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by ataggart 15y ago
Police get paid to generate revenue, and fill out paperwork after a crime has been committed.
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by ataggart 15y ago
The link is dead for me, but googling what others quoted yields this Guardian article from 2008: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.compu...
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by ataggart 15y ago
>It feels like what people believe a logo to be is also becoming more transcendent. I don't understand why so many people write like this. It's a logo, not a metaphysical experience. It seems everyone involved with "design" read the P
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by ataggart 15y ago
From a post for a Senior Java Engineer: Life at REDACTED is not for everyone. Many apply, but few are chosen. We are a culture of competitive A Players that love to win. We value courageous exploration, relentlessly pursuing excellence and
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by ataggart 15y ago
For a bunch of smart, wealthy people, they really don't grok emergent phenomena. The Silicon Valley ecosystem, like so many things, is a product of human action, but not of human design. http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2005/Robert
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by ataggart 15y ago
Having surpassed Star Trek's communicator, we seem to be well on our way towards the tricorder.
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by ataggart 15y ago
There is a crucial difference between gang violence and the state: only the latter is broadly held by the subject populace as being legitimate. Legitimacy, be it founded in democracy or the divine right of kings, is a dangerous force when
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by ataggart 15y ago
>The common definition of “executive order” ... But neither the President, nor executive orders are mentioned in the First Amendment, which was the subject of the question at hand. The issue was not whether something is un/constitution
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by ataggart 15y ago
>I chose False because the executive branch's job is to enforce the law, and the President cannot issue an order to enforce a law that does not exist. While correct, your choice is not based on "your personal understanding of [that] sen
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by ataggart 15y ago
>The problem is that "the arts" (in a more traditional sense) in the US are infinitesimally close to being criminally underfunded. Feel free to cut them a check then: http://www.nea.gov/support/index.html
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by ataggart 15y ago
I find it interesting that "perjury" isn't mentioned. The chastening by the court means little if the government suffers no ill effects from lying under oath.
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by ataggart 15y ago
Done. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2519146
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The Myth of the Rule of Law(faculty.msb.edu)
100 points by ataggart 15y ago|35 comments
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by ataggart 15y ago
The validity of the "legal argument" is whatever a fellow government employee says it is. Some septuagenarian with an arts degree isn't likely to see this "computer stuff" as anything but a means to circumvent the law. http://faculty.msb.
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by ataggart 15y ago
It's not clear to me that armed men busting down people's doors at 3am is a preferable model.
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by ataggart 15y ago
To save everyone a lot of time, here's the HN post of this article from last year: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2110756
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by ataggart 15y ago
I see these sorts of "just do it" comments all the time on HN, but short of becoming some cold calling Glengarry Glen Ross-type, it's not at all clear to me how one goes from being an employee programmer to a one-man, bespoke software shop.
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by ataggart 16y ago
http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
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by ataggart 16y ago
An article written two days before the big FBI shutdown.
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by ataggart 16y ago
The rub comes when one tries to hang behaviour on the types.
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by ataggart 16y ago
Causal claims are always problematic. Anyway, here is a fun graph: http://spreadsheets.google.com/oimg?key=0AhogCtHYB-75dFJMcll... Source data from http://taxfoundation.org/news/show/250.html
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by ataggart 16y ago
Lest the Stiglitz bandwagon go wholly unchallenged, here's a great reply by Russ Roberts: http://cafehayek.com/2011/04/theres-no-their-there.html Since the link to the source of the (preconception shattering) intergenerational income grap
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by ataggart 16y ago
Because the FDA is such a good model for fostering innovation from individuals and small firms?
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by ataggart 16y ago
>I meant intrinsic value in that context. I'm heading out the door, but just wanted to note that nothing has intrinsic value. All value is subjective.
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by ataggart 16y ago
>Is a $20 bill something of value? No, it's merely somewhat hard to forge, and accepted as currency by lots of people. I think perhaps you and I are using different definitions of "value". If someone is willing to accept something in e
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by ataggart 16y ago
It is not useful to argue that the Fed is private, nor is it useful to argue that it is public. It is both and neither depending on which stance will serve its interests at the time.
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by ataggart 16y ago
>Why is Bitcoin a good currency again? It isn't, but almost anything can work if the community of users is small enough. As for why it isn't, we need to step back a bit. In a barter economy an exchange occurs when two individuals each p
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by ataggart 16y ago
And yet so many people are urging this same government to craft new "net neutrality" laws. Bewildering.
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by ataggart 16y ago
A headline with parts that will piss off the right and the left, respectively.
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by ataggart 16y ago
>Now, if a framework-platform like Node.js existed for Clojure, now, that would be a different story. What about aleph? http://github.com/ztellman/aleph

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