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plonh··on What happens when a culture is driven by the need for money to make more money
In a realized democratic or communist society, you wouldn't have powerful people. Power would be distributed
plonh··on What happens when a culture is driven by the need for money to make more money
Then you'd need a property tax or else the investors can keep accumulating value and never paying tax.
plonh··on What happens when a culture is driven by the need for money to make more money
Not everyone can obtain very many BRK shares. Buffet has very many.
plonh··on What happens when a culture is driven by the need for money to make more money
Going back to feudal times , arranging marriages among aristocracy was a major issue. No princesses marrying peasants.
plonh··on How Bitcoin wallets can handle real transaction fees
That sounds interesting but is way over the head of a non-bitcoin expert.
plonh··on Why Childcare Workers Are So Poor, Even Though Childcare Costs So Much
Because it can be more efficient for each person to consistently perform their specialist career for two decades
plonh··on Why Childcare Workers Are So Poor, Even Though Childcare Costs So Much
Then your complaint is more with the artificially manipulated financial structure of medical careers, than the education path.
plonh··on Why Childcare Workers Are So Poor, Even Though Childcare Costs So Much
Just like adult teachers.
plonh··on Why Childcare Workers Are So Poor, Even Though Childcare Costs So Much
What does "useful" mean? Survival and propagation are strong indicators.
plonh··on Why Childcare Workers Are So Poor, Even Though Childcare Costs So Much
So? It doesn't mean they can't interact with each other and get indivual benefits from the experience.
plonh··on Why Childcare Workers Are So Poor, Even Though Childcare Costs So Much
Lectures in packed classrooms are certainly efficient, as you explained yourself.
plonh··on Why Childcare Workers Are So Poor, Even Though Childcare Costs So Much
Why does 32 seem old to you? Residency and fellowship are real doctor jobs doing real doctor work.
plonh··on Don’t Blink: The Hazards of Confidence (2011)
There is no correct price. There is just consensus. The notion of price discovery is just about getting investors to share their beliefs by making offers, getting to an inherently real answer.

On average, the market grows in value because companies eventually pay dividends from profitable endeavors.

plonh··on Why Childcare Workers Are So Poor, Even Though Childcare Costs So Much
We don't even need govt to pay for childcare, we just need to make it fully deductible as a "business" expense.

The office janitor's salary is deductible from the business owner's income tax, but the child caregiver is not.

plonh··on Why Childcare Workers Are So Poor, Even Though Childcare Costs So Much
I have never seen a childcare that feeds cheese puffs.
plonh··on Why has the quality of brick buildings declined in the last 100 years?
UK tenements had few or no windows due to the perverse tax formula.
plonh··on The Buddhist Priest Who Became a Billionaire Snubbing Investors
I thought that is normal salaryman culture, not the extra bad "black company"
plonh··on Why so many Americans claim Cherokee ancestry
Did Cherokee not sit on the floor?
plonh··on Why so many Americans claim Cherokee ancestry
It is also a shame that casino rights is the form of recognition they seek.
plonh··on Release of the Full TPP Text Confirms Threats to Users’ Rights
Yes, GP's view seems extremely naive. Unless you are using a pirate radio network, your ISP can simply turn off all your encrypted traffic .
plonh··on The Word “Million” Didn’t Exist Until We Needed It
I assume you use "football" for only its proper meaning.
plonh··on Tangled Up in Entanglement
Sure, you can explain any phenomena by saying "we don't know". How is that helpful?

Bell's Inequality shows that local hidden variables (with fixed values) are not compatible with the rest of what we know about physics.

plonh··on Tangled Up in Entanglement
Relatively is not fully compatible with quantum mechanics. This is the largest open problem in fundamental physics.
plonh··on The Power of Nudges, for Good and Bad
Arguing names is the boringest kind of disagreement, unless the name is misleading.
plonh··on Confessions of a Right-Wing Liberal (1968)
The USSR, by definition, was a collection of countries conquered by Russia. They certainly were rather effective at conquering.
plonh··on Developing in Stockfighter with No Trading Experience
The software engineer has a habit of imagining bow he would design a system, and then assuming the real system is built without any of the flaws he could design against.
plonh··on Apple’s Secrecy Hurts Its AI Software Development
Luckily bugs don't exist in machine-learning software!
plonh··on Apple’s Secrecy Hurts Its AI Software Development
More like 5 years, and shrinking.
plonh··on Why some NoSQL DBs only let you perform transactions on a single data item
It is a database, not a relational database.
plonh··on How One 17-Year-Old Coded a #1 App and Got Hired by Facebook
And of course , the dev didn't port to Android, so someone made a knockoff for the Play Store.
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