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by tabeth 9y ago
People who can delay gratification are likely those who have the means to do so to begin with. I know it's not the point of research, but it would really be nice if this stuff was more prescriptive (to the article's defense they d
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by tabeth 9y ago
Exactly. Not sure why you replied to my original comment with "calling EU collectivist is a stretch" when I didn't mention the EU. You should reply to the top most post, not me, it sounds like. It's really not a big deal
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by tabeth 9y ago
Not following you -- even in your quote I don't mention the EU.
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by tabeth 9y ago
It's pretty simple, they just go about their lives. How exactly do you imagine collectivists live? People in a collectivist culture or society aren't attached to each other by the belly; as long as their culture/society is fu
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by tabeth 9y ago
Collectivism doesn't necessarily imply a collective, but I agree with your sentiment. All collectivism means in my view is that in a group of people each member gives priority to the survivial of the group and its other members more th
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by tabeth 9y ago
What you say about individualists could just as well be said about collectivists.
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by tabeth 9y ago
So? I still didn't say the EU is collectivist or mention it at all. Both EU and the US have collectivist and individualist policies.
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by tabeth 9y ago
You're conflating things -- collectivism and individualism are not necessarily defined by the system of government. I'd argue, that collectivism is inherently superior for most albeit with a lower magnitude of quality for most
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by tabeth 9y ago
I didn't mention the EU once in my comment, so I'm a bit confused.
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by tabeth 9y ago
This is the ultimate question -- which is superior: individualism or collectivism? Personally I think collectivism is far superior -- however the forces that be want people to believe individualism is superior, especially in America. This r
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by tabeth 9y ago
Well the idea is that the money will eventually be spent or transfered, and then during that event it would be taxed. I mean sure you could just let the money grow but I assume it would either be given to someone or spent eventually .
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by tabeth 9y ago
I wonder if it'd be simpler to just eliminate all taxes except sales tax and have a progressive sales tax. For example: $0 - $20,000 - 0% (yes, poor people wouldn't pay sales tax. You could even make it so poor people get a discou
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by tabeth 9y ago
How is this any better than just burning your data to a blu-ray, which lasts centuries when stored under proper conditions (theoretically, anyway) I need to give this a closer look.
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by tabeth 9y ago
Attempting to blame Republicans or Democrats for this collectively is silly. The point is that both are responsible (by differing, unquantifiable amounts), as noted by the fact that Pai was appointed by Obama, a democrat and promoted to a p
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by tabeth 9y ago
Saying this is the Republican's fault is just as disingenuous as saying it was Obama's fault. Quite literally this was caused by Obama by the appointing of Ajit, who then was promoted by Trump. Ajit, as we know has been spearinghe
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by tabeth 9y ago
We should repurpose these dead malls. On that note -- how feasible would it be to buy a mall and turn it into an indoor city? Line the top with solar panels, and it could be neat.
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by tabeth 9y ago
I have done research and haven't found that "plenty of schools have random assignment for students yet teacher A's students vastly outperform teacher B's students". I'm very well aware of studies showing that t
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by tabeth 9y ago
Do you have any research to back this up? I'm curious.
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by tabeth 9y ago
I didn't say they didn't matter. I said they won't protect your privacy, which they won't. Also, what's up with the fictitious quote?
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by tabeth 9y ago
You're mistaken if you think pseudonyms somehow will protect your privacy. Your privacy will be compromised. It's inevitable.
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by tabeth 9y ago
Can someone familiar explain why cryptocurrencies aren't a bubble? They both seem to exhibit similar characteristics. Clearly, are shown by the site here, these aren't nearly as liquid as fiat currencies, nor are they really used
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by tabeth 9y ago
Is a design copyrighted? What's stopping someone from duplicating Stripe's design? The CSS and HTML are both right there in the browser for everyone's viewing. Given how nice Stripe's website is, it's a wonder why i
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by tabeth 9y ago
Tax is complicated, however: 1. Fewer tax brackets. Many software engineers are in the 28% and 33% brackets. A lot of these people will now be in the 35% bracket, depending on their exact income. 2. Standard deduction has been increased. Mo
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by tabeth 9y ago
unsurprising. HN encourages not reading by literally hiding downvoted comments. one could argue that the votes and the ranking should not be tied, e.g. randomize the ranking to encourage voting for more things as people are most likely to r
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by tabeth 9y ago
No disagreement here. I think if there was more political activism density would be inevitable, as the average person can't afford a house where housing is an issue.
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by tabeth 9y ago
The problem with this is that zoning is inherently political. Even if it fits into the "current zoning" the neighbors will just change it.
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by tabeth 9y ago
I don't see how this problem can be solved in the short-run with anything other than money. Just buy out the entire neighborhood, raze all the houses, put up huge complexes and bake in the price of the beforementioned behavior into the
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by tabeth 9y ago
I feel that the quantity of these reports has been increasing since the whole Weinstein incident. I wonder if it is because there's more comfort in finally sharing or because reporters are looking for scoops more. Either way, it'
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by tabeth 9y ago
Can you expand on the liveness mechanism bit? Even if K8 could automatically restart containers, I feel without the language itself inherently being able to catch such things, it's not as useful as BEAM processes.
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by tabeth 9y ago
Can someone more familiar with Erlang/Elixir say some drawbacks of BEAM? I'm learning Elixir now and as I become more familiar it seems very difficult to write buggy code. If only it were typed, ah... (no, dialyzer doesn't co

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