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by leto_ii 6y ago
From my experience in many places drivers actually use multiple apps at the same time. This means that there's less and less of a distinction between the safety, ratings etc. of each individual app.
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> Real-life customers don't want to enter their credit-card details into City_X_driver_coop and then re-enter their financial details multiple times again into City_Y_driver_coop. Even if you imagine a hypothetical national co-op to
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Setting the US aside for a bit, how do you explain the success of the kibbutzim movement [1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz
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You have not provided any proof, merely a hypothesis. > It is human nature, just like in another great example, the Tragedy of Commons. As far as I know the commons worked quite well for many centuries, until enclosure that is. Just a br
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> Read Richard Dawkins' "The Selfish Gene" I have, I don't fully agree with Dawkins. I'm not a biologist, merely a dilettante, but I can point to source [1] for some counter-arguments. First, there's a diffe
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Despite looking beaten down, overcrowded, messy, Bucharest is a surprisingly rich city - it produces about a third of Romania's GDP and its GDP/capita is significantly above the EU average. Book prices however are still sort of an
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by leto_ii 6y ago
I recommend Jared Diamond's 'The World Until Yesterday' ('Guns, Germs and Steel' also covers some related topics), or Frans de Waal's 'The Bonobo and the Atheist'. In general I think there's broa
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by leto_ii 6y ago
It seems I didn't get my point across, so here's an explicit statement: The fact that certain human institutions or behaviors face strong opposition in certain contexts doesn't say much about human nature. w.r.t. your example
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> Talk to a combat veteran. One who has really been in combat and under fire. > You won't find many who are eager to advance under fire. I have actually, my grandfather fought in WW2. His stories were usually short, grim, brutal.
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by leto_ii 6y ago
I really don't understand what free markets have to do with anything in this context. > being motivated by self-interest usually means collaborating If you're willing to define self-interest broadly enough then everything can f
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> Not many are interested in dying for their country. If you refuse an order to advance on an enemy stronghold, you'll get shot. Actually, what that shows more than anything is that not many people are willing to kill for their coun
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> What that strongly suggests is communes are just incompatible with human nature. I really don't understand how this conclusion follows from your premises. Even assuming that you're right and that all US communes failed, what
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> The huge majority of organizations are set up for selfish benefit, not collective benefit. What on earth are you talking about? For most of human history we lived in small bands of hunter-gatherers where selfishness could lead to ostra
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by leto_ii 6y ago
I don't know the situation in Poland very well, but I think in general in Romania you (assuming you're Polish) are perceived as a success story. In Romania it's actually quite hard to buy products and services that are not pr
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Also a Romanian here. My take is similar to yours, but I would go even further in saying that the 90s were even more catastrophic in terms of privatization and liberalization. Remember the 'shock therapy' years? Prices doubling ev
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by leto_ii 6y ago
While Nixey's work has come under criticism, calling the whole idea a myth is too dismissive. Once early Christianity became the state religion it acted very aggressively towards anything that could be considered 'pagan'. Tak
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> Socrates was killed for being a Sparta supporter in Athens I think Socrates' admiration for Sparta is questioned by some scholars. Since the man himself didn't leave behind any written work, all we know of him we know indirec
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by leto_ii 6y ago
As far as I know the Netherlands doesn't actually allow for dual citizenship, with few exceptions - notably Moroccans, who are not allowed to give up their Moroccan citizenship. In this sense, dual citizenship is basically code for bei
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by leto_ii 6y ago
I checked the original article, it doesn't explicitly refer to the Pareto principle, it just calls it the 80/20 rule. Normally by this it's understood that you should be referring to the Pareto principle, but it seems they&#x
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Sure, but the EU is not a federation. There are still many divergent interests between these nations. Take the Netherlands and Italy for example - not a lot of agreement between those two, usually that is. They do seem to agree on AstraZene
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by leto_ii 6y ago
While I'm not necessarily disagreeing with your idea, couldn't you make the opposite case as well? Namely that since the AstraZeneca vaccine is mostly British, the government of that country has an interest in hiding/downplay
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by leto_ii 6y ago
I don't think you actually addressed my question to be honest. In your previous comment you introduced racial undertones that it seems to me you're now trying to gloss over by making it about culture instead. > It's often
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> One of my sous chefs dated an Indian women and despite being a blond, blue eyed German/Polish mixed male from the midwest he was the most vociferous about for Indian cuisine I have ever met, even Indians Why would somebody's
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Since many people in the thread have already raised really good objections about the myopic nature of focusing on GDP growth to measure social progress, I'd like to add a comment on the final paragraph of the post: > These are huge
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by leto_ii 6y ago
I think the gongfu style preparation works great for whole leaf teas, but maybe not so well for Japanese or Indian teas. As far as I can tell, there's no one-size-fits-all method of brewing tea.
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> Use the combinations you enjoy. Sure, but I think if you experiment enough you will converge on the kinds of brewing methods that are considered standard. Take for example gyokuro or certain kinds of sencha - it's quite objective
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> Then what is the purpose of leading a good life? In my mind, morality is precisely in order to stabilise society. The way I see it morality is an intrinsic human ability. This is not to say that all people are moral, but that all peopl
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by leto_ii 6y ago
I actually didn't mean to be dismissive of religion. It's just that in general I don't think you need religious or any other indirect justifications for the pretty straight-forward idea that it's good to pass building te
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by leto_ii 6y ago
This is a seemingly compelling explanation, but I see no reason why it would actually be true. It seems to me like it treats people as lacking the degree of intelligence and foresight needed to figure out that it's a good idea to pass
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> What does burning down your buildings every so often achieve? It ensures the skills of building are passed down from generation to generation, that the people remain well practiced in those skills This is unconvincing. In most cultures

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