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by MCRed 12y ago
The USA was not a planned economy, but much more of a free market. South Korea and Singapore are very much free markets for most goods and trade.
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by MCRed 12y ago
Objectivism is a philosophy, not a mythology. This was not an objectivist effort, actually at all. You're giving the article too much credit, it is pretty much all spin. > most self-declared libertarians aren't very good bus
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by MCRed 12y ago
Your firearm. They are quite effective. The definition of libertarian: People who believe the initiation of force is immoral. Thus, those trying to forcibly take your property are initiating force. Nothing about that being immoral precl
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by MCRed 12y ago
The article is essentially a fabrication.
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by MCRed 12y ago
So, wait, a mugger points a gun at you and demands your money. You give him your wallet and he runs off. Your argument seems to be that since he ran off without shooting you, no violence was involved? > I certainly haven't heard o
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by MCRed 12y ago
Well, I've lived there, and I'll say it's certainly developing, in the sense that its economy is growing, it's building infrastructure, and the infrastructure that is there is nowhere near the standards of the USA or Eur
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by MCRed 12y ago
Dude, the whole world is converting. What direction is China, India, Brazil, Israel, Africa, Southeast Asia, and much of South America, notably including Chile going? Libertarian. Chile is an excellent example. To prevent it from being ta
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by MCRed 12y ago
I think that "running joke" is pretty silly, given that libertarians putting their ideas into practice would be pretty well armed. How are you going to eat them? A naive perspective at best. Secondly, if you have an example of t
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by MCRed 12y ago
Ok, on that first test Libertarianism is doing quite well. Having originated with Rothbard in the 1970s, it's growing every decade pretty significantly. I'm assuming you're not believing libertarians are pacifists, but since
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by MCRed 12y ago
> Where Libertarians define "liberty and free will" to mean "absolutist property rights". No. Human rights. Basic human rights, such as the ones referred to in the pre-amble to the Bill of Rights (well worth reading,
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by MCRed 12y ago
The striesand effect at work. Most leftists have only heard of Atlas Shrugged because of the constant bashing it gets in the mouthpieces of the left. I wonder how many of them have, rather than burning the book, decided to read it and thin
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by MCRed 12y ago
Some other points: 1. This was an obvious bad idea to anyone who has been in Chile (such as myself) given its location. Namely they wanted to build a "farm" and sustainable development midway between Santiago and Valparaiso, alon
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by MCRed 12y ago
Libertarians are using the word violence correctly. If a person rapes, murders, beats, stabs, uses force or otherwise is violent against another person, then libertarians would call that "violence". Statists seem to believe that a
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by MCRed 12y ago
You've constructed a false dichotomy. There is a spectrum from 0-%100 adherence with the HIG and all the other rules. While the reviewers do not require %100 conformity, that does not mean there is "no consistent standard"
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by MCRed 12y ago
I think Apple, and it's users, are unashamed in their belief that Apple providing users a good experience is a good thing.
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by MCRed 12y ago
What's ironic is that people think nothing of google keeping spam out of its index, but have a problem with Apple keeping spam out of the AppStore. Apple's beef with Google started when they counterfeited iOS, which occurred while
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by MCRed 12y ago
No, good and evil are clear choices. Irradiating the flying public, taking pornographic pictures or molesting children are all evil, and Obama could have stopped that. Domestic spying, Obama could have stopped it. Hell closing guantanamo, h
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by MCRed 12y ago
- Designers of the language forced their where-braces-go religion on everyone by building it into the language. For me, that means every time I attempt to write code in Go my nose is rubbed in the "this language was built by assholes w
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by MCRed 12y ago
When things get serious, I think you'll discover that Go provides far less reliability, and is far more complex. (What's simpler than "it's already handled for you with OTP and battled tested for 2 decades"? That&#
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by MCRed 12y ago
"language"
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by MCRed 12y ago
> If Apple provides an interface to request user-data to law enforcement / NSA, that's not a back door in the product or the service. I consider that a back door. >We have also never allowed any government access to our serv
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by MCRed 12y ago
As an elixir programmer who loves erlang, programming elixir is programming erlang (compiles down to the same thing). It makes some things a lot easier than they are in erlang- a lot- and syntax is just one of them. But the really are, in
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by MCRed 12y ago
But be aware that all of Erlang's libraries and support ecosystem are available to you when you use Elixir. But all of Elixir's support and ecosystem are available to you from Erlang, only if you install elixir.
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by MCRed 12y ago
All this happened before. What we're seeing here, I think, is very analogous to the Office Suite Wars. Back in the day, there were many desktop software makers who were viable businesses. Multiple spreadsheet companies (like Lotus, for
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by MCRed 12y ago
The office is very old school- "have everyone there so you can watch them." Having a remote job gets rid of that practice and a lot of unnecessary meetings and the like. Putting up silly hurdles to applicants smells a lot like the
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by MCRed 12y ago
Writing software can be hard, certainly coming up with solutions to difficult problems is hard. IDEs are a tool that are a relatively recent invention that makes a lot of this easier. But nobody would say that IDEs are doing the "hard
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by MCRed 12y ago
1. YES! 2. Well this seems like one of those questions you could always say yes to. "Do you think you should have saved more money in your 20s?" "Do you think you should have worked out more over the past 5 years?" Wh
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by MCRed 12y ago
In a way it is. Accelerators have become two things: Pitch training camps and old-boys networks. The focus seems to be all about polishing a pitch, and faking stats for whatever part of your business needs to be faked to show traction of
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by MCRed 12y ago
Nope. I would never pay $100k to Google as a startup, because there are more efficient ways to deploy that money. I would, however, consider taking $100k in free hosting from google as a startup because making it free eliminates the cost co
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by MCRed 12y ago
When Steve Jobs introduced the iPod, I believe the author was probably 10 years old.

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