anoncowherd

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by anoncowherd 13y ago
> That's all well and good, but when I need to stream music instantly Grooveshark has my back--no fee, no sign-in, no bullshit. You're completely missing the point. It's irrelevant that you can get music for free, becaus
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
Dear HN: Stop casually discussing working for a bunch of disgustingly greedy, full-of-shit, and downright evil sociopaths as if you hadn't noticed.
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
It's a figure of speech. The idea is that your apartment's current market value is lower than your outstanding debt (or perhaps the total price you paid for the apartment).
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Please. Political Correctness does no one any good.
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
> Further it is worth mentioning that hateful speech is not protected in Canada It's worth noting that speech is just speech . There's no objective definition for what constitutes hateful speech , nor should there be. If ther
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
> The point is that if you can contrive of a way to (perhaps inconveniently) pre-share static keys, you should consider doing that instead of relying on number theory to protect your secrets. No I got that just fine. As you know, I'
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
> So that's my gut feel as well, but I don't have a good handle on the economic & market information as to why that might be so. Welcome to Reality. The mainstream media is just misleading / propagandizing you - if you
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
You probably know what I was getting at. Public-key crypto is very important in today's world. If we can't use the current system, we need something to replace it. Pre-shared keys is for a different scenario.
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
> the real estate market showed signs of long-term strength and we started our current development drive. It's not long-term strength, by the way. The US economy[1] is in shambles, and ready to implode any moment. What you're s
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
> You should absolutely avoid public-key crypto, including public-key key agreement schemes like Diffie-Hellman, if your needs don't absolutely require them. Is there an alternative to public-key crypto? We all need to do stuff onli
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
> In the first case, is it voluntary if the shop owner fails to point out that the brand I do want is there, but is hidden? You can either buy it or leave it. The decision to buy any brand is voluntary. As for the guy selling you a water
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
Oh stop it, you Silly Marxist Goose.
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
Well, I shouldn't expend too much effort on this, but let's see.. > In a rational market Rational, huh? People make exchanges in pursuit of their personal gain. That is constant. Some exchanges are better than others, but every
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
Yep. They have no clue. I've come to the conclusion that trying to get people to see reason is futile, but old habits die hard.
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
> Markets also, it's become very increasingly apparent, have very substantial externalities, both positive and negative, which lead to increasing distortions of underallocation to behaviors in which positive externalities are preval
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
I didn't mean my numbers to be accurate. That's why I referred to them as a start . Yes, there would be considerations such as the differences between rental prices in NYC vs Idaho, or whatever. But more importantly, what happens
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
Have you looked at some numbers? Here's a start: 300 million people * $1500/month = $5.4T per year. It seems the total US tax revenues are around $2.9T in 2013. So with these numbers, all they'd need is to.. roughly double th
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
Not really, I was mostly just addressing this: >> But that doesn't mean capitalism is good at all; let's abolish it, we can build a much better economic system from scratch. You suggested "building" a "much be
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
> A proper basic income is fucking trivial to implement. Give every member of society X amount of money per T time period. Just like that, huh? Pray tell, where does the money come from? Magic money pixies just conjure up limitless amoun
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
Nice to see someone capable of independent thought.
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
Capitalism has been given a bad reputation, but fundamentally it just means people engaging in voluntary exchanges - wealth is accumulated, and invested. That's about it. You need to realize that voluntary exchanges are the basis of a
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
So which one is it, is South India very safe, or are encounters with "nasty criminals" common?
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
You might benefit from reading this: http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/issues/2008-summer/stand...
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
I wonder if "it's not us" would have sufficed.
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
That was strangely hostile.
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by anoncowherd 13y ago
> P.S. Right or wrong is a separate conversation... No it's not. This is wrong, plain and simple. Wrong is wrong, and black is black.