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by ataggart 16y ago
Why? Because, according to the Fraternal Order of Police, "at some point, we have to put some faith and trust in our authority figures."[1] [1] http://reason.com/archives/2010/08/09/police-officers-dont-c...
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by ataggart 16y ago
Just to be even more clear, none of this will stop a cop from arresting you if he so chooses... http://reason.com/archives/2010/08/02/ignorance-of-the-law-i... or threatening you with jailhouse rape... http://reason.com/blog/2010/08/18/g
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by ataggart 16y ago
The function of the registrars is as a mechanism for homesteading, much like establishing initial private ownership of some newly discovered land. As such, the price charged by the registrars should be largely irrelevant and held as low as
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by ataggart 16y ago
"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design."
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by ataggart 16y ago
It's mooching precisely due to the nature of the inequivalence. One is the voluntary, contractual exchange of capital for equity; the other is glad-handing politicians giving away money taken from other people in order to foster a pro-busi
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by ataggart 16y ago
It was not my intention to be snarky. I was genuinely surprised at the placid response. My sense has been that entrepreneurs take pride in creating something of value, finding others that are willing to invest their own capital to bring t
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by ataggart 16y ago
YC invests its own capital, capital accrued through voluntary exchange, and that capital will be freed to more productive ends should they make poor choices. The application says as much: "The original motivation for Y Combinator was benev
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by ataggart 16y ago
Are HN entrepreneurs really so willing to mooch off of the unwilling capital of the Chilean taxpayers?
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by ataggart 16y ago
Good idea! Why should foreigners be the only ones to mooch off the Chilean taxpayers?
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by ataggart 16y ago
Joel is correct, but there are cases where the "trendy couple sipping Chardonnay in their living room outsourcing everything" is in fact adding value, namely, their entrepreneurial insight to recognize that a market is in disequilibrium, th
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by ataggart 16y ago
Not sure what exactly it means to be "sponsored", but quite a few companies and individuals give financial support to clojure: http://clojure.org/funders
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by ataggart 16y ago
Not all men want to be free; most just want fair masters.
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by ataggart 16y ago
The problem with the latter solution is that apply isn't lazy. The more correct solution would be a simple reduce: (reduce #(update-in %1 [%2] (fnil inc 0)) {} "abcdaabccc")
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by ataggart 16y ago
What point are you trying to make? That one can write less code if one does less stuff?
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by ataggart 16y ago
It would have been easier and no less accurate for you to write, "yes, my cl code was shorter only because I omitted a bunch of stuff." If you're going to start a dick-waving contest, at least man-up and write your code so it has the same
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by ataggart 16y ago
But you are cheating: * you've omitted code to control the output content-type and the associated response headers (xhtml vs html) * you've removed text, formatting from the form page * you've discarded the results page altogether * you are
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by ataggart 16y ago
"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design."