mkovji

>> No, it's not. In our modern representative democracies, government is about asking as many people as possible for their input and then going forward with what seems wisest to you. Modern societies face problems that are much too complicated for the simple majority to be a good indicator of the best course of action.

It is just this mindset that is ruining the whole world. One persons so called wise choice which goes around creating discomfort for majority is what creates imbalance and intolerance across community and ruins every ones peaceful life.

>> We vote for our politicians because we agree with their set of values, and by electing them give them the responsibility of taking decisions for us, based on those values. In effect, we ask them to do the hard work of thinking through problems thoroughly enough to arrive at a good solution.

No politician will ever be skilled enough to make a decision. A politician is just a servant. I don't let my servant decide what to cook or what to do with their time.

I decide what menu i want and they just prepare the logistics and production.

Today i tell them to pick what majority wants and tomo i tell them to make what rest of them wants so that everyone is taken care. Each individual cannot or need not think and execute on how to clear the trash in their apartment. That's where a politician comes in i tell him daily we will keep trash outside home n u get some people to come and collect and dispose it using this technique and he just serves that task.

It should be the common people the actual customers who are making the decision not the service providers like politicians.

Or we can have multiple governments running simultaneously and i can just switch to the government of my choice and live by that rule. Something like changing from Verizon to Tmobile.

i think that will give some solid base and we can live like that for a decade and then learn any minus points in that and again solve them using the same system one by one and improvize slowly.

But the current crap in crap out system has no hope.

Is the current system a good idea?

Should i have better phrased it by replacing politics with government.

Isn't government all about asking one yes or no question and collecting a response from every citizen and going forward with the majority answer.

Isn't scenarios where we go ahead with minority decisions where the issues arise?

Abandoning is the only thing that seems to teach the right lessons. We can just effortlessly switch to reddit which already offers better stuff than Hacker News.

Hacker News is more of a throw away forum for their ease of throw away ids and how does having some karma here mean anything.

every foreigner is always a wierdo, thats wat makes this world so much fun and exciting.

foreigner by nation or state or city or apartment or school.

Its funny how you comment as if you know 100 % about Asian culture. Does one persons behavior define an entire continents culture for you?

Some people have worked in 16 diff teams in last 10 years and they have friends who have broader experience and they have super close conversation with managers, they don't go to agile rooms and draw something on the white board all the time and come out with no insights or progress after a hour or only have a skilled person come and give a direction in 5 minutes and nullify the whole one hour white board drawing.

I can tell for sure since i have been part of many such teams where we precisely point out any steps in the negative directions and offer tons of suggestions to improvize on the approach and most of the time come up with a way to gently impart some sense into the overseas managers who have no idea how to get what they want.

Your reasoning is so flawed because u didn't know when to use the word never, that doesn't mean your continents reasoning is flawed but i wish in hacker news there is a option to filter out certain people's comment globally forever.

Doesn't making things where it costs the least and guarantees best quality contribute to the overall efficiency and economy of the world.

>>There were 350 posters in all, bought for $80,000 by an organization called Progressives for Immigration Reform.

Why did 350 posters cost $80000, i am sure it would have cost lot less if they have been made outside US.

Some people assume it is a yes when some one says no, but i can figure it out. Whose to blame here?

It only indicates the person's failure and inability on not able to validate whether the yes the other person said is true or not and hence he deserves to loose money.

I have heard so many people say "I am not sure" and i have heard so many people say "No" and i have also heard some people say No and this is how you have to get to your destination or get to your answer.

So you are 100% wrong when you say "The answer to Y/N question is always yes in India".

Which makes me doubt/ blindly ignore any of your opinion ever.

I have never seen any rickshaw driver say yes to some place that he doesn't know. Either he will say he is not sure and he will stop at a place and inquire for u with people nearby and then take you to the place or most of them have google maps and can look it up if you cant by urself. Since they are pretty hyperlocal even without maps they can simply by talking to couple folks here and there figure out the right destination or by looking around a little as they may have seen the same place a while back.

You seem to have internet access, so clearly without asking him to choose the route you could have seen the maps and given the route yourself which many smart people do these days to save time and if you are not able to identify a route and are at the mercy of the rickshaw guy then may be you should have some patience and be thankful to the driver for figuring out the route and taking you to the destination.

Or may be they can be smart and ask for fees if they have to find the route and if u set the route then separate fees for that.

I guess one needs to learn the art of comparison since comparing random stuff will yield pointless opinions of no value.

Many did not even participate, so they don't get any certificate. So its a perfectly good thing to give a participation certificate to those who are willing to join the game.

Everyone gets a participatory certificate and one person ended up becoming a winner. I don't think the winner knew upfront before the race that he would be the winner.

I don't think that is the right lesson to learn from the given point. There are lot of $1 apps that are successful. There is a huge difference between $1 and free if you can see it.

This for example. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.halfbrick.... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.explodingk...

Is Uber's plan more like keep making loss and keep pushing the world to a state of rent a car for each ride and then get to a state of not own any car and then ones we get to a state of no one owns a car and every one takes a Uber then just keep jacking up the price at will and make more money out of us, and at that point we wont have a car and instead of buying one we will better say pay 5$ extra and take Uber and eventually reach a state where we spend twice the amount or owning a car per month on Uber and some smart guy figures out this and then we all go back to owning a car using Uber rarely at times of need.

Y go the long route we can simply stay in the current or previous state and use it like a taxi rarely wen needed.

Downsize in everything for 5 years. You may get closer FI.

i think we can do that already in IFTTT.

So what are you doing these days.

Best advice ever.