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by ksdale 7y ago
I agree that it doesn't make sense at all for the US to trade breathing air for one time energy use, but in the abstract, trading breathing air for cheap energy in order to lift people out of poverty is far from absurd, it's an ac
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by ksdale 7y ago
Thank you for you comment! I think that’s a very good point about the money circulating, but at that point it feels like an end that could be achieved by printing money, but the problem isn’t really a lack of money, it’s a lack of things li
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by ksdale 7y ago
I know this isn't exactly the point, but 50 billion divided by the population of the US is $166 per person. Even assuming you could magically sell off all of his stock without it losing any of its value and only distribute it to the po
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by ksdale 7y ago
Thank you for your thoughtful comments! I think such a thing as temporary anarchy is almost impossible to achieve in practice. There is entropy in human organizations and it's much easier to break things than to build them. I believe i
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by ksdale 7y ago
Yeah I agree, I thought the parent overstated the difference between governments and HOAs. A lot of HOAs are basically just the very local-est of local government, being responsible for roads and utilities, even approximating some functions
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by ksdale 7y ago
My own personal opinion based on no data whatsoever is that you're way underestimating the number of people who would be authoritarian jerks under the right circumstances. I think the numbers are reversed, only 10-20% of people wouldn
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by ksdale 7y ago
Since HOAs are much less capable of doing violence to people, it's certainly not as harmful for them to implement this technology as it is for the state to do so, but I think the impulse to view every single person passing through the
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by ksdale 7y ago
This is a fairly general argument for abolishing government, period, and not a specific criticism of the U.S. If anyone can unilaterally decide not to be governed, then the government ceases to have any purpose. I think there's definit
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by ksdale 7y ago
I just did some rough math and assuming you can use the whole 608 pounds, and assuming a piece of sashimi is half an ounce, you’d need to make 90-something dollars per piece just to get your money back. Once you add on the overhead and prof
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by ksdale 7y ago
I’m also not convinced it’s a useful interview question because of the issue you raise, but thinking your mainstream views are heretical extends far beyond job interviews. It seems like whenever I hear people talk about politics, they speak
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by ksdale 7y ago
I think this is a good point, but I'm not entirely sure that these skills distinguishes grads from non-grads. I think grads are much more likely to possess these skills for sure, but I would guess that a large percentage of grads don&#
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by ksdale 7y ago
That's not true, my wife and I have been very liberal in our approach to electronics with our kids and none of them has a meltdown when we take their devices away. Like everything else with parenting, it's all a giant gray area an
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by ksdale 7y ago
I agree completely! I think it’s impossible to have a productive discussion about taxation on the national level when no one even knows how much they’re paying and where the money is going. Not that that information isn’t fairly easily atta
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by ksdale 7y ago
I am definitely not a Grover Norquist fan, but I do taxes for a living and a lot of people are VERY surprised at the amount that is withheld from their paychecks, but they never notice how much it is unless something happens and they are re
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by ksdale 7y ago
I agree, I recently watched The Laundromat on Netflix and while it was entertaining due to sheer star power, the commentary on the Panama Papers sounded like it was written by a high schooler. It breathlessly mentioned how many corporations
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by ksdale 7y ago
I don’t know that I’d call myself a moderate, but my honest opinion is that many strongly held views disturb me precisely because they tend to be so strongly held by those who seem to hold them, rather than being wrong in themselves, or bec
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by ksdale 7y ago
I interpreted that more as, the mere fact that a technology exists will offend some people. Automation that puts people out of a job, for example, offends a lot of people, especially those who will be most directly affected. It doesn’t mean
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by ksdale 7y ago
I think your definition of conservative is correct, but it assumes the thing you’re trying to conserve is something like energy spent on new/different approaches. I think pg’s definition of conservative in this case assumes the thing b
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by ksdale 7y ago
I think this is quite a rosy view of being a hunter gatherer or a subsistence farmer. From what I've read, there's like, a LOT of murder in existing hunter gatherer societies. And back when everyone was either a hunter gatherer or
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by ksdale 7y ago
Or if you fully intended to commit suicide and were only interested in a hit as a way to make sure the insurance pays out. Trying to make sure someone gets a life insurance pay out is a really common feature of a lot of stories about suicid
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by ksdale 7y ago
I know nothing of the particulars of this case, but a person could order a fake hit and then kill themselves in order to make it look like a murder to ensure the life insurance payout.
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by ksdale 7y ago
Your point is well taken, thank you. Though, presumably the FAA's tolerance for risk has also dropped tremendously over the past several decades, so I feel like the more relevant comparison is the perceived risk to the actual risk. Alt
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by ksdale 7y ago
I feel your example just illustrates that the public has always thought flying is more dangerous than it actually is. No one would be selling life insurance if flying was as dangerous as the people buying the insurance thought it was. The F
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by ksdale 7y ago
These are all great points, thank you!
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by ksdale 7y ago
Yeah, I tend to think the world would be a better place if we made more room for young people in the adult world. I think kids are capable of a lot more than we give them credit for and I think setting them apart, as you say, erodes their a
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by ksdale 7y ago
I don't really mind the embarrassing things, I cringe about the times I acted like a jackass in pursuit of social approval. I was relatively well-behaved as far as it goes, but I still wasn't as compassionate as I should have been
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by ksdale 7y ago
I'm not sure that's very important. I cringe at a lot of my behavior as a teenager, and I was very good at being social. I mean, I'm still good at being social, but I had to unlearn a lot of the behavior that made me good at
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by ksdale 7y ago
Anecdote for anecdote, all of the homeschoolers I knew when I was younger (N of about 5 or 6) who I thought were fatally weird turned into perfectly normal adults and I'm ashamed to have been so judgmental. As for homeschooled people i
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by ksdale 7y ago
This. I think acting like an adult is construed by other children as a lack of social skills, when it is actually great preparation for the 80-90% of their lives when they won't be children anymore. As adults, we remember all the &quot
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by ksdale 7y ago
There are a lot of industries where men outnumber women, but it's very far from "pretty much any." https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat18.htm Just by eyeballing this chart, I'd say that women outnumber me

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