corentin

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by corentin 18y ago
I think he chooses names just to offend the kind of people who would find those names inappropriate in a business setting.
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by corentin 18y ago
> The other top-paying degrees -- law, business -- don't create wealth. They may allow the S&E to more efficiently create wealth, but they don't create wealth. Hence they create this difference in wealth...
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by corentin 18y ago
Well, this kind of stuff: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=377155
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by corentin 18y ago
Yes, as much as closing down for the whole year.
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by corentin 18y ago
> self-marketroid personality cult We're talking about the computer security industry, here. They have different standards when it comes to ego, and Schneier isn't actually that bad.
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by corentin 18y ago
> If the title had been "Smith reviews: Here Comes Everybody", it wouldn't have an upvote. That's because it's far from conveying as much information as the alternative.
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by corentin 18y ago
If what you say is true, this measure doesn't seem to make any sense. If their employees cost more than what they produce every day, doing nothing for 4 days is similar to closing your eyes and wishing the problem away.
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by corentin 18y ago
> What have they done about drinking? You just can't drink and drive any more. I'm not saying it like it's a bad thing, but it explains why people don't go to bars after work as much as they did before. Regarding smoking bans, I think o
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by corentin 18y ago
Yes, as we all know it's the best health-care system that will ever be devised in the whole universe for the centuries to come. The only (minor) problem is that's it's slightly expensive (can you spot France on this graph? http://fr.wiki
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by corentin 18y ago
It has nothing to do with loans. Over the past few years, the French government has banned smoking in public places and virtually banned drinking as well. If you can't smoke nor drink, what's the point of going to such a place?
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by corentin 18y ago
Regulation is a form of control.
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by corentin 18y ago
"pure free market theory" (whatever it is...) is just a model, and as such it can't perfectly describe what it is supposed to describe.
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by corentin 18y ago
"If something goes bad with food, people could starve" I was not aware of that fact. But in which way exactly does it call for government-controlled agriculture?
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by corentin 18y ago
You mean, like speculators?
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by corentin 18y ago
Do you actually think the first wheel was perfectly round and that it didn't break into pieces after some time? All those early planes that crashed, those zeppelins that took fire were the works of software engineers? What about the Titanic
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by corentin 18y ago
Ignore what people say; live for yourself.
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by corentin 18y ago
These guys just need to get hit in the face with a copy of Atlas Shrugged.
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by corentin 18y ago
There's at least one reason why it shouldn't be outlawed (well, apart from mundane things like justice, freedom and this kind of crap which is not very relevant anymore): if it's outlawed, we will never know if the model they offer is indee
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by corentin 18y ago
> rape by unlicensed taxi drivers is a real risk. Well, I'd say it's as bad as rape by licensed taxi drivers.
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by corentin 18y ago
Quite the contrary; black market companies usually are very profitable (if you're able to deal with the risk).
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by corentin 18y ago
Actually, that's more or less the purpose of government.
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by corentin 18y ago
There is this moral hazard precisely because the government ends up bailing out the irresponsible (following the "too big to fail" mantra). Instead, just let the financial companies (in fact, all companies, including GM) take full responsib
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by corentin 18y ago
It's longer than two presidential mandates in the US.
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by corentin 18y ago
No, he's just saying that private companies can focus on the long term as well, if it's in their interest.
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by corentin 18y ago
I'm sure scientists and engineers would have discovered and created as many cool things if the money was spent on peaceful research projets instead of being confiscated by the government.
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by corentin 18y ago
Obviously. The federal government is not used to give huge amounts of no-strings-attached taxpayer cash to irresponsible people...
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by corentin 18y ago
> As an example, imagine if the government focused on alternate energy years ago. You mean, things like biofuel subsidies? > Also, a lot of technology comes as a by product of working on something for the long term. Yes, whether it'
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by corentin 18y ago
Do you really think the government created and funded the NASA, the DARPA, the Manhattan Project and the NSA for the love of science? (I certainly won't deny all the really cool side effects they created, though.)
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by corentin 18y ago
The current crisis reminded us that it's still a bad idea for the government to distort prices on a so massive scale (through fake interest rates), because truth has to eventually emerge through the price system anyway, and corrections have
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by corentin 18y ago
Can someone here who happens to be enthusiastic about this idea enlighten us and explain why the federal government would be a better investor than private entities?

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