whendoyoushrink

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by whendoyoushrink 4y ago
You just skipped down the levels of abstractions in a way that does not address the OP's point. > you see someone say something you find deeply objectionable, like "I support affirmative action in college admissions" I hav
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by whendoyoushrink 4y ago
And they were right for 35 of those years. Will they be right or wrong in the next 35? Wealth is a headwind against bad policy. Rich nations can survive many, many bad policies simply because they are rich. The policies it takes to get rich
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by whendoyoushrink 4y ago
Can you clarify what is "the market"? The stock market? The economy?
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by whendoyoushrink 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c... > Household Disposable Income per capita (including social transfers in kind) 1 United States 62,300 19 New Zealand 32,600 (2019) Roughly 50%. I can&
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by whendoyoushrink 4y ago
"Massively and quickly" seems optimistic. USSR grew at or below the rate of most European economies post war: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Soviet_U...
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by whendoyoushrink 4y ago
I scrolled through this expecting to see a comment that this was just a mistake where someone forgot - after 2 years of a pandemic - to update their address, or the complete opposite and here are X examples of the same. Shame there is zero
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by whendoyoushrink 4y ago
While that sounds tough, that's not a smart negotiation plan at all. The negotiation will be more beneficial with a scale, based on traded info, that more resembles: "Your life is over" "Your life is over until you are r
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by whendoyoushrink 4y ago
Standard TOS contract anyone can use, and any variations need individual sign off and consent per point. Sites would then need to decide how many variations to enact, knowing full well every extra one reduces signups.
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by whendoyoushrink 4y ago
I wish we'd move away from "truth" and uses "facts" and "conclusions" instead. Most really bad ideas take incorrect facts, and use them to draw tenuous conclusions. The examples in the blog are precisely t
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by whendoyoushrink 4y ago
"Doing good better" was the book title, and I think better defines the goal well. Not perfect, better. The choices that people make with giving often have no framework for deciding good, let alone better. The moral question is not
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by whendoyoushrink 4y ago
Strange the site is still up and running - does that mean it this is less voluntary? Or that they staff work in an inconvenient timezone?