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by anewaccountname 18y ago
>At some point everyone must trade their labor for goods other people produce. This transaction incurs taxes that you must pay in dollars, or you go to jail. If everyone just worked for non-profits focused on providing for people, that
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
Glad to know you only wear a potato sack. Do you spend the absolute minimum on clothes, or do you replace your t-shirt when it gets a permanent mustard stain on it?
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
>unless by "sustainable energy" we mean proven technologies like nuclear, which leftists inevitably don't Yeah, proven to need billions of dollars on a Government subsidy to limit liability to 10 billion dollars, no matter how much the
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
>And somehow I hope our industry is special, that we're less likely to do crazy things in general. We're trained in science and reasoning after all. As an astronaut, I have the same hope for my industry. Puts on diaper
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/01/20/ap5943395.html Since the government didn't insist on stricter terms, Citi is paying a 1 cent dividend. Blame the government for not negotiating stricter terms. If Citi didn't pay the max dividen
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
Another classic fallacy: trade is more complicated than the basic picture of comparative advantage you got in Econ 101. If America had kept pursuing its comparative advantage, we would still be trading beaver skins to the British for manuf
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
When a product is covered by more than one patent, the patent-holders end up in a tragedy of the commons problem. The commons is the person with the product. He has money he can pay. Each patent holder has a veto over the product and wan
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
Carmack isn't just being hypothetical here; he independently came up with "Carmack's Reverse" for rendering shadows and it turned out Creative already had a patent on it; they ended up using it to force Doom 3 to support some crufty proprie
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
I think buying 100 HP Halos would be a better expenditure than one of these planes (not to mention the pilot/staff/maintenance/fuel that will be spent on this thing compared to the upkeep of a Halo).
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
Looks like the current front page, not the best stories of the week..
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
How about a slow feed that I could check once a week and only get the week's 30 best stories?
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
Gorgeous site.
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
It's actually $3,000 in after-tax (federal, state, and SS) dollars, so it is really closer to a $5-6,000 difference in base salary, as long as you are a glutton.
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
The circulation losses are a smoke screen--newspapers got really bloated during the last 8 years due the the housing bubble (every opened a newspaper to see who pays for it? realtors and car dealerships; neither of which is having a good t
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
Reminds me of the DNS hack where the same thing happened with DNS and browsers stopped displaying unicode domains entirely after a few too many wachovia.com lookalikes.
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
There is an old saying: "bored people are themselves, boring"
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
Are we playing 20 questions or something? Just come out with it; the name you are looking for is cow catcher.
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
How about TV, where the release window is "while it airs"?
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
Edible plants for the most part rely on being eaten to spread their seeds, so if animals did, it wouldn't matter. Humans gathering wild berries on the other hand eat them and then "spread" their seeds into some chemical filled RV toilet.
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
>they can't fire you for telling people what you make. Yes they can. Unless you are talking about Western Europe or something.
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
When you define "almost everyone in the world" as the <5% that own stock, then I'm not s.......
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
If nuclear is so cheap and has such few externalities, how did we wind up with the Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act?
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
My experience installing OS X on a random machine is that wifi doesn't always work. But, installing it on a mac, it always works. The same thing can be said of installing linux on a random machine. But, installing linux on a mac, wifi al
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
The only ration lending policy -- on an individual level -- is to discount any systemic risk you create by 100% minus how much of the system you make up. If everyone else does this, systemic risk is ballooned and it doesn't matter if you d
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
I thought Rand put that physicist there to show how a society with what were in her view the wrong priorities misappropriated talent.
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
as though it were some sacred canon from god.
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
Guess WWII never happened.
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
>Another core tenet is that you're free to do as you please until your actions infringe upon the rights of others. That's totally vacuous without defining those rights. A major one for most libertarians is property, but the distributio
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
Funny, Peter Schiff was totally wrong about the Euro. Dean Baker also predicted the housing meltdown, you're falling into the trap of anecdotalism.
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
>Roads, defense, control, vaccines... Where do you stop? Surely you'd have to include financial companies? A financial company that makes up 10% of the financial market will calculate a phony 90% discount on any systemic risk it creat

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