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by seibelj 5y ago
It will cause employees to constantly ask why they are making less than someone else. If my decision is to keep my salary private then that should be my right. If you wanna show the world your salary be my guest, but leave me out of it.
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by seibelj 5y ago
I am an individualist and I think every person has various things they are good at and things they are not-so-good-at. No two people are alike. However some say that everyone should be paid the same, when IMO no 2 people accomplish a task t
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by seibelj 5y ago
I don’t want how much money I make known by anyone I don’t want to know. How quickly people who advocate for privacy and data ownership acquiesce when it comes to salary data. The transparent-salary movement is a terrible crime against priv
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Also good to see if revenue can increase while adding few or no employees. Then the potential for flywheel is there, vs. an agency that scales costs linearly with revenue.
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by seibelj 5y ago
And yet train crashes and derailments are something that happens fairly regularly, despite it being a tight closed-loop system with manual controllers and operators. Cars are not even close.
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by seibelj 5y ago
The next step is “backpack funding”, or letting parents get a voucher for education that follows the student no matter where they attend school, public or private. This will drastically reduce the cost of private education, and combined wit
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by seibelj 5y ago
Somehow all the private schools around me have been open for in-person learning safely since the lockdowns began.
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by seibelj 5y ago
“Follow the science!” Science says kids are barely affected by Covid and it’s safe for them to go to school. “The science is wrong!”
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by seibelj 5y ago
The length can be debated, but jail wastes the most priceless resource you have - time. That’s why it’s a punishment.
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by seibelj 5y ago
We don’t tax wealth. When someone wants to use crypto to buy something real - like property - should be able to collect taxes then. Maybe tax authorities transition away from taxing trades and more towards taxing physical stuff.
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by seibelj 5y ago
Why is there no way to get taxes? Taxes were collected throughout history, beginning with the earliest recorded history, when nothing was electronic. Cash still enables tax collecting.
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by seibelj 5y ago
I was told they are self-described Marxists. I am not an expert in the finer points of communist philosophy but I assume this means they believed in the labor theory of value and the class struggle.
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by seibelj 5y ago
I have nuanced and specific views on this, but to summarize, I don't think we can ever rely on that as a solution. I think a more realistic solution is more exotic - chemicals in the atmosphere, giant mirrors in space, some sort of car
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by seibelj 5y ago
I know a startup that hired a Marxist-collective group of programmers. I was told this story years ago, and they were acquired, so I’ll just name the firm - “White Ops”. This story is so absurd that I’m naming the firm in hopes someone can
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by seibelj 5y ago
Yes but if we start playing the “which energy use is more valid” game then quickly we realize energy is in the eye of the beholder, and the solution is a pollution tax. Bitcoin shouldn’t be outlawed anymore than video games (a totally usele
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by seibelj 5y ago
HN loves to post Stephen Diehl articles because recently he has started an anti-crypto crusade. But FYI - he is a failed entrepreneur who tried to ride the “enterprise blockchain” wave and failed miserably. Now he spends his days writing sc
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by seibelj 5y ago
Florida accepted that everyone will eventually get covid, and the statistics for death / hospitalization rates for the non-immuno-compromised and non-elderly are very low, so they just did the "Keep Calm and Carry On" ethos a
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by seibelj 5y ago
It does appear that any half-assed study, done on the quick with obviously poor data, is trumpeted immediately as "trust the science!", but completely obvious facts, like that no one in Florida is wearing masks even in tight space
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by seibelj 5y ago
I think it's been definitively proven that a group of ideologically devoted people can resist even the most powerful government. See Vietnam vs. USA and Afghanistan vs. Britain / USSR / USA. When people say gun enthusiasts (o
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by seibelj 5y ago
Some software is dangerous, like airplanes and medical software that aids in live surgeries. But the majority of software is not dangerous. You shouldn't need to be licensed to make a video game or browser extension.
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by seibelj 5y ago
I would argue that there should be way more Michelin-star restaurants than exist, but they artificially cap the supply to keep them rare. It's a form of the same thing.
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by seibelj 5y ago
This is the same model of all licenses, which is inherited from the guild system common throughout all of human history (the government (monarchs, oligarchies, democracies) protect favored industries from competition). I put them on a spect
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by seibelj 5y ago
Yes! However, as stated in the article, earning currency or items in videogames and reselling them have been around since the earliest days of online gaming. Plus these people are entrepreneurs working for themselves. I'm really not ge
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What company is paying to do this?
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I read his writing, and I also read his Debt book and found it unimpressive and unconvincing.
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by seibelj 5y ago
Can you provide an example of a bullshit job?
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I disagree entirely with the thesis of "bullshit jobs". Unless it's a government job or mandated by regulations, someone is paying for a task to be done voluntarily. Therefore it isn't bullshit to the payer, even if it m
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by seibelj 5y ago
China does not have the rule of law. This applies to all things including property. You can live your entire life in a house and have it seized arbitrarily without recourse. This is such a fundamental difference in life it’s hard to compreh
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10 out of 10 times would rather be arrested in America and prosecuted in the American legal system than the Chinese one. Here is an episode of TAL where someone describes their experience in Chinese prison https://www.thisamerica
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To truly think that the rule of law in America and China are even remotely close, and that the average citizen is equally treated by the law in each country, is so absurd that you must be living in some sort of politics bubble, or simply ha

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