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by sdfin 6y ago
Do you believe that in a communist country something different would happen?
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by sdfin 6y ago
But would also welcome and allow competition if any businessman wishes to enter a profitable market.
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by sdfin 6y ago
Just look at Argentina's economic history.
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by sdfin 6y ago
Can DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials be an alternative to Privacy Badger? Once I replaced Privace Badger by it, because Privacy Badger had conflicts with some sites I read often. But I'm not sure if its's an optimal alternative.
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by sdfin 6y ago
I believe that the most ergonomic mouses are the vertical ones. There are some models without leds.
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by sdfin 6y ago
Yes. I don't understand why, in the case of socialists, do they believe that the gobernment can manage wealth and resources better than private owners. And regarding anarchists, I don't understand how would they distribute scarce
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by sdfin 6y ago
"A stable area without inequalities" is a fantasy, there never was such a place. People is different, have different bodies, different minds, I never knew about any "stable area without inequalities". I believe that most
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by sdfin 6y ago
Would you eliminate private property? Or are you suggesting something different?
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by sdfin 6y ago
I don't think it's realistic to believe that hierarchies wouldn't emerge one way or another. The hierarchy can arise in the form of a mafia, or in a more regulated way.
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by sdfin 6y ago
What's the difference between liberalism and neoliberalism? I'd like to read something about that.
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by sdfin 6y ago
Do you mean you lean towards using Dart for everything except for the backend?
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by sdfin 6y ago
"Basic Economics" was also very effective for clearing misconceptions I held.
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by sdfin 6y ago
What you shared made me evaluate India much worse than the idea of that country I had before reading it. I'm glad you are still alive and in a country where you can do business freely.
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by sdfin 7y ago
What's the problem with using LocalDate to store a date (without time)?
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by sdfin 7y ago
I like XFCE and MATE but I decided to use Gnome 3 only because with XFCE and MATE I had some problems connecting a TV with HDMI to the computer. With some tweaking it works, but with Gnome 3 it works out of the box, as it does in Windows.
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by sdfin 7y ago
Would a washing machine count as a robot?
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by sdfin 7y ago
I want one too, but it seems that most people don't care. Otherwise there would be a big demand for them.
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by sdfin 7y ago
Yes, I read Crime and Punishment about one year after The Brothers Karamazov. I think The Brothers Karamazov is a great book.
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by sdfin 7y ago
I read Crime and Punishment after reading The Brothers Karamazov . I found Crime and Punishment shallow in it's story and characters when compared to The Brothers Karamazov.
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by sdfin 7y ago
Aren't there childcare and elder care agencies that aim at families of different socioeconomic levels? I guess that the rich hire expensive nannies at expensive agencies. What you comment sounds unlikely to me.
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by sdfin 7y ago
The combats quickly become too easy. The world and story are fine. I liked about New Vegas that it had a very elaborate world and the fights were more challenging.
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by sdfin 7y ago
Apart from using WebAssembly, is Blazor very different in some way from these two?
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What to Expect in Kotlin 1.4 and Beyond(blog.jetbrains.com)
2 points by sdfin 7y ago|0 comments
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by sdfin 7y ago
This "relative deprivation" concept, to me sounds like a more elegant way of speaking about "envy". "The grass is greener in our neighbor lawn". Perhaps I'm very minimalist in my needs and therefore I cann
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by sdfin 7y ago
What would be needed to achieve such a thing?
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by sdfin 7y ago
Certainly. But that sounds more extreme than "relative deprivation", that's a real deprivation of basic needs.
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by sdfin 7y ago
You say that individuals with power may do bad things and states with power do good things. Yes, that can happen. But also there may be individuals with power that do very good things and states with power that do very bad things.
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by sdfin 7y ago
Setting a point in time at any point during the last three decades shows a good trend https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Extreme_poverty_1981...
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by sdfin 7y ago
> “Relative deprivation” is having less access to material goods and services than others in one’s social milieu. I cannot buy a yacht, while some rich guys can. Therefore I'm relatively deprived, according to that definition. That&
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by sdfin 7y ago
I agree that it's good to evaluate what's the best thing to do right now to reduce suffering. I don't believe that extreme forms of redistribution work, and we do have redistribution in the form of taxes right now. > now m

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