WalterBright

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by WalterBright 7d ago
Not true. For every medical condition, there are a very large number of treatment options, with a wide variety of efficacy, pain, and cost. For example, I bet you could enumerate plenty of weight loss options off the top of your head.
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by WalterBright 7d ago
> I will find out for myself how much of a backbone software engineers etc have when I employ them. You're in for a rude awakening.
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by WalterBright 7d ago
Old soviet joke: Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under socialism, it's the other way around! Myself, I always exploited my employers by extracting money from them.
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by WalterBright 7d ago
Nope. The working week reduced hours. Those factories were not producing luxury goods. They produced everyday items for the masses. Things like knives, spoons, tools, textiles, ketchup bottles, shoes, furniture, nails, bicycles, etc. Standa
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by WalterBright 7d ago
I flew in piston airliners long ago. They fly low and slow, and barf bags are supplied for a reason (low altitude means lots of turbulence). Today's airliners fly high where the air is smooth, they've gotten very good at avoiding
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by WalterBright 7d ago
If you were right, the airlines would be highly profitable. They aren't. Where the gains went are lower ticket prices.
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by WalterBright 7d ago
The industries with the highest costs - health care, housing, education - are the industries most heavily interfered with by the government. The industry with an absence of government interference, software, has seen prices drop to zero.
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by WalterBright 7d ago
Copyright is a government granted monopoly. Over time, I've come to conclude that copyright should not be a monopoly, or at least the copyright protection shouldn't last more than a handful of years.
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by WalterBright 7d ago
Plenty? Let's start with Microsoft. It did not have a monopoly. Apple and Linux computers were available for sale. Any other examples?
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by WalterBright 7d ago
If some believes free market monopolies exist, they ought to know of some examples. Hence why I ask for a case, it's the easiest way to point out that they don't exist.
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by WalterBright 7d ago
If it's unprofitable for you, that means the other firm is doing a better job serving customers than you.
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by WalterBright 7d ago
Yes. My mistake.
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by WalterBright 7d ago
I'll be sad when I'm forced to give up driving my old cars.
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by WalterBright 7d ago
Some years ago, I was in a major crash. The traffic in front of me stopped, I braked hard and stopped in time, the truck behind me rammed me into the car in front. Nearly killed me. Some time later, I was on a snowy road. The cars in front
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by WalterBright 8d ago
Sorry I'm not interested in your diversion into Uganda.
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by WalterBright 8d ago
> Geography is far more deterimiantive than ideology. Then why are Hong Kong and Taiwan so successful with free markets? Anyhow, Spain installed a feudal system in South and Central America, with a focus on looting it and extracting gold
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by WalterBright 8d ago
If you can find a dip in productivity after the laws were passed, you'd have a case.
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by WalterBright 8d ago
I've read many accounts of the Revolutionary War, and the colonials were mostly offended by sending their money to England. Any tax seems heavy if the proceeds do not benefit the taxpayer. > I'd be interested to see the anthrop
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by WalterBright 8d ago
The US had to ship wheat to Russia to keep them from starving. There was a billboard put up in Kansas at the time: "Welcome to the Breadbasket of the Soviet Union". It would be worth your while to read a history of the USSR. >
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by WalterBright 8d ago
Have a look at what children were doing at work, and then come back. In once case I know of, the children in a textile factory worked all day at replacing spent spools of thread on the weaving machines. They were replaced by a machine that
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by WalterBright 8d ago
Rising productivity replaces workers all the time, starting with the least productive workers - children. Why is that so hard to believe? For example, the first steam engine employed a boy to run up and down a ladder turning a valve at each
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by WalterBright 8d ago
I wrote "has been". Everybody seems to have missed that.
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by WalterBright 8d ago
Yes, I did. And you can prove that wrong with a case history.
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by WalterBright 8d ago
You can always present a case history of one.
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by WalterBright 8d ago
The Crown did not heavily tax the colonials. Bone evidence showed that the colonials worked like dogs and died young.
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by WalterBright 8d ago
Both happened at the time it became uneconomic to employ children, and productivity was sufficient that people didn't have to work that many hours. Why do you suppose there was an exemption for farm work? It's because children wer
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by WalterBright 8d ago
Note I wrote "has been". The economic freedom in the US has steadily declined over the years.
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by WalterBright 8d ago
> the US had developed a bonkers huge continental economy with relatively abundant capital The US created that economy and created the capital. Colonial America had much of nothing. > Taiwan I asked Google "is taiwan a free marke
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by WalterBright 8d ago
The D language's nested functions are implemented with a static link and a dynamic link . You're all familiar with the dynamic link, which is a pointer to the calling function's stack frame (EBP on x86_64 processors). The
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by WalterBright 8d ago
You might want to read "Titan" by Chernow before telling me I am wrong.

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