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by bokonist 17y ago
How would a suggestion that corporations don't enjoy constitutional protections infringe on the individual rights of those shareholders? Let me rephrase. I believe that corporations are not persons. But I believe that the owners and ope
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by bokonist 17y ago
Your guesses are no more than preconceptions, and asserting that she's wrong on the basis of what you imagine her views to be is a poor standard for evaluating anyone. I will bet you $25 that she will not vote in favor of corporations hav
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by bokonist 17y ago
I haven't read the full Sotomayor transcript, but this overall quote exists in the context of a debate about whether corporations are allowed political free speech, and I have some strong guesses about which side Sotomayor is on. Your poin
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by bokonist 17y ago
Since corporations necessarily have contracts with other entities and a contract as an entity can't be a party to another contract, then your corporation would have to somehow specify a process for employees to hold contracts in proxy. Th
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by bokonist 17y ago
The employees and the shareholders of the corporation have the right, not the corporation itself. In practice though, this is the same thing. Note that all the actual human beings that are part of the corporation (i.e., stockholders, empl
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by bokonist 17y ago
In my humble opinion, everyone is wrong in this article - Sotomayor, Butler, Marshall. A corporation should not be considered a person in and of itself. A corporation is a contractual agreement between people over the ownership of property
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by bokonist 17y ago
Given the correlation between gold and oil ( http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/files/OilGold2.png ), two commodities that have nothing in common, I think that the rise and crash of crude prices has a lot more to do with fluctuations in the
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by bokonist 17y ago
There is no such thing as a Keynesian. Some economists suggest that "we re-embrace Keynes" ( http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/magazine/06Economic-t.html ). We call these people "Keynesians" for shorthand. I greatly doubt "dozens of bo
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by bokonist 17y ago
Wow. You complain about me being "arrogant" and "ignorant" and then you make entirely false statements about my own background (a subject of which you know absolutely nothing). You then complain about the quality of this forum, and then ar
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by bokonist 17y ago
The economists at the Fed set the rules of the game (too big to fail, lender of last resort, Greenspan put) that rewarded increasing levels of irresponsibility over the last two decades. Firms have one directive: make money. The Fed has
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by bokonist 17y ago
Keep in mind that the mainstream, professional economists did in fact lead the economy of the cliff. So mainstream views of economics are not exactly error-free. Blogs, reddit, etc. are full of populist myths. But the blind squirrel occ
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by bokonist 17y ago
No, the Redditers are right. Well, more or less right. The CPI is entirely subjective. There is no objective way to measure quantitatively how much quality of a product has improved. More importantly, from an investment perspective what
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The Perfect Healthcare Plan (and why it will never happen)(intellectual-detox.com)
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* and hundreds of billions more to treat cardiovascular disease and the many types of cancer that have been linked to the so-called Western diet. * Cancer and heart disease are fundamentally diseases of age. Everyone will die of one or the
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by bokonist 17y ago
In every employee relationship there is: a) a wage cost to the employer b) a non-wage cost (supervision, office space, communication overhead) etc. c) a benefit the worker provides to the company Note that in general the benefit c) starts o
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by bokonist 17y ago
What about his trade theory was both novel and true (honest question, one I've asked before and that no one has answered http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=669831 )?
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by bokonist 17y ago
I would not go back to college unless it was absolutely necessary for my chosen vocation. The tuition/debt plus opportunity cost is just too high. So if you want to be a teacher or accountant, then a degree makes sense. But if you want t
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by bokonist 17y ago
Hacker news is full of smart people of similar interests. You shouldn't take comments as Gospel truth, but the fellow readers here can be a tremendous source of information.
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by bokonist 17y ago
When I read the Economist cover to cover for 3 years while living in DC, I could go toe to toe w/ anyone in the think tank / foreign policy / political circuit even though I was an engineer / outsider. Read Unqualified Reservations and yo
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by bokonist 17y ago
My crystal ball only goes so far out. But in the next five or ten years, I'd be quite surprised if Congress passes a plan that produces a very significant positive impact. The core problem is that any policy that actually improves healthca
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by bokonist 17y ago
Basically.
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To which I reply, American markets aren't free and never have been. Your "free market capitalism" is actually a series of interconnected oligopolies where a few powerful players control the market and use lobbying to errect barriers to fre
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by bokonist 17y ago
The authors point is, free-market or not, the system doesn't produce the same results when compared with many other systems, which are accused of being less free-market. If people accuse other systems of being less free-market, and those
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by bokonist 17y ago
Why does my country have the right to be occupying Iraq? Why does anyone have the right to rule any territory? Why did Saddam have the right rule Iraq? Why did King Faisal II? Going into Iraq may have been a pretty bad idea. But Iraq's
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by bokonist 17y ago
A GRE of 1130 maps to an IQ in the 90th percentile ( http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/GREIQ.aspx ). Hardly below average! Of course, in a good computer science program a lot of people will be at 99+ percentile, which can be a bit humbli
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I think of myself as having average or even low IQ. I'm curious. Did you actually know for sure that your IQ score was below average? ( or the score from similar type of test, like the SAT). It would be interesting counterpoint to the v
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Something like Lehigh, George Washington, or Kenyon.
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by bokonist 17y ago
Personally, I view colleges in the following way: a) a degree from a top-tier college is a slight plus, because at least someone has screened you before b) a degree from the flag ship state school is neutral, because it doesn't really say a
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Clearly there is much more to birth rates than death rates. El Salvador has a higher life expectancy than Russia, yet twice as high fertility rates. That's case when you compare most Latin American countries to the Eastern European countr
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It's bad governments - prior and/or current. I agree with this. But what should the developed countries do about fixing African governments? Anything? To go off the anti-PC deep end in another direction I pose a different solution. The

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