anoncowherd

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by anoncowherd 13y ago
There's no need to quibble about "lifeboat scenarios". You can come up with countless scenarios where there needs to be an "exception" to the NAP, but that's pointless, and a waste of time. It changes nothing a
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
>> I specifically mean that libertarians don't view property rights as forceful, but the left does. I don't know what kind of libertarianism you're referring to, exactly. But property is based on property rights , is i
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
>> I'm torn here That's good. You're sensing that something is wrong. >> If you insist everyone make every moral choice for themselves, then we will be unable to maximize the "right" choices Why would
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
>> The NAP is pretty useless, because it doesn't define what 'force' or 'initiation' means. Do you also need a definition for, say "rape", "kill", "steal", "rob"? What d
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
Don't worry about the scary stuff. I'm just about clueless about mathematics, but doing alright as a web developer. The vast majority of programming jobs don't require any serious math. Lambda's are anonymous functions,
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
>> The paradox of tolerance has been a major problem in liberal philosophy for a long, long time. The simplistic notion of "Don't force them" just refuses to engage with any kind of depth, and in doing so, perverts and
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
>> My point is this: the concept of a larger government is very murky, so we should be very careful when we're talking about it. The US government is pretty fucking large right now, is it not? In fact, it's an Empire , an
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
>> In Sweden private for profit schools and schools run by the municipalities compete with each other. All of them are funded by the tax payers and they get a certain amount of money for every student. How the hell can a school be &q
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
>> Sounds logical on paper but doesn't bear out in reality - just about every country where health care is provided via "confiscated funds" pays dramatically less for better outcomes than the USA where people are respon
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
It's an important point to make that even "free" healthcare is not actually free - the money has to come from somewhere, and most of it comes from forcefully confiscating it from people. Not only that, but if you're usin
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
>> there's always something worse, but that doesn't really help, does it No, it doesn't. It's really quite sad that the best the people of any nation can hope for, is that their government doesn't rape them t
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
> That's as bad as it gets.. North-Korea would beg to differ.
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
Thanks for the list. The problem is that outside of Blizz/Valve's stuff, if you browse Steam's list of Mac games, it's like 95%+ small games made by a lone developer, and that is really sad. No disrespect to those deve
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
You want honesty? How about: "Thanks again for your support of Product since our launch. It means we're now in a position to get acquired by Yahoo. In other words, your support means we get money. We could gush about how much you
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
Who would want to use a fiat currency that's printed with wild abandon, if they had the option of completely disregarding it and using say, a gold-backed currency instead? >> Of course that is not what makes physical money valuab
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
Well, I've been using a Mac exclusively for a few years now. I just think the gaming situation is still really sad, even if things may be gradually improving. It's difficult to believe that even 25% of those 121 games you mentione
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
>> I apparently have 272 games on my Steam account, and of those 121 run on Mac. How many of those 121 are AAA-titles? I'd like to be a Mac gamer too, but it seems to me there are extremely few AAA grade games available for the
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
The commercial JetBrain IDEs have lovely support for JavaScript, HTML, CSS, YAML, SASS, LESS, JSON, and so on. There's lots of stuff you're missing out on if you do web development with the Community Edition. The IDEA Ultimate edi
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
>> For example, almost all land has been taken by force at some point in its history. I own a house, but the land it was built on is almost certainly stolen property (by your "obvious" notions of property). Alright. Does tha
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
>> How did he get rich? By way of exploitation, there's no other way. Can you really not see how ridiculous that idea is? You're saying that it's simply impossible for anyone to get rich by producing value to other pe
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
Yes. How dare anyone want to keep their property! Shame on them!
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
>> Most of the surplus value created by workers already ends up in other hands. The question is whether it's going to the right hands. Nope, the question is: "Is anyone allowed to take someone else's stuff without his c
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
Finn here. If you consider the Finnish way the correct one, then it's "yolla" (or "yoh-lla"). To be clear, the "o" is short, and doesn't bend towards "u" like it would in "yo mama so fa
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
>> See, we clearly have different conceptions of what is and is not voluntary. That's certainly a possibility. Maybe this will help: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/voluntary Voluntary: done, made, b
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
I didn't really expect you to wake up this easily. >> Here's an easier way to see if something is voluntary; can you stop doing it at all? What I said still stands. If you want to claim taxation is voluntary, stop paying tax
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
>> We're not tax-slaves. All this stuff IS voluntary. You can choose not to do whatever you want. There's a really easy way to find out whether taxation is voluntary: stop paying taxes and see what happens. But you already k
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
>> You don't necessarily have to be asked to consent to something. Your not objecting to action for a certain period of time and in specific circumstances can be read as consent. Bullshit. We grow up not having the faintest fucki
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
Cool. I'll have to visit Panama some day.
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>> Just in Paraguay many restaurants and other public sites are prohibiting the entrance to all the corrupted senators That's nice and all, but do you think those evil corrupt shitbag sociopaths will change their behaviour becaus
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
You should just try using Python for real, and your view on meaningful indentation should change to the opposite, as it has for so many other people.

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