solidsnack9000

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by solidsnack9000 14d ago
It's not a matter of economics, corporate policy or belief in people -- it's a strategic matter. A country needs a secure and stable pipeline for personnel as much as for any other strategic asset. A country also needs to keep up
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by solidsnack9000 22d ago
Let's say that, at least in concept, the shareholders individually vote. (Frequently their votes are delegated; in many cases, they even have no vote.) Say shareholders vote for a certain executive, call them Gaius, to be hired. Gaius
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by solidsnack9000 25d ago
Shareholders can't be held accountable because they can neither initiate nor prevent actions of the company. That is an essential part of the bargain -- it protects the shareholders from each other and makes public ownership of compani
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by solidsnack9000 1mo ago
The limited number of people who attract the CIA's attention have data privacy concerns that go far beyond license plate readers. Warrants are not (and never have been) a solution for that.
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by solidsnack9000 1mo ago
The police officer can record and see anything they want; but I'm not sure what that admission changes. Hasn't that always been true? A warrant is for things that other people who are not police wrote down (or otherwise recorded
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by solidsnack9000 1mo ago
Government agencies frequently keep each other in the dark, even when they are the same government -- and the DMV is not the same government as many of the agencies (in other states or at the federal level) that would want this data.
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by solidsnack9000 1mo ago
I'm not sure how the approach you're proposing addresses the example JackFr offers. One reason is that the exam still results in disparate outcomes -- it only tests basic skills -- even though it is not in its design or operation
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by solidsnack9000 2mo ago
That is true; but that is also something fundamentally different.
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by solidsnack9000 2mo ago
There are plenty of protections against private entities in the US legal system -- other people, corporations and organizations. Those were not the issues the founders were trying to address, though -- the common law offered many such prote
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by solidsnack9000 2mo ago
Yes, there is a separate, harder procedure for changing the Constitution of the United States -- but that procedure is also a vote.
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by solidsnack9000 2mo ago
The page you link contains many interesting examples; but many of them are simply cases of making the vote harder -- requiring unanimous consent to change English-French bilingualism in Canada, for example -- rather than cases where the law
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by solidsnack9000 2mo ago
Everything in the US Constitution is amendable, though -- in other words, the whole Constitution can be changed with a vote. The US is founded on certain ideas about natural rights -- hence not granted, per se -- but that's somewhat
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by solidsnack9000 2mo ago
I don't understand how it is that the EU Parliaments votes to reject legislation. Presumably, this is not the default for most rules. Is this some special class of rule -- put together by a special committee, for example -- that has
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by solidsnack9000 2mo ago
I'm not sure any country actually has a Constitution with rights that are not up for a vote. There is generally a separate, harder procedure for changing the "basic law" or Constitution of a country -- for example, 2/3 o
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by solidsnack9000 2mo ago
It can be in their interest if their model assumes certain revenue from sales and service. Most brands of cars can be repaired by independent technicians. Toyotas are more valuable because they are reliable -- because they are repaired less
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by solidsnack9000 3mo ago
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin#1750s It's time to reconsider some of what we
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by solidsnack9000 4mo ago
It seems like you're saying, that PE, landlords, &c, are in a market where a landowner can hold on to property, not rent it out or put it to other productive use, and still make money. That is a problem, but not a problem with weal
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by solidsnack9000 4mo ago
I interpreted it to mean, it was much harder than something else -- than another approach. But I couldn't figure out what other approach they had in mind.
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by solidsnack9000 4mo ago
Host-to-VM communication uses vsock . Conceptually simple but In practice, much harder to implement. Much harder than what?
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by solidsnack9000 4mo ago
Most of Europe post-war was very poor. I'm not sure the trend could go back as far as that. How are you weighing the trend you highlight relative to overall long run success of private ordering, stock companies, readily available credi
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by solidsnack9000 4mo ago
Because a PE can have longer time horizons than a landlord or a real estate company?
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by solidsnack9000 4mo ago
Nothing -- but the crazy thing is that people vote for it, not that landlords support it.
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by solidsnack9000 4mo ago
Consumption is a kind of voting in the economy, I suppose; but the economy is heavily geared towards making things that regular people want. How many Corollas are there for every Bugatti? If what you're saying is true, would it be unfa
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by solidsnack9000 4mo ago
When a PE fund buys an apartment building, isn't that really competing with landlords, not renters? The PE fund is not living in the apartment -- they have to try to rent it out, after all.
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by solidsnack9000 4mo ago
This is potentially a long conversation; but why would you start with rankings like this, which only go back a relatively short time? Broadly speaking, human welfare got a lot better in the last three hundred years, due to productivity impr
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by solidsnack9000 4mo ago
Wealthy people pay a lot of taxes in the USA. If they aren't routinely avoiding paying income tax and taxes in general, how could that be the point? It may be more realistic to view this in terms of elite power struggle. There are some
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by solidsnack9000 4mo ago
If those with assets keep accruing more assets the median person will suffer. How will they suffer? The people with assets, to realize a benefit from them, have to spend money. If they don't spend the money, then what's the prob
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by solidsnack9000 4mo ago
I'm not sure how there is a societal problem with "run-away levels of wealth". We have societal problems around food costs, housing costs, healthcare costs, &c; but people with extreme wealth are not bidding up sandwiches
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by solidsnack9000 4mo ago
Thank you for offering this take -- it is the only forward looking one. The anonymous internet is going away -- it is too supportive of crime and various kinds of gray area misconduct, and governments and large corporations were eventually
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by solidsnack9000 4mo ago
Wow! https://seeingmachines.com/understanding-driver-drowsiness-a... Since July 2022, Driver Drowsiness and Attention Warning (DDAW) systems have been required in all new vehicle types within the European Union (EU). They

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