crazy1van

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by crazy1van 10y ago
> NRA actually represents the business interests of people who manufacture and sell firearms But this is in no way mutually exclusive from representing the interests of citizens who want to buy and possess those firearms. It makes total
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by crazy1van 10y ago
I think there's a difference between regulating something and using government over markets to solve the problem. For example, if the goal is a cleaner river, the inefficient way of solving the problem would be mandating a certain clea
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by crazy1van 10y ago
Regulations are great for handling tragedy of the commons scenarios. Eg, it's in a single business's best interest to dump chemicals in our shared water supply, but it is in the common people's interest to have clean water. S
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by crazy1van 10y ago
They've also trained me to buy a whole bunch of games just because they are massively on sale even though I'll probably never play them. I guess Valve figures this works out better for them overall.
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Encryption Technology and Law Enforcement Congressional Hearing(c-span.org)
2 points by crazy1van 10y ago|0 comments
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by crazy1van 11y ago
> open source is a must to even begin to work to verify any claims of security. I think this is losing sight of what source code actually is. It's the easier to read and easier to edit way to define what a person wants the computer
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by crazy1van 11y ago
I think his caveat of "barring negative impact on others" pretty much covers these cases.
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by crazy1van 11y ago
By this logic, if there was one section of the gov't that had extremely advanced crypto cracking capabilities, then keeping crypto legal for normal citizens should also be a "moot point". However, citizens would probably stil
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by crazy1van 11y ago
> With guns you can execute a crime, with encryption you cannot. What about the ransomware that encrypts your data and makes you pay money to have it decrypted? With both guns and crypto, I think we're all better off to focus on kee
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by crazy1van 11y ago
Do you happen to have a link to Taleb talking the fat tailed risks of terrorism? I'd like to read more. Thanks!
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by crazy1van 11y ago
> underfunded education I was sympathetic to your argument until this part. It varies by region, but we spend what seems like a fortune on school. DC public schools spent over $18,000 per student in 2010 [0]. That's more than my sta
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by crazy1van 11y ago
I'm sorry but you're disagreeing with a point different than the one I made. Of course it's bad science to have your idea reviewed by an echo chamber that all agree with you. I was saying that I think it is not uncommon.
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by crazy1van 11y ago
> Happer ran a sham peer-review process through the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a prominent U.K.-based climate skepticist think thank. I really don't think submitting papers to similarly minded groups in the name of "pee
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by crazy1van 11y ago
> A smaller role for government, in particular a reduction in policies that try to pick winners and losers explicitly (e.g. taxes or fees that favor particular companies or industries), could reduce the incentive to influence the creatio
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by crazy1van 11y ago
I might be missing it, but I don't think the article ever actually offers any evidence that academic papers funded by Google influenced FTC decisions. Granted, I would not be at all surprised if Google hoped the academics they funded w
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by crazy1van 11y ago
My gut reaction to this article's premise is to believe it. However, it's evidence seems to be pretty lacking. Consider this passage: "But before Wright’s confirmation, the FTC already decided against filing charges against G
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by crazy1van 11y ago
What do you mean by quantity, not quality in terms of jobs? Someone going from unemployed to employed seems to both be a quantity improvement (one more job) and a quality improvement ($0 in wages vs >$0 in wages).
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by crazy1van 11y ago
There are so many laws that govern the actions of businesses, that even a startup quickly realizes that influencing the nature of these laws is worth significant financial investment. This is especially true for businesses involved with hig
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by crazy1van 11y ago
"Net neutrality is about not prioritizing or throttling responses to your request, not how Comcast bills you." So if Comcast bills you at double the rate for going to Facebook instead of Google+, that's consistent with net ne
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by crazy1van 11y ago
"they better exclude advertising content from the meter" Am I understanding correctly that you want Comcast examining the content you are downloading and deciding whether it counts towards your usage or not? This sounds like the c
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by crazy1van 11y ago
The point of charging more during peak times is to discourage usage during those times, which leads to a greater proportion of available bandwidth per user at that time.
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by crazy1van 11y ago
> "Any time a corporation dumps that much money into a local issue, I'm voting against them." I think a lot of people are coming to that viewpoint now. If a critical mass of people come to this point of view, that will be
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by crazy1van 11y ago
To your point, I think a lot of this has to do with the way the law is written. "Blue-collar" crime involves laws that are much brighter lines. They involve things that have been outlawed for thousands of years. You generally can&
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by crazy1van 11y ago
> Simple 1% revenue tax on companies with revenue of more than $15 million would fix the issue. What country can levy this tax? Large companies like Apple have operations in lots of countries. Do they have to pay each one 1% of their raw
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How can this loophole get fixed? My (admittedly minimal) understanding is that these companies don't have to pay taxes on the money until they repatriate it. From the perspective of countries like the US or UK, Apple earns very little
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by crazy1van 11y ago
> Question: Is being a slave really worse than being poor? Good question. I'd rather let people decide that for themselves than have wealthy people half way around the globe decide it for them by removing one option.
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by crazy1van 11y ago
In most cities, driving -- although it comes with its own frustrations -- is a completely viable way to commute. Sitting in traffic and maintaining a car are negatives, but being able to travel whenever you need to and going directly to you
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by crazy1van 11y ago
> It saves resources. But it's also economically efficient, which is the main reason societies do it. I don't really think I agree that economic reasons are the only reasons to recycle. Some things like green house gas emission
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by crazy1van 11y ago
> But the greenhouse effect is not the main reason to recycle What is the main reason to recycle? I always assumed it was either for greenhouse reasons and/or landfill space reasons, but I might not really understand the goals. If a
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The Coddling of the American Mind(theatlantic.com)
9 points by crazy1van 11y ago|1 comments

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