viklove

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by viklove 7y ago
Communism isn't the only alternative to capitalism, you know that right?
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by viklove 7y ago
None of those places are capitalist either, and they will actively tell you so if asked.
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by viklove 7y ago
I love how people who support capitalism always draw it in opposition to dictatorial socialism, implying that the democratic socialism we see in many European countries is impossible to achieve or non-existent. It's one of the most sim
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by viklove 7y ago
AP did a better job than _you_, but it's a bit of a stretch to assume that finding is true for most other people, or even just the average person. This is why the scientific method exists, so we don't fall prey to our own bias.
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by viklove 7y ago
Is that just because more people are opting to live with their parents because they can't afford their own rent?
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by viklove 7y ago
> It turns out that governments are bad at running economies. Extrapolating a general theory from just two examples seems like a mistake.
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by viklove 7y ago
Better population controls, on a global scale. Let's get our population back down to 5 billion, I'm sure our environmental problems would quickly evaporate if we did so.
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by viklove 7y ago
Why is birthrate decline a bad thing? The global population can't just keep growing... it has to slow down and stop at some point. Honestly we would all be better off if we had stopped growing at 2-5 billion, rather than continuing to
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by viklove 7y ago
If only there were a way to prepackage all the moving parts and write a script to spin them all up on your machine!
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by viklove 7y ago
Those are the original names of those cities... The British Raj changed the names when they took control, and the residents of those cities wanted to go back to their original names.
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by viklove 7y ago
You can just... not run the application in docker, can't you? Check out the repo on your local machine and install all the dependencies yourself -- problem solved.
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by viklove 7y ago
> When 90% of the people you email are on Gmail or GSuite does Proton mail really help? This is such a common, but strange attitude to have in these circumstances. Think about how user migration works. It's not like it happens overn
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by viklove 7y ago
It's a new virus, so we don't really know what it'll do, do we? Maybe it has a 100% mortality rate after 180 days -- we won't know until more time has passed. This is like introducing new code into a system. You have no
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by viklove 7y ago
Sometimes you benefit from others doing well. Sometimes you are hurt by it. It's not as simple as you make it out to be. Globalization, for example, is zero-sum for many people. Since we're now buying <wheat/metal/ele
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by viklove 7y ago
> Perhaps the fact that you can honestly claim to think otherwise This is an example of a "fact" that I'm talking about. It's not a fact, it's an opinion being presented as fact. I guess if you present yourself t
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by viklove 7y ago
Well home insurance is a thing that most people have to protect against those possibilities. I don't think something similar exists for ETFs. Also, if an ETF loses 90% of its value, it's pretty much worthless. If a home loses 90%
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by viklove 7y ago
I feel like you're now arguing in bad faith. Medicine for heart health does not change your behavior significantly. ADHD medication does. That's the distinction I'm trying to make.
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by viklove 7y ago
> It's not a competition. Are you kidding? Life in a capitalistic economy is _absolutely_ a competition.
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by viklove 7y ago
A pill that decreases the risk of cardiac arrest is very different than a pill that is psychoactive. Many people just can't relate to taking a drug that quite literally changes your behavior on a day-to-day basis, even if it has positi
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by viklove 7y ago
Well you can live in a house... Can you live in an ETF if things go south?
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by viklove 7y ago
What's this then? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_and_Medical_Leave_Act_o...
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by viklove 7y ago
Right, but how many of those billionaires started as millionaires (or were born into a millionaire family)? When you have generational wealth, it's much easier to take risks.
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by viklove 7y ago
Why do your colleagues get to decide what is fact and what is fiction? It's our right, as humans, to be able to make that decision on our own after we encounter information. If Wikipedia gains a reputation for libel, then the onus shou
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by viklove 7y ago
> with unknown health effects (ie vitamin E acetate) The effects of Vitamin E Acetate is actually well known and thoroughly documented. It's just that these black-market producers don't care.
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by viklove 7y ago
Then we get blasted by a gamma ray burst from Betelgeuse and we're all dead. Studying the cosmos is extremely important, and studying threats (asteroids, supernovae, etc.) are just one part of that.
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by viklove 7y ago
> Who in the press will continue to follow that up? You said this, which is pretty much the same.
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by viklove 7y ago
And yet, camsite models wouldn't be able to sustain themselves without these simps. It's really a two-edged blade.
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by viklove 7y ago
It's more like only being able to use Tesla rims and tires if you want to replace the stock ones. Or only being able to put Tesla coffee in the cup holder.
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by viklove 7y ago
You really don't need to specify where in the EU, because there are vastly more people in France communicating regularly with people in other neighboring countries. If you need to specify where in the EU, then you need to specify where
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by viklove 7y ago
> Or is there perhaps some kind of vaguely wavefunction/quantum/etc phenomena that leads some information to be transmitted back in time by a few minutes? Hard to say, but definitely food for thought Ha, much more likely is tha

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