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Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
I already addressed that under the very comment you linked to. The fact that you readily accuse me of breaking the rules but then consider discussing the merits of that accusation as "too tiring" and "playing a game of cross-examination" is very concerning.
Also, notice how some of my comments are, without any valid reason, being falsely flagged and silently hidden from view. What do you make of that?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20379602
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20378337
I have no intention of emailing you to "appeal" this retaliatory ban, because you've made it clear that you will ban anyone for questioning the merit of your accusations. You've made a mockery of the HN moderation process.
Comment · 7 years ago
> Your first comment upthread was obviously unsubstantive
Which one? The one asking for a source on an incredible claim? That's not welcome on HN?
Regarding the cases you linked to, only the first and last are valid. The second and third (which are the same, so I have no idea why you posted two links) don't violate any HN guidelines, as a careful reading of the conversation would make obvious.
Comment · 7 years ago
Don’t be ridiculous, dang. Requesting sources for an incredible and unsubstantiated claim is in no way “dismissive, hostile, and/or unsubstantive”.
> You've been doing it a lot
I don’t think so. Did you have some particular examples in mind?
Comment · 7 years ago
So no sources, just a downvote. As expected.
Comment · 7 years ago
> Isn't the American president a barometer or descriptive reflection of the democratic population?
For a sufficiently loose definition of “reflection”, yes. For a sufficiently tight definition of “reflection”, no.
> does one define American conservatism by reciting a prescription of what people ought be when they say they're conservative
One defines conservatism by a set of values and policies. The same goes for liberalism, fascism, communism, environmentalism, nationalism, etc.
Comment · 7 years ago
It’s clickbait. These experiments show no inconsistency in quantum mechanics, which can be easily seen if you think about the whole system as a single wavefunction under unitary evolution. And as someone else mentioned, “observers” are part of that wavefunction. Fundamentally, they follow the same rules.
Comment · 7 years ago
You’re equating the president with conservatism?
Comment · 7 years ago
To give you an idea of what your comment sounds like:
Does the content of the beliefs matter? Is it easier to be tolerant of free speech than Communism?
Comment · 7 years ago
That’s a very strange reading of the parent comment.
Comment · 7 years ago
> I think "successful" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this sentence.
How?
Comment · 7 years ago
> A free market is one in which, once uniform or standard rules or requirements are established
This is not correct. A free market is a market that is free from government interference. Such rules or requirements can constitute government interference. Ergo, they can fail to yield a free market.
To see the absurdity of the claim that "uniform or standard rules or requirements" always yield a free market, consider the "uniform rule" given by the price floor I described above.
> Even within a so-called free market, numerous market failures may exist
This is irrelevant to a discussion about whether the term "free market" is meaningful. It's moving the goalposts.
> coercion, fraud and misrepresentation, capital concentration, systemic risk, capture and corruption, numerous parties unable to participate in wholly market-based transactions (?)
These are not "market failures", and many of the failures you described are really the same (Gresham's Law and information asymmetry). That aside, one must take into account whether the alternatives are worse: in other words, government failure. For example, on your point about "rent-seeking and rents":
Alexander Hamilton of the World Bank Institute argued in 2013 that rent extraction positively correlates with government size even in stable democracies with high income, robust rule of law mechanisms, transparency, and media freedom. [1]
> What you're describing
What am I describing?
[1] Small Is Beautiful, at Least in High-Income Democracies: The Distribution of Policy-Making Responsibility, Electoral Accountability, and Incentives for Rent Extraction. Alexander Hamilton. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/195551468332410332...
That's not really a fair comparison. You're comparing an identifier in one language with the basic syntax of the other. The correct comparison would be whether : {} <> [] , ++ ; & * and other syntax structures of the C-like counterpart are more easily searchable or understandable than those of Haskell, which I don't think is the case.