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by zarro 7y ago
"The censor was a magistrate in ancient Rome who was responsible for maintaining the census, supervising public morality, and overseeing certain aspects of the government's finances. The power of the censors was absolute: no magis
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by zarro 7y ago
"Machines are taking control of investing..... Funds run by computers that follow rules set by humans" If the rules/algorithms are set and monitored by humans, the humans are the ones ultimately responsible. Computers are jus
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by zarro 7y ago
Mass murder DUE to incompetence - trying to justify the output is like putting makeup on a pig. Its thinking like this that led to the US golden age to be referred to as "Gilded Age" because it was felt that incompetence was margi
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by zarro 7y ago
Those Soviet Khrushchyovkas are the most depressing, abysmal buildings built in the history of mankind and I for one cannot wait until the day they demolish the last one of those despicable creations.
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by zarro 7y ago
I think its more about "We wont be able to collect data en masse as efficiently anymore" than it is about "National Security or prevention of sex trafficking".
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by zarro 7y ago
Its because it doesn't make sense to move out, the real estate markets stagnation makes taking out a huge loan almost feel like indentured servitude. why? Because it feels like your always working to pay off the landlord or the bank ju
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by zarro 7y ago
I do get that dealing with the main argument and providing a counter argument is hard, but I don't think you can actually win an argument by attacking the credibility of deliverer rather than the argument they propose.
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by zarro 7y ago
The short term "necessities" for tariffs aside, I don't see why in the long run we shouldn't be working toward eliminating all tariffs to begin with. The argument: -The US consumer buys $100B in Japanese products. -Japan
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by zarro 7y ago
The problem with the teacher pay to me is obvious, market forces aren't allowed to play themselves out. Think about it: A teacher should be paid according to their skill, supply, and demand. A great teachers time is highly valuable and
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by zarro 7y ago
Notice the keen implication in the title that testosterone causes reduction in cognitive empathy - making the reader now brainstorm ways to prove the hypothesis instead of considering if its the correct question to be asking in the first pl
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by zarro 7y ago
I think you calling our current system "capitalist" is giving it more credit than its due.
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by zarro 7y ago
Part of the problem is too much centralization of the control of $. This arrangement could be fine if people (and companies) where held accountable for their mistakes (No bailouts). What I mean: Normally, you wouldn't trust all your mo
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by zarro 7y ago
The problem of the countries in eastern Europe is primarily political corruption, rooted from the old soviet system and slowing dying off. But, this is being resolved by: People moving to other countries resulting in a decrease in governmen
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by zarro 7y ago
I don’t see how that has anything to do with forcing a private institution into serving customers it doesn’t want to. The argument is: Imagine you and a friend have a private tutoring business. You should be able to have the freedom to pick
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by zarro 7y ago
I don't get why a private University can't decide who it wants or doesn't want to attend its school regardless of the metrics it chooses. For instance, I don't think that matching a Universities demographics to the &quot
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by zarro 7y ago
I don't see how it is possible for someone to argue that discrimination based on race isn't racist and prejudiced. I also think the presupposition that an increase in "diversity" is always "good" isn't nec
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by zarro 7y ago
I agree that's the argument used, but you have to weigh that against the possibility that it also incentivises malicious actor(s) to subversive behavior because they will not be held accountable for their actions. In the grand scheme o
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by zarro 7y ago
They didn't get your next level satire of straw-manning a straw-man argument.
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by zarro 7y ago
"There isn't a free market economist that wouldn't agree that the state has a role to play in ameliorating [negative third party externalities]" Actually there are plenty of free market economists that would argue that n
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by zarro 7y ago
I always found it annoying how things get "declassified" only after anyone that could have provided context and good points of objection, in order to develop a better system of rules, is dead. How can you expect to perfect a syste
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by zarro 7y ago
No doubt today we have more tools at our disposal to distract ourselves but regardless reading is still the highest bandwidth method of transmitting and retaining information and its not going away until a better method is found. The propos
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by zarro 7y ago
Oh you think this is bad, just imagine all the guys at the NSA
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by zarro 7y ago
Facebooks innocent mistake was the presupposition that its capable of defining truth.
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by zarro 7y ago
You misunderstood the meaning of my post. Whats funny is the idea that you could somehow "create" money out of nothing by simply printing it, then attempt to balance its value by creating incentives for people to use. The part I t
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by zarro 7y ago
Brilliant reply, in this case if his kid isn't able to get in on merit alone, paying a premium for the "privilege" to be surrounded by a mix of wealthy and/or incredibly intelligent people is entirely reasonable.
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by zarro 7y ago
They could price discriminate if they wanted to, the fact that they wouldn't (In ways they already do) I think illustrates that they intuitively understand that in the long run doing so wouldn't be a profit maximizing strategy.
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by zarro 7y ago
What you can do is try to prevent legislation that puts arbitrary barriers to entry for competition. If privacy is as big a concern as we think it is, over the long term products which offer privacy built in will outperform in the market. M
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by zarro 7y ago
No doubt, but I think the point is to ask the right questions. Its not so much about preventing the inept institutions from maintaining their influence so much its about making sure that competing institutions don't have arbitrary barr
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by zarro 7y ago
I think the argument is funny: We will continue to arbitrarily create money, and create incentives which force us into subpar investments in order to motivate people to take out loans they otherwise wouldn't have, in order to work to c
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by zarro 7y ago
If rich people want to buy their way into university, why not? I think the argument is really: 1. Arbitrarily small class sizes - the degree is not so much about the education as it is about the prestige of being in small class size. But lo

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