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by mc-lovin 13y ago
What are the geopolitical goals of The Atlantic here?
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
What exactly is the Chinese threat you are alluding to? What is going to happen when China does start working on high skill high margin stuff? And why would The Atlantic want to distract people from this? I'm just not getting your point h
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
This is what happens when understanding of basic economics and free markets is equated with libertarianism in most people's eyes. Without an understanding of economics, people morally equate private transactions that raise the rent in an ar
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
>I'm not sure this is true. There is lots of sage advice out there pointing out what seems obvious to older, more jaded folks, which is that unless you are an actual founder, you'll probably not make too much money even on a successful
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
So all these issues would go away if Google paid roughly the same effective corporate tax rate as other companies? I think the real issue is that people feel especially entitled to a share of Google and its employee's earnings, which stil
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Maybe he's saying that nerds should be treated as separate but not equal, in that they should be allocated their own space (SV suburbs like MTV, MLP) and not allowed to mix with the cool people in SF where they would creep out the girls.
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
My impression is that people know they will get less money working at a startup than a big company (including the average payoff when things go really well). They do it for the experience of working on something really new, and working in t
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Google and its employees pay taxes. Can you explain why Google or its employees owe more to the community than every other company/person?
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
The idea that the local community has the right to decide who lives there and what rent prices should be is simply wrong. And I don't mean wrong in the sense of natural rights, I mean that a democratic decision on these matters has already
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Here is why I think a basic income is a bad idea. By way of introduction, basic income is very similar to welfare or negative income taxation. Welfare already exists, and can be made completely unconditional on everything but income should
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
While you make some interesting arguments for a basic income guarantee, I think your post would be better as a top level comment. You don't seem to have addressed anything I wrote past the first two paragraphs (which were a kind of introduc
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
>It's basically like a mafiosi loan shark giving you a desperately needed loan, then threatening not to make any loans to you in the future because you don't have the means to pay it back, forcing you to do whatever they ask of you. Fix
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
I don't want to get too bogged down in the details of this thread, so I'll just tell you straight up why I don't support the idea of a basic income guarantee. Hopefully doing so will indirectly address the issue of evidence that we were di
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
If you look at that article, you will find it does not provide evidence for any of the claims in the post. That's not the fault of Wikipedia, as I explained, this is an extremely broad and complex issue, and most academics won't directly c
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
You are making very big claims without adequate references. The study shows the effects of a one-off payment, to a highly selective group (note that I'm not implying their randomization was bad, but that both treatment and control groups we
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Probably because it's off-topic and people are sick of hearing about it. It's simply a discussion people aren't interested in having, and at the end of the day it's the participants who decide what gets up or downvoted.
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
This is a great article. Not because it proves a particular point (we should accept the evidence no matter where it leads) but because of the clarity of the article, and the fact that it accurately represents the academic paper: on a curso
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
>It's a matter of what you think is right. Do you want to have a philosophical discussion? Certainly, you started a philosophical discussion with your top post, so wouldn't you want to have this discussion? >I'm getting annoyed beca
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
>We should be discussing something like how we're going to help people If helping people is a good motive, why isn't helping yourself? While people must strike a balance between doing what benefits themselves, and what benefits others,
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
You are asking the wrong question. Superstition was one factor, but what about instances where superstition does not cause violence? Or instances (like lynchings) where mob violence is not triggered by superstition. Did you understand my
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
It's the the word, it's the use of the category that I object to. Imagine a person who says "everything from the holocaust, the the weathermen, to Obamacare is possible once we accept collectivism". The problem with statement is not that t
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Those organzations are nothing to do with the persecution of witchcrafit in PNG. Did you even read the article. If you want to stop these horrific acts of violence, it would be better to give to the Catholic Church since it was a catholic
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
I agree, back in 2007, even at Stanford, i-banking and consulting were still very popular and glamorous. The economy has changed, and the tech industry is booming while the finance industry has shrunk. I wouldn't attribute this to OWS, but
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
can't they just turn whatever is holding the tether in place on the ground?
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
While I'm sure they will face many challenges, what they are doing is not the equivalent of putting a ground based turbine in the air. Their "wing" is the equivalent to a part of a turbine blade, and it moves in circles like a turbine blade
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
My understanding based on reading their materials, is that it is very similar to conventional wind power. "High altitude" here refers to around 600m, which disappointed me because I thought it would be an army of devices flying autonomousl
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
It's also a matter of attitude. If you're not willing to put up with having to study for what you perceive to be arbitrary interview questions, you probably won't do well with all the other annoying things that can't be changed that big co
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
yes, see my reply above. This is potentially a serious free speech issue, please get all the facts before dismissing it. If the police say "We are arresting person X because of this statement, and they also did some other stuff", then thi
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
You are absolutely correct that her arrest relates to a number of actions on her part, apart from the email that the quote comes from. However, without having seen the arrest report or other documents, it seems from the news articles that t
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
"Terroristic Threats" are one way that free speech is under attack. Another is harassment laws. Law student Anya Bargh was arrested for sending an email saying "Let’s celebrate diversity by having the next dean NOT be Jewish." If that isn'

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