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by ksdale 5y ago
I think that's a very astute point, but also doesn't match up with the way people think about the word, in my experience.
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by ksdale 5y ago
When kids get put in a "gifted" program at school, what exactly is being selected for? It's not general intelligence, as plenty of smart kids do poorly in school. It's not, say, athletic ability. There are sports teams,
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by ksdale 5y ago
It's true that some kids are naturally better than others at doing tasks that school and future employers have deemed important. There's no reason to call it "gifted." The word "gifted" carries a moral valence
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by ksdale 5y ago
That's insane to me as an American as well! I have 4 kids, and I've been absolutely appalled at how much violence there is in stuff that's directed at kids compared to how much people try to shield them from nudity. Everyone
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by ksdale 5y ago
Haha I do taxes for a living, and the number of times people have said, "My buddy does this and he says it's fine." As if the fact that the person hasn't been caught is evidence that what they're doing is legal. It&
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by ksdale 5y ago
Exactly.
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by ksdale 5y ago
Perhaps I'm naive, but I think the number of people who know and don't care is a small fraction of the people who honestly don't understand that they're doing something wrong. I mean, obviously this guy knew he was doing
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by ksdale 5y ago
He worked for Netflix, he was responsible for finding a vendor, and he basically chose a vendor based on who would pay him, personally, to let them be the vendor for Netflix. He didn't choose based on who would be the best vendor for N
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by ksdale 5y ago
When I was in law school, I felt patronized by the amount of time we spent talking about conflicts of interest because it seemed so obvious to me. In retrospect, having read so many of the disbarment announcements in the bar association new
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by ksdale 5y ago
Hahaha sometimes it does seem like scams are so clever and involve so much work that the people involved would be substantially more successful in almost any business.
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by ksdale 5y ago
For example, individuals are entitled to freedom of assembly, the ability to, say, gather and push for better labor conditions. If we restrict the rights of groups, would the government suddenly say, "Well sure, each of you can ask for
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by ksdale 5y ago
Is that relevant? I think the analysis should revolve around whether they should be allowed to, and not whether we can just ban it because nobody wants to do it anyway. I don't think that's a good way to make rules.
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by ksdale 5y ago
I'm no corporate shill, but corporations are groups of people, so anything you think it's ok to take away from them because they're a group and not a person, you could logically take away from, say, a union or a farmer's
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by ksdale 5y ago
In the US, we had a medical provider who, when they would call you to give you test results, would attempt to get you to verify your identity by telling them part of you social security number. Haha, you called me! How do I know you&#x27
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by ksdale 5y ago
Haha I thought the same thing. The more I read it, the more it seemed like a list of countries where there's actually due process, even for the bad guys.
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by ksdale 5y ago
How much money did they manage to launder with their shell company?
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by ksdale 5y ago
Yeah, I do taxes for a living, and people seriously underestimate how hard it is for anyone to hide a substantial amount of money that was made in the U.S. As soon as you want to do anything with it besides hide it under your mattress,
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by ksdale 5y ago
Yes, the US is so secret we know exactly how much is hidden and where. Meanwhile Russia is so transparent, wealth hoarding oligarchs can't even exist. /s
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by ksdale 5y ago
If you complained about a neighbor making your product dirty, this judge would say, "No, no, they're actually giving you free dirt!"
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by ksdale 5y ago
I'm not sure about that at all. I assume you don't sit around thinking that you have several times the amount of income that you need, or that your taxes should be several times what they are now? It's safe to say the U.S. do
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by ksdale 5y ago
So that's a yes?
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by ksdale 5y ago
If you take gdp numbers and divide them out among the population of the entire world, you get a world in poverty. Though I agree that many of the gains are ill-gotten. There's still nowhere near enough in absolute terms, though. Enough
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by ksdale 5y ago
Are you suggesting it would be better if everyone were poor instead of just some people?
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by ksdale 5y ago
We're very privileged to be able to wonder when enough productivity is enough. A huge portion of the world's population still lives in abject poverty and increased productivity would absolutely benefit them. And I think there were
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by ksdale 5y ago
Productivity is basically a measure of how much stuff we get per person. Obviously stuff isn't the only thing that matters, but once upon a time, everyone had to spend all of their time growing food. Now farming is 1,000 times more pro
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by ksdale 5y ago
Ok so he wrote an operating system. And then you'll say that wasn't actually valuable, leaving aside the question of whether Microsoft would have existed at all without him.
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by ksdale 5y ago
I assume it used to be far more informal and sort of a handshake deal you'd make with the captain, and then the companies formalized it but it was still cheap because no one knew/wanted to do it, but then as the possibility become
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by ksdale 5y ago
That seems obviously untrue as well. The business world runs on Excel. Before Amazon, shipping so cheap and so fast was unimaginable, not to mention being able to find anything, anywhere. SpaceX is making getting stuff into orbit possible a
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by ksdale 5y ago
Most wealthy people do not end up with billions, and most of them end up with less than their parents had. While I don't disagree that they've used power and influence to suit their own ends, there's practically not a single
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by ksdale 5y ago
Haha touche, and entertaining story, though I'm sorry it happened to you!

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