I think that the financialization of wealth is a problem of education not of the political system. People just do not understand how that is a problem and how it affects them. For me the best thing in a democracy is the…
For better their lives as well as the locals' life I think it is most of them. For feeling rewarded or fulfilled for doing that, I think depends on both the person and the country, but probably quite rare. I tried two…
I think that for the physical store example the overhead is already included in the object price, and probably a significant part of it. > If you want me to pay for your overhead of continued development My recollection…
> it not only seems to be mostly written not by a regular users, but by people who contribute to CoMaps How did you evaluate that? I use CoMaps, I am not a contributor to it, but in the comments I read I do not remember…
Depends though what you pay for the one-time price. You can pay an offline version of the application (no extra costs afterwards), or a limited period of SaaS application updates (let's say 3 years). I agree that paying…
Don't you think there is a difference from "knowing how it works" and "reproducing every aspect of it at the level of the state of the art" ? Also, your example seems flawed if you restrict to a certain product. Can I…
I have similar experience with the poster, and the way I read it is, "from the things I build here are some examples". I did learn about advanced physics topics that enable transistors, and even did some experiments,…
I would add though that the opinion is not entirely irrational. For many people the state is inefficient, illogical, evil and goes after them without any reason (ex: think COVID restrictions). Then why do you care about…
Sorry to hear about the moment of social anxiety (I assume it happens with humans occasionally). But can't wonder don't you have also moments of joy because of job well done, an appreciative colleague or something…
Many forums have/had policies about not doing cross posting (in different categories). I find this similar. Yes, maybe from the "plagiarism" angle is not very relevant, but I would prefer not to have a system in which…
> Notice the utter absurdity of asking the bottom 99% of humanity to take responsibility for what they have absolutely no control over. I notice the absurdity of you suggesting you have no responsibility. It is a matter…
Wealth distribution is an issue, but lots of "wealth" is due to stuff that is owned by some and used by many. Take a landlord as an example: he might have 100 houses and own 99% of the wealth in a village, but if the…
> They're not, it's systemic with industry being the main culprit and the rich being the ones who benefit from that socialization of pollution costs. You two might agree if we consider that when you say "rich" you might…
30 years ago there were many with the idea "runaway population increase is the biggest issues". It would be wise to have some pro-natality policies here and there, but look at China what happens if you go all…
Slovenia joined EU rather fast (2003), so that might also have contributed to the prosperity. Joining EU is not exactly "breaking up", is more like "joining". Currently, the rest of ex-Yugoslavia countries don't seem to…
> We really don't need to import any kind of engineers from outside I was involved in a startup in the Netherlands. We tried to recruit Dutch people, all wanted safe 9-5 jobs where they would know what they would do in…
Probably the solutions mentioned (sex/robots) are not the only ones. Many complain loudly about what might be a minority of the workers, so just knowing more people would have improved their opinion. Others do not have…
From what I see, there are many people that don't want to be "bored" more than the people that don't want to be "tired". Of course there are many that want to be neither (so we get social media that gives you "not…
While I agree with "it's more complex than it seems", some simple things are not done because of FUD and politicians. There are countries (ex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_Netherlands#Bo...) that do tax…
I doubt anybody wants to produce more and more people. Most predictions for total population size I have seen are rather asymptotic. We should discuss and reason about population size (where we are, where should we be,…
Funny enough I know lots of millennials without children with horrible sleep patterns and habits. But you might be up to something: people are too stressed/anxious/depressed (without children) that adding children seems…
Anti-competitive practices that you describe ("all car manufacturers can just agree") is definitely not a capitalistic thing (market competition being an important part of capitalism), and indeed regulation can improve…
In medicine, placebo was proven to have a positive effect. Maybe we will learn about similar effects about other things. Now, if only we would convince everybody that those supernatural beings don't work through…
Just because you enjoy a thing at a certain time in your life, doesn't mean necessarily that you would or could have enjoyed a similar thing earlier. Besides, social interactions are one of those things that don't…
Do you imply that last 30 years lacked significant science progress? Even if I ignore the tech ones (simpler to associate with the US), there were quite some impressive progress I heard of in other fields (in which US…
