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by crusso 13y ago
The corporation is doing what it's supposed to do within the system. It's supposed to look out for its own interests, obey the law, and make money for its shareholders. The government is fundamentally broken. It's trusted a
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by crusso 13y ago
Why give the corporations who spend millions lobbying against tax reform a pass Because unfair taxation is just a symptom of the core problem of too much trust in an institutionally corrupt government.
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by crusso 13y ago
They've evaded taxes The government screws up the tax laws through utter dysfunction and you imply/say that Apple and other big companies are breaking the law? To my knowledge, Apple is paying all of the taxes required by US law
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by crusso 13y ago
The problem with centralized government isn't that it doesn't succeed in cases. The problem is that it's never allowed to fail.
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by crusso 13y ago
state governments don't do these things because We already know that even within the context of "things that states can do", there is a tremendous amount of diversity amongst the states. This would continue even if states
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by crusso 13y ago
I love this idea. Thanks, it's one of those ideas that has been in the back of my mind for a while, but it's not an easy idea for me to even convey properly. I thought I'd just make a best-effort at it and see what HN thou
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by crusso 13y ago
1) I'm sure some will approach it that way. Some of those will continue with it that way. Other people will learn from the ongoing debate and incorporate new learning in their positions. They will learn logical argumentation and som
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by crusso 13y ago
I think that the success of sites like Snopes indicates that a significant percentage of people DO care about facts. We'll never have a situation where 100% of people are 100% fact driven in their belief systems, but maybe the needle m
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by crusso 13y ago
Not at all. If, say, healthcare were not being taken over by the Federal government, it doesn't mean that all states would attempt to completely take over healthcare within their borders. They certainly weren't doing so before 2
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by crusso 13y ago
Fascinating, thanks for the pointers. I'll have to look at them further, but what I think they might lack from what I posted is a notion that different users will value some gray area arguments differently. The system should preserve
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by crusso 13y ago
I'd like to see a site that focuses on the construction of logical arguments supporting various political and non-political views. I'd like for the system to allow for continued refinement of arguments on various topics and to all
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by crusso 13y ago
Well, karunamon seems to be disagreeing with me where you are agreeing with me. Any further clarification would be interesting. Thanks.
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by crusso 13y ago
Great reason to use NoScript or ScriptSafe, since it kills things like this. I hadn't even noticed the problem.
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by crusso 13y ago
I didn't know what Meteor is and the link didn't explain. FROM: https://www.meteor.com/ Meteor is an open-source platform for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time, whether you're an exp
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by crusso 13y ago
Well, I'd revise that to say: If the government were confined to its Constitutional restraints, companies would have much less reason to even want to influence it. It's the very size and scope of the government and acceptance into
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by crusso 13y ago
The rules are fairly meaningless: http://nation.foxnews.com/2014/03/28/reid-scandal-deepens-ca... They are obviously not strict enough or they have no teeth. This kind of thing happens all the time. You rea
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by crusso 13y ago
Can you imagine the scope of the research to meaningfully have insight on how commonplace such a thing is? The people with the funds and power to connect all those dots are in the set of people who are somewhat likely to have benefitted fro
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by crusso 13y ago
Good points. I took over management of a software development group that had a four server commercial product that was dependent upon having developers knowledgeable in all of the following: Windows, Linux, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, C++, C
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by crusso 13y ago
You guys can downvote me all you want for bringing up an uncomfortable truth, but the fact is that from the outside, it looks like there's still a huge schism in the Python community and that it's not at all obvious that users sho
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by crusso 13y ago
I'm going to extend myself way into pure speculation IANAL-land, but I'd guess that it depends on how common the term is and consumer confusion over similar use of the term in another context. Sure, "apple" can't be
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by crusso 13y ago
I just got back into some Python programming after a 2+ year hiatus from the language. I'm stunned that this 2.x vs 3.x debate is still happening and that 99% of all libraries in use * haven't been converted to 3.x. I like the l
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by crusso 13y ago
I just posted the first link that came up when I googled for Michelle Obama school lunch or something like that. The poster to whom I was responding was associating the control of menus with sociopathy. I was simply pointing out that the F
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by crusso 13y ago
You, my friend, have not had a proper nethack addiction if you don't have the desire to wish for a blessed +3 warhammer named Mjollnir. http://www.nethack.org/
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by crusso 13y ago
Does speed really matter? Yes. C++ is chosen by developers who tend to choose performance over elegance. When I was doing a lot more C++, I was intimately aware of the deep performance implications of choosing one data type and implement
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by crusso 13y ago
Controlling, yeah, but that makes Steve a sociopath? Is Michelle Obama a sociopath too? http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/6/1m-kids-stop-...
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by crusso 13y ago
I'll never forget standing in a K/Wal Mart when I was about 12 years old, standing in front of a Commodore 64. My older brother showed me a simple program that he typed in: 10 PRINT "I AM THE BEST!!!" 20 GOTO 10
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by crusso 13y ago
Good advice that most founders who are offered $$$$$$ will ignore without the barest of a thought.
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by crusso 13y ago
but will be donating my estate to charity I find that people throw out that line and keep to it about as well as people keep to their diets. They make proclamations, but when it comes time to actually NOT put their kids in their Will, the
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by crusso 13y ago
Dynastic wealth was earned by somebody I get that, but that somebody is gone. The freedom that we allow each other in life to make what we will of our own labor is gone. the US takes 40% of the really large ones Do you think that the K
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by crusso 13y ago
Especially if it's some form of dynastic wealth Now here's where I'm NOT going to sound like a Libertarian in this thread and agree with you. Dynastic wealth should be cannibalized in the same way that big chunks of spaghet

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