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by bmmayer1 12y ago
This is basically a perfect example of how "capitalism" in the US is not capitalism anymore. No corporation should be insulated from the financial downside of its incompetence. In the real world, Chase should have gone under or at
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Terrorists Used False DMCA Claims to Get Personal Data of Anti-Islamic YouTuber(yro.slashdot.org)
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
In this model, what would stop a politician from paying voters to delegate their votes to his supporters and thus directly buying the election?
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Death toll of epidemics throughout history(images.nationalgeographic.com)
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Gov. Snyder signs bill banning direct Tesla sales(freep.com)
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A Personal API(brianmayer.com)
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
This is a good wake-up call for all those "companies shouldn't have the same first amendment rights as people" folks out there.
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
Aaaaand queue the federal agents.
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
It's even worse. He went after a casino, which is in cahoots with the government.
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
Do you think advantage players are cheaters?
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
Yup. Sounds about right. Read about Phil Ivey, who used a similar "hack" to advantage play in Baccarat. Casinos really can't have it both ways. If they want to make money from people gambling money, they need to assume the ri
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
This makes me so angry. The miscarriage of justice, the way that police and prosecutors can and will get away with this behavior with impunity. How no one is accountable. I hope he wins his civil suit for some relief, but that doesn't
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
I have to agree. If I don't know where my money is going, I simply can't countenance giving money to a nonprofit (or a company for that matter). I don't know what their selection process is. The one nonprofit they show on t
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Single Speed Camera on Ocean Parkway Pumped Out $77,550 in Tickets in One Day(brooklynnewyork.com)
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
> But there's no zero sum here Government spending via redistribution is absolutely zero sum. Every dollar spent by the government into the economy is one dollar taxed out of the economy. Money that is given to some has to necessar
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
"Ordinary people" is a meaningless term.
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
Explain?
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
This might have something to do with the fact that we've outsourced much of our trust to the federal government. And no one trusts the federal government.
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
Thats...what...the graph says. Do you have an actual counterpoint, other than the fact that non-higher-income people exist?
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
One reason this woefully reductive article doesn't mention is the value of learning about what not to do when the time comes to start your own startup. Why caring about optics instead of revenue is a bad idea. Why peddling reputati
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
Ah got it. Makes much more sense.
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
> 95% of the time it truly doesn't improve my web experience Really? I find that hard to believe. Do most sites that use extensive JS (Facebook, Mint, etc) have non-JS supported versions?
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
Hardly just the view of Austrian economists. Plenty of liberal economists including Robert Frank, Dean Baker, even Matt Yglesias think that corporate income taxes are a bad idea. It's not about "unqualified evil," it's m
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
What right does the government of Nevada has to gamble with taxpayers' money? There are enough casinos in the state such that people can gamble their own money quite easily if they choose to do so. They don't need their own gove
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
Because business taxes are a drag on the economy, and universally acknowledged to be a bad thing by economists.
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
A tax break and a subsidy are the same thing as far as taxpayers are concerned. As it turns out, tax breaks are considered more politically palatable, but the effect is the same--all taxpayers pay more money than they otherwise would have,
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
This is not an investment, it's redistribution. Tesla gets $1.25B from Nevada. That means that the taxpayers of Nevada, collectively, have $1.25B less while Tesla has $1.25B more. Now Tesla may spend every dollar of that money in the
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
The more troubling aspect of this story that no one seems to be talking about is that these cameras are being introduced because somewhere the presumption of innocence on the part of citizens is being abridged. We shouldn't have to re
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
Wait. No...the taxpayers of Nevada lose. Because the taxpayers, at large, are subsidizing benefits that will be accrued by specific individuals (the new employees, Tesla consumers and investors). Even if the economy grows as a result of t
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by bmmayer1 12y ago
Heh, this completely contradicts this recent piece. Thanks.

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