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I think I’d rather live under something like this than the opaque, private fico system.

China doesn’t have the same (recent) history of ‘military adventurism’.

Not at all; Google is every bit as scary. Together the two companies have sucked all the profit out of publishing.

Won't use it unless it's unionized.

Ah Republicans, they want you to believe the government can't do anything well, and then they set out to prove it to you. Remarkably consistent.

Income gap has nothing to do with education, it has everything to do with power differentials. Education isn't going to counter the musical-chairs nature of the economy nor the outsized influence of a handful of ultra-wealthy.

If you're going to go to work on a ponzi scheme, don't be surprised when you end up working with entirely unscrupulous people.

Bitcoin is the very essence of the free rider problem, it derives its value from illicit goods and money laundering and uses real resources at an incredibly inefficient rate to do so.

I don't think it's about labeling people as being good or bad, but more about not letting things stand.

If you encounter attitudes from people that are hostile towards you, you can either speak up and allow them to correct themselves (or double-down) or be silent and give your tacit approval.

Don't think there's anything wrong with markets per se, but implementation details are important.

Markets where some players have considerably more coercive power than others don't tend to produce good outcomes.

That's how the financial arrangements work out, but those are quite malleable.

Planes are perfectly capable of flying without first class sections.

Yes. Markets are a means, not an ends. When markets undermine basic fairness, they are gross.

Paying in financial terms is just scorekeeping. Paying in real terms is raw materials, labor, etc.

What you're saying becomes true when the latter is in short supply, but when the former is in short supply, something else is happening.

That depends entirely on the level of understanding.

Recognizing the harmony underneath a line isn't something a casual listener is going to do, but is essential for a musician who is trying to communicate with other musicians in real-time.

Anything more than two spaces is a waste of precious screen real-estate.

Music is language.

Music 'theory' is somewhat akin to linguistics (or language subjects). It can help you dissect and understand how things work in an abstract sense, but when it comes to actually talking (or playing music), you're operating in a different mindset.

The people who rely on music theory are non-experts in the same way that the people who rely on language class to speak are non-native speakers.

I liked this piece which touches on many of these issues: http://www.ianwelsh.net/the-basic-psychological-structure-of...

More like the rich are eating the poor.

bind is useful as a curry that's built-in, but I always pass `null` as the first argument.

not a huge fan of the `new` keyword in js; it's difficult to mock and there are better options (Object.create/freeze e.g.)

If you acknowledge a political problem, the next logical step is proposing a political solution.

If you are ideologically incapable of agreeing with the latter, it will affect your ability to recognize the former.

A person who wants to make money.

They presumably have a charter to operate from a government that is supposedly by and of the people (all chuckling aside). That type of ideology is cancerous (it uses the resources of a host to replicate itself without regard to the host's well-being) to a social system.

This seems incredibly inefficient. Medical research should not be driven this much by people who got lucky in unrelated fields.

I guess throwing a million kids in prison is cool then.

Know enough about programming that learning the n+1th framework isn't a particularly high bar to cross.

Tension & resolution a much better framework to understand. But not all music takes advantage.

This is what happens when you believe your own bullshit.

I'll save my you go girl for when he's in jail.

Different set of rules.

Because those are the areas they want to destabilize to drum up work.