kmonsen

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by kmonsen 6y ago
I mean does it really matter what the church says? The important part is what God actually thinks here and that seems to be very different depending on who you ask.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
No, although both NYC and CA has higher sales tax than switzerland but about half of Norway. To be honest my life does not change at all based on sales tax. Perhaps for cars but other than that it is sort of a rounding error. So little of m
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by kmonsen 6y ago
What you say is statistically true. Having lived in both Western Europe and two US states I would say there is something missing in that you need more money in the US to have a similar lifestyle on an emotional level. It’s really hard to ex
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by kmonsen 6y ago
Yeah this is the point, life in for example Germany has a very acceptable life quality for less money.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
This was meant more descriptive than add a political view. In my opinion I would change the taxation rates for the .1% first, Will at the same time importing life quality for the bottom let’s say 60%. A lot of this is not in taxes but due t
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by kmonsen 6y ago
I mean I lived in both ca and ny and the tax rate is pretty close to European ones. When I lived in Switzerland just the federal rate was higher than my Swiss tax rate. The big difference in total compensation after tax between Western Euro
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by kmonsen 6y ago
Seriously?? You call that torture? The spoiled lives we lead here in the west truly makes us not realize hard realities. I can promise you that torture is way more unpleasant than sitting in the airline seat with your nice noise cancelling
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by kmonsen 6y ago
Not long range, unless you allow for gimmicks like changing batteries that will not be available for the general population.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
I think if trump wins the next election is unlikely we will have any more meaningful elections.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
How do you know if you are arrested by an unmarked cop or kidnapped by for example a right wing militia member? If something illegal happened, how would you go to court for justice with unmarked law enforcement?
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by kmonsen 6y ago
Two things afterwards having worked in intelligence: - your examples are really child’s play, I have seen much more sneaky stuff. For example if you think NSA is interested in you, how would you acquire a new computer? - The flip side is th
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by kmonsen 6y ago
You mean vi right? (I prefer emacs myself partially because I feel it’s more noob friendly)
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by kmonsen 6y ago
I used to work there too, those were really fun times.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
So I think this is partially why these questions actually have value. They cannot completely be faked, you need some level of competence even after months of leetcode.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
Can I ask why you refuse? For me it is more of a formality at this point. I know it won't tell a lot about me, except I cared enough to put in the hours to get this job, but still you have to do what you have to do. I'm pretty sen
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by kmonsen 6y ago
Yeah, I'm 40+ but takes the time to prepare well for interviews and that has been the key for me. Gotten job offers from all the FAANG's without being very smart. Just go on leetcode and practice for a few months when needed. This
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by kmonsen 6y ago
This is why we have bank accounts and index funds.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
The key is who saves/invests the most and they will have access. This is how it works with everything in capitalism and this is the only efficient way we know of distributing resources.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
Yeah but we have money that can be stored and anyone that is old and have reserves of money will be treated and get food etc. Society doesn’t reward you based on the value you produce but based on how much fictional currency you have. This
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by kmonsen 6y ago
I read a science fiction book based around this once. It makes a lot of sense at first, the issue is that we are not a random sample. People could have used this argument at any time in human history.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
That point is unreasonably far in the future and there are probably much bigger issues right now. If humanity was facing extinction because people don’t want to give birth this is very solvable.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
You can still grow, like India clearly shows, the woman just need to give birth more times.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
I think by 2100 we have either solved this problem or is too late. I guess most likely the latter but there is still hope.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
That is not true in the US. What happens in the senate has low overlap with what the public wants compared with what donors/lobbyists want.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
The poster you commented said a true fact (Elon bought a company and calls himself founder). There is no facts across your rambling response, and you say others do doublespeak?
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by kmonsen 6y ago
Totally agree, and it is a good thing if people who doesn't want to be there doesn't need to anymore. But in general demand slumps are hard to fix and last longer.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
Just to be clear, currently demand falls is addressing both global warming and housing prices. But demand is a terrible way to fix things because it means a lot of human suffering at the same time. So yes, taking away everyones money is one
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by kmonsen 6y ago
I think Oculus is pretty cool, but I don't really see the synergy with facebook here.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
YouTube does simply not send people to concentration camps and torture them for uploading "wrong" videos. They get demonetized. If you don't see the difference I am not sure how to convince you.
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by kmonsen 6y ago
I don't think liberty is the natural order, but something we have to fight to keep, each generation has to carry that fight. Once it is gone it will be a lot harder to regain. Another thing is that liberty is very difficult to define,

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