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by x220 8y ago
>At what point are you "good" enough to be valued or loved? That's the wrong question. That depends entirely on who you ask about yourself, and whether you believe their answers. The right question is "when should you
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by x220 8y ago
>I realized self help books and audio books are a waste of time and money You may think that about the books you read, but that's not true about a genre in general. It's useful to discriminate sources and figure out whether the
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by x220 8y ago
The difference is that in Soviet Russia, people were forced to work in labor camps. In many developing countries, adults and children work of their own free will in bad conditions because it's the best option they have.
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by x220 8y ago
There are people who could work harder than you worked and not get to the point you are at.
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by x220 8y ago
The USSR wasn't charging forward. It was charging into starvation, gulags, and genocide.
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by x220 8y ago
Politeness is all about rules. A society where people tend to follow complex rules of social interaction is polite, even if it becomes very violent if someone breaks those rules. That's why they are rules in the first place: they are e
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by x220 8y ago
That premise is true, just not in the way you think. Societies with uncontrollable violence tend to have informal codes of politeness designed to prevent violence and are far more likely to have gangs with honor codes. This does not necessa
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by x220 8y ago
Can you post a citation to "Kahneman's '79 research"? I really want to read that stuff since it sounds useful for me.
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by x220 8y ago
And that's a shame. People are scared to debate values because they don't want the value structures that their lives center around to crumble. Without debating values, you might end up spending a huge proportion of your life on so
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by x220 8y ago
I disagree. Political questions are matter of choice, not fact. Values will always be a matter of debate.
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by x220 8y ago
Don't use Bitcoin
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by x220 8y ago
Or he could modify the reproduction rate of sentient species so the problem doesn't come back in 1-5 generations
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by x220 8y ago
I've used it unilaterally several times and it made things better than not using it.
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by x220 8y ago
I love to promote this whenever I can. This method has a fantastic reward given the time it takes to learn and practice it and has made my in-person communication a lot better whenever I use it.
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by x220 8y ago
> a board, requiring 2/3rds majority in a vote So instead of merely depending on the feelings of the accuser, it depends on the feelings of two thirds of the board? That's not much better. You can make objective rules that are
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by x220 8y ago
I think we disagree in a couple major ways. I don't take at face value the text written by the creators of an ideology to be its only ideas, without searching for subtext or underlying motivations. I also don't think that the acti
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by x220 8y ago
If a king decrees it inside an absolute monarchy, it's not a crime. That's literally how absolute monarchies work--the monarch has absolute and unaccountable power. Edit: if you disagree, please tell me why.
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by x220 8y ago
I'm pointing out that people who are very well off tend to criticize the culture that provides them with the comforts of modern life while being oblivious about the benefits of their culture which they enjoy. I made no claim about othe
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by x220 8y ago
I think this is a good approach, since these guidelines seem to arise out of compassion and wanting to make both the disrespectful contributors and the people they disrespect better communicators, and make the community better as a whole. I
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by x220 8y ago
People who are well fed, clothed, properly housed, and with little to spend their time on often criticize the culture that feeds them.
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by x220 8y ago
>criminal money First of all, it's Silicon Valley. Check your ethics at the door. Secondly, it's not illegal if it's not against the laws of a country (and in this case, if the crown prince of a monarchy orders something,
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by x220 8y ago
The problem arises when "belittlement" or harassment is defined by someone's feelings rather than any objective, specific standard.
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by x220 8y ago
This warms my heart. The x220 is one of the most oddly aesthetically pleasing laptops I've ever seen.
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by x220 8y ago
He absolutely earned all of it.
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by x220 8y ago
But you don't understand: eradicating Polio is one thing, but what if we instead lived in a world with competitive desktop operating systems? /s
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by x220 8y ago
I don't think this story is useful because it makes poverty imaginarily virtuous and downplays the very real benefit of philanthropy. In absolute and relative terms, Bill Gates is lightyears ahead of nearly everyone, since he both pl
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by x220 8y ago
>Most Marxist revolutions involved attacking the producers which did lead to starvation. Yes. > Just because there are people in the world doing better than you does not automatically mean you are being oppressed. Certainly. >The i
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by x220 8y ago
I think that's a massive oversimplification. You could definitely say that people starving feel entitled to food, and feel justified in stealing it. You could also say that an ideology that can be used to explain every power struggle a
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by x220 8y ago
Actually, on relative terms I think he has given away roughly half the money he has ever earned, which makes him exceptionally generous relatively speaking.
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by x220 8y ago
>hobby, manner, ..., way you speak, way you act It's fine to judge by these, depending on the circumstances, since these are actions people take, rather than things about them that are out of their control or out of their reach.

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