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by crusso 12y ago
glibertarian idiots Please avoid making personal attacks like this on HN. As a mostly libertarian-minded person myself, the height of compassion is to allow dying people to reach out for any hope out there. Cruelty would be to prevent peo
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by crusso 12y ago
Which is how you should feel about it. Not approaching credit with a healthy amount of respect is a large part of the reason why it's such a general problem. Sure, in the article the first example they posted was of a person down on h
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by crusso 12y ago
It's sad that there are so many griefers and haters out there, but there are worse problems to have than being wildly successful. I pity what people do to society in general with their self-destructive attitudes. We all suffer as a re
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by crusso 12y ago
Yeah, after reading it, my only thought was, "I agree, let's stop talking about this whole subject".
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by crusso 12y ago
Most of the rights that we pride ourselves on today were gained by citizen action Most of the rights were gained by those outside of the entrenched power structures, whether it was a handful of founding fathers at the Constitutional Conve
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by crusso 12y ago
Yet we keep electing the same politicians that went along with all this. We deserve the tyranny.
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by crusso 12y ago
because an individual places a much higher value on his/her own life than the market would That doesn't make sense. I place a much higher value on sunflower seeds than the market does, so that means I buy a ton of sunflower see
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by crusso 12y ago
You're ranting against free market capitalism when the problem in the article is the result of government interference in the free market. Retrophin is using legal (government made the laws) maneuvering to prevent competitors from crea
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by crusso 12y ago
vast majority of the people complaining about the Big Soda ban don't buy big sodas Isn't that a bit like saying that only African Americans are allowed to stand up to racism? the rage is on a theoretical level If individual li
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by crusso 12y ago
I look at a thread like this and consider you and your downvoters to be two sides of the same coin. You might feel the need to beat the drum about Monsanto and GMO. Others feel the need to beat the drum for pushing forward with the bounda
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by crusso 12y ago
Sadly, the unsettled or contradicted nature of the science won't stop politicians like Bloomberg from trying to force the behavior he wants through legislation.
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by crusso 12y ago
That's a huge assumption, that one can only use Sublime for code. Personally, I pick a single text editor and use it for all my plain text editing needs. I don't print very often, but when I do, I do it for a reason. Just the oth
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by crusso 12y ago
Regarding the social aspects, they've made the game so accessible to casual players that they've eliminated the need to form strong social bonds for 99% of the content that people play. You can level pretty quickly just by soloing
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by crusso 12y ago
Read the Baez blogs. Read the Discovery mag blog that shows that this is barely "NASA". It's really a few fringe scientists who have a reputation for hyping pseudoscience. When they had a chance to look critically at their
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by crusso 12y ago
"verified from the ground up with good experimental conditions" No it hasn't. That's the hype. Read the Baez commentary referenced elsewhere. Research all the other physics breaking phenomenon that had experimental co
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by crusso 12y ago
And Cold Fusion... ugh... I was at Georgia Tech in 1989 when they announced to the world that they had reproduced some aspects of the cold fusion experiment. So embarrassing. Reproducing an experiment, even with reputable scientists at NAS
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by crusso 12y ago
Yes, but your original comment in this thread is just a semantic ruse. Saying we can't decide how wings work is not at all in the same category as saying these guys don't know how Q works. One "not knowing" is about not
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by crusso 12y ago
Disagree. He's being prudent and rational to hold these experiments to the same standards that we hold other more mundane ones. Hoax phenomenon and devices always seem to fail in precisely the way that this one has. As you more caref
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by crusso 12y ago
Doesn't this remind anyone of the not-so-long-ago overhyped E-Cat? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Catalyzer
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by crusso 12y ago
If we just assumed that whatever could be done (with technology or otherwise) should be accepted, what would the point of laws be in the first place? People have expectations that the FDA will ensure the safety and efficacy of their medicin
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by crusso 12y ago
What is allowed with technology does not dictate what is right or even legal.
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by crusso 12y ago
Haven't you done more than think by participating in the conversation? I'm all for discussing this and thinking about it, but actually chatting with the person on the other end demonstrates intent.
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by crusso 12y ago
the more people agitate about reducing the scope of government (or, on the other side, reducing the influence of big banks) the better The problem isn't that people are agitating about the wrong issues. The problem is that voters ar
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by crusso 12y ago
I don't think I need one - laws and regulations will do nicely Okay, then we agree that laws and regulations are the only tool we have to restrict free will and thus behavior of actors in the free market? If you'll look back at
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by crusso 12y ago
Automatically disqualified as a "giant nerd" by going to a gym.
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by crusso 12y ago
no amount of reasoning or evidence will change those beliefs It worked for you, didn't it? It also worked for me. That's two of us. There are more. Keep the uh... "faith".
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by crusso 12y ago
Just because Marx and Engels put that in their manifesto doesn't mean that any system that has the features of Communism would even theoretically be possible without force (a state).
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by crusso 12y ago
You know, I don't think that you and I are in that much disagreement on some of the basics. I think we'd both agree that Capitalism can be good. Government serves a purpose in maintaining the framework of items you listed. We al
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by crusso 12y ago
Koch-inspired bullshit they're selling on Fox News nowadays Please avoid these types of overtly political inflammatory arguments on HN. Capital markets are a tool for allocating resources In the modern sense, when someone on HN is
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by crusso 12y ago
How so? India and China are huge societies and have historically been much less capitalistic yet have been horrible polluters. More recently as they've embraced capitalism, their increase in pollution has more to do with their standa

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