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by ksdale 6y ago
It probably does show up, but a huge number of small business are basically just the owner and some independent contractors (or just people they pay cash under the table to occasionally). Often the owners aren't even employees, and if
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by ksdale 6y ago
I mean, if drivers shared in Uber's net profit thus far, they'd have to pay Uber to drive. Do you think Uber is actually worth $55 billion? If it goes to zero, should the drivers pay back what they've earned? I think you make
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by ksdale 6y ago
That compensation divided among Uber's approximately 27,000 employees results in about $3,000 per employee, but Uber's employees are probably mostly software engineers, so $3,000 per person is mostly not life-changing. A quick goo
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Except it’s basically the creation of one man who bound everyone that he sold the subdivided lots to.
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Sometimes people coexist peacefully despite thinking the other person is wrong. Sometimes speaking up about things you think are wrong precludes peaceful coexistence, and in those cases, peaceful coexistence is indeed the exercise of tolera
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by ksdale 6y ago
This. We bought a house in an HOA and I definitely had a moment where I was like, "Wait a minute, some guy bought this land, subdivided it, and created this HOA out of thin air and now here we are, 40 years later, living under that HOA
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by ksdale 6y ago
I mean, I know you're joking, but people agree on the easy stuff (mostly, I guess), so all that's left to figure out is the hard stuff. It's true that people have spent thousands of years thinking about epistemology, but my i
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by ksdale 6y ago
This is well said. I think some people view this as liberating themselves, and some people view this as letting the offender get away with it. For me personally, it feels oppressive to require anything from the person who wronged me. The fa
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by ksdale 6y ago
The financial says that they had a $2B penalty (which decreased net income, but I'm assuming wasn't deductible for tax purposes) and a court decision that resulted in tax of about $1B, so their effective tax rate (edit: last year)
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by ksdale 6y ago
Tangential thought that this reminded me of - I remember reading that when Rockefeller started Standard Oil, the total market for refined oil products was tiny, and the reason it was called "Standard Oil" was because it was so har
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by ksdale 6y ago
I think you're underestimating how fast the law changes. In a lot of practice areas (I work in tax), there can be substantial changes every few years, and in between, daily work changes as everyone converges on optimal strategies, and
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by ksdale 6y ago
FWIW, I agree with you completely. I think the conversation gets muddled when we start introducing value-laden words like "truth." The crux of the matter for me is, am I lying in order that someone will behave in a way that they w
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by ksdale 6y ago
Quick googling yields this - https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20180508/doctors-su... It's not specifically about ER doctors. Anecdotally, I'm a lawyer, and they warned us in law school that
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by ksdale 6y ago
The comment I was replying to pointed out that accurate observations are indisputable facts. To paraphrase the next part, determining causation from observations can be a matter of fact (where you understand the mechanism of causation ver
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And then, assuming you can get people to agree on the accuracy of the observation and on the causation , people can still argue about the best course of action to address a problem. Assuming people don't agree on causation, you migh
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by ksdale 6y ago
This is what I was thinking. Institutions that last a long time are those that are effective in accomplishing their mission and passing knowledge down from generation to generation (which they very well might do simply to be effective), and
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by ksdale 6y ago
I think you make an excellent point, but I think it is very relevant that basically every institution ever is intended to be long term. Every empire that lasted a thousand years steamrolled however many other aspiring empires that also want
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by ksdale 6y ago
I think your inference-making algorithm doesn't distinguish between people who earnestly hold strong beliefs about speech, and racists. Perhaps there are so many more racists that it doesn't matter...
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by ksdale 6y ago
I agree with you completely that it's a problem when society as a whole doesn't have a good idea of what it means to be "productive" but I think that in your second sentence, you could just as easily replace "UBI&qu
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by ksdale 6y ago
From the essay: "The more extreme will even accuse you of specific heresies they imagine you must have in mind, though if there's more than one heresy current in your time, these accusations will tend to be nondeterministic: you m
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by ksdale 6y ago
He explicitly mentions that whenever you talk about speech in the abstract, people will assume you believe whatever thing they don't like. Agree with him or not, I think it completely misses his point to need to hear his opinions befor
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by ksdale 6y ago
“Why don’t people just tell their children what to do?”
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by ksdale 6y ago
The U.S. spends upwards of half a trillion dollars per year on K-12 education (an average of $215,000 per 30 students). That doesn't include college or what parents spend out of pocket on private schools, homeschooling, tutoring, etc.
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by ksdale 6y ago
I think these are excellent things to keep in mind, but the vast majority of real life is not D-Day or crash landing in the Hudson. I'd go so far as to say that most people hardly ever even spend any time solving "dynamic complex
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by ksdale 6y ago
As you say, the rights are often in opposition, and I would say that your proposed limit on speech in favor of association would actually require undoing limits on association that are arguably more fundamental. If a person can be fired for
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by ksdale 6y ago
This is oft-repeated, but in my opinion, the question isn't whether you are a better educator than a professional educator, the question is can you teach your child better than a professional educator can teach 30? The answer may still
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by ksdale 6y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that the bitter lesson is wrong , just that it's not bitter, it's actually how a whole bunch of stuff progresses.
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We have decided that there are limits to freedom of association, though, for example when it comes to discrimination. Forcing people to interact with others whose opinions they disagree with seems plausibly less imposing than forcing someon
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I think it's plausible that many technological advances follow a similar. Something like the steam engine is a step-improvement, but many of the subsequent improvements are basically the obvious next step, implemented once steel is str
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by ksdale 6y ago
My wife and I talk about this occasionally. There's also a sort of prisoner's dilemma that disappears when you have both credibly committed to making it work. Suddenly each disagreement is... lower stakes(?) because you know that

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