There is a dead comment here that I think raises an interesting question (even if perhaps not in the most appropriate way). When dealing with electronic goods, where do we draw the line with theft. Even in video games,…
People are going to goof at a certain rate. We need to design systems to withstand at least some rate of goofing. We wouldn't get rid of seat belts and just tell people to not goof. Sometimes the goofing is criminally…
>Unless you can tell at a glance that a firearm is not in a ready-to-fire state Chance you are actually able to say that vs. chance you made a mistake in reasoning that conclusion? Still not a bet worth taking.
Why are we so certain it does? It has certain properties that give it some value. Maybe that value is much much less than the current price and maybe there will be competition that is better in every way, but is there…
I was more just thinking about how political actions/will/impacts can be simulated as a second resource in an economy much like how we simulate money. Think simulation/exploration/explanation of the idea, not…
>They're not "lowering their fee". So a miner will never reduce the cost to include a transaction into their block, even when they aren't getting enough to fill up the block? >They might stop mining altogether Maybe,…
And economics can easily account for that. Instead of saying the cost needed to product some number of blocks changes over time by 0, you instead say it changes over time by f(t). You then subtract f(t) (or add,…
I wonder, if you count agents in a market economy as having not just money to spend making rational purchases, but also political power as a sort of alternate currency (represented by a vote each), is NIMBY really a…
Then allow me to fill in the gaps. >What masses of historical evidence? This is a question in response to the GPs post that: >>masses of historical evidence >The ones that show that being a male has long been a major…
We seem to be making distinctions based on some concept of free will. What happens if we view ill people as having no free will? Is it really any more wrong to deny the alcoholic high priority on the liver transplant…
I find the best way to explain it is to apply the concepts to something other than classical wealth. Do it to something like relationships, and people insist that for anything that isn't classical wealth the market…
What masses of historical evidence? The ones that show that being a male has long been a major disadvantage in a legal system? Yes, going back into the past being a minority was even worse than it is today, to a point…
Oh, I thought it was something depending upon getting a certain rep and I hadn't hit it yet. Thanks.
Grandparent has been deleted and I can't see it, so I'm not sure what their post was, so I'm aiming this response in more at the terms being used and their underlying meaning. >When people try to explain why you're…
>The same problem exists with children. I feel like the problem is worse with children due to them having a developing brain, where the impacts of medication can have impacts into changing the very person taking them. I…
>You can’t keep them around and feed them fake intel on drug deals so they waste their time. Any relevant case law on this? Lying to the police isn't allowed, but lying to some new guy at the bar is legal, regardless of…
>how much morality versus how much immorality Morality and legality are both very subjective, either to the person or to the legal system.
When a lawyer tells someone to not talk to the cops, are they doing anything wrong? Because the lawyer is basically asking 'what can I do to stop a lawful interrogation'. Does this change if the person is suspected of…
>choosing to avoid adding people to your team who have expressed opinions that make the workplace hostile to other employees But are you adding other people making other statements which make the workplace hostile to…
>people whom fate is much worse, IMHO This is such a hard call to make, because the more severe the autism, the harder it is to know how happy they are. Perhaps the person who is totally into trains who spends their…
I feel like autistic adults are never given similar attention to autistic children. My person (and poorly informed) opinion is that the main driving factor is that autistic adults don't have advocates for themselves…
All the people talking about being unable to handle/comprehend the death of their child, and especially the one line of conversations about the impact of losing one child when you have many more, made me think about…
How many deaths would getting rid of modern transportation cause? You can't just measure something by the negatives.
Is that possible? The good landlords aren't pulling out every technically not illegal trick to make more money because they value things more than just being in the clear legally, but they do value being in the clear…
I feel this response is confusing right with might. Just because some group has the political might to make laws that benefit them does not make those laws right, does it?
There is a dead comment here that I think raises an interesting question (even if perhaps not in the most appropriate way). When dealing with electronic goods, where do we draw the line with theft. Even in video games,…
People are going to goof at a certain rate. We need to design systems to withstand at least some rate of goofing. We wouldn't get rid of seat belts and just tell people to not goof. Sometimes the goofing is criminally…
>Unless you can tell at a glance that a firearm is not in a ready-to-fire state Chance you are actually able to say that vs. chance you made a mistake in reasoning that conclusion? Still not a bet worth taking.
Why are we so certain it does? It has certain properties that give it some value. Maybe that value is much much less than the current price and maybe there will be competition that is better in every way, but is there…
I was more just thinking about how political actions/will/impacts can be simulated as a second resource in an economy much like how we simulate money. Think simulation/exploration/explanation of the idea, not…
>They're not "lowering their fee". So a miner will never reduce the cost to include a transaction into their block, even when they aren't getting enough to fill up the block? >They might stop mining altogether Maybe,…
And economics can easily account for that. Instead of saying the cost needed to product some number of blocks changes over time by 0, you instead say it changes over time by f(t). You then subtract f(t) (or add,…
I wonder, if you count agents in a market economy as having not just money to spend making rational purchases, but also political power as a sort of alternate currency (represented by a vote each), is NIMBY really a…
Then allow me to fill in the gaps. >What masses of historical evidence? This is a question in response to the GPs post that: >>masses of historical evidence >The ones that show that being a male has long been a major…
We seem to be making distinctions based on some concept of free will. What happens if we view ill people as having no free will? Is it really any more wrong to deny the alcoholic high priority on the liver transplant…
I find the best way to explain it is to apply the concepts to something other than classical wealth. Do it to something like relationships, and people insist that for anything that isn't classical wealth the market…
What masses of historical evidence? The ones that show that being a male has long been a major disadvantage in a legal system? Yes, going back into the past being a minority was even worse than it is today, to a point…
Oh, I thought it was something depending upon getting a certain rep and I hadn't hit it yet. Thanks.
Grandparent has been deleted and I can't see it, so I'm not sure what their post was, so I'm aiming this response in more at the terms being used and their underlying meaning. >When people try to explain why you're…
>The same problem exists with children. I feel like the problem is worse with children due to them having a developing brain, where the impacts of medication can have impacts into changing the very person taking them. I…
>You can’t keep them around and feed them fake intel on drug deals so they waste their time. Any relevant case law on this? Lying to the police isn't allowed, but lying to some new guy at the bar is legal, regardless of…
>how much morality versus how much immorality Morality and legality are both very subjective, either to the person or to the legal system.
When a lawyer tells someone to not talk to the cops, are they doing anything wrong? Because the lawyer is basically asking 'what can I do to stop a lawful interrogation'. Does this change if the person is suspected of…
>choosing to avoid adding people to your team who have expressed opinions that make the workplace hostile to other employees But are you adding other people making other statements which make the workplace hostile to…
>people whom fate is much worse, IMHO This is such a hard call to make, because the more severe the autism, the harder it is to know how happy they are. Perhaps the person who is totally into trains who spends their…
I feel like autistic adults are never given similar attention to autistic children. My person (and poorly informed) opinion is that the main driving factor is that autistic adults don't have advocates for themselves…
All the people talking about being unable to handle/comprehend the death of their child, and especially the one line of conversations about the impact of losing one child when you have many more, made me think about…
How many deaths would getting rid of modern transportation cause? You can't just measure something by the negatives.
Is that possible? The good landlords aren't pulling out every technically not illegal trick to make more money because they value things more than just being in the clear legally, but they do value being in the clear…
I feel this response is confusing right with might. Just because some group has the political might to make laws that benefit them does not make those laws right, does it?