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Maybe he cheated to get in?

I don't feel the need to be constructive towards the whole taxes=theft crowd. Engaging them would just encourage them.

Competent bureaucracy is what they've got in Sweden. You obviously don't believe public goods exists. That's stupid.

The more underfunded the government is, the less it can invest in schools, mental health care, the environment, infrastructure, a competent bureaucracy and so on. All things that are necessary for economic growth. Americans' allergic reaction to paying taxes is just one more reason why the country is circling the drain.

I think we both realize that solving the two job problem is much harder. Hands off government and giving people the freedom to fuck up their life is great for middle class kids in super supportive families, but can be disastrous for less fortunate children.

Not too easy if you're working two jobs to provide for your family. By giving all the responsibility to the family you sacrifice those vulnerable children who weren't as fortunate as yourself growing up.

So what is the implication from the fact that it is impossible to block porn for people who are not "an adult that has a fully formed identity and personality"?

Turns out the fancy math mania among economists didn't help us leading up to and during the great recession. We should now go back and pick up again the lessons learned after the Great Depression (like Keynes' Animal spirits). Math and models are still important (they are in fact essential, without them we can't think clearly or rigorously enough) but they and their interpretations have to take into account the complexity of human nature to a greater extent, not rely on a simplistic and almost non-existent homo economicus.

Because productive developers write more code or because productive developers write worse code?

Yea - I'm not really sure what the take away message here should be (although I found the article interesting).

I'm currently working at a late project right now that started early enough, but took too long to hire enough people to finish the project in time, and didn't use the time at the beginning of the project well enough to gather information about the current and future processes. Maybe that's an example of what the author means, but it certainly gets more complicated than "started too late" quite quickly...

Pretty sure the vagueness was intentional so as not to identify him.

Making a great algorithm _combined_ with suing the fake reviewers might be even better.

No he didn't. He argued that we need inflation to stop hoarding of money and make people spend their money and create activity in the economy. This is important because in the economy as a whole TotalSpending == TotalIncome

I think you'll observe that there are periods of inflation offset by periods of deflation, meaning that over time the value of money was somewhat more stable than your image implies.