Presumably capital changing ownership will tend towards ownership by those who can deploy it more productively, so it doesn't seem like bits shifting around is positive evidence that it's value neutral or negative in…
presumably if a transaction is taking place, the parties involved value the state of affairs after the transaction more than they did what came before, so value is being created, even including the transaction cost.
Software Engineers use assembly.
Yes, we will have to see. I think my own attachments to liberal values don't provide much guidance for how humanity will be best served. But I hope whatever emerges or wins out does it somehow by making people live…
You're at the mercy of powerful actors regardless of whether you consent to it. A law will affect me the same way regardless of whether I believe in it. A rock blocking my path blocks it whether I consent to it being…
well said
I think this is magical thinking about what a government is. The social contract theory is a just-so story. It's not real. Governments exist because they are a tool for concentrating power and out-compete other social…
Then yes, rights don't exist at all. What we do have is something else, let's call it "rights(tm)", which are a social construct used to privilege and protect individuality. We use it as a tool when making decisions…
If rights are unlimited, and only their expression can be limited, then it seems like it is a category that excludes nothing and so is basically vacuous.
The only right that seems even remotely plausible and socially independent was Hobbes's claim that we have a right to defend ourselves from being killed. Anything else just seems too ontologically and epistemologically…
Rights are only a concept that exists within societies, so it seems like societies will either define rights broadly and then discuss tradeoffs, or they would need to define rights very narrowly so a tradeoff isn't…
I don't think that's how prototypes work in JavaScript though. The newly created objects refer to a chain of prototype references, and changes to the underlying prototypes will affect already existing objects.
I think Kyle Simpson's You Don't Know JS does a good job about this. But on the other hand, it seems like it's usually safer to keep it simple, treating it more or less as classical and using classes, to make a codebase…
I think the idea behind it is the parenting approach. A hypothesis about it is that it results in children earning more money, but that's not inherent to the concept.
The question was about how someone should form their opinions, and whether we can tell others how they ought to do that. Lots of our opinions do affect others (e.g., if they should be hired, if one should help them, how…
You can tell someone what good criteria are for wines, why not forming opinions? They're not obligated to listen to you, but I don't get saying that you can't advise. Beyond that though, when our opinions have…
The whole point of accounting is to force black and white distinctions, especially in ambiguous situations. But in fact there is no ambiguity about this. Owing someone money doesn't earn you money. Owning an asset that…
Just because a mortgage is a liability doesn't mean it's a bad financial decision to incur a mortgage to own a house, agreed.
I totally agree. I'm making the narrow point that a mortgage is a debt, and classified as a liability. A house is an asset. The benefit of purchasing real estate with leverage vs cash doesn't change how they sit on a…
that's a bit confusing. While you can sometimes get away with leaving out dependencies, and then you don't have to useMemo or useCallback as often, it seems like there is a much larger downside to having potentially…
I think it's questionable whether top-down interventions could ever control the negative externalities associated with greed. The upside of character is it is a bottom-up limitation on creating negative externalities,…
What would be the coordinating factor? Surely its disappearance is the failing of some collection of some individuals?
It literally isn't. It's a liability. Debt being reduced by inflation doesn't change that fact.
And milky ways are assets too (inventory I suppose). Doesn't mean you won't go broke putting all your money into milky ways.
asceticism. I think we can all agree aestheticism is the highest moral accomplishment of all.
Presumably capital changing ownership will tend towards ownership by those who can deploy it more productively, so it doesn't seem like bits shifting around is positive evidence that it's value neutral or negative in…
presumably if a transaction is taking place, the parties involved value the state of affairs after the transaction more than they did what came before, so value is being created, even including the transaction cost.
Software Engineers use assembly.
Yes, we will have to see. I think my own attachments to liberal values don't provide much guidance for how humanity will be best served. But I hope whatever emerges or wins out does it somehow by making people live…
You're at the mercy of powerful actors regardless of whether you consent to it. A law will affect me the same way regardless of whether I believe in it. A rock blocking my path blocks it whether I consent to it being…
well said
I think this is magical thinking about what a government is. The social contract theory is a just-so story. It's not real. Governments exist because they are a tool for concentrating power and out-compete other social…
Then yes, rights don't exist at all. What we do have is something else, let's call it "rights(tm)", which are a social construct used to privilege and protect individuality. We use it as a tool when making decisions…
If rights are unlimited, and only their expression can be limited, then it seems like it is a category that excludes nothing and so is basically vacuous.
The only right that seems even remotely plausible and socially independent was Hobbes's claim that we have a right to defend ourselves from being killed. Anything else just seems too ontologically and epistemologically…
Rights are only a concept that exists within societies, so it seems like societies will either define rights broadly and then discuss tradeoffs, or they would need to define rights very narrowly so a tradeoff isn't…
I don't think that's how prototypes work in JavaScript though. The newly created objects refer to a chain of prototype references, and changes to the underlying prototypes will affect already existing objects.
I think Kyle Simpson's You Don't Know JS does a good job about this. But on the other hand, it seems like it's usually safer to keep it simple, treating it more or less as classical and using classes, to make a codebase…
I think the idea behind it is the parenting approach. A hypothesis about it is that it results in children earning more money, but that's not inherent to the concept.
The question was about how someone should form their opinions, and whether we can tell others how they ought to do that. Lots of our opinions do affect others (e.g., if they should be hired, if one should help them, how…
You can tell someone what good criteria are for wines, why not forming opinions? They're not obligated to listen to you, but I don't get saying that you can't advise. Beyond that though, when our opinions have…
The whole point of accounting is to force black and white distinctions, especially in ambiguous situations. But in fact there is no ambiguity about this. Owing someone money doesn't earn you money. Owning an asset that…
Just because a mortgage is a liability doesn't mean it's a bad financial decision to incur a mortgage to own a house, agreed.
I totally agree. I'm making the narrow point that a mortgage is a debt, and classified as a liability. A house is an asset. The benefit of purchasing real estate with leverage vs cash doesn't change how they sit on a…
that's a bit confusing. While you can sometimes get away with leaving out dependencies, and then you don't have to useMemo or useCallback as often, it seems like there is a much larger downside to having potentially…
I think it's questionable whether top-down interventions could ever control the negative externalities associated with greed. The upside of character is it is a bottom-up limitation on creating negative externalities,…
What would be the coordinating factor? Surely its disappearance is the failing of some collection of some individuals?
It literally isn't. It's a liability. Debt being reduced by inflation doesn't change that fact.
And milky ways are assets too (inventory I suppose). Doesn't mean you won't go broke putting all your money into milky ways.
asceticism. I think we can all agree aestheticism is the highest moral accomplishment of all.