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by pimmen 9y ago
It’s seen as a cowardly defense in that you argue against any personal resonsibility for something you were ordered to do. In the particular case of the Nuremberg tribunals, no the superior orders defense did not work because the Allies had
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by pimmen 9y ago
I just don’t get why engineers want to work for Uber. They have treated their drivers poorly (eg. under paying them and fighting benefits other cab companies have to pay), their riders poorly (eg. not telling them their personal data was st
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by pimmen 9y ago
If you implement any of this shit as an engineer and you try to Nuremberg your way out of responsibility, you should be ashamed of yourself.
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by pimmen 9y ago
The point of bringing up algebra is not to somehow suggest that the Middle East today produces just as much good science and math as Europe or the US does today, or saying that it could only have been discovered in the Middle East, it'
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by pimmen 9y ago
Nobody's getting screwed yet . Nobody had their data stolen then covered up either, until they did. No investors were lied right into their face about this either, until they were. No women were harassed and had the events covered up
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by pimmen 9y ago
And testing their self driving cars without getting the proper permits. And hiding shit like this from investors so they’ll lose a lot of money later. I would never work as an engineer for a company like that. How can I trust that it will h
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by pimmen 9y ago
I started studying economics in my free time because abstracting how humans behave with math fascinates me and you start to understand what a complex system really is. Markets are very complicated and unpredictable in the short term, but yo
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by pimmen 9y ago
And I could retort; can you file a defamation suit towards Facebook for something their users did? Can you file a defamation suit against NYTIMES for something their reporters did?
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by pimmen 9y ago
We do regulate the NYTIMES, it's called libel laws. If the NYTIMES publishes a false article about you to their millions of readers, you can sue them. Let's suppose a false rumor about you spread to hundreds of millions of readers
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by pimmen 9y ago
I have two big reasons why I didn't get a smart watch. Number one is the price, I just don't think it's worth hundreds of dollars not to pick up my phone when I get a notification. The other is that the interface is too small
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by pimmen 9y ago
This really destroyed my day. I really have a big problem staying positive for at least a day now that you've eloquently expressed what I've had a creeping feeling of but just quite couldn't word in any discussion. As compute
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by pimmen 9y ago
I absolutely agree with number two. I love coding and solving problems but I get so much more enjoyment if it's something I believe in too. I'm fortunate to be at a place where I can actually listen to the non-techs and say "
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by pimmen 9y ago
Please, tell me one thing this administration has done that has empowered the majority of Americans. So it's up to the EU now to lead the way, and then we went ahead and started the process of making it legal for national governments t
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by pimmen 9y ago
Absolutely awesome. I could probably talk for hours with this guy!
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by pimmen 9y ago
So this is how democracy dies.
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by pimmen 9y ago
But there is data of how many refugees entered Sweden in the 90s, it was roughly a hundred thousand a year then just like in the recent years. Did you read any of the links SiemperVernes linked to? You also say that you don't believe r
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by pimmen 9y ago
Fair enough, I’ll stop putting words in your mouth. SiemperVernes supplied stats that showed that the correlation goes from weak to non-existant when you look at the past three decades, despite the fact that the early 90s was record years o
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by pimmen 9y ago
So, could you explain why the housing prices fell in the 90s when we took in more refugees than ever before? And why they rose considerably when immigration slowed down in the mid 2000s? Because, for some reason you're convinced immigr
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by pimmen 9y ago
They buy more expensive homes than they need (or stay in the one that housed a family of four way after their kids have moved out) and pay off the mortgage. That's "saving" for retirement; they expect to get the money they&#x
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by pimmen 9y ago
I absolutely hate speaking to Swedish people who invest all of their retirement savings in their home. It just breaks my heart to know that they are taking on a very high risk by putting all of their eggs into one, figurative basket when ot
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by pimmen 9y ago
Increase in immigration absolutely increases the demand for housing, but it's often not enough to increase the housing prices alone. Look at what happened in the early 90s during the Yugoslav Wars, Sweden took in more refugees than eve
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by pimmen 9y ago
And this is the problem with Sweden; we got rid of the property tax, but we kept the capital gains tax meaning people are less incentivized to sell since the prices are rising anyway, meaning fewer houses end up on the market, meaning the p
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by pimmen 9y ago
No, you're reducing the supply of the currency, you're not reducing the supply of stuff the currency can buy. If the amount of stuff drops but the currency stays the same, the price increases but if the amount of stuff the currenc
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by pimmen 9y ago
It’s interesting how Uber takes two very contradictory moral stands. ”We offer the ability for drivers to meet passengers, they should be glad they have this opportunity in the first place to make money.” ”The UK says that we have the abili
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by pimmen 9y ago
In Sweden we have a national id number given at birth which can be Luhn checked just like a credit card, and we use a digital id bound to a device with an pin number. We use them both in conjunction for online banking, filing taxes and all
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by pimmen 9y ago
The problem is that with a deflationary currency, the only risk you run into is if the amount of stuff drops because that's the only way this global currency would drop in value; the perceived amount of stuff it could buy drops. Every
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by pimmen 9y ago
The only reason saving it in a bank account is an investment is because more people are borrowing than saving, thus the bank makes money and gives you a share of the profits (that's your saving's interest). If everybody's sav
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by pimmen 9y ago
Because if you're saving your money, you're not doing anything constructive at all. I sure as hell don't want people saving their money, I want people to invest their money. Wether it's a savings account, a 401k or a
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by pimmen 9y ago
We don't just spend money on consumer products and food. We need more health services, research, water, education, affordable housing and much more. None of this is free, all of it is dependent on people making money producing this stu
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by pimmen 9y ago
It depends on if we want our output of valuable stuff (not just consumer products, but homes, health care, education and research) to grow or not. If we want them to grow, we need a growing money supply. If not, you won't spend your mo

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