the executive branch does in terms of investigation and prosecution, that the average citizen should be legally barred from doing. >This includes prosecuting crimes in criminal court, requestin
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> There is absolutely no problem getting a higher degree—say in literature—and also becoming a plumber. There is when you're not the one paying for it.
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> The reason the banks, and through the banks OnlyFans, attack sex is because they are accountable, and don't wish to take risks unless they are very profitable risks. This is exactly the case.
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>Unless you register all tenancies with the state (which seems like massive overreach) how can the police quickly determine the lawful possessor? You already effectively have to do that, landlords are supposed to pay taxes on the rent, a
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It's not surprising at all when you understand that these laws and regulations are so stringent that they cause massive costs to landlord who want to rent, so much so that it is almost financial suicide to try and do it. My parents own
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>Rent controls only job is to provide housing security for existing renters, and the vast majority of the time, it's successful at doing that.´ At a cost to everyone else.
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Rent control works just fine in doing what its intended to do. It's just that what its intended to do isn't to provide housing at affordable prices, but to gain votes for those who implement rent control.
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> One thing I’m always curious about is why we are so concerned with plastic waste. Because of virtue signaling. That's literally it, it doesn't matter how effective or ineffective something is, what matters is that politicians
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rules laws and regulations.... always wanting more control over people.
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Science isn't a god with priests telling you what it says. It's a process that anyone can and should do.
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>The issue is that we know from experience, after 20+ years of the modern Internet, that if you make a 'free speech' drive/repository place that's widely available, it will host the absolute worst of the human race. A
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They are for privacy against everyone else, not against themselves.
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>That's not the way it works, as explained in my previous comment. Except it actually is how it works, because if making sure that the consumer is aware of the local origin is the one thing its supposed to do, you wouldn't have
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until* Gotta keep positive!
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It really doesn't. The EU invests massive amounts of money into bureaucracy and companies that go through it. But we don't need companies sucking of the EU teat, we need tech companies.
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The reason is very simple. Europe is overtaxed and over-regulated and the situation is not likely to change for the better any time soon.
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[part 2] >I fundamentally disagree on both points. >While the USA does exist in a democratic system, there are many examples where businesses have overpowered the general population, or where those interests have turned groups of the
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>I would generally agree that the humanitarian value of a person's life vs the economic value of a person's life are separate concepts, but they are intrinsically related by the fact that in our current system of resource distr
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Let's me just start by saying that I understand and respect your argument, and your motivations for them. I am sure you're a good hearted person, who just wants to help his fellow citizens, and that is a good thing, and one in whi
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> Your arguments seem to be from the business perspective, of the value of labor. My arguments are from the human perspective, in terms of the value of a person. Well, given that we are talking about the market itself, that is and should
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When will central planners learn that is a terrible idea?
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>The big question is what can a nation do to stop this? Thats why navies exist. You send a handful of frigates and bombers there and start sinking ships.
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> The problem I have with Twitter is that it's too people centric. For example, I like to follow finance news, so I could probably find some Twitter accounts that post about that. But surely the people running those accounts would a
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Is there even an "Algo"? I always just see every post of the people who i follow, and posts they like or retweet, and absolutely nothing else (other than the occasional ad). Then again i keep a very tight leash on who i follow, an
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>Exactly, there is an ideology of pushing this kind of issue completely into "personal responsibility" territory which, for me, is frankly a total lack of empathy. It's not a lack of empathy, it's an understanding of
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The problem is the incentives they create to imprison people. Imprisoning someone should be a purely negative action on the state, by having some potential benefit you reduce the costs imposed to the state and therefore incentivize imprison

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