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by cbeach 11y ago
Unconditional basic income would be my choice. Its advantages unify the Left and Right.
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by cbeach 11y ago
Yahoo is one of the oldest Internet companies. It's the first portal / search engine that some of us used on a regular basis. So it has a place in our hearts. It also pre-dates the era of gender hysteria and other assorted identit
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by cbeach 11y ago
http://www.caption.me/ - an ongoing caption competition that pulls three photos from Flickr per day and ranks amusing captions. Featuring real-time collaborative mind-mapping of caption ideas (D3/Faye) and an occasiona
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by cbeach 11y ago
"I'm enjoying the irony of American Sanders supporters lecturing me, a former Soviet citizen, on the glories of Socialism and what it really means! Socialism sounds great in speech soundbites and on Facebook, but please keep it th
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by cbeach 11y ago
That's the "dilute form of communism" I was referring to. Socialism is not a "new possibility." I concede, though, that nationalised health and defence has major benefits.
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by cbeach 11y ago
Scandinavian countries aren't nearly as socialist or successful as non-Scandinavian socialists claim they are: http://www.bullshitexposed.com/scandinavian-socialism-debunk...
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by cbeach 11y ago
That's a bit of a straw man. But anyway, if you want to contribute something to the debate, why not suggest an alternative system?
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by cbeach 11y ago
The USSR, Cuba, Vietnam, Communist China, North Korea, Venezuela, Argentina...
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by cbeach 11y ago
Power brings corruption. The kind of state power brought by communism brought the worst corruption the world has ever seen.
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by cbeach 11y ago
I'm still waiting for someone to come up with an alternative to capitalism that isn't communism, or some dilute form of communism. We have socialism - the erosion of capitalism to provide a reward for those that won't or can&
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by cbeach 11y ago
Without capitalist advancement, prices would rise at a frightening rate. Decide what you want - fully stocked supermarket shelves thanks to capitalist efficiency. Or rationing, shortages and civil unrest thanks to government intervention in
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by cbeach 11y ago
"No computer will ever need more than 640K memory" - Bill Gates 1981 "There is no future in the Internet." - Bill Gates 1988
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by cbeach 11y ago
It is helping existing speculators, indirectly, but it's altering the balance of who's in the market.
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by cbeach 11y ago
The government (with Right to Buy, Help to Buy, Help to Buy ISAs etc) is subsidising house purchases, but only for first-time buyers. So it is skewing the market in their favour as opposed to landlords and speculators. That's a good th
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by cbeach 11y ago
I hadn't considered all the benefits when I purchased my laptop, but this conversation has cheered me immensely.
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by cbeach 11y ago
Seems the butthurt/£ ratio with Apple devices actually represents really good value for money.
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by cbeach 11y ago
It seems to work really well at agitating Android users...?
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by cbeach 11y ago
I hear what you're saying about Apple stores being focussed in urban areas. Regarding problems that can be resolved by flashing the device, the same solution can be applied to iPhones BTW.
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by cbeach 11y ago
I'm not suggesting that Android users -are- inferior at all. But the commenter seemed to have an inferiority -complex- I've never seen an Apple user wave their device and draw attention to themselves. If you see the glowing Apple
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by cbeach 11y ago
> When an iOS device goes wrong, I generally spend about ten minutes trying to fix it. Google a solution, it either works or it runs out of options. If my iPhone was bricked by a software update and I couldn't fix it, I'd simpl
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by cbeach 11y ago
I'm a polyglot developer currently working a Scala contract in Canary Wharf. But nice try.
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by cbeach 11y ago
"Most Apple users" always comes before a facepalm-inducing generalisation. Apple have always designed their hardware and software to fade into the background of what the user is trying to actually achieve. That's one of the r
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by cbeach 11y ago
Confused by true multitasking? I picture an iPhone user who's discerning enough to understand the engineering trade offs, and prefers multitasking to be tightly controlled and specialised as it is in iOS. I remember when Android users
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by cbeach 11y ago
Bitcoin has already seen some unfortunate consequences of running on an open network. Chinese mining syndicates hold a significant share of control over the Bitcoin network, and are therefore able to control the destiny of Bitcoin. They dec
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by cbeach 11y ago
There are usually several systems involved in a settlement, all run by different parties - the bank (broker), the custodian (which holds the certificate) and the counterparties that are trading. They all have representations of the same tra
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by cbeach 11y ago
Wow, I've obviously been sharing the wrong kind of content on Hacker News. I need to start a blog that discusses all the things I'm not interested in learning. My next article will be "why I'm not interested in learning
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by cbeach 11y ago
Historically they were white
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by cbeach 11y ago
Interesting the Reader developers chose their own infrastructure over "best of breed" Google AppEngine?
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by cbeach 11y ago
From the article: "mobile-phone and laptop makers such as Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co." I'll up vote stories like this when they have the right title. Not one designed for clickbait. Apple goes further than most com
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by cbeach 11y ago
Absolutely right on the complexity and loopholes. As I said - very hard to collect this in practise. But then again there are ways of legitimately avoiding income tax too. I agree with raising consumption taxes.

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