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Presumably capital changing ownership will tend towards ownership by those who can deploy it more productively, so it doesn't seem like bits shifting around is positive evidence th…

presumably if a transaction is taking place, the parties involved value the state of affairs after the transaction more than they did what came before, so value is being created, e…

Software Engineers use assembly.

Yes, we will have to see. I think my own attachments to liberal values don't provide much guidance for how humanity will be best served. But I hope whatever emerges or wins out doe…

You're at the mercy of powerful actors regardless of whether you consent to it. A law will affect me the same way regardless of whether I believe in it. A rock blocking my path blo…

well said

I think this is magical thinking about what a government is. The social contract theory is a just-so story. It's not real. Governments exist because they are a tool for concentrati…

Then yes, rights don't exist at all. What we do have is something else, let's call it "rights(tm)", which are a social construct used to privilege and protect individuality. We use…

If rights are unlimited, and only their expression can be limited, then it seems like it is a category that excludes nothing and so is basically vacuous.

The only right that seems even remotely plausible and socially independent was Hobbes's claim that we have a right to defend ourselves from being killed. Anything else just seems t…

Rights are only a concept that exists within societies, so it seems like societies will either define rights broadly and then discuss tradeoffs, or they would need to define rights…

I don't think that's how prototypes work in JavaScript though. The newly created objects refer to a chain of prototype references, and changes to the underlying prototypes will aff…

I think Kyle Simpson's You Don't Know JS does a good job about this. But on the other hand, it seems like it's usually safer to keep it simple, treating it more or less as classica…

I think the idea behind it is the parenting approach. A hypothesis about it is that it results in children earning more money, but that's not inherent to the concept.

The question was about how someone should form their opinions, and whether we can tell others how they ought to do that. Lots of our opinions do affect others (e.g., if they should…

You can tell someone what good criteria are for wines, why not forming opinions? They're not obligated to listen to you, but I don't get saying that you can't advise. Beyond that t…

The whole point of accounting is to force black and white distinctions, especially in ambiguous situations. But in fact there is no ambiguity about this. Owing someone money doesn'…

Just because a mortgage is a liability doesn't mean it's a bad financial decision to incur a mortgage to own a house, agreed.

I totally agree. I'm making the narrow point that a mortgage is a debt, and classified as a liability. A house is an asset. The benefit of purchasing real estate with leverage vs c…

that's a bit confusing. While you can sometimes get away with leaving out dependencies, and then you don't have to useMemo or useCallback as often, it seems like there is a much la…

I think it's questionable whether top-down interventions could ever control the negative externalities associated with greed. The upside of character is it is a bottom-up limitatio…

What would be the coordinating factor? Surely its disappearance is the failing of some collection of some individuals?

It literally isn't. It's a liability. Debt being reduced by inflation doesn't change that fact.

And milky ways are assets too (inventory I suppose). Doesn't mean you won't go broke putting all your money into milky ways.

asceticism. I think we can all agree aestheticism is the highest moral accomplishment of all.