> Giving away food to homeless is a crime in many places. Bad capitalism. How is this due to capitalism? I mean, I can maybe see how you can tie it to NIMBYism, and from there to capitalism through the desire to…
So the only two options you can imagine entail his detractors being irrational and emotional? You can not comprehend that anyone can have any valid complaint regarding him and his behavior at all? Musk has accomplished…
Free speech by foreign governments (or controlled by foreign governments) has never been protected by the US constitution, right? I do agree that Trump, in both his administrations, has made it starkly clear that its…
I don’t think anyone is arguing that the basic idea of offshoring was invented after the COVID pandemic… But rather that workplaces and workforces geared towards remote working has made it more feasible and accelerated…
Spotify offers lossless now. But before that the highest quality was 320 kbps AAC, and if you’re able to differentiate between that and lossless even on state of the art equipment under perfect conditions, for the vast…
Not saying you’re wrong in this particular instance, but there are all sorts of areas where we accept that harm will occur at scale (e.g. that 40,000 people per year die in motor-vehicle incidents just in the US). How…
Do you have any thoughts on these reports from 2019? https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/12/israel-white-house... > The U.S. government concluded within the past two years that Israel was most likely behind the…
A synecdoche can either be when you use a part to represent the whole, or conversely use the whole to represent a part I think it’s valid to consider the US government a part of the US. Thus, referring to the US…
But that doesn’t explain why this particular justification is especially ”wild”, does it?
It could, it just doesn’t want to. Or at least the inertia and obstacles of gaining enough political support for doing it, paired with the reluctance of the powerful entities that gain from the existing system, prevents…
Yes, it’s similar in the UK. If you make over £100k, you lose your personal tax-free allowance. That means that your effective tax rate from £100k-£125,140 is 60% That doesn’t in itself make you worse off than people…
To what extreme do you take this? Would you rather be killed than scam someone? That’s a principled stance if so, but I’d personally rather you try to scam me if the alternative is you being beaten up, or worse > I…
And are more or fewer people able to put in that time now than before piracy and streaming became a thing? The answer to that question is not obvious to me, but I lean towards ”more”, or at least ”roughly the same” Even…
Is this actually happening though? I don’t have actual numbers and would be open to be proven wrong, but my impression is that there are more people making music than ever (barriers to entry have been lowered) and more…
Thanks! I’ll take a look
This seems like a fancy way of saying “it’s a cheap approach to make animal feed taste better, so the animals eat more and thus gain more weight/produce more milk/etc”. What impact would pouring a bunch of refined sugar…
Yes, the US was in a particularly prosperous and exciting period compared to much of the rest of the world in 1995. If you’re, say, Chinese, chances are you find life in 2025 much more appealing Overall, life is better…
> This is the whole crux of the situation so buying it in a disclaimer misses the point. It maybe doesn’t adress the point you’re interested in, but it doesn’t miss the point I was making, that the goals and mechanisms…
I realize that you responded to a specific statement, not necessarily the entire context of the thread. However: Saying that a person’s credit score is entirely due to their own financial decisions is incorrect because…
I don’t know if you didn’t read or didn’t believe what the other poster said about Atlantic Airways, that they have the equipment to manage the fog and the ability to refuel in Iceland and therefore can try again the…
> ID cards are also a thing, and in principle every grownup should always be carrying ID although its not like everybody really does when walking around the park etc. Tangential: I may be misinterpreting what you mean…
What do you mean when you say ”work”? That you personally find them helpful? Or that they’re the only ones that can’t be easily avoided even if the viewer wants to? I think it’s pretty clear that other forms of…
Contradicting someone describing their own experience based on assumptions and generalizations that may or may not have a basis in reality is pretty arrogant. How are you so confident that you can presume to tell that…
> worked for us for almost a year and did a solid job
But the person you’re responding to said he did a solid job for almost a year.
> Giving away food to homeless is a crime in many places. Bad capitalism. How is this due to capitalism? I mean, I can maybe see how you can tie it to NIMBYism, and from there to capitalism through the desire to…
So the only two options you can imagine entail his detractors being irrational and emotional? You can not comprehend that anyone can have any valid complaint regarding him and his behavior at all? Musk has accomplished…
Free speech by foreign governments (or controlled by foreign governments) has never been protected by the US constitution, right? I do agree that Trump, in both his administrations, has made it starkly clear that its…
I don’t think anyone is arguing that the basic idea of offshoring was invented after the COVID pandemic… But rather that workplaces and workforces geared towards remote working has made it more feasible and accelerated…
Spotify offers lossless now. But before that the highest quality was 320 kbps AAC, and if you’re able to differentiate between that and lossless even on state of the art equipment under perfect conditions, for the vast…
Not saying you’re wrong in this particular instance, but there are all sorts of areas where we accept that harm will occur at scale (e.g. that 40,000 people per year die in motor-vehicle incidents just in the US). How…
Do you have any thoughts on these reports from 2019? https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/12/israel-white-house... > The U.S. government concluded within the past two years that Israel was most likely behind the…
A synecdoche can either be when you use a part to represent the whole, or conversely use the whole to represent a part I think it’s valid to consider the US government a part of the US. Thus, referring to the US…
But that doesn’t explain why this particular justification is especially ”wild”, does it?
It could, it just doesn’t want to. Or at least the inertia and obstacles of gaining enough political support for doing it, paired with the reluctance of the powerful entities that gain from the existing system, prevents…
Yes, it’s similar in the UK. If you make over £100k, you lose your personal tax-free allowance. That means that your effective tax rate from £100k-£125,140 is 60% That doesn’t in itself make you worse off than people…
To what extreme do you take this? Would you rather be killed than scam someone? That’s a principled stance if so, but I’d personally rather you try to scam me if the alternative is you being beaten up, or worse > I…
And are more or fewer people able to put in that time now than before piracy and streaming became a thing? The answer to that question is not obvious to me, but I lean towards ”more”, or at least ”roughly the same” Even…
Is this actually happening though? I don’t have actual numbers and would be open to be proven wrong, but my impression is that there are more people making music than ever (barriers to entry have been lowered) and more…
Thanks! I’ll take a look
This seems like a fancy way of saying “it’s a cheap approach to make animal feed taste better, so the animals eat more and thus gain more weight/produce more milk/etc”. What impact would pouring a bunch of refined sugar…
Yes, the US was in a particularly prosperous and exciting period compared to much of the rest of the world in 1995. If you’re, say, Chinese, chances are you find life in 2025 much more appealing Overall, life is better…
> This is the whole crux of the situation so buying it in a disclaimer misses the point. It maybe doesn’t adress the point you’re interested in, but it doesn’t miss the point I was making, that the goals and mechanisms…
I realize that you responded to a specific statement, not necessarily the entire context of the thread. However: Saying that a person’s credit score is entirely due to their own financial decisions is incorrect because…
I don’t know if you didn’t read or didn’t believe what the other poster said about Atlantic Airways, that they have the equipment to manage the fog and the ability to refuel in Iceland and therefore can try again the…
> ID cards are also a thing, and in principle every grownup should always be carrying ID although its not like everybody really does when walking around the park etc. Tangential: I may be misinterpreting what you mean…
What do you mean when you say ”work”? That you personally find them helpful? Or that they’re the only ones that can’t be easily avoided even if the viewer wants to? I think it’s pretty clear that other forms of…
Contradicting someone describing their own experience based on assumptions and generalizations that may or may not have a basis in reality is pretty arrogant. How are you so confident that you can presume to tell that…
> worked for us for almost a year and did a solid job
But the person you’re responding to said he did a solid job for almost a year.