LekkoscPiwa

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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
money printing is inflation.
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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
I'm always shocked how otherwise very rational and logical people tend to be "communists". It is one of the things that lets me down when reading comments on HN. So sophisticated as far as hard science goes, so naive and just
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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
examples? Could you list 5 products with "made in the USA" label that are world wide famous and sold globally?
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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
And if someone (God Forbid!) is so crazy that they want to work 60 hours week when employed at a startup because they want it to succeed? Because they want their share of the equity to grow? Illegal? Forbidden? Costly like hell? Nice…
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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
I'm happier in the US where the dream of owning BMW or Porsche may easily become reality vs. just stay a dream forever.
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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
why BMWs are on average 4 times more expensive in Singapour than US? Low taxes at work? Need to use public transportation because cars ownership is taxed to hell and back? How came person using bus and not owning a car is considered to have
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HealthCare.Gov Enrollment 50,000 instead of projected 500,000(online.wsj.com)
3 points by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago|0 comments
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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
Governmint: im just going through agile sprint 0 with fda. according to the project manager sprint 0 will take weeks or even months! these people really need to stop saying they are agile. The pace of anything happening is horrible. Sprints
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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
You really need to show me where The Founding Fathers say that Freedom is Speech is out there to talk about weather while enjoying tea. The Freedom of Speech is there to talk about dangerous, unpopular ideas without the Fear of Prosecution.
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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
Stalin was looking for excuses to kill people. For example in 1937 - way before World War 2 started in Europe - he ordered murdering of all officers in the Red Army. If I remember exactly over 30,000 people were killed. There was no enemy f
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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
This article presents typical left-wing German point of view to the point of predictability. As a dual Polish/US citizen I understand and can relate to a lot of this what the article author says, but on the other hand what is striking
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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
Mental exercise: 1. Take the text replace Ashkenazi Jew with Arian 2. Trust me they (the nazis) had they scientists to proof exactly the same but with Arians. And see how you kidnap "science" in the same of ideology. That's a
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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
>This isn't "the west" cowing down before China, but a private, profit-seeking news organization deciding on a more pragmatic (albeit cowardly) option after what must have been a big cost-benefit analysis. Well, it is. Bec
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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
The whole of Europe basically declared war on France when Robespierre was in charge. He wasn't looking for another excuse to kill a few thousand people. He couldn't have having traitors in this circumstance. People forget about hi
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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
Radicalism isn't always a bad thing. The problem with the current Western civilization is that we traded radicalism for cynism and liberty for safety. This has nothing to do with education. Goring was very well educated. Most of the po
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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
couldn't agree more
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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
This is the fundamental problem that the West has: we don't have jacobins. We don't have political and intellectual elites that aren't cynical about our own values. It is not like we will punish some extreme Muslim treating h
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US is placed 51st in Life Expectancy at Birth(cia.gov)
1 points by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago|2 comments
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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
US is number 51 in life expectancy according to CIA Factbook. All the 50 countries that have higher life expectancy have public health care system. Look at it from competitiveness standpoint: your capitalistic approach to the healthcare yie
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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
Nonsense. Us was #1 in life expectancy. This year it is on place 51. It's not like racial mix-up in the US changed so much since 1960s that you suddenly dropped 50 places. It's been a process. Of course, you might have bright spot
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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
US has lower life expectancy than Poland. It has lower life expectancy than any of the 19 developed nations. It has life expectancy at the level of developing Eastern European nations like Poland, Slovakia, Estonia, etc. At the same time
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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
I work at "agile" project for a federal government agency. These people need to stop using words meaning of which is a mystery to them. For them Agile means we have a daily meeting with developers now to get status updates and thr
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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
33% chance of wasting a week is incredibly low? How came?
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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
I'm sure that the political decision to capture top Nazis alive, so they can have a free trial, did in fact cost more lives too. But I will not buy for a second the idea that we killed Osama on the spot because of the perceived higher
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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
Yep, if you can kill American citizens without the right to trial, without the right to the attorney, if you label nuns terrorists, if you kill children of suspects just in case - and it is all lawful - that's insane. Not someone point
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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
Every time you occupy a country there will be guerrillas and insurgents. So, I'm not really sure how this is unconventional in this context. It's absolutely normal, natural and to be expected. With the regard of the enemy of state
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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
I don't think you understood. There is something that we know makes sense from a military perspective. I.e. Osama is dangerous and must be dealt with at the spot. I understand what you saying. You didn't understand my response whi
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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
> First of all, if Himmler and Goebbels were hell bent on fighting to the death, they almost certainly would have been shot and killed by U.S. forces. Perhaps not though, because high-ranking German officials aren't known for blowin
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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
Yep. Exactly like SS Totenkopf. Nothing conventional there too.
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by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
Of course not. It's not like they are Himmler's or Goebbels that clearly deserved fair trial for starting a war that costed 70 million deaths. We don't give that to people who blow up buildings killing thousands. At some poin

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