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Tax system and government budget in general are very deliberate system of smoke and mirrors designed to obfuscate how the money is spent. You are paying income tax, but your employ…

Cost of a great apartment by 1920 standards is affordable to anyone before they are 30, the problem is that they want to add lots of nice but non-essential things to that house dri…

If quantum computers turn out to be able to do that, the api would be very similar to what dwave has today. That is one will use normal computer to reformulate the task into a pred…

It can't become mainstream, it is a very narrowly specialized hardware for a very limited set of tasks.

In that chain there is no distinction between subjective experience of mental state and evolution of physical state of the brain. If you believe that the 'hard' problem exists then…

There is effectively infinite space up high, and low is bounded by death, so it never can average out.

> Parents don't have any choice in this either. That's a very fucked up thing to say, governments or random strangers from internet do not have a right to decide how parent raises …

Being in school does not make one educated. Keeping disruptive child in the same room with normal children, means we get fewer educated people, not more.

For instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_service . 12 year old would be pretty fine to spend 4-5 hours a day cleaning streets for a while. Btw. I am not advocating for …

I went to school at 6 years, our schools were for 10 years, and at 16 i went to university. At the university with us were some 20 year olds, who went to school at 7 years, were no…

Laws like "do not kill", "do not steal", have been found long before politicians existed, by the natural selection of societies. That is groups of people who did not follow these l…

> Drop out now, we'll give you a bunch of money later Later they only get ability to sit at the same classes at the same public school, so there is no financial incentive. 15 year …

> You mean they enroll back at a private school to get their education? I mean the money that government wastes keeping them in school while they are 15 and don't want to learn, ca…

Keeping them in school like it is done now, does not help them in any way, it merely transforms school from a place to learn into a mini prison where dysfunctional kids do not allo…

When we lived in tribes, people knew who did what job, and those who were taking more than they were contributing were punished harshly. Money is merely a mnemonic device serving t…

That extra 200 will also allow some people to move to a rural area, decreasing demand, which means you won't find a renter.

Well it kinda is the same, in any transaction today two people vote to transfer goods and the rest of the people in the country vote to take a percentage of that as tax. We only ne…

That is the same argument proponents of planned economy use. It doesn't work in reality because no one knows what other people need and no one cares. Representatives care about bei…

Well if you knew a good reason for secret ballots you could tell us that, instead of telling that you are smarter than me. You really should take another look at hn commenting guid…

That's a very good question, for instance for most of its republican period Rome did not have secret ballot, and voting was open. That have changed in 138BC https://en.wikipedia.or…

Why is it a bad idea? Can you describe one bad consequence of it, if it is implemented in combination with the other ideas above?

I hope you will agree that the overall goal is maximizing freedom and autonomy, that is allowing every person or group to pursue happiness the way they want make mistakes or good c…

What we have now is a politician saying vote for me and i'll pass laws that will give you 10k in next 4 years, people vote for the politician who then takes money from scamazon giv…

Direct voting does not replace judiciary or even senate, it only augments the house of congress. Can you bring one example where the public wanted to treat a group unjustly and par…

If majority of people in a country want to persecute an outnumbered subgroup, then what prevents the majority of delegates wanting the same as well? You have an implicit assumption…