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An iphone is as disposable as a kleenex. It is not an asset, at least not a better one than a 250 phone.

Yeah just like owners of real estate are "hodlers" right? Keep pooring it on

It is usually a case of "the lady doth protest too much". They project their own emotionality onto others while professing to follow logic and restraint. I'm not a trained psychologist by any means but is the modern cultural obsession with image a kind of widespread narcissism? I see these self-professions of rationalism as just another flavor of the same thing "look at me, I'm special, I'm very logical". Furthermore I speculate if the modern world with the gray dullness of equality, democracy, and mass culture drives people to find ways to differentiate from the rest. I'm interested on what's your take as I too have seen religious thought in the loudest atheists.

One interesting essay on the history of some philosophies and worldviews you might like is Eric Vogelin's Science, Politics and Gnosticism (1968). Here he traces a lot of modern thought back to the early Gnostic religion. The lack of self-reflection and particularly the righteousness I see today makes me think his point is very accurate.

Nah, too busy inefficiently and ineffectually spending on the homeless to care about actual tax payers.

Well, if no one listens to you why even make the effort to keep in touch. That's a different problem and solved by Twitter and similar

Long BTC...

If the FPGA is a closed-design are we really that better off?

Depends on how you measure it. The government keeps shifting the goalposts and the current measurement is little related to what a consumer faces. Inflation is measured differently today from the 90s and both different from 80s IIRC.

For further reference: http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts

Not maybe, it is supply and demand. IF the supply of remote labor does increase then the share of economic profit going to capital also increases. (i.e. Employers keep more of the profits as opposed to sharing)

Suppose the studies showing alcohol is bad were not suppressed? (Not even caring whether it is actually true or not.) Then what is the next step?

Meanwhile, what's the slogan being pushed by the World Economic Forum: "2030: you'll own nothing and you'll be happy." Raite...

The nazi regime was the most sentimental thing ever. It was vicious AF but they were all so romantic and corny as it came to the german nation and its heroes. All those calls for patriotism, and nationalism, where if anything emotional. Why do you think the culture minister was such a powerful figure? The nazi were the most disgusting sentimentalists ever.

I get why your assumption they disregarded sentiments exists; we are living in very similar times where undue public importance is given to sentiments. And we would like to think they were completely different to us, but the reality is we live in similarly sentimental times.

Edit: looked up on the author of that review, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Ihering, apparently liberal-left leaning and not a darling of the Nazis.

PS. if you want a trip into weirdness, watch the uncut version of Metropolis. Weird mystic religion they got over there.

Imagine it being capable of enforcing something like which executables you are able to load... Quite in the vein of Apple sending the executables hash to some random server

Now you're just repeating definitions. I'll ask you this, why would any one give a damn about "anthropogenic climate change" if they did not have some theory in their heads about "the final destiny of humankind"?

Cause I hope they do have a theory that connects to their personal values, otherwise they are just following blindly.

PS. did you just make up "factual belief"? I mean it is a tautology on many levels. But let's take it as qualified belief. Isn't that the root of religion? It's okay, we humans need to believe in something

At least we are getting somewhere now :)

That is such a cliched, average atheist argument.

Btw, even taking a very atheistic perspective, only focused on how humanity evolved (which is a selfish process in spite of your future protestations of how you have trascended it) we can see we evolved to be nice only out of self-preservation.

One would think that is the ultimate personal gain but I'll grant you that reminding yourself you are a good person must be a psychological gain of its own.

Hmmmm isn't climate change and enviromentalism in general the eschatology of the average modern atheist?

And they do proselytize quite a bit. The average atheist is as separate from the process of science as the average NFL fan is from actually scoring a touchdown. They're both spectators under a similar set of illusions regarding their claims as to their relevance in each ones game. Go TEAM SCIENCE!!!

It's ok, no one forced you to read it I hope.

Could this work as a loophole, pay the CEO something nominally sane. Give them the rest in stocks held in a trust they are beneficiaries of?

Probably office rents only, not residential

How did the poor fare in the end?

How naive to think salaries are not paid out of that wealth

Then they will realize the majority of landlords already don't live there: domestic and foreign investors.

I mean when the same family has had the Governor's office for 36 years out of the past 60 years, it begins to smell fishy or at least decaying.

Funny how those 3 cities are similarly managed politcially speaking.

Correlation is not causation, but maybe you should read them.

This certainly took a long time in planning.

That's just like your belief, the actual economics do not support this. The only thing that might change is the distribution of economic surplus (as in capital gets a larger share of the economic surplus versus labor). You might argue there will be more surplus, but that's likely not the case, and not for the body shops being discussed.

Yes but the actual settlement was much slower, which put a bound on it. Plus, the risks involved were way higher due to speed of communication. One might easily own businesses in different countries today, but at 100 years ago. One needed to partner up which lead to a sharing of profit.

Only some stuff is cheaper, but the important stuff is the same or more expensive than before (housing, education, stocks).