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Funny you use china as an example. China's greatest success have come in the areas with greatest economic freedom, where the government is least involved. https://en.wikipedia.org/…

That's a WHAT, not a why. You aren't wrong, just answered the wrong way around. The why is because it is just too hard for any centralised group to know enough to plan a large econ…

... which makes complete sense. The multiplier eventually falls to the P/E of a stock standard public company, which is what, 12? Lets just say 12. The investors need to give a sol…

That discourages hiring poor workers. "Everyone under $100K per year (which makes CEO pay $16 Million) is now officially an employee of {INSERT OUTSOURCED COMPANY HERE}". Heck, jus…

If Yearly Revenue = Yearly Revenue X 2, and Yearly Costs = Yearly Costs X 1.5, Uber is profitable within 2 years.

I'll have a stab. Value = what someone will pay. what someone will pay is X% less than what it will be worth in Y-Z years (where X is usually 50% and Y and Z are between 5 and 10).…

"I manage a team of one very productive person" vs "I manage a team of four PhDs". Which does a partner prefer to boast about?

> If the KKK didn't exist, Antifa wouldn't exist. Antifa are anti-capitalist as well. https://www.facebook.com/pg/AntifaAustralia/about/ shows "Promote the workers struggle against…

> what is the author suggesting about the abilities of women? And we get to the heart of all this - the belief that a comment on preferences is questioning some group's ability. I …

> I think it is fair to say that the author's idea of what empathy feels like is completely different to what the rest of the world thinks I think you misunderstand what he is gett…

I hate the high end examples, because people want to argue them. The case is also true the other way - there are more men at the bottom of the IQ scale. Can someone come up with a …

> The manifesto claims empathy for colleagues and customers is not required, but clearly it is. Can you help me understand how you reached that conclusion? Here is the relevant sec…

I am constantly amazed that "society" means America. Also, that all the examples are always how white majority countries have white majority X. What about China? What about Indones…

You are here trying to persuade me, at least I assume that is the goal, you could just be here trolling I guess. To try to persuade by claiming you are as bad as everyone else seem…

What's great is the next sentence: "But I am neither a biologist, a psychologist, nor a sociologist, so I’ll leave that to someone else." So, you know it is false, completely, and …

So you have a study which refutes this? He's made a claim, you are just making an appeal to emotion! Show that there are no differences between men and women on these scales, or th…

> If you truly believe people are equal and deserving of equal treatment then you must The two don't follow, at all. Lets replace this statement, and make it about the NBA. "If you…

Is the current user-base an asset or a liability? I guess I am asking is it a kind of technical debt? I'm not sure, and Digg is obviously the cautionary tail here on the "don't tic…

> because they themselves are committing a wrong I think you mean crime, not wrong.

> Occasionally a guilty person will be acquitted, and it would really be best not to also punish an innocent as a result of that. That's not how it works, is it? it is not a battle…