> I'm genuinely puzzled why so many people believe in collectivism The topic wasn't collectivism. You keep trying to make it about that, I suppose because that's what you wanted to argue about.
Failure to embrace/invent capitalism sooner isn't the main reason basically all graphs measuring anything related to humans start to shoot up in 19th century. Lots of factors contributed. There must be (given it…
Fair. I don't find HN correctable when it veers off of tech topics—confidently-wrong and often ideologically-fixed while lacking basic education in a topic is a bad mix; some folks try, but it mostly just adds to the…
Free markets do a fine job of justifying their value with straight facts, no need to reach like that. Apply whatever you're considering free markets to other places & times, and it wouldn't have had the same outcome. It…
I'm finding the responses in this whole thread a strong argument for making STEM majors take more social science courses. Econ too, probably, especially behavioral. Way too many are a freshman-level bad "reading" of the…
This is a fine position to hold, while excluding more-useful ones as "condoning bad behavior" or "excusing bad behavior" or whatever, if you want to judge people but not solve any problems. It's true, and also entirely…
A behavior being bad, and a system being arranged such that it selects for that bad behavior, are separate things. Observing that fixing the latter might eliminate most of the behavior doesn't mean you think the…
Move to New Zealand. It'll be kinda OK, the government's stable and democratic, and they aren't gonna be machine-gunning waves of climate refugees (or else getting overrun and seeing QOL plummet) like most other…
True—it usually wasn't an amazing living. But it was a not-totally-implausible direction to go, if perhaps not the best move. Isn't even that, now. IDK what the equivalent poorly-paid-but-is-a-career-in-fiction-writing…
My (Boomer) parents made a bunch of serious and expensive mistakes, and my dad didn't properly start a career until he was almost 30. He had a high school diploma. He was literally raised in a barn (the girls got to…
> We believe in abundance because of millennia of life experience incorrectly or not. It's only not been near-universal to experience at least one severe famine that kills many people you know, in a full human lifespan,…
Oh thank god. These kids of mine were getting expensive.
The luddites lost, sure—but industrialization did make an absolute shit-ton of people miserable until the labor movement clawed back some of those productivity gains for the workers and curbed the worst abuses committed…
> Also specially in the US with all the school shootings, banning kids from having phones that allow them to call for help seems like a really bad idea. Run the numbers. This isn't a justification for much, really.…
Teachers want to treat cell phones like gameboys, but parents won't let them. They throw an absolute fit. Hell, parents call their kids in class just to chat.
Anyone downvoting: talk to some teachers. Maybe start with junior high teachers and see if you can even stand moving up the grades. Your skin'll be crawling in no time. If you don't share this view, you don't know…
Exactly. That's why I made my kids chain-smoke cigarettes for a month, then told them they couldn't have any more, but kept a pack in the open on the kitchen table. Gotta teach self-control.
You'll need to move to a very few, probably-expensive places, or scout private schools. Probably not the cheap kind. :-(
Mine can have one when they can pay for the phone and the plan. I reckon if they can maintain enough income to cover that, they're ready for one. Still can't have it late at night, though. And if they do anything too…
> The first capitalists hated rent. They wanted to replace the “passive income” that landowners got from taxing their serfs’ harvest with active income from enclosing those lands and grazing sheep in order to get wool…
> I would love a car that does not have a single display and just connects to my phone or pad for setting things up and streaming audio. You need a big screen for cameras and such, because visibility in a lot of modern…
Sure, I'm just not assuming it's entirely accurate :-)
To be clear, I'm not complaining about FAANG/finance comp rates. Anyone taking a bigger paycheck instead of that money going to capital is doing god's work (plus, building a foundation for future capital innovation, if…
Are we expecting colder, or warmer weather in NY and New England from this? It's not clear to me from reading some of these articles. The expected effect for Northern Europe—that I understand.
> The current technology is not so adequate in this area yet.. We use google workspaces/chat and meet. I curse it every week.. I think this is the one place AR/VR is almost ready to really help out. "Teleport" your…
> I'm genuinely puzzled why so many people believe in collectivism The topic wasn't collectivism. You keep trying to make it about that, I suppose because that's what you wanted to argue about.
