walkhour

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by walkhour 4y ago
> You can either work for capitalists or die from various causes(starvation, lac of medical help, etc) This is a straw man of capitalism. The idea that in capitalist countries citizens would be left to die and starve requires a great exe
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by walkhour 4y ago
Most people aren't even aware of most wars and will likely follow whatever it's safe to support. The Irak war was safe to support until it was marginalizing to do so. You want to look like a weirdo? Just tell your friends how worr
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by walkhour 4y ago
This is a response to the illusion that we know there's a better alternative to capitalism
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by walkhour 4y ago
Note I acknowledge this in my previous comment by saying gold has intrinsic value. My point is that gold would still lose most of its value, since there's a highly speculative component to it.
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by walkhour 4y ago
Every asset would lose most of its value if it couldn't be exchanged for fiat. From gold to Google stocks. The intrinsic value of gold is negligible in comparison to its actual value. It would just be another rock.
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by walkhour 4y ago
> Imagine when they can limit the trade of crypto to people who have certain ideas. You're referring to projects other than for example Bitcoin right? Since the whole purpose of Bitcoin is that it shouldn't be possible to contr
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by walkhour 5y ago
This is a joke that Elon wrote while using the bathroom this morning. There's no reason to read too much into this and convert these comments into a philosophy course.
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by walkhour 5y ago
> But I'm definitely not going to convince you of anything in this HN thread You'd be surprised :). I appreciate your response, it was an interesting read.
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by walkhour 5y ago
> where more of the workforce is unionized Is this fact coming from the weighted average of how unionized is the workforce in the diferented countries from which workers comes to USA? Is this true for high and low paying jobs? Are the mi
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by walkhour 5y ago
I wish this was true but I'm skeptical, how is the change going in North Korea? 3-12% of their population starved to death [0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine
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by walkhour 5y ago
There's a reason why Academia and Big Tech love immigration. And then there's the argument they use to justify why immigration is good, like diversity, inclusion, globalization, ... which may be valid or not. But isn't it jus
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by walkhour 5y ago
Doctors in Cuba make $50 to $70 a month, I can only imagine how much the nurses are making. Given this I don't think there's a straightforward way of porting their system to the US. A US Doctor may make more money than the whole s
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by walkhour 5y ago
If unions are good for both the company and the workers why don't companies eventually implement the petitions of unions by themselves without any external pressure? You're making it seem like companies are too dumb to know what&#
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by walkhour 5y ago
> It's the simplest explanation. The simplest explanation was that everybody was ignoring this all the time? What percentage of people do you think would ignore this? I don't think regarding the allegations as real is the simpl
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by walkhour 5y ago
The argument "you didn't believe this allegation therefore you won't believe any other allegation" I don't think works. Just because I don't believe a story in which people are abused using racial slurs, in whi
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by walkhour 5y ago
Understood, I still don't fully buy the analogy though, if someone said they were being verbally abused at their job I would give this a higher probability of being true than being verbally abused, for racial reasons, in front of every
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by walkhour 5y ago
> So, if someone said they were verbally abused at their job but didn't provide recordings, would you default to calling it "so unbelievable" and "pure propaganda", as you have called this? This is a bad analogy
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by walkhour 5y ago
I'm not negatively predisposed to this kind of news, I'm just asking to be provided with the same kind of evidence we'd require if it was a less inflammatory topic. I find it very unlikely this evidence is going to appear, ho
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by walkhour 5y ago
Overall this is an interesting response, but you missed the main point of my comment. Why is there no hard evidence of the claims made in the article? > What world do you live in where this is unbelievable? A world where if this ever hap
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by walkhour 5y ago
> We either have the right to affordable housing, or we are beholden to the market and its participants. When the free market can’t provide a market based solution, are we to just throw up our hands and say, at least we tried? What free
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by walkhour 5y ago
Isn't it just wonderful when the country we most hate for having implemented different covid policies to the suggested by the establishments of all of the countries in the West, coincidentally, is also morally terribly evil, they were
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by walkhour 5y ago
> It's the type of thing only a doctor can say. This information is the first result when you Google "fertility by age" [0]. This should be mentioned more often, not to be sexist, but so everyone has the complete informati
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by walkhour 5y ago
Fascination with Caesar is only slightly better than fascination with any other mass murderer in history. He himself boasted about having killed over a million Celts, probably exaggerated, but nevertheless had no problem in slaying tends of
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by walkhour 5y ago
Do you have the link to the study?
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by walkhour 5y ago
> For late-bloomers, which might suffer under this system, it is still possible to progress from Hauptschule to Realschule and finally Gymnasium and university Do you know how many people in Hauptschule make it to university? > Also,
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by walkhour 5y ago
SAT correlates well with college performance and moreover must be used to obtain the best college performance predictors we have (or something highly correlated with SAT).
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by walkhour 5y ago
Thank you for this data
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by walkhour 5y ago
What do you think about German kids being sent to different kinds of highschools at age 10. Most of the people attending Hauptschule don't attend university [0]. In some regions 60% of the children attend it. Aren't you concerned
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by walkhour 5y ago
The sum of the money supply in 2H2020 and 1H2021 is similar to the money supply in 1H2020, so I don't think the fact that inflation kicked in 2H2021 makes your case. Also note the money supply was higher in 2H2020 and 1H2021 than in th
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by walkhour 5y ago
I'm not denying this, I think supply side shortages tend to produce inflation. Please see my response again. But to clarify, you said: > The money supply-driven inflation you saw in Argentina is nothing like what developed nations a

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