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by 21echoes 13y ago
i don't think you could possibly read that quote and think that he was advising that there be a housing bubble...
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by 21echoes 13y ago
> It's your perception that the good climber is causing harm to the poorer. pretty sure causing someone to starve is, indeed, harming them.
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by 21echoes 13y ago
neither does snapchat
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by 21echoes 13y ago
I hope you're agreeing that the street address is way more private than a snapchat user name...
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by 21echoes 13y ago
> How come they did not fix this.. How would you fix it? The app needs to know if your phone contacts are on snapchat, and if they are, what their usernames are. In other words, the API needs to exist.
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by 21echoes 13y ago
it's amazing you have to scroll down this far to find someone actually thinking critically about the issue at hand rather than saying "they edited out the word 'these'! that's not how journalism works!". yes, t
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by 21echoes 13y ago
> But any strawberry picker knows hard work alone is a fast road to nowhere > Those with money usually think they deserve it. But most people who make the world run—who care for kids, who grow food, who would rebuild after natural dis
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by 21echoes 13y ago
> Communist Coffee Shop So you lived with shitty roommates... > If you don't know Git, you don't know shit ...you're applying to places that value a Linked-In-style "skills list" over talent... > If you hav
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by 21echoes 13y ago
ya that line was really out of left field...
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by 21echoes 13y ago
> Getting dollars requires going to a physical place to get physical bills. My debit card/square/venmo might have something to say about that...
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by 21echoes 13y ago
this is pretty fundamentally true of clients in general... if the code is on my machine, i can modify it, end of story.
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by 21echoes 13y ago
if you think the only reason you'd want to be in the same culture as most people who live near you is because they "are likely to be or may become your customers"... jesus, i don't even know how to respond.
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by 21echoes 13y ago
carbon emissions from a coal plant do not have the "intrinsic value" of the coal that produced them. bitcoins from a miner's computer do not have the "intrinsic value" of the electricity and silicon that produced th
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by 21echoes 13y ago
> Bittorrent does not work great, to my mind, compared to a centralized service. It's absolutely abysmal on network traffic, is inherently slow, and depending on the communication, practically unusable outside affinity groups. Towar
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by 21echoes 13y ago
> But even if you do view property rights as a "use of force", so what? -What do you think that implies? that a philosophy that is founded on "there are only two rules: property rights are The One True Right, and initiatio
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by 21echoes 13y ago
by papering over the problem with a short-term fix for their employees only, they remove public demand for a long-term, public solution
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by 21echoes 13y ago
> "intuitive morality" > It's all very simple when you allow yourself to see it. there's your problem. you're refusing to truly reconsider property rights as a use of force, and appealing to instinct rather th
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by 21echoes 13y ago
0 C-level employees have left. The only C-level employees are the CEO Lucas Duplan and the new COO, Barry McCarthy.
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by 21echoes 13y ago
i don't know who you could possibly call a "head honcho" who has left...
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by 21echoes 13y ago
my assertion is that this is not a "lifeboat" scenario. property "rights" are, at their absolute core, a use of force. to be a true libertarian, you can't believe in property rights.
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by 21echoes 13y ago
the NAP is in effect. it's just me and you in the forest, and there's one apple tree. you "own" the apple tree. I am starving, and I "steal" an apple from your tree. who initiated the aggression?
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by 21echoes 13y ago
main ones that come to mind: clinkle, dwolla, venmo. but the particular company doesn't matter so much as the clear market trend: fees are in a race-to-the-bottom mode right now, and within 10 years i fully expect them to be effectivel
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by 21echoes 13y ago
currently, sending money over the internet without getting charged fees is non-trivial. with the number of players in the payment space, i don't expect that to be the case for very much longer, and i don't think it will be bitcoin
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by 21echoes 13y ago
there are plenty of non-profits in the edtech space if you're really looking for "free and open access". Gooru ( http://www.goorulearning.org/#discover ) is a Google spinoff backed by the Gates Foundation and o
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by 21echoes 13y ago
that's how Google Play does it :)
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by 21echoes 13y ago
> Yet another failure to understand the purpose of mining. The energy is NOT being wasted. In fact, the energy spent mining is the exact thing that makes the Bitcoin network function. The energy is being converted into trust. The more en
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by 21echoes 13y ago
> that has no impact on how people use Nodejs whatsoever. ... except people who actually read the code and documentation ...
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by 21echoes 13y ago
> the behavior must be motivated by an attitude the decision maker disapproves of people get fired for attitudes all the time: "not being a team player", "having a giant ego", etc. being against hiring assholes is not
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by 21echoes 13y ago
firing people for immature, nigh-bigoted behavior is not "naked use of economic power to punish thoughtcrime", sorry.
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by 21echoes 13y ago
and then went in and attempted to revert the commit

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