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by prottog 4y ago
To paraphrase, there are social media platforms people complain about, and ones that nobody uses.
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> Most people who are that rich engage in some sort of lawbreaking behavior to get there. That's a strong claim. Can you back it up? I'd say the more accurate view of the newly-minted rich of this type in the past decade is pap
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This particular design also only works in a high-trust, high-honesty culture. The complexities of most systems like this are only there to disincentivize bad actors from taking advantage of the system, and as we all know, managing incentive
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by prottog 4y ago
Like I said, opportunity cost is a thing, and we'll never know what the "best" choice was at any given time. The best choice may be getting rest or watching TV or whatever. And, like I also said, it's important to not at
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by prottog 4y ago
I guess the difference is whether it's clear to a reasonable observer that something is satire, parody, or otherwise dynamically generated (as your wasarrested.com site states) for humorous purposes. ChatGPT is presented as a fact-find
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> There is no objective "good", only "good for whom". I think this is at the crux of your and the other commenters' points. There can be no final agreement on this topic between those who think that there is an o
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by prottog 4y ago
> if you're not improving, you're less of a human being I mean, it's true. The version of you that was a couch potato for four hours on a Saturday is less good than the version that went for a run, lifted weights, home-bre
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> Can I sue the company? They’re the ones who trained the model, but there’s no intent. Negligent torts don't require intent.
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> The startup should focus on cities that have implemented LVT+UBI, such as San Francisco, Seattle, and Boston That's funny! Those cities may be the absolute last in the country to implement a land value tax (though not UBI).
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Well, I suppose the house of cards is tumbling down.
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As they say, only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
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> Long distance HVDC runs are apparently now so good that it is commercially feasible to drop a few million solar panels outside of Darwin, and run an under-sea HVDC cable to Singapore. Whoa, that's impressive. Do you know what the
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by prottog 4y ago
Who keeps $100mm in cash? This is a solution to an imaginary problem.
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by prottog 4y ago
I don't live in Canada but as your (very) southern neighbor, it seems that banks could be in trouble with the real estate market having been so out of control. As interest rates rise, isn't there a real risk of forced liquidations
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by prottog 4y ago
Even small businesses that exceed FDIC-insured balances can also roll short-term T-bills, through various brokerages (most of which don't charge fees on Treasuries) or TreasuryDirect (which is free). That combined with a line of credit
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by prottog 4y ago
> not the federal govt U.S. Attorneys prosecute people for crimes that violate federal law, convictions which often result in time in federal prisons.
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by prottog 4y ago
> Homelessness is a problem in nearly every North American cities, from Vancouver to New York. It's an order of magnitude higher in San Francisco at ~2.5% of the population compared to New York at ~0.8% and Vancouver at ~0.3%. SF is
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by prottog 4y ago
The quote "Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them." has been attributed to various Marxists over the decades.
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Surely resources for people living in poverty are no longer necessary for someone once those resources have the desired effect and they stop living in poverty? Looks to me that the logical alternatives to means-tested aid are either no reso
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by prottog 4y ago
> It's too expensive, and all the money is pooled into the top .1% of the population, and we don't tax them, and they are busy building rocket ships, so we don't have any money to fix the issue. There may be more impactful
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by prottog 4y ago
Nothing seems complicated if you wave away all the details. You made quite a leap even in the first link of the chain ("wealth inequality => poverty"). I don't see how poverty follows from wealth inequality. That there are
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by prottog 4y ago
Treatment protocols aren't divine edicts. They can be wrong. The medical community is as susceptible as any to groupthink and being taken in by the current culture milieu, as well as being influenced by moneyed interests. As recently a
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by prottog 4y ago
If a teenage girl standing 5'7" and weighing 80 pounds came to the doctor and said she feels too fat and needs to lose weight, the doctor would rightly tell her that she is anorexic, that her being too fat is only in her head, and
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by prottog 4y ago
I have several bones to pick with this stance. First, that anyone not agreeing with your position is actually and demonstrably ideologically motivated. It may be one of the surest signs that your position is not based on reason, when you pe
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by prottog 4y ago
I don't disagree that people should keep cooler heads all around. Perhaps it's the miserable humid heat that drives all that behavior (and it's been observed all around the world that hot weather is correlated with more murde
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> Question those who question ... the creation of abundance I cannot agree with you more on this point. The whole history of capitalism and all it depends on (rule of law, strong private property rights, laissez-faire economic policies)
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> appropriate healthcare for teenagers You're begging the question. Reasonable, empathetic people are capable of thinking that "gender-affirming care" is an ideologically-driven phenomenon that does more harm than good. &g
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> making it effectively legal to shoot certain people or run them down with your car > cops and 'community orgs' dedicated to keeping certain people in their place Come now, that's as exaggerated as saying coastal state
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> Way to absolve tech of any blame The dirty poor homeless addicts aside, what exactly did tech do? Tech didn't come up with the truly brain-dead housing policy that makes it so difficult to build new housing, so that supply can cat
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by prottog 4y ago
A causal relationship seems very difficult to establish here. Housing prices in SF are mostly due to the fact that it's very, very difficult to build more homes. High wages, even if it's concentrated in one particular sector, spre

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