corentin

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by corentin 18y ago
What in hell makes people think that reading a French newspaper is in any way "education"? We're not talking about "The Economist" here...
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by corentin 18y ago
As a former Frenchman, let me tell you it's a hell of a lot. You can read the Forbes Tax Misery Index ( http://www.forbes.com/global/2008/0407/060_2.html ) or the Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom ( http://www.heritage.org/index
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by corentin 18y ago
The euro actually is a disaster for most european countries. It's nothing but a fixed-parity system and as such it's likely to break down soon.
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by corentin 18y ago
A few years ago there were games such as Rollercoaster Tycoon and the like (see http://mises.org/article.aspx?control=772 )
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by corentin 18y ago
We already have English.
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by corentin 18y ago
Obviously the teachers in France and Germany aren't paid, and the buildings and furniture just felt down from the sky.
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by corentin 18y ago
It would be easy to implement: return (DEMOCRATS == current_administration) ? REPUBLICANS : DEMOCRATS;
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by corentin 18y ago
I'd say it should be: taxes shutdown() but I have a feeling it would be void shutdown()...
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by corentin 18y ago
> I imagine it would create a thousands of government jobs, boost every sector of hardware sales, foster the creation of thousands of start ups and bring accountability and transparency to government, among other things. The money you n
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by corentin 18y ago
By your logic, you could have outsourced the design as well.
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by corentin 18y ago
Well, just one example: until last year, Red Bull was banned in France for health safety reasons.
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by corentin 18y ago
The central planners running the economy in soviet Russia were incredibly smart as well.
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by corentin 18y ago
Maybe we just need hosting review website review websites.
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by corentin 18y ago
It's hard because he is writing a framework. Since he's not solving a real problem, he doesn't know when it's done or not.
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by corentin 18y ago
So far, I've only seen this brilliant "business model" applied to electronic toys for geeks...
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by corentin 18y ago
You could invent some sunscreen mayonaise.
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by corentin 18y ago
I've also seen real-world governments ruin their own economies by making short-sighted (or just plain stupid) decisions. And I've seen Ponzi schemes in a lot of government plans as well.
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by corentin 18y ago
I too kill people and do a lot of very nasty stuff in video games. But for some mysterious reason, I don't do them in real life.
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by corentin 18y ago
It's quite obvious that the guy has no idea what he's talking about (e.g. "Money was very quickly given to corporations with no government oversight. Exactly how libertarians would want it.")
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by corentin 18y ago
> Libertarianism by itself is flawed because many corporations will establish monopolies or duopolies, stop innovating, raise prices, and call it a day. Whereas with big government, they'll never ever hire lobbyists to ask for bailouts,
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by corentin 18y ago
> You can't just dub yourself a "Software Engineer" because you self-taught yourself visual basic. Well, to me it just looks like canadian Engineers(TM) are afraid of competition.
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by corentin 18y ago
Let's eliminate both taxation and public sending and we'll know the answer.
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by corentin 18y ago
It's regulated to prevent free competition from lowering your wages. So much for the "interests of the general public"...
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by corentin 18y ago
Maybe their super data mining computer will eventually tell them to avoid running out of croissants every single day before 9 AM at my local Tesco...
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by corentin 18y ago
They will consume their own production and start spending their dollars and euros.
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by corentin 18y ago
Value is in the eye of the beholder. If people are willing to pay 100 dollars for FooBarSoft version 12, it means that they value it at least 100 dollars.
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by corentin 18y ago
1. Build a great product 2. Give it away for free 3. ??? 4. Profit! Are you sure you can't merge 2 and 3 into something more... sensible ?
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by corentin 18y ago
> Innovation is so expensive that the private sector can't even dream of achieving anything of those magnitudes. Keep in mind that all the money of the public sector comes from the private sector... and ultimately ends up in some pocket
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by corentin 18y ago
> I think that's an awful, brutal, unfair system, and I'd gladly trade a little bit of "competitiveness" for a bit more compassion. As I see in your profile that one of your goal is to live outside the US, let me tell you that I'll glad
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by corentin 18y ago
> The French may not work 60-hour weeks, but at least they have the good sense to make the most of the time they've been granted on the planet. France is the number one country in the world for antidepressant drugs consumption...

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