mc-lovin

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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Not really. These are two separate issues. If I am a gold panner, I might be very satisfied with my gold panning technique, and yet complain that there is a shortage of gold in the river.
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Free speech is the point because if the government decided that expressing a political opinion counted as provocation in an assault or battery charge, this would probably violate the first amendment. Legally the issue is around assault and
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Econ aims to capture important aspects of real world systems, not model them perfectly. You can compare it with CS: big O notation is not useless even though in principle the constants in the big O notation could be huge. Turing machines
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Well it's hard to quantify the relative importance of personality and cultural fit vs intelligence and programming ability. You can turn what you said around, and say that you can be the nicest, coolest person in the world, but if you are
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
I think there is a lot of negative bias here, because people who do badly in algorithms and data structure questions, or dislike them for some other reason, are more likely to speak on the issue. I think that these questions are good becaus
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
You misunderstood my use of the term "unsympathetic". I meant it in the sense of being unsympathetic towards an opinion (the opinion that there is something unjust about gentrification) not towards the alleged victims of gentrification. My
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
The funny thing is, I never considered when I posted that that there would be violence beyond the usual getting in your face that I've seen at left wing protests. Why does the fact that these people are upset make their cause any more just?
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
You make some good points, and I will bear them in mind when dealing with these people. However, what you say makes the complaints by the protesters about the heavy police presence seem ridiculous: it cannot be the case that this protest is
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Perhaps group B have legitimate complaints, but I somehow doubt they are serious enough to justify violence against anyone who makes light of their "struggle". If it's true that these people have organized an event where someone would be ph
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
You seem to know much more about this situation than me, but given my experience in the left, I would be very surprised if the people involved in an open air drug den had much to do with the people attending and organizing this protest. And
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
I agree with you about the right to protest. I wasn't aware that was an issue: pretty sure that's not what the person I was replying to was talking about. Certainly none of the articles on the issue claimed that the police were acting out
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
How do poorer people lack a voice in local government? It seems to me their issue is that they want to extend their control over local affairs far beyond what is their right. It is simply not the right of local residents to determine what
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
As someone who generally believes in free markets, I am already unsympathetic to these people. However the venom directed at tech employees strikes me as something more than just economics. People are having a go at nerds because they can.
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
My own point of view is that I'm not infallible and therefore it is better to state what I think is true, and let people draw whatever conclusions they like, and take whatever actions they like, based on what I say. I expect on averaging th
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Isn't it enough that nerds are constantly denigrated in the mainstream media without having to put up with this on tech sites too?
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
You seem to be ignoring a third possibility, which is stating things because they are true, not because of how your statements will be "used".
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Getting rid of minimum wage is probably unnecessary: when people have a basic income, the "income effect" means that they are less willing to take low wages. The main problem with your scheme is that in the far future, free trade could mean
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Funny how when things favor women they are just "objective facts" and therefore can't be labelled "sexist". While all the things men are better have have already been proven to be results of cultural bias by esteemed sociologists...
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
These decisions aren't made at a personal level. E.g. when you provide people with free healthcare instead of giving them money, your are implicitly constraining their choices. Same for food stamps, free public transport for the poor, etc.
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Economists have long known that negative income tax (which is equivalent to a guaranteed basic income) is theoretically optimal under the usual assumptions of perfect markets and perfect rationality. However only very few economists, such