Failure to embrace/invent capitalism sooner isn't the main reason basically all graphs measuring anything related to humans start to shoot up in 19th century. Lots of factors contributed. There must be (given it…
Fair. I don't find HN correctable when it veers off of tech topics—confidently-wrong and often ideologically-fixed while lacking basic education in a topic is a bad mix; some folks try, but it mostly just adds to the…
Free markets do a fine job of justifying their value with straight facts, no need to reach like that. Apply whatever you're considering free markets to other places & times, and it wouldn't have had the same outcome. It…
I'm finding the responses in this whole thread a strong argument for making STEM majors take more social science courses. Econ too, probably, especially behavioral. Way too many are a freshman-level bad "reading" of the…
This is a fine position to hold, while excluding more-useful ones as "condoning bad behavior" or "excusing bad behavior" or whatever, if you want to judge people but not solve any problems. It's true, and also entirely…
A behavior being bad, and a system being arranged such that it selects for that bad behavior, are separate things. Observing that fixing the latter might eliminate most of the behavior doesn't mean you think the…
Move to New Zealand. It'll be kinda OK, the government's stable and democratic, and they aren't gonna be machine-gunning waves of climate refugees (or else getting overrun and seeing QOL plummet) like most other…
True—it usually wasn't an amazing living. But it was a not-totally-implausible direction to go, if perhaps not the best move. Isn't even that, now. IDK what the equivalent poorly-paid-but-is-a-career-in-fiction-writing…
My (Boomer) parents made a bunch of serious and expensive mistakes, and my dad didn't properly start a career until he was almost 30. He had a high school diploma. He was literally raised in a barn (the girls got to…
> We believe in abundance because of millennia of life experience incorrectly or not. It's only not been near-universal to experience at least one severe famine that kills many people you know, in a full human lifespan,…
Oh thank god. These kids of mine were getting expensive.
The luddites lost, sure—but industrialization did make an absolute shit-ton of people miserable until the labor movement clawed back some of those productivity gains for the workers and curbed the worst abuses committed…
> Also specially in the US with all the school shootings, banning kids from having phones that allow them to call for help seems like a really bad idea. Run the numbers. This isn't a justification for much, really.…
Teachers want to treat cell phones like gameboys, but parents won't let them. They throw an absolute fit. Hell, parents call their kids in class just to chat.
Anyone downvoting: talk to some teachers. Maybe start with junior high teachers and see if you can even stand moving up the grades. Your skin'll be crawling in no time. If you don't share this view, you don't know…
Exactly. That's why I made my kids chain-smoke cigarettes for a month, then told them they couldn't have any more, but kept a pack in the open on the kitchen table. Gotta teach self-control.
You'll need to move to a very few, probably-expensive places, or scout private schools. Probably not the cheap kind. :-(
Mine can have one when they can pay for the phone and the plan. I reckon if they can maintain enough income to cover that, they're ready for one. Still can't have it late at night, though. And if they do anything too…
> The first capitalists hated rent. They wanted to replace the “passive income” that landowners got from taxing their serfs’ harvest with active income from enclosing those lands and grazing sheep in order to get wool…
> I would love a car that does not have a single display and just connects to my phone or pad for setting things up and streaming audio. You need a big screen for cameras and such, because visibility in a lot of modern…
Sure, I'm just not assuming it's entirely accurate :-)
To be clear, I'm not complaining about FAANG/finance comp rates. Anyone taking a bigger paycheck instead of that money going to capital is doing god's work (plus, building a foundation for future capital innovation, if…
Are we expecting colder, or warmer weather in NY and New England from this? It's not clear to me from reading some of these articles. The expected effect for Northern Europe—that I understand.
> The current technology is not so adequate in this area yet.. We use google workspaces/chat and meet. I curse it every week.. I think this is the one place AR/VR is almost ready to really help out. "Teleport" your…