RandComment's comments

On: How a Norwegian comment section turned chaos into order–with a simple quiz

[RandComment]

TL;DR Comment permission is granted after solving a quiz about article content.

The statement related to how NRKbeta isn't sure how ad-hoc quiz questions are best constructed, was vague.

On: A billion reasons never to buy IBM services

[RandComment]

https://www.thelocal.fr/20180314/what-drives-you-mad-about-w...

The work culture in France has been understood for a long time. I don't understand how you think it's bias, when you clearly have never worked there.

On: Safe-money: Money in the type system where it belongs (2017)

[RandComment]

> Inheritance is worthless, then.

That's a spurious deduction. Inheritance is a mechanism of passing value store. Purely living off inheritance, reduces the stored value. This is a demonstration of the concept, not a violation.

[abiox → RandComment]

1) "The value of a currency is the effort required to obtain it"

2) (Inheritance requires no or marginal effort in acquisition)

c) "Inheritance is worthless, then."

[btilly → abiox]

Modify #1 to "The value of the currency is the average effort required to obtain X in wealth."

That allows us to include inheritance of wealth and finding bags of gold in the street without dismantling our understanding that a given amount of money represents a given amount of effort that we can expect others to be willing to exert to acquire that money from us.

And then walk through a house and look at it not as $X00,000 dollars, but rather as the amount of human work it represents.

[RandComment → abiox]

Currency value isn't dependent on a single entity's experience or the starving man would set food prices. SMH

[abiox → RandComment]

presumably your issue was with the first premise and not the conclusion.

[RandComment → abiox]

That is not presumed. Reappropriating how value and effort are measured is just raising strawmen, as I intimated.

[abiox → RandComment]

then your post was purely non-sequitur, as the syllogism's conclusion holds. there was no strawman.

[RandComment → abiox]

> purely non-sequitur

That's projection. No definition was offered and the existing was discounted. Still a strawman. Good luck with whatever.

[abiox → RandComment]

definition provided by OP, qed:

> The value of a currency is the effort required to obtain it.

On: Surprising Things About School

[RandComment]

> Lack of access to a computer almost kept some of our best students from being able to attend. Those aren’t expensive.

This is a bias from the lower middle to upper class. A computer without some knowledge or support to maintain it (more costs) make that price rise.

On: The Evolution of Data at Reddit

[RandComment]

https://www.flydata.com/blog/hive-and-redshift-a-brief-compa...

Used Redshift for our large data needs. No reason to look to anything else, given our time-shifted data could easily be fit into Redshift. For larger data, we would have to have some other solution.