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> The strength of redux is that all your interactions with it are through functions

I think it's the other way around: The greatest weakness of Redux is that (unnecessarily) message passing instead of function calls are used.

Why do a `store.dispatch({type: 'INCREMENT', value: 10})` when it could be a `store.count.increment(10)`? In basically all cases every action is handled by exactly one reducer so just let the reducer be an object with methods instead of a big switch function operating on string constants.

> It'd be interesting to see what proportion of the pay gap/high status job gap comes from different sociosexual incentives

Obviously this is highly speculative but for quite some time now I have the theory that the former Sowiet Union states (Russia et al) and large parts of Latin America don't progress as much simply because male financial success isn't tied as much to better dating options. At least to me as a traveler it seems that many men in those countries have a wide choice of attractive girls, regardless of how well they are off.

This would also explain the rise of the Chinese economy in the recent decades, as they have a surplus of men and I heard that they need to own at least a flat and a car to have chances on the dating market.

Amazing! How do/did you market the service? And how long did it take to make you quit your job?

I think you might have a good point, there is no "objectively good" in politics. For example when you consider highly unequal incomes as a problem in society then you will support different measures than when you don't find that problematic at all. For both there is no "real" basis, the measurement for "good" is only your image of how you want the world to be in 100 years and thus entirely subjective.

You might consider that Switzerland is probably the most democratic country on earth and "legitimate authority" quite directly means "the will of the people". If it wouldn't, they could easily change it as everybody can submit a law change suggestion (sorry, I don't know the correct term) and with enough inital support everyone can vote on the issue. They vote on far-ranging things several times a year, there can be no tyranny in this context.

Better example: Idea 1 is a food delivery platform like JustEat. Idea 2 is umbrellas for cats. Both in a market where both are not present yet. Food delivery does work and is quite straight forward, you can not really mess that up. Umbrellas for cats will fail, no matter how great you execute.

> But, they are not measuring people on a salary.

Well, you weren't either so it seems fair. "1 in 20 people make over 200k / year" -> As you probably meant full income earners it would be interesting to see what it would be if measured actually for "people".

Why? - Isn't that obvious? A simple two second hickup in the cellular connection could kill everyone in the car.

I also really liked the telic-atelic distinction and would like to read more about it. But this:

> stereotypical "western" goal-oriented notions of success or happiness

is probably more "American" than "western". Look at the laissez-faire life of the French, Spanish or Italians and the typical German surely doesn't thrive for success but for a stable, comfortable life.

That goal-hunting and search for exceptionalism is certainly spreading in the world but I would think that the American culture is maybe the only one where it is really rooted.

I don't know the other stories well and Christianity is a big good-bad theme in itself with its hell and heaven but in David versus Goliath the giant never was the bad guy. He was just fighting for the other side and David killed him, that's it as far as I know.

Same for me. I absolutely understand the criticism of Uber but saying that they are just a taxi app doesn't cut it.

To add more advantages to the list: Full price transparency, pre-agreed price so you don't need to worry that you drive in circles, no driver searching for change for several minutes until you let him keep it.

And, like McDonald's did for fastfood, it creates a world wide standard for taxi services. I had a driver in India that took me to tourist stores instead of my destination and in Mexico City they warn you about taxi drivers robbing you - all not happening in an Uber.

Obviously the UBI would be a redistribution of money and not "everyone gets X more". Imagine the average guy getting 20k/yr in UBI while also paying 20k/yr more in taxes. As taxes are in % and UBI is fix, generally rich people would end up with less and poor people and families with more money.

>> the absolute last thing you want is fairness to your competition or fairness to your consumer.

> I completely disagree with your assertion here. I want an advantage over my competition, sure.. but I still want it to be fair.

Thank you for that. I really dislike the common model of capitalism where the entrepreneur is viewed as a robot whose only goal is to maximize profit with the law being the only boundary.

In my social bubble the landlords that I know care about their renters' wellbeing even if it costs them a bit. I only know a handful of entrepreneurs personally but for all of them fairness and dignity have greater value than profit. Also the millions of small shops in cities around the world that are content just selling enough every month to make a comfortable living with no goal of maximizing anything.

Yes, huge cooperations are different than the guy selling Kebab at the corner. But still I would appreciate if people would see entrepreneurship and businesses not so statically as money-maximizers.

Don't be so harsh. The Nazi-mindset does not have any support in the German society anymore.

The scepticism of taking in the refugees is certainly politically "right" but not Nazi-level at all and many people that voted for the AfD party just did that out of protest.

The integration of the Turkish immigrants is another topic entirely; don't forget that mostly the most uneducated, rural people came.

Go down the path even more and you land at direct democracy, where every citizen can vote on any legislative decision. Corporations can not buy half the people.

