Certainly not, I like to be right, or I like to be wrong and know it, and learn from my misunderstandings, and the ideas of others. That is not the same as wanting others to be wrong. People who raise facile objections can still be instigated into providing deeper understanding.
But thanks for jumping to conclusions about a stranger on the internet. It will totally change my mind for you to tell me what I'm thinking.
When the whole point of a post is to attack me on the grounds of something I specifically acknowledged, that goes above and beyond objecting to someone being wrong about something minor, but about re-justifying something I already said in the face of absolute evidence someone didn't get it. I do not like to miscommunicate.
And I acknowledged that directly in a way that would be utterly transparent to anyone reading it. Your post was so helpful drawing attention to something that was already clearly stated.
"Waah, the last few dollars of my income are taxed at a slightly higher rate, and I'm deliberately ignoring, for the sake of making my argument not completely retarded, that the government does inflation adjust tax brackets quite frequently."
Let's not forget super-leveraged investments that are so disconnected from the value of the currency they're priced in, that for simplicity's sake, banks often barter the interest rates of one security to another.
It almost sounds like you had the same high school history teacher as I did, because that was definitely a lesson I had. And not to worry, populist low-information economics has somehow turned pro-gold standard in the past decade or so, because they imagine that somehow massive deflation would be a good thing in a society where the net debt burden has increased to unprecedented levels.
I don't get it, but magical economic panaceas are always nice to promise.
Or any other type of economics that acknowledges the basic reality of the way economies and peoples' lives interact. Behavioralism makes no denial of this premise either. If your economic system requires you to specifically ignore one way things can turn out to be valid, that isn't a testament to its quality.
And the rest of the time, we're subjected to people shouting how much they disagree with the parent, usually in the most uninteresting manner possible, usually focusing on a tangential piece of the parent post, really beating the drum on how wrong it is. This post is almost certainly no exception, because while I agree with the premise of your post, I find that it misses the massive amount of chaff(that gets modded up, no less) that hides the wheat.
Nope, we're approaching 3 classes, Robot Slaves(who don't mind), super wealthy robot owners, and people who are expected to work in a world where work is done by robots.
Part A has essentially happened. Everything by valve that's not way-too-old-to-port has been linuxified. Part B isn't going to happen because they want developers to target whatever audience they feel like.
One thing(among others) that drove people to stay with Windows for their home PCs has been that games have used windows as a target platform. Microsoft decided their games division should push their consoles as hard as possible, even directing partners to target the consoles above windows.
Valve recognized early that Microsoft was a competitor and couldn't be the only provider for environment. A push to linux on steam is going to drive abandonment of windows. Microsoft has damaged their headline product to push a broken model of black-box entertainment.
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Thanks for the paradox, asshole.
Certainly not, I like to be right, or I like to be wrong and know it, and learn from my misunderstandings, and the ideas of others. That is not the same as wanting others to be wrong. People who raise facile objections can still be instigated into providing deeper understanding.
But thanks for jumping to conclusions about a stranger on the internet. It will totally change my mind for you to tell me what I'm thinking.
When the whole point of a post is to attack me on the grounds of something I specifically acknowledged, that goes above and beyond objecting to someone being wrong about something minor, but about re-justifying something I already said in the face of absolute evidence someone didn't get it. I do not like to miscommunicate.
You would not believe how often I am wrong.
That is quite occasionally true.
And I acknowledged that directly in a way that would be utterly transparent to anyone reading it. Your post was so helpful drawing attention to something that was already clearly stated.
"Waah, the last few dollars of my income are taxed at a slightly higher rate, and I'm deliberately ignoring, for the sake of making my argument not completely retarded, that the government does inflation adjust tax brackets quite frequently."
Let's not forget super-leveraged investments that are so disconnected from the value of the currency they're priced in, that for simplicity's sake, banks often barter the interest rates of one security to another.
It almost sounds like you had the same high school history teacher as I did, because that was definitely a lesson I had. And not to worry, populist low-information economics has somehow turned pro-gold standard in the past decade or so, because they imagine that somehow massive deflation would be a good thing in a society where the net debt burden has increased to unprecedented levels.
I don't get it, but magical economic panaceas are always nice to promise.
Or any other type of economics that acknowledges the basic reality of the way economies and peoples' lives interact. Behavioralism makes no denial of this premise either. If your economic system requires you to specifically ignore one way things can turn out to be valid, that isn't a testament to its quality.
And the rest of the time, we're subjected to people shouting how much they disagree with the parent, usually in the most uninteresting manner possible, usually focusing on a tangential piece of the parent post, really beating the drum on how wrong it is. This post is almost certainly no exception, because while I agree with the premise of your post, I find that it misses the massive amount of chaff(that gets modded up, no less) that hides the wheat.
Banks are now rushing to plant stand-up comics on the reserve board so they can game on metric they haven't been able to before.
In other news, concept of "causation" completely lost on those making the most important decisions affecting the world economy.
No, frequently it's owned by Rupert Murdoch or the House of Saud.
America is the country where you know that no matter how horrible and destructive someone's greed is, there will always be a news outlet to defend it.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I know Wells Fargo exists.
Your understanding of shadow banking is wrong. That is precisely the reason a bank called "Wachovia" doesn't exist anymore.
My presumption of Americas was driven by the pricing in USD, not from nowhere.
You really think that every single American is making ~800k under the table per year?
Haha, a car that costs less than MSRP. That's a good one.
Nope, we're approaching 3 classes, Robot Slaves(who don't mind), super wealthy robot owners, and people who are expected to work in a world where work is done by robots.
Waah, I only want to play big corporate games on a non-corporate operating system.
Yeah, I can see Portal 2 didn't make it. That sucks.
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Part A has essentially happened. Everything by valve that's not way-too-old-to-port has been linuxified.
Part B isn't going to happen because they want developers to target whatever audience they feel like.
One thing(among others) that drove people to stay with Windows for their home PCs has been that games have used windows as a target platform. Microsoft decided their games division should push their consoles as hard as possible, even directing partners to target the consoles above windows.
Valve recognized early that Microsoft was a competitor and couldn't be the only provider for environment. A push to linux on steam is going to drive abandonment of windows. Microsoft has damaged their headline product to push a broken model of black-box entertainment.