loki49152

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by loki49152 5y ago
Assuming the rationality of economic actors goes wrong primarily because economists don’t know what “rationality” is and come up with weird accounts for what “rational” behavior would be under given circumstances. They aren’t talking about
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by loki49152 5y ago
Modern monetary theory isn't doing fine and neither are the countries with fiat currencies. They're all in absolute crisis because their economies are built on ever-shifting quicksand. The "gold standard" isn't a th
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by loki49152 5y ago
I'm personally willing to throw a couple of 9's on that figure to avoid dying the mushroom death.
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by loki49152 5y ago
"Woke" isn't a term applied by outsiders. It's the self-identification of in-group membership, spoken as a badge of what passes for pride.
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by loki49152 5y ago
That's not in his work, though. That's in the insecurities of people who set out to be offended. The closest he gets is the characterization that's it's natural to women to have babies because their bodies are capable of
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by loki49152 5y ago
Did you read half the quote? What exactly was the point of the criticism, do you think?
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by loki49152 5y ago
Ok, then. Where do you think babies come from?
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by loki49152 5y ago
The fundamental insight behind what became agile is that it isn't actually possible to have both a guaranteed delivery date and a guaranteed set of delivered features. The reality of software development just doesn't allow it. Bus
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by loki49152 5y ago
Big Oil didn't "lie" about climate change any more than the people who think sentient dinosaurs live in Hollow Earth "lied" about the way to get there. The global warming theories they were presented as a result of
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by loki49152 5y ago
The reasoning is not circular because that would be devastating to your case? Thanks, Yes man.
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by loki49152 5y ago
Lobbying is a form of self-defense against the real corruption - a government that has assigned itself the power to interfere in our day-to-day lives. Most people today take it for granted that "regulations" must exist because the
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by loki49152 6y ago
It's easier to understand the origin of this thinking if you put it in some of its more recent historical contexts: * The "one drop of African blood" theory of the Democrats' Old South * "Jewish heritage", pret
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by loki49152 6y ago
Labor markets aren't local when everyone can work from home. That's why this kind of move is absurd. Talent outside the Valley might be willing to take lower pay, based on lower cost of living, but just like everything else the pr
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by loki49152 6y ago
I am suggesting exactly that. Government should be absolutely separate from education for the exact same reason government is absolutely separate from religion. The purpose of government-run schools is not to ensure that each child gets a
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by loki49152 6y ago
No, it isn't. There is no secret magical end-run around Say's Law.
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by loki49152 6y ago
One might be inclined to say this if one doesn't understand the difference between physical nature and our consciousness of physical nature. Mathematics does not exist outside of human minds. It is a method for measuring and describing
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by loki49152 6y ago
Well, AntiFa exists to engage in violence, by their own statements, so anyone "posing as" them to "call for violence" is just playing catch-up.
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by loki49152 6y ago
The United States isn't a democratic government. Democracy is the mechanism by which we choose our representatives, but our form of government is a Constitutional Republic.
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by loki49152 7y ago
You dream of Capitalism? No, of course not. People who say "an economic system that serves human beings" never mean an economic system that actually serves human beings... except in the "To Serve Man" sense.
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by loki49152 7y ago
11 - 15 years is exactly the period of the "standard business cycle", which was established by the boom/bust nature of economies that depended primarily on agriculture. Farmers considered it common knowledge that the "bu
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by loki49152 7y ago
Well, they did say “changed”, not “improved”.
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by loki49152 7y ago
You're talking about getting America involved in the worst possible kind of war - a war against reality. As a field of study, economics is a set of advanced physics word problems. There is no law you can pass and no policy you can enfo
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by loki49152 7y ago
Our Sun lab ran on SunOS 4.1.1. Its NFS implementation was so unstable we'd get perhaps an hour and a half of use at a stretch before the file server would reboot... on an 8 machine network.
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by loki49152 7y ago
Trying to engineer society doesn't make any sense, much less by levying discriminatory taxes.
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by loki49152 7y ago
How much of that is due to a critical evaluation of his behavior and how much is due to the "modern" tendency toward foul hatred of anyone who accomplishes anything?
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by loki49152 8y ago
This is going to cause confusion with Rust - the game - and Oxide, its 3rd party mod plugin framework.
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by loki49152 8y ago
Memphis was the murder capital of the United States for a few years, but it was almost entirely gang-on-gang killings. That said, the Mall of Memphis (Mall of Murder) had to shut down because they found too many bodies in the grass between
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by loki49152 9y ago
What if the job they do is only worth the wage they can get to do it? What if economic reality means that either they take the market rate for the job - or the job is no longer available? Why should anyone pay more than the economic value
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by loki49152 10y ago
You don't understand something basic. The root of this "diversity" focus is an expression of the believers' own racism and sexism. They believe racism and sexism are true yet also bad , so they have to engage in an en
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by loki49152 10y ago
It will all become clear to you when you accept that it was the American Left who inspired the Fascists, Bolsheviks, and Nazis in Europe. All of them were leftist/socialist ideological movements. All of them copied policies that the Am

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