Because it can be a lot of work to dive into the details of a decision every citizen could delegate his vote to someone he trusts - delegate his vote in general, per topic (economical decisions to Betty, foreign affairs to Tom) or just for a single decision. You can change your vote delegation any time. This is Liquid Democracy.

Our current parliaments are just a special case of Liquid Democracy: You delegate your vote on all decisions to a single person but you can choose only between a handful of people and are not allowed to change your choice of delegation for the next 4 years.

Different Pirate Parties all over Europe tried to establish this new concept of democracy but I am afraid it was not well understood/they did not explain it well enough.

I don't really understand the WeWork valuation of $20 billion. I guess they buy all their properties so they greatly profit from the rising property prizes in capitals around their world.

I work a lot in coworking spaces and they usually don't seem like a cash cow for the owners. Now WeWork seems to target the B2B and luxury segment of coworking with prices 1,5x-3x of the competitors'. Interesting strategy.

So is the coworking just a vehicle for the appreciating property prices? Or are they much more popular than I thought? Or am I missing something else?

> Currently, most people's share of the GDP is (mostly) their income from labor

"Most"? According to [1] only around 50% of the US citizens do get a paycheck (155 of 322 mio). The others probably mostly are kids, senior people and housewives, but they make up a significant portion.

[1] https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12000000

Well, but you also breath in the O2 first, I think the C just binds to that. C and O weigh similar amounts so it is just 1/3 of the 2 pounds. But you have to count the water loss as well, it is part of fat cells.

How many calories can you max burn per day, around 8000? That would be ~1.1kg of fat loss at 7 kcal per g fat. At a normal day of not eating it is ~300g afaik (2100 kcal at 7kcal/g).

> The advice I give to people on here is generally upvoted, except when it comes to investing

Maybe it is because your advice only goes to 0.0X% of all people, as you state yourself?

> In the right group you may find more sense of community

Interesting, but I am not even looking for a community, I just don't want to put a post out there that will be "unsuccessful". It doesn't bother me if I only get a few likes, it bothers me that all my friends see how my post is "failing". I am not in panic but it puts me off from posting. Am I the only one with those thoughts? Facebook without the like mechanism would cater to me much more.

> can't you just unfollow the people who post this stuff?

Actually I did just a month ago but now my feed is quite empty. It seems the people I am interested in stopped posting or even deleted their accounts. I wonder whether and how FB is working on getting those back.

I would love it if Facebook worked that way for me. But unfortunately its just selfies and crappy shares of motivational or "funny" memes. The people that I am interested in mostly never post anything - and me neither, because I a) would like to share with close friends and family but not everyone I am connected to* and b) I find it too stressful to having to worry that my post won't garner many likes and thus will be a "social failure"

* Yes, I know that I can set the target group but I never set it up and is too much work for just a small posting

> But even with murder, the law doesn't stop murders before they happen

At least in Germany planning a murder is illegal. Just like preparing a terrorist attack is - otherwise the police wouldn't be allowed to stop it.

Also Wiki: "In some jurisdictions, the very act of preparing for a crime is a criminal offense in itself" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_preparation)

For the US, interesting read: https://www.lawyers.com/legal-info/criminal/criminal-law-bas...

..or they can give it directly to people. There is an initiative for Europe that wants exactly that, Quantitive Easing for People. I love the idea and am sure it would do more for the economy than just pushing banks to lend more money.

Thanks for sharing. I really wish there was a general web subscription with revenue-sharing between all visited websites. I hate seeing the ads on my own sites but have no viable way to replace them. And as a user I would like to support several sites, apart from disabling the adblocker.

>> Why is the public still so naive about the "hidden costs" of cheaper?

Because it is not true. Apple products are considered luxury goods and the company is known for the horrendous treatment of their workers in Asia. And ALDI is a very cheap supermarket chain in Germany but pays and treats their employees better than some more expensive ones.

There might be a correlation but that means nothing for each individual purchase.

>> The definition of bootstrapping includes saving up ones own money to start a business

Or by working a job on the side. I think the "definition" is rather to not take outside capital.

I think you may have missed that you could rent servers online for a long time. Dedicated or shared, full control and much cheaper than EC2.

As far as I know EC2 introduced auto scaling, load balancing and spinning up instances in such a lightweight way. Not a revolution but still nice and necessary steps.

That is what really astonishes me about technology: Stuff can get worse. As you said, it is a solved problem, but unless someone somewhere is pushing hard, it will keep getting worse. People in charge make stupid decisions and the creators probably don't care because calculators are unsexy. Next thing we know, there is a billion dollar startup with a calculator app because the current ones are so shitty.

>> Even Google's own tag manager/analytics scripts lowers your page speed score when they are on the site.

I never understood why Google doesn't fix this. I want to use Google Analytics but their own tool penalizes me for it because it gets unproperly cached on Google's own servers? That's just stupid.