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by Duff 15y ago
You don't. And unlike actual goods, when they are lost, they are lost forever.
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by Duff 15y ago
Oakland sounds like a more permissive place that attracts scum. In NYC, they kick you out of the projects when you misbehave and scumbags end up migrating to smaller cities.
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by Duff 15y ago
Yes it is very expensive. There are about 40,000 policemen in NYC. Then again, there were lots of cops in old days too -- but they weren't managed very well. Back in the 80's, it was crazy. I grew up in a good neighborhood in Queens. The NY
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by Duff 15y ago
Yup. Problems materialize faster. Deflation is different -- basically everyone gets scared and stops spending money. As a result, the "velocity" of money slows down and prices drop in a race to the bottom. (The best example of this was the
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by Duff 15y ago
Who would do the fining? Hint: The people who run the government make their living by taking bribes and other acts of corruption that are a result of their regulations. In the US, corruption on the transactional level (ie. lobbying congress
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by Duff 15y ago
High inflation means you can't get loans and have to spend money immediately. Also, those salaried workers have rights. If you can't pay them, the government shuts you down.
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by Duff 15y ago
Its a Mad Max quote adopted by the Fuckedcompany.com BBS.
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by Duff 15y ago
No entrepreneur in her right mind would allow organized labor anywhere near their business. Best case, you cut out one of three monopolistic entities. (union labor and stockmen, cut meat packers) Once you let that camel under the tent -- yo
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by Duff 15y ago
"They built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. The cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of
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by Duff 15y ago
A severability clause has nothing to do with closing down the contract. Severability in contracts essentially means that the terms of the contract are not "all or nothing" -- they can be severed from one another. So if one of the clauses in
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by Duff 15y ago
I don't think that you can really draw a valid comparison between a business that produces milk and cottage cheese to a drug peddler. A drug dealer is a criminal because he sells contraband, typically doesn't pay taxes on his profit, launde
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by Duff 15y ago
The US isn't a paradise, but we do have a system of law that is reasonably just and at least makes an effort to respect the rights of its citizens. As the US has transitioned to an imperial power, some rather obvious warts have developed, b
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by Duff 15y ago
I suggest that you read "A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy". You don't understand how this stuff works, particularly the relevance of "fiat" currency versus an asset-based currency. You also forgot to address the
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by Duff 15y ago
I'm in upstate New York. Not a ton of opportunity in these parts, but if you're fortunate you can live well.
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by Duff 15y ago
It depends on where you live. Where I am, a 4 bedroom house in the city (mediocre school district) is $180k. So $120k is a good chunk of change, and you can comfortably live on a single income. If her vision of a "middle class lifestyle" is
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by Duff 15y ago
Responsibility is not a class issue. The lady who cleans our office is poor by any definition. She works 14 hours a day, every day. She has two kids, no TV, and has cash saved up to buy Christmas presents and school uniforms. The guy in the
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by Duff 15y ago
Yeah, sure. I've spent a ton of time migrating people from different mail platforms to a single, larger platform. When people fight to hang on to Lotus Notes or GroupWise, they make statements like that and roll out scary cost figures, etc.
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by Duff 15y ago
We could have had the same discussion about IBM in 1986. Think about it. Microsoft is handcuffed by their success, because anything that threatens the holy trinity of OEM Windows Licensing, Office and corporate EAs is not going to be succes
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by Duff 15y ago
You're not looking at the big picture. The PC is dead -- it's a commodity now. I work in a big enterprise IT shop with tens of thousands of PCs. We have management software that meters application utilization. 85% of application runtime on
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by Duff 15y ago
I think that you're zooming into this too much and missing the point. Think about the difference between success in the military versus success in a small business. In the Army, a protocol faux pas or a single ill-considered statement can i
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by Duff 15y ago
The difference between other tech companies and Microsoft is that Microsoft is no longer a growth company. That isn't necessarily bad. IMO, it's reasonable to have a slow-growth company in a mature market that pays a nice dividend (Microsof
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by Duff 15y ago
"Shit Out of Luck"
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by Duff 15y ago
Perhaps if Second Life found a way to incorporate Bitcoin, they could attract some press again. Maybe IBM would hire an economist to create a virtual IMF, backed by Bitcoin reserves.
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by Duff 15y ago
The email attachment scenario is a great example of efficiencies gained by de-duping. The problem is that the application needs to be depdup-aware and needs to write data in a dedup friendly way. The other more important problem is that the
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by Duff 15y ago
Moreover, they'll be taxed in the United States based on USD value. So if you are a bitcoin-millionaire in December, you had better hope that the market hasn't imploded when you do your taxes in March.
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by Duff 15y ago
There's a great lecture by a law professor on YouTube called "Don't Talk to Police". Watch it for some great insight on this. A key concept to understand is the phrase "Anything that you say can be used against you." That's a key phrase bec
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by Duff 15y ago
Answer: No.
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by Duff 15y ago
As misguided as the Patriot Act is, it pales in comparison to the Great Cultural Revolution and other acts of horror insanity that devastated China after World War II.
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by Duff 15y ago
Global domination is a funny thing. Did Britain impose its ways on the world and change it forever, or did the world change it? The answer is "all of the above". Of course many Brits got rich at the expense of the others.
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by Duff 15y ago
I agree that China no longer fits the traditional definition of "Communist". Then again, Maoism didn't quite fit the mold either. China has a strong societal tradition that is different than the west. While they may not be ideologically com

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