sly_foxx

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by sly_foxx 11y ago
There is a solution and it's very simple: - Kill the parasites. Producers are taxed at nearly 50% rate[income + sales tax + property + wage + others] on what they make. If we kill off the parasites, then we would have to work almost 50
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
'STUDENTS' - this word is the problem. Students are those studying to become engineers/surgeons[producers] and those studying sociology/gender_studies[parasites]. That's why so many people in humanities departments
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
He had 4 years of lost wages + $65k in debt. When you're in college, you don't work. So, again, he's in much worse situation than someone who learns programming at home in 1 year.
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
$65k in student loans to learn programming? The author is clearly an idiot. Programming can be learned from home for next to nothing, because you have all the tools you need there. It's not like you're a surgeon and you're wo
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
Facebook is the biggest scam for most businesses. 1) They've pulled bait and switch when they decided to charge to reach users that have already liked your page. Most of those users liked your page because you've posted a link to
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
No, because I will kill myself when I get there. I'm doing all the things I want to do before I grow old and incompetent. All the activities you would do when you're old + much more, you can do when you're younger and healthi
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
A better registration system for a global company would be one with a phone number(instead of email) + generated code(instead of a password).
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
"An approximately rational truth seeking community can reasonably be expected to come to a reasonably good approximation of the truth, compared to what they have access to. As such, such a community can be used as an (approximate) indi
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
"From a gods-eye perspective, this is actually a good thing, as it brings down the costs of serving peoples' needs." Why do you define 'good' as servicing needs of members of homo sapiens species? What if a good thi
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
"do you support "euthanasia of economically useless people"? If you don't have a job for whatever reason, should you just be left on the streets to die?" YES. Old & incompetent people are 'all cost, no bene
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
Why are people on HN supporting basic income so much? Do you support 'Guaranteed Basic Sex' as well? You know, there are guys like Elliot Rodgers who would be thrilled with something like that.
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
Do you also want to go to the kitchen and start bringing your own food and drinks? Getting up a few times, going there and asking if it's done. Imagine if you have dozens of people/kids running around getting food, maybe spilling
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
I'm saying government will do it with the help of Uber. Just like they spy on people with the help of FB, Google etc. It's already happening with data. Imagine you have those cars in China. Government just orders some company to s
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
Self-driving cars are not driving themselves, they are driven by algorithms. The problem is that cars then become prisons on wheels. Think about it - since you pay with a debit/credit card, your identity is known when you enter a car.
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
Automation is not always the most convenient thing. Think about self-checkout or pumping your own gas at a gas station. Wouldn't it be better for the customer to have someone do the drudgery for them? Even in the context of websites,
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
Haven't you got the memo? You are going to die, everyone you know is going to die and when the Sun explodes, Mars is not going to be spared either. This universe will end most likely in a heat death where life and computation will not
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
What is the point of this company? What benefits do I get from government spending my cash on the company? None. If I want Mars experience, then I'll go to some shitty place in Nevada, which is much cheaper + human body is accustomed t
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
All the YCombinator companies are going to deflate. AirBnB - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10913151 Stripe - http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/17/paypals-braintree-is-now-l... . Braintree
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
They can obviously make money by raising a transaction fee a little bit from 3.5% to maybe 5%-7%. eBay has done it to 10% + PayPal fees and they are making billions in net profits.
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
$340 was for Q3, which is when most people take vacations and doesn't reflect other quarters. The projection for 2015 was $800-900 million. But, that is year 2015, which is 7th year since they incorporated and I was writing about first
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
Agree. Airbnb's valuation is very close to eBay's. So, that means that it's expected that in the near future AirBnB will generate at least $2-3 billion in net profits per year. Actually, it would have to be more than that, be
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
These hypothetical situations need to be taken with a grain of salt. Many big companies have tried expanding and taking over other markers, unrelated to their core business - they usually fail or acquire a company in that space(e.g. Google-
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
"Oh, you mean removing yourself from society and illegally living in the wilderness?" - Yes, living in wilderness illegally or even taking resources from others. You don't pay for anything - you do what you gotta do, take wha
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
What I don't get is dumb companies who post a link to their FB(or some other social media) page on their site: 1. You're advertising another company for free. Is Facebook paying you to put their logo on your site? No. 2. When peop
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
Yes, comparison works and is spot on. You can survive without stable income - humans and many other animal species have been doing it for hundreds of millions of years. Yes, it's hard, but so what? Why would that be a reason to create
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
Who cares about 'Maslow's hierarchy of needs'? It's an arbitrary pyramid - you can create your own if you wish where you can rank internet as the most basic necessity. Also, the jobs pool is quite diversified and most pe
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
What does GDP have to do with resources? GDP measures volume of transactions. Resources are oil, gas, silver etc. Also, there is real estate. Land on Earth is limited. There are 10s of millions of people who want to live in Malibu, for exam
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
Can you think outside of the communist box? Competition is in part due to the fact there are more humans alive today fighting for the same resources. It's kinda similar to dating, where things are not getting easier(except for those w
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
Why isn't office disrupted by transferring to remote work? You have these companies that make tools like 'slack', 'asana', 'dropbox' etc. which help you work remotely and all of them require their employee
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by sly_foxx 11y ago
How about fixing dating/sexual inequality? You know, one guy sleeping with 15 girls is not fair to all the losers/ugly_guys like me who can't get a date. We have to redistribute partners and make sure that even the unattracti

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