I think that the financialization of wealth is a problem of education not of the political system. People just do not understand how that is a problem and how it affects them. For me the best thing in a democracy is the…
For better their lives as well as the locals' life I think it is most of them. For feeling rewarded or fulfilled for doing that, I think depends on both the person and the country, but probably quite rare. I tried two…
I think that for the physical store example the overhead is already included in the object price, and probably a significant part of it. > If you want me to pay for your overhead of continued development My recollection…
> it not only seems to be mostly written not by a regular users, but by people who contribute to CoMaps How did you evaluate that? I use CoMaps, I am not a contributor to it, but in the comments I read I do not remember…
Depends though what you pay for the one-time price. You can pay an offline version of the application (no extra costs afterwards), or a limited period of SaaS application updates (let's say 3 years). I agree that paying…
Don't you think there is a difference from "knowing how it works" and "reproducing every aspect of it at the level of the state of the art" ? Also, your example seems flawed if you restrict to a certain product. Can I…
I have similar experience with the poster, and the way I read it is, "from the things I build here are some examples". I did learn about advanced physics topics that enable transistors, and even did some experiments,…
I would add though that the opinion is not entirely irrational. For many people the state is inefficient, illogical, evil and goes after them without any reason (ex: think COVID restrictions). Then why do you care about…
Sorry to hear about the moment of social anxiety (I assume it happens with humans occasionally). But can't wonder don't you have also moments of joy because of job well done, an appreciative colleague or something…
Many forums have/had policies about not doing cross posting (in different categories). I find this similar. Yes, maybe from the "plagiarism" angle is not very relevant, but I would prefer not to have a system in which…
> Notice the utter absurdity of asking the bottom 99% of humanity to take responsibility for what they have absolutely no control over. I notice the absurdity of you suggesting you have no responsibility. It is a matter…
Wealth distribution is an issue, but lots of "wealth" is due to stuff that is owned by some and used by many. Take a landlord as an example: he might have 100 houses and own 99% of the wealth in a village, but if the…
> They're not, it's systemic with industry being the main culprit and the rich being the ones who benefit from that socialization of pollution costs. You two might agree if we consider that when you say "rich" you might…
30 years ago there were many with the idea "runaway population increase is the biggest issues". It would be wise to have some pro-natality policies here and there, but look at China what happens if you go all…
Slovenia joined EU rather fast (2003), so that might also have contributed to the prosperity. Joining EU is not exactly "breaking up", is more like "joining". Currently, the rest of ex-Yugoslavia countries don't seem to…
> We really don't need to import any kind of engineers from outside I was involved in a startup in the Netherlands. We tried to recruit Dutch people, all wanted safe 9-5 jobs where they would know what they would do in…
Probably the solutions mentioned (sex/robots) are not the only ones. Many complain loudly about what might be a minority of the workers, so just knowing more people would have improved their opinion. Others do not have…
From what I see, there are many people that don't want to be "bored" more than the people that don't want to be "tired". Of course there are many that want to be neither (so we get social media that gives you "not…
While I agree with "it's more complex than it seems", some simple things are not done because of FUD and politicians. There are countries (ex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_Netherlands#Bo...) that do tax…
I doubt anybody wants to produce more and more people. Most predictions for total population size I have seen are rather asymptotic. We should discuss and reason about population size (where we are, where should we be,…
Funny enough I know lots of millennials without children with horrible sleep patterns and habits. But you might be up to something: people are too stressed/anxious/depressed (without children) that adding children seems…
Anti-competitive practices that you describe ("all car manufacturers can just agree") is definitely not a capitalistic thing (market competition being an important part of capitalism), and indeed regulation can improve…
In medicine, placebo was proven to have a positive effect. Maybe we will learn about similar effects about other things. Now, if only we would convince everybody that those supernatural beings don't work through…
Just because you enjoy a thing at a certain time in your life, doesn't mean necessarily that you would or could have enjoyed a similar thing earlier. Besides, social interactions are one of those things that don't…
Do you imply that last 30 years lacked significant science progress? Even if I ignore the tech ones (simpler to associate with the US), there were quite some impressive progress I heard of in other fields (in which US…