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by theworstshill 11y ago
The physical analogy isn't even close. The volatility at the present time may be applicable. Software is a product of someone's imagination, while oil is pumped out of the ground. Without invention of the combustion engine (also a
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I am not denying that, but you're beating up the wrong bush. Colonization and exploitation are more than buzzwords, but in the real world they work the other way around. Look at the yearly trade balance between say Chile and South Kore
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by theworstshill 11y ago
Good points, but not quite. The standards of living have fallen not because of nigerians coming over and stealing jerbs, but because the redistribution shifted from people doing the work to people owning the capital required to keep the ope
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by theworstshill 11y ago
They learned from history alright, just not in the way you think. Israel is one of the best defended states with some of the best social welfare for its citizens. They work six days a week to make it happen, and their public-private partner
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by theworstshill 11y ago
The equivalent of those mice experiments in human would be a tiger chasing you around for two weeks, and you finally managing to escape and reproduce. Modern men have nothing to worry about here.
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by theworstshill 11y ago
I think the main issue is fear of radical islamists hiding amongst the refugees going to Europe. Haven't heard of any jews blowing stuff up and beheading germans, can't say the same for syrians and middle east in general. The some
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by theworstshill 11y ago
You're barking up the wrong tree though - iphones and TVs are fixed costs. I'm willing to bed vast majority of the poor spend vast majority of their money on housing, food and clothing, although a small minority might actually spe
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by theworstshill 11y ago
Any of you fine fellows typing this from your mobility scooters?
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by theworstshill 11y ago
Don't want to step on toes, but in short - you can't. Part of the problem is the age genius/criminal curve which shows you the productivity of a typical male, another part is that as you age there is only so much more bandwid
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by theworstshill 11y ago
You're partway right. A real world example I had back in college - heartburn. Doc's solution is take a pill when needed (the part thats left over - for the rest of your life). The solution I found online is - change your diet. Aft
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A New Golden Age won't come from basic income, it can only come from cheap, abundant energy. I won't dig out the sources atm, but its pretty obvious that coal, and later oil drove the last two centuries of rapid progress. Unless a
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Every developed country in the world has a negative net population growth - natural growth excluding migration. The only reason the seniors are fed, clothed and washed is a a supply train of foreign nurses and home-care aides, usually from
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by theworstshill 11y ago
Why not the other way around - just kill everybody above a certain cutoff and feed them as soylent to the rest? They've already spent most of their productive years anyway, right? Its equally ridiculous, isn't it?
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As difficult as it would be to find money for it - I would propose a one time entrepreneurship grant to all college graduates equal to an average yearly salary in the profession (this is an approximation and experts should figure out what v
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80% of German casualties were on the Eastern Front. USSR fought Nazi Germany head on, matching its strength with human resources prior to 1942, and outmatching it technologically past 1942. Submachine guns for every infantryman, a large amo
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by theworstshill 11y ago
USSR was terrible in the way it constrained personal freedom and property, but thats not why it collapsed, the grievances of common people had nothing to do with its collapse at all. I believe a large portion voted to stay in the union. USS
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Dick move Elon, potential hires are watching.
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Couldn't have said it better myself. Those folks are straight out of an old (early) USSR caricature on how Lenin shared a watermelon with a passing peasant - took his watermelon, dropped it on the ground, picked up half of it and walke
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by theworstshill 11y ago
Upvoted this. Vast majority of people on "the street" are not your typical software devs/engineers who continuously use their brains to get ahead and have an analytical perspective on things.
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Thats a good measure, but I am pessimistic about poverty ever being rooted out completely (absent of a technological invention that creates abundant energy for very cheap, e.g. fusion, antimatter later on). The reality is, poverty can be cu
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I suspect that paying more will help keep some of those people in Canada instead of the Bay Area. Follow the money.
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by theworstshill 11y ago
This guy is on the right track. Who downvoted this?
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They got that way through creativity AND ability to embody that creativity in digital or physical goods/services that can be sold. Very little of it had to do with luck, although successful people often talk about "luck" to m
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Yo
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Well hold on a second. How did the two playboys take advantage of the small businesses? The businesses needed money, he lent it to them. Did he physically force them to sign on the dotted line? Did they even bother reading the terms and und
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People need to understand basic math, and around 30% of the population doesn't, at all. I went to public school and I know what kind of people neglected real education, and chose to fuck around instead. Its not the fault of these two g
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Its a question of basic freedom of association. Some people choose not to associate with say, ISIS members. This guy chooses not to associate with people who support policies he doesn't like. Why should those people be able to profit o
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this guy gets it. Whose gonna be paying for all this crap?
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Its his property, there is nothing wrong with that.
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Western air forces have been conducting airstrikes on ISIS for 5 years now, and didn't do jack. A map where informers can paint ISIS locations will only get them killed, every major player in the middle east has intelligence from satel

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