sillygeese

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by sillygeese 11y ago
> And you can. There is absolutely no law stopping your from picking up people in a car and taking them places. On land you own. Imagine you could only wear blue socks on land you own , but anywhere else you'd need to pay $250k f
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> Picking up tourists and aimlessly driving around for half an hour to run up the meter, refusing to take people where they want to go and not picking up black people are just some of the shenanigans they pull on a regular basis Well,
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by sillygeese 11y ago
Roads could be private too, and payments could be collected for (and only for) using them, even without setting up a state-maintained taxi monopoly/cartel. So I'm not sure what you think is currently handled well.
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> A couple years ago, the city allowed independent car services to paint their cars green and take street hails. Does anyone else see the absurdity in that? Compare to: "In 2014, the city allowed people to wear green socks"
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> I am - you basicaly said that public sector is more corrupt than average, and you try to prove it by saying: a) people working in public sector are selected for corruption b) even if not - all people are suspectible to corruption. Wh
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by sillygeese 11y ago
>> Even if you don't believe they're all psychopaths, even normal people act according to incentives, and no one does anything without some sort of (perceived) benefit to themselves. > I really don't think people
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by sillygeese 11y ago
The root cause for any war is psychopath rulers wanting more power and more wealth for themselves. The rest follows from that. Of course, the rulers will be spewing bullshit propaganda to get their peons to go die for them. The commenter
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by sillygeese 11y ago
Sure, but although it certainly suits their rulers, that's not exactly a good reason for them to go die or kill people. That's how wars are maintained, by the way. Ordinary people are told they need to go kill some "enemi
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> Well if you like to believe EVERYBODY in local administration is corrupted - your choice. Even if you don't believe they're all psychopaths, even normal people act according to incentives, and no one does anything without
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by sillygeese 11y ago
Sure, but now you're just describing the propaganda that was used to get ordinary people to die and kill for their rulers.
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by sillygeese 11y ago
Yes, or more accurately: the psychopath rulers and their cronies back home. That's what I've been getting at, as you probably gathered. In other words, ordinary people don't actually have a good reason to die and kill for X
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> Sure, there is some corruption, but that's irrelevant [..] Law isn't outright broken, just the corner cases are abused, and law covers very little of what it should. How could it possibly be irrelevant? We're talking a
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by sillygeese 11y ago
I meant that from the American perspective, but alright. > Protecting your country, friends and family from an aggressive, invading force? And on the invaders' side? What exactly were the American soldiers dying and killing for? &
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> Things that were worth dying and killing for 50 years ago are still important, but they're fights for young people. So what was behind the Vietnam War that was worth dying and killing for? What would you have died and killed f
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by sillygeese 11y ago
You seem to be describing the results of shitty construction companies getting gigs even though they produce shitty, "chaotic" results. But you somehow don't think it's because of "corruption" anyway? Do you th
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by sillygeese 11y ago
You got the point though, so it's kind of pointless to keep arguing, right? Whatever money is lost is someone's own money.
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by sillygeese 11y ago
> You can have too loose construction law, and the result is a city centre were nobody lives - people just commute to work and back. It's not that Poland (or any other country) needs more laws. It's a problem of incentives, o
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by sillygeese 11y ago
However you might want to define "central planning", there's a massive difference. The business people are using their own money, but central planners use everyone else's.
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by sillygeese 11y ago
Maybe it was poorly phrased. Here's another attempt. Any degree of central planning is harmful to us because: 1) it always represents an opportunity cost compared to people making choices themselves, and 2) the choices made by central
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by sillygeese 11y ago
Then there's the fact that no one can know what any given person wants to buy at a given time, and therefore central planning is doomed to failure because you can't centrally plan "the right" prices for everything, and t
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by sillygeese 11y ago
Alright, why use it for even five days, when you could be using something that's not a dead-end (or detrimental) for your development as a programmer? You can get moving with a good language instead, which was my point.
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by sillygeese 11y ago
Momentum is the thing that truly matters. That's certainly true. You learn by doing stuff. But PHP actually is a bad language, and the guy would be better off starting with something else. Why use PHP for X years until you realize yo
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by sillygeese 11y ago
It's certainly convenient for getting started, but I think he wants to say that the drawbacks of choosing PHP outweigh the benefits. I started out with Java, moved on to Python, and now I'm using Clojure. Every language & ecos