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  1. andkon
    I just found this via the "Also tagged with one or more of these keywords" panel at the bottom. There was a brief mention of Alice Miller's son, here's an article about his book: http://www.haaretz.com/life/books/.premium-1.604326
  2. andkon
    How much time are you spending on it? If not most of your time, why not?
  3. andkon
    Sure. The premise is that CEO pay takes money from workers. Putting aside that wages for workers and CEOs are determined by supply/demand, if we were to take the CEO's pay, how much would each worker receive? If a CEO makes $10M per year and there are 100,000 workers then each worker would receive (10,000,000 / 100,000 =) $100 each. Divide that by 12 months, and you get $8.33 per month per worker. So if we took the CEO's pay and gave it to the workers, it's just a few dollars. Workers wouldn't be much better off.
  4. andkon
    Napkin math: (CEO pay) / (# of employees) / 12 = $ per employee per monthOracle's Larry Ellison has often been criticized for high CEO compensation: $67.4M / 122,458 / 12 = $45.86 Wal-Mart has often been criticized for being Satan incarnate: $25.6M / 2,200,000 / 12 = $0.96 Wells Fargo has often been criticized for being a bank: $19.3M / 264,900 / 12 = $6.07 CEO pay then is much ado about nothing.
  5. andkon
    Are you working on your business now before you decide what's happening next semester?
  6. andkon
    http://www.fdrpodcasts.com/#/search/lifeboat
  7. andkon
    It's supposed to be a comma, not a period.
  8. andkon
    I just thought of a witty one-liner: I may not know what it's like to be black, but I can imagine what it's like to be a child who is hit, regardless of race. (Under 140 characters too.)
  9. andkon
    That's simply false. If lots of pig tusks are produced, the price will go down. If people for some reason don't value pig tusks anymore, the price will also go down. Just as the Fed can print more money, people can create more pig tusks relative to everything else. This is basic supply/demand. So they would not take those jobs therefore there's nothing to worry about. If people drop their traditional customs for a low-wage sweatshop job, then most likely it's that outsiders are viewing those customs through rose-tinted glasses.
  10. andkon
    http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/12/justice/nfl-vikings-adrian-peterson-indicted/ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/13/sports/football/adrian-peterson-indicted-on-child-injury-charge.html
  11. andkon
    It's the Daily Mail, so yeah, but does anyone have more info on this? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2738653/Stunning-satellite-images-summer-ice-cap-thicker-covers-1-7million-square-kilometres-MORE-2-years-ago-despite-Al-Gore-s-prediction-ICE-FREE-now.html
  12. andkon
    Sort of bald, facial hair, been to Africa, hard to place accent, takes off his shirt. This checks out, guys. Stefan "The Revolution" Molyneux:
  13. andkon
    ~17:30 "That's some gripping stuff." Pun intended? Great work, ditto. The childhood biographies and adult results are always enlightening, if sadly predictable. More please.
  14. andkon
    Can you imagine an article lecturing all black men on "crime culture" because a disproportionate number of criminals are black men? Me neither.
  15. andkon
    If they do take her side without talking to you, that will tell you quite a bit about them. I think the definitive stop is the realization that it's over or that there never was a strong, positive relationship to begin with. (If you've reached that, there's no need to talk. And if you want to talk, go ahead.) Personally, I had known my parents for over two decades and had tried to talk with them before to no avail, so I did not feel any need to have a sort of final confrontation or talk.
  16. andkon
    What are your concerns about ending it? If you say, "I don't like Bob and I don't want to be around him anymore. How will I end this relationship?" Well, don't be around him. Easy. So why don't you think you can just end the relationship now? What do you need to end it? Are there technical issues like living arrangements? Do you think the relationship could survive if _____? What's holding you back? etc
  17. andkon
    Video: http://video.foxnews.com/v/3637089474001/a-cure-for-baldness/ Article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2663086/Yale-scientists-successfully-use-arthritis-drug-regrow-completely-bald-mans-hair.html
  18. andkon
    I recall that Stef mentioned these two studies in podcasts before: 1. When confronted with basic math or information that proves their partisan points wrong, Republicans and Democrats double down and believe even more strongly in their mistaken world views. (Or something like this.) 2. People read a statement, say they agree with it, then there's some paper that's peeled revealing the opposite view. They don't notice the difference and in fact argue in favor of that diametrically opposite belief. (Or something like this.) Can anyone link the actual studies? Anyone know any related studies that are similar (psychology and political-type beliefs)?
  19. andkon
    With institutional injustices like slavery or feudalism or monarchy, I think we can recognize that these institutions should not have happened in the first place. Once such a realization is made, the question is, what approximates best to what would have happened without the illegitimate practices? This is rather tricky, of course. It's difficult with individual cases to go back and see who stole what, after time has passed. Individuals can "launder" their wealth through generations to the point where it either mixes with legitimately acquired wealth or so much time has passed no one really knows who the victims or aggressors were. With governments, it's not tricky since the government has stayed in one continuous piece.
  20. andkon
    There's some guy on YouTube who has addressed this:
  21. andkon
    The site is using number signs (#) for URLs. Traditionally, this has been used as intra-page linking like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Nobel_Peace_Prize#Barack_Obama . As such: 1. Facebook does NOT give a unique title and content when a podcast is shared. Each podcast shared has the same generic "An archive of public Freedomain Radio podcasts. Our interface makes it easy to find podcasts on any of the many topics discussed on the show, from anarchism to psychology to metaphysics. Freedomain Radio is hosted by philosopher Stefan Molyneux." 2. Google does not index each podcast as a unique URL, with its own title and content. See https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Afdrpodcasts.com
  22. andkon
    It's silly because there's no harm or aggression in small amounts of CO2. Now, if I blasted a hose of nothing but CO2 to the point where he couldn't breathe, that's a different matter.
  23. andkon
    This is where you take his wallet and run.
  24. andkon
    Her main message is that sex is good, contrary to religious views. She doesn't seem to discuss that sex can be bad (disassociation etc) from a psychological perspective. It's as if consensuality and protection were the only things that mattered.
  25. andkon
    So here's the bad stuff: 1. VISA that shouldn't be needed, statism sucks indeed. 2. Employer possibly lied and took advantage of the above for their own benefit. You cannot change either. Here's what you can decide between now: 1. If you walk out now you will "essentially bankrupt my family and destroy my career" 2. Continue with "just over a year left of this indentured servitude" So which is better or more preferable, given that (from what I've read -- feel free to correct me) there's no other options available? I get the feeling that you're let down and it's more about that than the practicality of choosing the better option: "assured me with certainty" (your emphasis). Has something like this happened before where others take advantage of you and you're stuck with bad options? I would explore that, if relevant.
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