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by seibelj 5y ago
Yeah but if you like Shaq and he tweets “hey this basketball is the best one I tried” then some fraction of his followers will just trust Shaq on the theory he wouldn’t hurt his reputation. Why not buy the Shaq ball?
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by seibelj 5y ago
This guy is full-on crank at this point. His newer kind of science is going to revolutionize everything, I’m sure. > We want to use our new paradigm to basically rewrite the foundations of several important fields of science. As with th
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by seibelj 5y ago
Considering we only have 2 political parties in the US, if you oppose the policies of the party in power you only have one other option. I'm a libertarian and don't have a team I root for, but it's a fact that plenty of hyper
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by seibelj 5y ago
The needless socialization at the office killed my productivity. I don’t need to be interrupted and I don’t need an hour lunch. I socialize off-hours with real friends and family. Work is for (more effective) working
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by seibelj 5y ago
I voluntarily join a company. Me paying some third-party non-governmental organization to “represent” me when I never asked for it is the issue. However we keep going in circles and it is clear you are illogical.
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by seibelj 5y ago
My larger point is that knee-jerk opposition to luxury housing isn’t helpful, and actually damaging to the cause of increased affordable housing. In the OP you can see how uneconomic building affordable housing is - so build luxury if that’
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by seibelj 5y ago
If you don’t build new luxury housing, then the top end goes to the next best thing, and the next to the next best, and so on. Building more helps increase total supply which alleviates pressure everywhere.
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by seibelj 5y ago
This is why luxury housing and condos is actually helpful for lower-income housing - the luxury housing of 60 years ago becomes the affordable housing as the top of the market continues moving into better places. Basically all housing whats
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by seibelj 5y ago
The goal of a for-profit business is to make money. There are plenty of non-profits and government jobs if you don’t want to get with the program. You may be shocked to find a lot of non-profits also need to make cash to survive, however.
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by seibelj 5y ago
There are worker co-ops and communal living groups. No one forces you to join a traditional corporation. You could also (gasp!) start your own company… But that’s a lot of work!
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by seibelj 5y ago
I don’t want to “get rid of the cops” either because I’m not a psychopath. I very much don’t want to be robbed and murdered!
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by seibelj 5y ago
Nope I don’t want to join a union and any attempt to make me will be fought aggressively. Just my preference not to be forced to pay money to people I did not ask to represent me.
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by seibelj 5y ago
Can always get a new job. But if every company has a monopoly union, can’t avoid that. Really don’t understand the reasoning to not making union membership voluntary. Completely illogical. Basically you agree it’s authoritarian but “it’s be
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by seibelj 5y ago
You are authoritarian - forcing people to do something that should be accomplished voluntarily is antithetical to freedom
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by seibelj 5y ago
Should also have the right to work at a company and NOT have to join the union, and negotiate your own conditions / wages independently.
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by seibelj 5y ago
I don't think crypto is a pyramid scheme and your statement is an opinion not a fact.
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by seibelj 5y ago
Putting a significant amount of money into something that the vast majority of "intelligent" people say is a scam (as you do), is reward for taking risk. No different than an investor looking at small cap stocks to pick winners an
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by seibelj 5y ago
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-cryptocurrency-tec... > “It’s certainly a first,” said Bennett Tomlin, who investigates cryptocurrency scams and hosts the podcast Crypto Critic’s Corner. “We’ve never seen
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by seibelj 5y ago
Crypto crowdsourced the Ukrainian war effort faster and easier than the fiat rails did. I don't even need to list a million other counter points that have been posted to every HN crypto post since time immemorial, but that was a de-fac
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by seibelj 5y ago
Do you have any source for resources in Nevada being inhabited by endangered animals, and said extraction of such resources will kill them? Otherwise it just sounds like generic negativity.
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by seibelj 5y ago
I look on a map of Nevada and it’s just vast, uninhabited space. Are the only sources of Nevada resources in actually lived areas, or is it something a handful of people see in any given year?
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by seibelj 5y ago
I find a lot of DeFi projects to be very useful, but you have a logical fallacy - If I buy 1% of Apple stock at $100, and later it's worth $1000 based on the last trading price, money didn't change hands to make me have more USD,
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by seibelj 5y ago
It’s called choice. There are a panoply of email providers yet only one Twitter. And you don’t need to add any DKIM nonsense to get the blockchain to accept transactions broadcast from your own node.
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by seibelj 5y ago
No comment on anything I said, then throw up a straw man. It appears I am indeed arguing with someone without a coherent opinion.
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by seibelj 5y ago
I simply can't understand your point(s). I'm honestly trying, and re-read this 3 times. Should no one ever try? Or is it only in the context of business? Furthermore, who are your heroes, and why do they fulfill the criteria of yo
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by seibelj 5y ago
No, it would be extraordinarily funded, but the money would not go to the students. NYC now spends over $30k per year, per student https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-ny-school-spendi... Public education in the
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by seibelj 5y ago
I just find your logic so defeatist. “Someone will win”. It’s like saying “someone is the fastest runner, so why bother trying”. Yes, someone will always be the best at something. But you can be better than the best. That’s the whole point
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by seibelj 5y ago
A successful business is not prima facie a monopoly. Leftists like to cast all rich business people as monopolists who don’t deserve their money, yet glide over musicians, athletes, artists, writers, and all others in the creative professio
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by seibelj 5y ago
Source?
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by seibelj 5y ago
Is there no one on earth you respect, historical or current? Those are the “winners” in the context of my comment. Either you respect people who accomplished great things, or you don’t. I choose to respect and appreciate the fine things cre

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