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by ponow 4y ago
This motivates smaller / local over bigger / global groupings.
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by ponow 4y ago
How to fix science? Outside of that directly tied to government activities like national defense, stop all government funding. Consequently, any funding science will end up by people who have skin in the outcome, grounding the entire ende
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by ponow 4y ago
There is no way you'd had faced formal repercussions for just discussing it in the late 90s. While I can't prove this, I would be stunned if you got much more than a few eye rolls and the like, essentially all in private. It i
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by ponow 4y ago
It's obvious that in the absence of state funding there would be non-state funding. It won't be the same and it won't be zero. Why does the committee's judgement take precedent? Also, some poorer people would pay to fu
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by ponow 4y ago
> The free market does not feel very free to the vast majority of people who have to deal with incredibly oppressive companies Yeah, people complain on their iphones, with their increased lifespans, and surfeit of food, so that even the
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by ponow 4y ago
As someone who once did basic research, I don't buy the government-funded basic research argument anymore. If we had negligible taxes, the hyper-rich would fund some basic research, and there would be some private research as well. I
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by ponow 4y ago
Very nice description. No free lunch.
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by ponow 4y ago
Activity guided by rational self-interest causes rapid improvement to the things that people value (_exchange_ value, not some other value for which people don't trade scarce things).
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by ponow 4y ago
Let them charge what they want if it's theirs. Otherwise, your demands on what they charge amount to asserting that what is theirs isn't really. And, to put responsibility on the actor in question, you're asking that the lo
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by ponow 4y ago
Thanks for sharing the details. It makes it easier to sympathize.
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by ponow 4y ago
The key is that the wealth used to buy the car was earned (unless evidence to the contrary is convincing). The parents elected to buy an expensive car, and maybe they bought their kid more expensive clothing. But can't you see, that
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by ponow 4y ago
Unless you're claiming violent seizure, then the Benz had a good probability of being earned by someone, thus meriting some social clout by those who value those contributions. I have a pickup over a decade old and with a noisy muffle
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by ponow 4y ago
And this is done without any violent process of physical capture. Others could play that game too, and the US could play it as well as it once did. All the participating parties would benefit directly, and "the world" indirectly
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by ponow 4y ago
Good choice.
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by ponow 4y ago
Huh? Social status is relative, that is, defined by some kind of difference in a characteristic over which there is some competition (like wealth, looks, connections, fame, etc.). So how do you get that rich kid status without reference t
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by ponow 4y ago
Absa-bloody-lutely. Living through a price shock informs you of actual reality, not the government created illusory one (constructed with central banking and government policy) that encourages indebtedness and leaves you weak and unprepare
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by ponow 4y ago
It's not fair.
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by ponow 4y ago
No, poor is poor. Please don't move or re-label goal posts.
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by ponow 4y ago
> the time and mental energy wasted comparing prices could have better return on investment if used on other things like learning a new skill, meeting a friend, reading a book Maybe. Actual cost savings are observable now, with very hig
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by ponow 4y ago
Exactly. It's even worse than the belief that privacy is unnecessary unless you have something to hide, since it enslaves you to a positive obligation to informing others, and despite the risks. If you have something interesting to s
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by ponow 4y ago
Also, that isn't my main point, about the (lack of) justice of such action by the EU. I am actually annoyed by incompatible cabling, but understand that the remedy is almost always worse than the disease, so reserve intervention to cl
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by ponow 4y ago
Yes, it does: an armed populace is harder to push around.
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by ponow 4y ago
I don't accept the right of governments to intervene in what I and a seller agree to transact. It's an inalienable right where people care about such things. Definitely not in the EU. If you have a problem with pollution, then p
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by ponow 4y ago
> Your value is simply whatever value you are able to negotiate for yourself on the job market. Since what you can negotiate is in part related to what value you can actually provide, then what you can negotiate is ultimately guided by r
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by ponow 4y ago
Being realistic is not cruel. It may feel cruel, but allowing people to delude themselves is far more cruel in the long term, as they make poor choices.
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by ponow 4y ago
Big companies have lawyers up the wazoo, but startups (esp. with a single dev like OP) struggle with funds in many cases, so often hire lawyers to the minimal extent possible.
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by ponow 4y ago
If we can repeatedly find differences in variance despite similarity of mean for different sexes within a species or other groupings, then that would be a kind of thing that would be reported in biology research.
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by ponow 4y ago
> The challenge I have with this is that performance in "the market" does not correlate so easily with the kind of team composition But clearly, hiring nominally asserts that it seeks the strongest applications. So it's c
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by ponow 4y ago
So that somehow justifies unequal treatment of people in another state? The only long term solution is not being part of the problem by discriminating on anything except on value brought to the job.
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by ponow 4y ago
But what if that older dev is only at par with the younger one: will she or he be treated equally, if everything else was equal? In other words, is an old person expected to compensate for her or his lack of youth by an excess of wisdom?

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