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New comment by zygimantasdev in "Is Inequality Inevitable?"

zygimantasdev — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 07:10:20 +0000

I think your point about a choice of taxes is very close to my argument of involuntary taxes. While I agree there are some things that you must contribute to have law and order - there are other things I don't want to subsidize. If my town lacks sidewalks, cars drive too fast and etc. - why should you pay for other towns problems first? Because somebody needs more votes from that other town they get to take my money against my will?

Also, for example, I don't like some study programs and I really like some of them. Problem is - I can't choose which ones to subsidize for students. If that's the case - I wouldn't subsidize any of them, but I am forced to do so. Even if I think its harmful.

I think this problem arise/will arise in many different places: North vs South Italy, Catalonia vs Spain, young people to carry aging population and etc.

New comment by zygimantasdev in "Is Inequality Inevitable?"

zygimantasdev — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 11:30:16 +0000

I think your goal is impossible. Even in soviet union that wasn't the case. The best specialists (let's say top surgeons) will always have more influence. If you know that your survivability rate is 50% higher at one surgeon hands than the rest - won't you pay/do whatever you can to survive?

New comment by zygimantasdev in "Is Inequality Inevitable?"

zygimantasdev — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 11:22:28 +0000

If you are taxed involuntary - isn't that stealing? Well technically by law it is legal and enforced for everyone, but it still is stealing. For example: if everybody is under the immoral law and some people are better than others at avoiding the immoral law - is it morally okay for those people to avoid that law?

Edit: by involuntary I mean if person can't choose. Not talking about businesses

New comment by zygimantasdev in "Gitlab ‘rethinking’ third-party telemetry"

zygimantasdev — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:24:13 +0000

Gitlab reputation went down quite a bit from my perspective. No time given to migrate.

New comment by zygimantasdev in "Think young people are hostile to capitalism now? Wait for the next recession"

zygimantasdev — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 15:00:23 +0000

I guess we grew up with stories which gave us +5 resistance to socialism. Stories about how in almost every group were people who would report you if you talked about some "threat" to union. Stories about how everyone was living in socialism and they were building communism. Once communism is built - nobody needs to even walk in streets - you will have conveyor belts everyone taking everywhere. Stories about how in the west capitalists were using everyone as slaves and how you as a citizen had power to control. Stories how streets were empty and you had to wait for car for 8 years to buy it (price was insane too). Everyone was stealing from factories, selling "behind table" and etc.

New comment by zygimantasdev in "Think young people are hostile to capitalism now? Wait for the next recession"

zygimantasdev — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 14:23:57 +0000

Well there is no difference. If majority oppresses minority (democracy) - how is this different from Bolsheviks. You kill/take assets from the rich, make private entities illegal and then it is the same. If you allow freedom for people to open a shop to sell meat in your local area - well its capitalism then.

New comment by zygimantasdev in "Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index"

zygimantasdev — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:46:34 +0000

Thank you for reply, it is extremely interesting. Can you recommend books/any type of articles on this topic?

New comment by zygimantasdev in "Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video]"

zygimantasdev — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:59:55 +0000

Personally my thinking changes from Turing Machine to more math like with each year I do functional programming

New comment by zygimantasdev in "Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video]"

zygimantasdev — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:58:06 +0000

Maybe Elm itself is a killer app, but certainly not elm-ui. I don't think Datomic is a killer app too. Its certainly not comparable to Rails/OSes at scale

New comment by zygimantasdev in "Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index"

zygimantasdev — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 04:54:00 +0000

I would argue all currencies are unreliable ,because they go down in value due increase of supply. Throwing 2-4% every year sounds awful

New comment by zygimantasdev in "Why native apps matter"

zygimantasdev — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 07:25:16 +0000

What is your point of reference? Since software before electron apps was result of capitalism too

New comment by zygimantasdev in "I Just Got Permanently Banned from China Because I Liked a South Park Tweet"

zygimantasdev — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 05:57:04 +0000

All this China censorship made me think. Starting to get this feeling that more and more choices made by me (to buy/to use/endorse) are becoming more like a political votes. Just happy there are things/ideas free from politics

New comment by zygimantasdev in "Climate change causes Australia to downgrade Great Barrier Reef′s outlook"

zygimantasdev — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 05:26:08 +0000

If every humans wants to protect earth and "Selfishness of individuals triumph over long term global cause" - how come selfishness doesn't fix this problem? Seems like a contradiction to me

New comment by zygimantasdev in "Gamers propose punishing Blizzard by flooding it with GDPR requests"

zygimantasdev — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 04:42:03 +0000

If you paid for the game client(wow) it is not illegal to play in private servers

New comment by zygimantasdev in "Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments"

zygimantasdev — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 10:17:48 +0000

I guess what I meant - I looked at these issues differently, others probably too. Apple, Google "selling out" to be in China? Oh well - that seems reasonable since its a big market. South Park put it into different perspective. I guess that is what art does

New comment by zygimantasdev in "Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments"

zygimantasdev — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 10:00:53 +0000

South Park is spot on this season. You could say they are good with predictions, but I think they just gave different perspective to something that already has been happening (episodes on China censorship)

New comment by zygimantasdev in "New research questions the evidence for health benefits of eating less red meat"

zygimantasdev — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 06:13:25 +0000

"climate change and environmental degradation have serious effects on human health" - can you elaborate? Do you mean mental health?

New comment by zygimantasdev in "Neurosexism: The myth that men and women have different brains"

zygimantasdev — Sat, 28 Sep 2019 14:46:35 +0000

On the top post on that link:

"Red Hat urges the FSF board to seize the opportunity during its current leadership succession by appointing a president and members of its board that are more diverse, including from a national, racial and gender perspective."

at least in my country's constitution discrimination based on race/gender is forbidden (No person should be limited by law or granted privileges based on his sex/race/nationality/... . Statement like this is exactly that. I imagine other countries have similar laws - how are things like that acceptable?

New comment by zygimantasdev in "Who cares about functional programming?"

zygimantasdev — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 05:59:45 +0000

FP enables better concurrent/parallel code. I would say that is more important when CPU core count is increasing

New comment by zygimantasdev in "First Day on the Job on 9/11 as FAA National Operations Manager"

zygimantasdev — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 05:26:56 +0000

This is how U.S traffic looked - https://i.imgur.com/X10kmms.gifv

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