carsongross

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by carsongross 9y ago
Absolutely: I am accusing you of either that, clouded thinking, or both. In fact, this discussion is a demonstration of my point. We are both attacking one another's intellectual and moral reasoning abilities via speech. This is bett
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by carsongross 9y ago
Quoting the judge, when handing down the death sentences: I consider your crime worse than murder... I believe your conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-Bomb years before our best scientists predicted Russia would perfec
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by carsongross 9y ago
Apparently the "shrillest" moment of the "red scare" was correctly convicting two communist spies of treason.
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by carsongross 9y ago
Comment 1: > It's not great, but the idea that attacking people verbally is somehow "better" than attacking them physically is wrong. Comment 2: > Solving disagreements through discussion is better than solving the
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by carsongross 9y ago
That's insane. All of human moral progress can be briefly summarized as "talking, not hitting."
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by carsongross 9y ago
As with the original post, I look forward to the thoughtful, tightly reasoned and unemotional discussion that this post will generate.
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by carsongross 9y ago
Well, if is someone is paying you for your light...
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by carsongross 9y ago
We get more of what we tax less? Weird.
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by carsongross 9y ago
I don't think that that minority is all that small.
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by carsongross 9y ago
If you are sufficiently old and autistic, you can still buy the licensed flying toasters screen saver from a Japanese company called infinisys: http://en.infinisys.co.jp/product/flyingtoasters/index.shtml I was.
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by carsongross 9y ago
Dear Toyota: look at this truck, and at the FJ40, and get to work.
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by carsongross 9y ago
Telling the truth will get you fired, ostracized and possibly assaulted today. I don't like it, but telling the truth, like riding a bike to work, is a luxury that only the extremely rich and extremely poor can afford today.
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by carsongross 9y ago
Turns out it wasn't commies that were going to corrupt our precious bodily fluids, but rather post cold war end-of-history ennui.
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by carsongross 9y ago
IQ is 50-80% heritable. There is such a thing as a gifted child.
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by carsongross 9y ago
Basic income + concentrated capitalism is a great way to minimize human liberty and maximize elite control of the population. Friedman also implemented income tax withholding. So, despite what he wrote, he was no friend of practical libert
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by carsongross 9y ago
Capitalism is very simple. Capitalism as an economic system is essentially defined as the process of private expropriation of public wealth. Technically, the Earth is every creature’s inheritance but we in our late modern wisdom have conce
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by carsongross 9y ago
Many, many code horrors exist today due to a deep and abiding fear developers have of appearing insufficiently smart. Most of the web apps that are being built today have no need for a complex front end and, if they do, it's only in a
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by carsongross 9y ago
Here is a practical reason to start a startup: You are married to someone who makes enough money to push your marginal tax rate on income to the point (it can hit 55%+ in places like CA) that you might as well take a flier on a startup rath
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by carsongross 9y ago
This is more than a little self serving, but when I switched us over to intercooler.js it made a huge difference in our app. When I pulled the trigger on it I was terrified that I was screwing us over by not using Angular (which was the coo
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by carsongross 9y ago
https://workflowy.com/
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by carsongross 9y ago
> Don't blame credit, you did this to yourself. Sane western cultures don't allow citizens to fall into debt-peonage. This is why we forbid usury for so many centuries, based on the late roman empire experience.
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by carsongross 9y ago
The majority of 9/11 attackers were Saudi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijackers_in_the_September_11_... Iran is our natural ally in the region.
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by carsongross 9y ago
More and more Americans understand that anti-Iranian sentiment here is mainly due to propaganda, not any rational considerations. Iran should be a natural ally of the US.
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by carsongross 9y ago
Accused?
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by carsongross 9y ago
But most federal outlays are entitlements. Breaking it out by entitlement type doesn't change that fact. Military spending presumably includes space/rocket related R&D. And the total as a percentage of GDP has gone up extens
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by carsongross 9y ago
The average politically-flavored HN comment (not to say user, who can say?) is not ancap. It is not even libertarian. It is liberal/globalist consensus: extremely liberal on social issues, globalist on economics.
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by carsongross 9y ago
If you'd like to know why NASA is getting less and less funding and can expect this trend to continue, see this chart from Five38/NYT: https://espnfivethirtyeight.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/16fi...
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Gab.ai is raising VC via crowdfunding(startengine.com)
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by carsongross 9y ago
Similarly, does 'sis culture' at colleges keep talented men out? https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-REGjzKeq_LY/T53intthiXI/AAAAAAAAR... This seems like a larger and more relevant problem for the president of a
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by carsongross 9y ago
At some point here the collective web development world is going to realize what it lost when it tossed REST/HATEOS out in its rush to appear modern.

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