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by brc 13y ago
But if they are happy to spend their money on the playing of the game...it's not like they are being tricked any more than the purchaser of an overpriced handbag.
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by brc 13y ago
In most jurisdictions, that would be in violation of laws. The laws are created to prevent shady operators, like people who go around 'fixing' the roof for old people. They agree to the work, then get charged a fortune for overa
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by brc 13y ago
Would you think it is unethical for iTunes to take $30k from someone who purchased a large amount of music, tv and movies? What about someone who spends $30k to get their Aston Martin repainted in chrome paint? People have to be careful her
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by brc 13y ago
That transaction is illegal. There is a difference.
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by brc 13y ago
I'm not opposed to stadiums either, but I am opposed to the lies and distortions invoked to validate their construction. I would much prefer it if the politicians just came out and said 'we're going to spend your taxes on a g
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by brc 13y ago
The obvious solution is to enquire about dress code at the company at the time of setting the interview. It doesn't have to be awkward at all - 'what do people wear to the office?' is a perfectly reasonable question. If the
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by brc 13y ago
The URL used for this post has a lot of referal tracking data in it that looks to my untrained eye as though it was copied from facebook. That will mess with their stats if it becomes popular on HN.
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by brc 13y ago
I have a friend who works on security systems for jails. There are plenty of areas unrecorded. There is cost for one thing - prisons are large places and recording all of it is expensive. There is also the hardware - all cameras etc are
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by brc 13y ago
I remember reading that piece when it came out. I've never made a prison rape joke since, and I always am willing to be the person who makes an uncomfortable pause to hose down someone prison rape joke. Racist and gay hatreds found t
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by brc 13y ago
The thinking tends to imply that somewhere, workers wages are being set by a central committee, who is more interested in profits than wages. Such thinking is wrong. I agree that there may be some cause that makes profits go higher and wag
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by brc 13y ago
I have been doing this for over ten years. I have a quality notebook, in which any 'burning' idea is copied down. Looking back through, some are comical, some got done by other people, some are still out there. The main thing is
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by brc 13y ago
Are you getting good speeds on 4G? I'm considering turfing my fixed line connection altogether and going pure 4G.
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by brc 13y ago
Not in Australia, they don't. No carrier provides an uncapped plan, and most plans have to be extended with a 'data pack' just to get 1GB/month. If you go over that, you start getting charged per Megabyte . It's
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by brc 13y ago
> we believe that public scrutiny is unnecessary for large companies today It's a valuation, not a statement of turnover. Makes a big, big difference. And for the record I don't think a company requires more or less scrutiny
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by brc 13y ago
You may not know it, but every single BMW built is ordered to specification. There is not a 'standard' model, and every single car has to be ordered individually. The new BMWs you see sitting in dealer lots are those ordered by
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by brc 13y ago
A 'Fiat' currency is one which the government of a country has declared to be the official currency...by government fiat. That does not include Bitcoin. Gold is not a distributed fiat currency. It is just Gold. You can exchange
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by brc 13y ago
The historical reasons for Gold and Silver being used as a store of value (and as a currency) are: 1) Divisibility : it is easy to divide a large amount of the metals into smaller amounts (ingots->coins) 2) Durable : as noted, it doesn&#
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by brc 13y ago
The point is well made - if raise the survival rate it quickly lowers the birth rate, because parents are no longer gambling against unknown but seemingly low odds of children making it past the age of 5. But it has to be backed up by enli
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by brc 13y ago
People need food aid not because they are in a drought, but because they can't trade with the people who have the food. Solve that problem, and you solve the food problem. Lots of people live in inhospitable, drought stricken countri
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by brc 13y ago
Sounds good...but they will OT reach their original target of 1.5m EVs per year. It was probably a good statement of intent at the time though.
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by brc 13y ago
I had an expensive kettle which was a gift. It lasted ten years but then started to leak and finally started tripping the breaker. I replaced it with a $20 plastic kettle which does everything the other one did, except boil faster and qui
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by brc 13y ago
Children can grasp anything if you explain it to them. A 4 or 5 year old can easily understand the concepts of work and money if you explain it to them.
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by brc 13y ago
A very good point. The Eiffel tower photos will only show up when people are ironically taking photos from the tower, instead of the tower. It's much too big to get a good photo of with normal point and shoot lenses. There will
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by brc 13y ago
The way I see it, if Ireland hadn't pinned the taxpayer with the losses, their economic freedom would be higher, and their economic growth would probably be better. Certainly Iceland has fared better than Ireland in terms of economic
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by brc 13y ago
It's probably more the slant that the WSJ put on the ranking and what makes up the ranking. I think making a link between economic freedom and economic growth is a tough enough sell without giving individual policy prescriptions. Idea
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by brc 13y ago
Exactly. I have never had anyone show me an example of a monopoly that didn't have a supporting government framework. Even in a patent-filled world, nobody is getting to a monopoly state, because nimble entrepreneurs will find a way
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by brc 13y ago
But monopolies can really only exist through regulation, which is low economic freedom. You will have most economic freedom where the existence of monopolies are the lowest. Existence of monopolies is one of the strongest arguments for limi
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by brc 13y ago
See my other reply, but the only 'more powerful other' that has the ability to remove your economic freedom is a government. A large corporation cannot remove your ability to change jobs, spend your income how you like or start u
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by brc 13y ago
Well, no. I'll restate again: Economic Freedom gives you, the individual, the freedom to pursue your own economic choices. That is the type of job you'd like to do, the type of business you'd like to start, how you'd li
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by brc 13y ago
The average population density of western europe is much higher than the average population density of even the eastern USA. Coupled with the fact that there is a lot more 'older' stuff there, whether castles, old battlefields, ch

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