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1. 61.▲
   by awt 10y ago

   Anyone on HN ever seriously questioned popular democracy? (genuinely curious)
2. 62.▲
   by awt 10y ago

   Opposition to large states certainly makes sense if you are concerned about climate change, but perhaps not for the reason you think. Large centralized governments and economies cause wasteful and short sighted resource consumption (and th
3. 63.▲
   by awt 10y ago

   Nyt hasn't distorted the facts to political ends just once .
4. 64.▲
   by awt 10y ago

   Also consider that blacks are probably the group hardest hit by illegal immigration.
5. 65.▲
   by awt 10y ago

   Also human attempts to prevent natural fires have caused a build up of fuel over the lat 100 years or so.
6. 66.▲
   by awt 10y ago

   That the usg attempted this is a sign of deeply seated incompetence at a philosophical level.
7. 67.▲
   by awt 10y ago

   Very astute points wrt the demand for banking services. Banking will always be with us. Bitcoin has the advantage over fiat of having been designed with incentives of participants aligned so as to make the likelyhood of inflation extremely
8. 68.▲
   by awt 10y ago

   Anyone ever read Shadowrun? I remember in one book there were automated trucks that shipped goods through the unsafe areas between the large cities...
9. 69.▲
   by awt 10y ago

   I think an interesting question is - more desirable to what end? To what end are these youths toiling? How, after millenia of evidence to the contrary indicating that experience is valuable, are we to believe that somehow magically it is
10. 70.▲
    by awt 10y ago

    I have achieved some consolation for pouring years of my life into technologies which I should have known would become obsolete by spending the last few years studying classical languages (mostly Attic Greek), the knowledge of which will n
11. 71.▲
    by awt 10y ago

    Well, one could always leave one's private key with a trusted third party. So the public key model can accomodate those who are uncomfortable with the responsibility of keeping their private key secure. The password model however doe
12. 72.▲
    by awt 10y ago

    No. This is impossible. The whole model is broken. A less broken model is the use of asymetric keys for authentication that doesn't require the service provider to "promise" they'll keep your password secret.
13. 73.▲
    by awt 10y ago

    This "promise" model of security needs to end. I "promise" I'll encrypt your password, honest.
14. 74.▲
    by awt 10y ago

    This will go as well as the war on drugs, poverty, terrorism, et al.
15. 75.▲
    by awt 10y ago

    http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/avoid.html
16. 76.▲
    by awt 10y ago

    Precisely.
17. 77.▲
    by awt 10y ago

    How about let individuals decide if a school is good, and not the federal government? AKA Capitalism.
18. 78.▲
    by awt 10y ago

    Trust is cheap . And people should be able to and will trust or not trust whoever they wish.
19. 79.▲
    by awt 10y ago

    That Bitfinex was not legit was predicted: http://btcbase.org/log/2013-05-16#34498
20. 80.▲
    by awt 10y ago

    I'm still mostly working through my textbook, but I've read part of an interlinear translation of the Anabasis. I'm reading through parts of Plato's Apology with a group. My goal is to be able to read at least one of A
21. 81.▲
    by awt 10y ago

    Learning to read Ancient Greek. The insights into language and culture just keep coming...
22. 82.▲
    by awt 10y ago

    The student loan "bubble" is essentially an attempt to paper over the lack of jobs and serves as a welfare program for youth funded (as are most government programs) with debt.
23. 83.▲
    by awt 10y ago

    Ha. Overblown. His wife must not owe 100K+ after being kicked out of law school like mine.
24. 84.▲
    by awt 10y ago

    Buy some of these from your local government: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence
25. 85.▲
    by awt 10y ago

    I think we should censor articles about how censorship is good for China.
26. 86.▲
    by awt 10y ago

    America's service economy where we "own" IP and everyone sells each other backrubs is a joke.
27. 87.▲
    by awt 10y ago

    Would you allow black people at least some moral agency? Certainly you'd say that blacks who avoid crime and instead thrive in the legit economy are responsible to at least some degree for their own success? Why would you not then ho
28. 88.▲
    by awt 10y ago

    Lesson: don't be a twitter share cropper.
29. 89.▲
    by awt 10y ago

    I in turn don't find an attempt at a straw man all that convincing.
30. 90.▲
    by awt 10y ago

    Aha now that is an interesting question and I'm glad you asked. I know that I personally would feel responsible if I saw collectivism murdering yet another society and did not call it out for what it is. If I for example saw that peo