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by roenxi 1y ago
I suspect that is poor advice in general, because if everyone did it it wouldn't work. The ideal way of getting a job is to use personal networks, but as advice it has similar problems - one reason it works so well is because it is a v
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by roenxi 1y ago
> - Wealth taxation was abolished in 2007 I did notice once that IKEA's governance scheme looked like an unusually sophisticated anti-tax structure. It now makes sense why the Swedes would be really interested in dodging taxes.
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by roenxi 1y ago
This article was too rambly for me, but I got about 6 paragraphs in and became disappointed at how long it was taking to get to the obvious point about online experiences - online forums are dominated by terminally online people. According
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by roenxi 1y ago
> You are simply greedy: well if everyone else is doing it so should I. But that isn't hypocrisy. Ayn's philosophical position was comfortable with the idea that everyone is greedy and her moral arguments were rooted in the obs
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by roenxi 1y ago
We're talking about one vague paragraph in a book that was making a lot of heavy arguments against any level of government planning. It isn't at all clear he was talking about any of those specific things. "common hazards of
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by roenxi 1y ago
Honest to goodness, I do most of my coding in a VM now. I don't see how the security profile of these things are tolerable. The level of potential hostility from agents as a malware vector is really off the charts. We're entering
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by roenxi 1y ago
Maybe; he is advocating for a safety net. But I note he didn't say that either and, being an economist, he would probably have had the standard reservations - what exactly is the upper limit of care being provided to someone for "
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by roenxi 1y ago
That doesn't read like support for universal government funded healthcare. He's talking insurance in the more traditional meaning of the word where it involves unexpected catastrophes as opposed to the weird modernism in healthcar
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by roenxi 1y ago
I don't recall the details of Ayn's moral arguments because they aren't of great interest to me, but there just isn't a fundamental inconsistency between campaigning against welfare and accepting welfare. There isn'
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by roenxi 1y ago
I doubt you could source a quote for the Hayek point, but more interestingly Rand's taking social security doesn't sound like any sort of contradiction with her views or an extreme anti-welfare position. Just because a policy is a
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by roenxi 1y ago
What country are you thinking when you say that? It doesn't sound like the US. Through the zero-interest rate era they've been absurdly tolerant of companies offering no- to little- returns on investment. They've basically be
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by roenxi 1y ago
> Every now and then, there’s a nasty accident... That may just be they aren't very good at risk assessment. Nasty accidents with a chainsaw are in a different league of damage for the person involved compared to, eg, accidentally d
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by roenxi 1y ago
I did. "a desire for more than one has right now" If you want a dictionary definition, search suggests "An excessive desire to acquire or possess more than what one needs or deserves, especially with respect to material wealt
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by roenxi 1y ago
> Greed is the impulse to rig the game once you’ve won a little, so you can keep extracting more without competing. You're making up your own novel definition of greed there, which is certainly cheating when you're saying Milto
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by roenxi 1y ago
It'd be quite difficult to deploy the processing power and other resources without an engine. A 90s PC can't do a complex 3d engine because it lacks the grunt. A 2020s game dev can't do a complex 3d engine themselves because
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by roenxi 1y ago
I push back on the idea there is anything despondent there. If YouTube was enabling my lifestyle I'd be pretty happy about the situation and certainly not about to start piling public pressure on them. These companies get enough hate f
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by roenxi 1y ago
As a practical matter, the border would need to stop moving and become safe enough for surveyors to traverse in some way.
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by roenxi 1y ago
In legal terms, children aren't full humans. They literally don't have fully formed brains and there isn't an expectation that they can make decisions that consider the consequences of their actions. In the sense that a phras
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by roenxi 1y ago
This looks like a cheatsheet for writing a hard-to-read Python script. I don't know who gets karmic brownie points for a f"{string:>20}" field, but under most normal cases it'd be better to use rjust() directly and no
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by roenxi 1y ago
Looking at the list, what actually jumps out at me is there is probably a gap in the world of standards for a JSON-based replacement to RSS. Looking it up someone came up with the idea of https://www.jsonfeed.org/ and hopef
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by roenxi 1y ago
Haven't most European governments in the last century or so collapsed? Eastern Europe regulated anti-social behaviorsandin a pretty extreme way and the superstructure collapsed directly, but Western Europe as it exists now is what emer
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by roenxi 1y ago
You seem to be arguing something slightly off the thread topic. Jenadine typed "But I don't care what the authorities think of me as long as I don't do anything illegal, they won't care". And I'm not sure who y
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by roenxi 1y ago
Haven't the boomers more or less aged out of jobseeking at this point? Even the youngest of the Baby Boomers are around 60 and most of them are in their 70s.
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by roenxi 1y ago
https://www.trackingai.org/political-test is almost the more interesting part of the website, there is a surprising uniformity of left-libertarian political views. Even assuming that companies prune out authoritarianism fro
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by roenxi 1y ago
Are you a lawyer? How confident are you that you aren't doing something illegal? At 30 seconds of thinking of an interesting example, there are still blasphemy laws on the books [0] in some parts of Europe and it isn't clear how c
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by roenxi 1y ago
The issue of love's notorious inconsistency is especially damaging to using it as a foundation of an ethical system. If I acted when I loved something and then decided later on that I didn't love it and would make a different choi
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by roenxi 1y ago
You've misunderstood what "bad faith" means - it implies lies or dishonesty. What you are describing is just normal disagreement during negotiation. Their position is very clear and there doesn't seem to be any accusati
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by roenxi 1y ago
Yes, yes, no. Nobody has figured out how to run a powerful grid without eating a lot of environmental damage. That is a significant factor in the article headline of "The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over".
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by roenxi 1y ago
> When will we start to see that it is the communication protocols that are driving this failure, and that good-faith bargaining is a fallacy, when there is profit to be made? There isn't anything here to suggest countries are barga
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by roenxi 1y ago
The article seems to roughly match the headline - I don't know why we're sourcing the WSJ to comment on Europe's policy with ideas like "emergency" or "wake up call"s. The Europeans are the ones with the o

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