IanDrake

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by IanDrake 7y ago
The government issued a take down order, github complied. Why is that news or interesting when in the US companies are deplatforming people who's political speach is deemed harmful? The two problems are not equal.
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More? I can't think of one that's been erased yet.
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How does one measure value and then store it? That's kind of the definition of money. A money market account is insured and the real return is 0%, so it's not as vulnerable as you seem to think. You can call money a credit. Then
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Swap the word "credits" for money and you have our current system. No need to create a tyrannical government to force people to do deeds of arbitrary value for elderly people.
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Down voted by people who eat good intentions for dinner I guess.
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Regardless of where you stand, that is some garbage reasoning. The free market pays a banker more than a cancer researcher, therefore government must take from the banker and give to the researcher for... Reasons. The problem with that is,
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by IanDrake 7y ago
OK, he/she is not fake. So: What is their name? IDK. What exactly did they hear? IDK. From who did they hear it from? IDK. People here seem awfully sure about something they know nothing about.
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>America has an attitude problem Yup. >Like, there is nothing left to do. Nope. That's not it. More like: There is nothing you're allowed to do. In my town, we tried to get a town only beach, since most of the beaches in to
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by IanDrake 7y ago
I'll take 2.4% growth all day long. The title is misleading. I don't want incredible growth, I want sustainable growth.
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Also, legislator has no idea what rights are. No one has a right to another's output. We have a right to a free press... Not to free newspapers. We have a right to bear arms... Not to free guns.
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by IanDrake 7y ago
Mashable now uses the phrase "climate deniers" as if there are people running around denying that climate exists.
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Probably by accident, but it hijacks the back button. I find that annoying.
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Unclear how that makes him a terrible human being. Obama was against school choice, but he and all his children went to private schools. Does that hypocrisy make Obama a terrible human being?
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It's important to convince people that vice is virtue and virtue is vice. For instance, prisons house people who broke the law and were convicted by their peers...but let's pretend prisoners are all somehow virtuous and blame the
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Thanks for hitting the heart of the matter. A lot can happen in that time. Given the direction of things, do you think it will be better? I guess I don't. When HK is supposed to hand itself over to China's rule in 2047, do you t
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>calling Hong Kong protesters “separatists”, etc. Devil's advocate here...Are they not separatist? If not, shouldn't they be? It's hard to imagine your "country" working on a death clock. In 2047 it all ends.
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by IanDrake 7y ago
Get a Lexus and have it service at Toyota. Done.
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How did you get 17,000 HN points? Did look something like this: https://serendipitygreece.com/wp-content/uploads/comforting-... To me, this is the problem with seeking validation through these systems. You are re
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by IanDrake 7y ago
Can you connect the collapse of Bretton Woods and laissez faire economics for me? It seemed like you were implying a connection, but I don't see it.
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The EC "adds noise the the popular vote" in the same way the senate adds noise to the legislative will of the population. In one hand you say it's a bad thing, on the other its OK. It's not logical and the only way I can
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No, not all countries have that freedom.
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"The US has a lot of them for profit reasons not necessarily for health reasons." You seem to suggest that having the availability of life saving equipment is BAD if a profit is being made, but a lack of life saving equipment is G
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The EC has the same goal. You either believe in the goal or you don't.
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And in the US you have the freedom to move to one of those countries and renounce your US citizenship. So what is your point?
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Yes, they are different things. Yes, the Senate gives states equal representation. However, the Senate isn't "like" the Electoral College. The Senate is what makes Congress like the EC...or vice versa. So if you believe the
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Haha, seriously, that's your argument? Granted it's from 2014, but are you disputing the following facts as reported then? "The report shows the UK has only 5.9 MRI units per million people, less than half the OECD average of
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Are you talking about NYC? That seems like a very narrow view point. We have so much freedom in the US, but many people put blinders on then insist their somehow slaves. You can buy a house in Tennessee for less than one years rent of a st
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We should probably have something like the an optional "free" government run facility for nose bleeds, sprained ankles, and Viagra prescriptions in the US, but I'll keep my privately funded health care for real problems, than
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I see your list contains the electoral college but not the Senate. Can you explain why?
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Probably the worst written press release from Apple that I can recall. Pro this, pro that, it sounds like some low end brand trying hard to make their new middling product sound amazing.

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