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Comment Re:Labor is valueless (Score 1) 139

the expected price set by pure price competition will be whatever bare subsistence costs

The expected price will be the Nth highest benefit of any employer of employing such a person, where N is the number of people on earth capable of doing the job. Any lower, and some other employer will benefit from hiring the employee at a higher pay. Globalization increases N, but it also increases the number of companies that can employ you.

Comment Re:Siri doesn't have free will (Score 1) 401

The people in power positions would simply change reality so that we did their bidding without any manipulations.

There is quite a long way from "no free will" to "specific people can change your behavior". A die have no free will, but I cannot change the laws of physics that makes its outcome random and (relatively) fair.

[people holding power] have learned how to manipulate people very well in that time, but never have they been able to take away people's free will.

If that is an argument for the existence of free will, it is begging the question.

Comment Re:appearing to have free will (Score 1) 401

Or, put another way, is there really any difference between the illusion of free will and free will?

Still 'Yes'.

Congratulations. You've discovered the most obvious limit of behavioralism.

Are you going to explain that difference, or do you assume that people here just accept you claim without argument? In the first case, I would really like to hear it, as I don't see the difference, in the second case, everybody reading this should pay me 10 dollars.

Comment Re:My main questions (Score 1) 125

Its not an iron ball, it's just the battery. It has to be bigger because the feet are usually cooler than the rest of the body, so more cooling is needed to make a difference, and we all know how inefficient cooling is. Preliminary testing showed it to be highly effective at increasing employee efficiency*.

*Amount of time spent at desk was used as a proxy for employee efficiency.

Comment Re:But that's not a company's goal (Score 2) 168

There is an important distinction between focusing on making as much money as you can, and focusing on making as much money you can on each of your products. It is in Googles best interest to keep all of the parts of the computer ecosystem they don't directly make money on as free and easy to use as possible, because that will make people spend more time on computers, including the parts that Google makes money on. As such, is is a huge advantage for them to have a relatively open and standadized mobile OS. If they charge the phone producers for android, they risk some of them starting to use their own, incompatible OS.
TL-DR: it might well being Google financial interest to not make money directly on Android. It is my understanding that it isn't that easy to sue a corporation for choosing a different route to make money.

Comment Re:What "conservative" means (Score 1) 548

I am not sure I would call the government "bigger" in the theocratic monarchies of yore. More likely to interfere with your daily life, sure. More likely to restrict what you could do economically, sure. But it employed fewer people, didn't it? I suppose it all comes down to what you mean by "bigger".
As for the changes to the meaning of political labels, we in Denmark have them enshrined in the names of our parties. The party "venstre", litterally "left", is a right wing party, while the party "det radikale venstre", literally "the radical left", is a center party, at least as far as that they have been in governments with both sides within the last decades.

Comment Re: Good. (Score 1) 699

Everybody? Hyperbole much?

I shouldn't have said anybody, but it isn't, strictly speaking, wrong. I have no way of knowing whether my vaccines are effective, so people potentially spreading diseases are a risk to me, and anybody else.

For the second time, I've had my shots, the important ones. I wouldn't stop my children from having them either. But I do believe no external party has a right to dictate what I let bypass by body's natural filters and enter my blood stream.

Right, so let's remove the "you" form my statement, and restate it as "People can choose whether they want to be vaccinated, but if they choose not to, they might not have the right to go to any specific public place."

you're trying to bring [...] [a] world where you have no rights *at all*, where you're a property of the state for the state to do with what they wish [into existence]

And you are the one complaining that I am using hyperbole and straw men.

Comment Re: Good. (Score 1) 699

Why should you or anyone who's had their vaccinations care what I do with my own fucking body?

Because no vaccine is 100% effective.
Because we might care about children too young to be vaccinated.
Because we might care about immunodeficent people.

How dare you presume to have any say at all in the matter.

We wont if you will stop posing a risk to everybody, i.e. going anywhere public. It will also protect you from physical interaction with people with an active empathy, who are apparently like a disease.

Comment Re:Health, convenience, and scale (Score 2) 98

Not necessarily. Brushing too much can be hard on the teeth and gums (but I think this is more related to brushing too hard), and brushing also removes the amoebas that feed off of the bacteria in your mouth (or so I have heard, but it might just be somebody extrapolating), so you might be worse off brushing 10-15 times a day.

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