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by boona 9y ago
It's deeply unfortunate because there is quite a bit politically related content that appears on this site, and it's often links to ideologically driven articles, and people discuss those topics without reprisal. > "You&#x
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by boona 9y ago
I'm totally with you. Dr. Patrick Moore is a quack. I mean ya people will argue that he co-founded Greenpeace, has PhD in Ecology and a B.Sc. Forest Biology, but he believes that changes in solar activity that has a much better correla
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by boona 9y ago
Pvnick your opinion doesn't fall in line with evangelical progressivism, so downvoting rather than engaging you directly is in order. Don't you know that politicians always and everywhere make things better, and that billions of i
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by boona 9y ago
> You don't need a Sears catalog to sum the costs of production/acquisition all the way to the start of the value chain This was common practice for communist countries, because they couldn't calculate otherwise. Logically
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by boona 9y ago
First, a comment that promotes Marxism or Nazism or any of heinous ideologies should be met with a certain harshness. We tried that in the 20th century, and considering the 100+ million dead people (most of it due to Marxism), I think it&#x
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by boona 9y ago
What are they waiting for? Why aren't they providing their services to the most lucrative market on the planet?
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by boona 9y ago
Exactly. Elon Musk has been working 80 hour work weeks for the past 20 years now. I'm not saying that's anywhere near a balanced lifestyle. But without those sacrifices, it's much harder to produce innovative world changing p
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by boona 9y ago
I'm very skeptical of that claim. Besides the fact that every week we read an article about X city is the new Silicon Valley, Europeans in general don't seem to have that same drive Americans do to create new products. Which could
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by boona 9y ago
I'm having that discussion elsewhere in the comments. Here is my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=14425382 .
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by boona 9y ago
> the Venus Project has tried to distance itself from the Marxists It has sure tried, but it can't, because it's Marxist at it's core, and it therefore shares it's same inherent problems. It can't calculate prope
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by boona 9y ago
I think society values good intention way too much. This man fought his entire life for what amounts to Marxism with robots. His intentions may have been good, his heart in the right place, but his ideas were bad, and if implemented, they w
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by boona 9y ago
You mean someone who understands the complexities of the markets and the financial system wasn't convinced by Marxism with robots? I can't imagine why.
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by boona 9y ago
If any entity isn't healthy for the gaming community it's Polygon. This and other click bait articles they release regularly try to stir up controversy where there isn't any.
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by boona 9y ago
You've missed the point of my argument entirely. The FCC was put into place to regulate airwaves, i.e. who can use what airwaves and for what purpose. It didn't take long for them to start regulating the content said airwaves. My
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by boona 9y ago
If the internet is fundamental to free speech, maybe it's not a good idea to give it's freedom over to state control, and in particular to an agency who historically has gone beyond it's original mandate and censored content.
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by boona 9y ago
> Do you honestly think every tax bracket pays the same effective rate as the middle class? Are you talking to me? Because I didn't say that. What I said is that the rich pay for most for government services, which means that per pe
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by boona 9y ago
What are you doing to fix them? How can you ensure that bad school close down, and good schools thrive? Why not use a solution that has clearly worked? Why can't we agree that out of the infinite ways that people can organize themselve
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by boona 9y ago
> "Americans from all backgrounds should have a fair shot at a quality education, not just those who happen to grow up in nice neighborhoods." While the rich pay more than their fair share and then some ( https://www.
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by boona 9y ago
I've had conversations with local builders, and it seems that since the early 90s the soft costs (i.e. costs related to regulation, zoning, inspections, etc) related to building new homes in much of Ontario have increased from approxim
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by boona 9y ago
> I don't understand why it's controversial that California (or any other state) should be legally obligated to pay the pensions they promised to workers. Because the people of California can no longer afford it. It's unfo
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by boona 10y ago
I agree that /r/the_donald is a poor quality experience, but it's analogous and in response to the poor quality experience of the /r/politics. They're both "circlejerks" that don't allow competin
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by boona 10y ago
I'm still not sure how that's considered a loophole. The people who work for them are in fact small business operators, and it most certainly does simplify the process for them not having to pay for GST. Is your argument that you
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by boona 10y ago
>Uber has made a business out of exploiting legal loopholes. I find that kind of argumentation silly. They brought to the taxi industry, what is common in other industries, like construction, tech, etc. Stated differently, Uber has been
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by boona 10y ago
> uber hating world wide I don't know if that's accurate to say. Do people part of the "outrage culture" hate Uber? Sure. But I don't believe that that sentiment accurately reflects what most people think about t
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by boona 10y ago
>I obviously think that Chaffetz's comment was roughly as idiotic as you'd expect from Jason Chaffetz And that time Obama made a similar argument, you thought he was just as idiotic as well right? http://www.foxnews.
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by boona 10y ago
> The earth is warming Right, but only 0.74ºC in the last 100 years, which may very well be a normal variance. So original projections were wrong, and they had to change the claim being made.
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by boona 10y ago
> folks don't actually believe global warming To be nit picky, the belief is no longer in global warming, but climate change. Those who promoted global warming got their predictions terribly wrong, and that's why we refer to it
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by boona 10y ago
> That article shows Google wanting new regulations imposed in some areas Where did you get that? Kevin Lo from Google is quoted as saying "Regulations tied to physical infrastructure sometimes defer the investment altogether".
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by boona 10y ago
Hmm, that's a good question. It's not clear to me at what level of government the most stifling regulations are. I had also read that they wanted to offer phone services for free, but they dropped those due to the incredibly high
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by boona 10y ago
> He has taken to blatantly and explicitly lying about simple verifiable facts, and doubling down on those lies when challenged. I'm not saying that's not true (I'm not a Trump supporter), but what sticks out to you as an

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