ahomescu1

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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> Implicit in this claim is the idea that somehow we need someone to own things. Why is that exactly? Tragedy of the commons. When scarce resources are communally owned, they tend to get exploited even worse than when they're privat
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
All of that also seems true of the US. Everyone wants a "leadership" role, either in government or in the private sector as CEOs or management in general, and even schools nurture students into "leadership" more than &qu
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> Geeks always seem to worship autocrats and dictators for whatever reason. That's not entirely true, there are also plenty of libertarian geeks (including here on HN).
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> In short, the Croatian government and their finance ministers/advisers probably aren't stupid. They have actual data and a knowledge of their own people and situation to go on. They aren't just playing armchair economist
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> The big difference is that in much of Western Europe, the combination of social security, healthcare, pensions, social housing, eduction costs, public transport etcetera means you don't rapidly fall out of the middle class even if
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> It is economically speaking rational, to automate the bulk of the (middle income) jobs, as there lie the most potential savings. So without regulation this trend will continue (it will on the other hand continue even with regulation, I
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
I don't know, but they are competitors in one huge market: desktop computers (sort of) and operating systems. If there's one company that's successfully taking down Windows, that's Apple (with Mac OS X).
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> I would love it if most liberal arts institutions "fostered a broad set of knowledge and skills whose value is not always immediately apparent." But they generally don't, at least not anymore. As I briefly mentioned in
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
I'd throw Apple in there and call it a "hate triangle": MS hates Apple and Google, Apple hates MS and Google, while Google... I don't really know.
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
From the FAQ at http://www.whatsim.com/en/faq : Can I make calls, send text messages or surf the Internet? No, WhatSim only allows you to chat with WhatsApp.
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> art of listening to music (that was an awesome class!) So you spent several hundreds/thousands of either your own or the state's money to learn the "art of listening to music". Would you say you got your/their
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> Which is my whole damn point: naturalness is irrelevant. I disagree. Man-made phenomena can all be fought and reversed (so it's worth trying), but not all natural ones can (so it can be worth trying to fight them, but one must als
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
Just because there are some things that can be fought doesn't mean that all things you/we deem "unacceptable" can be eliminated. Some things always exist, like the first law of thermodynamics (one example) and drug use (
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
The first law of thermodynamics is not acceptable to me, yet it is natural and there's nothing I can do to change or ignore it (I was going to also give gravity as an example, but that one is more complicated).
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
I think the fundamental question here is: what is the natural state, equality or inequality? If inequality is the natural state (which I think it is), it can't be a "purpose", it just exists.
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> Despite the fact that A needs a website and B needs an oil change, A and B will likely end up performing the work themselves, not because they enjoy it, but because they can't afford to pay each other. If they don't have doll
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> I find it interesting in that it's a useful argument, but only at a communal level - if the entire community hates the direction of a project (e.g. OpenOffice), they can fork it and take it in a different direction. You can take l
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> I think stegosaurus's idea is that a sufficiently motivated government or billionaire could make that land attractive to urbanites. I don't think they can. China tried: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> Cars are not required to look out for people, people have to look out for cars. It's not always sufficient to just "look out for people". It is quite possible that the driver, at the speed they're driving at, does n
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
Slightly off-topic, your questions remind me of this satire: http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertaria... (never fails to make me laugh)
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> Why is education for the citizens of a country considered something that a countries government should have no part in in the US? 10th Amendment says: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibite
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> It's a fascinating philosophy that, in my opinion, severely underestimates the human affinity for greed and manipulation. Ironically, exactly the same can be said of Communism.
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> North Korea is basically a monarchist personality cult rather than anything resembling the Soviet Union. Unlike the Soviet Union, where no personality cult of Stalin and Lenin existed. </sarcasm> North Korea is as good an ex
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
I doubt a gamer would buy a Mac Pro for a gaming rig.
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
We can do a present day apples-to-apples comparison: how does the life of a North Korean scientist compare to that of their Southern counterpart? I think the latter is probably better off overall.
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
> Well, some things people should remember - how to calculate the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle, or who the parties were in WW2, or what makes a metaphor different from a simile. This line of thinking is IMHO a lot of what'
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Experimental New Android Tool Chain – Jack and Jill(tools.android.com)
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
I'm surprised to see on that list some sequels to flops, Pacific Rim being the perfect example. Why would anyone go watch Pacific Rim 2, or London Has Fallen (which I assume is a sequel to Olympus Has Fallen)?
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
Not sure that would be an improvement. If funding gets tighter and more selective, their selection criteria might become pedigree and connections instead of who has the better idea and team.
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by ahomescu1 12y ago
Minor nitpick: his name is spelled "Elon".

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