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871.
by deciplex 12y ago
> Which leaves us with the question of who is going to pay for that foundation to peel back the layers of existence, and what motivation they have to cough up the money. Presumably it would have to be the same motivation we had to do pub
872.
by deciplex 12y ago
If you know that you will be eventually convinced of it, shouldn't you just short-circuit the process and start believing it now?
873.
by deciplex 12y ago
To expand on this, if we had perpetual copyright, we wouldn't have culture.
874.
by deciplex 12y ago
> It's amazing what war does for you. War destroys infrastructure and siphons off resources that could be put to more productive use. War is not good for the economy, and it never has been.
875.
by deciplex 12y ago
But Google doesn't do structured interviews. Not always, at any rate.
876.
by deciplex 12y ago
Glad to hear the ACA is helping, but as someone who has little experience with the US healthcare system: Jesus H. Christ. Unless you've got a family of nine, that is a lot of money for health insurance.
877.
by deciplex 12y ago
What are the teachings of Christ?
878.
by deciplex 12y ago
"We operate according to the law, because we are not governed by laws."
879.
by deciplex 12y ago
So, at some point, the people need to be made aware of the efficacy (or lack thereof) of the policies enacted by the politicians they vote into office. How do you propose we make that happen? Because otherwise you're asking everyone to
880.
by deciplex 12y ago
Historically, the common reason for a large discrepancy in price between exchanges is that one of them is insolvent. So the price is fictional in that case anyway: you can deposit funds there and "trade", but your principal and yo
881.
by deciplex 12y ago
Honestly, the GCHQ does seem a lot more brazenly nefarious than the NSA. A lot of the shit that comes out of the mouths of GCHQ spokespersons, shows open contempt and disdain for civil liberties and due process. At the NSA, it's more l
882.
by deciplex 12y ago
Right. Aside from, or in spite of, being a black market (by necessity), Silk Road was pretty benign compared to the alternatives. Surely Silk Road was taking some profits away from drug cartels. Probably not much, but a legal market would p
883.
by deciplex 12y ago
DPR definitely broke the law, there's no question about that. A lot of us think it's an unjust law, but whatever. He may have also put out hits on people (though, curiously, he is not being charged for that). If that's the ca
884.
by deciplex 12y ago
>the Google+ saga reads almost exactly like this Does it? IIRC a lot of people wanted to switch to G+ in summer 2011 or thereabouts, and it was getting a lot of buzz. But, by the time they got around to opening registration to people who
885.
by deciplex 12y ago
I don't think the 'The Ancients' really cared if they lasted 100 years or 10000 years. They used concrete, or stone, or wood, based on basically the same factors we do: ease of procurement, cost, suitability, and so on. Anywa
886.
by deciplex 12y ago
Honestly, if you can't withstand a little (in this case, very mild) invective every once in a while, then you probably should avoid discussing politics on the internet - if not in real life - altogether. While I obviously don't ag
887.
by deciplex 12y ago
I'm more interested in the damage they caused, than what percentage of the population they are. Murderers make up a small portion of the population as well, but we still punish them and take steps to prevent crime. I've never hear
888.
by deciplex 12y ago
Tell them we learned how to cheaply travel faster than light using this one weird trick? That other interstellar civilizations hate us?
889.
by deciplex 12y ago
Why not use Boo? Serious question and if there is some reason to avoid taking advantage of the Boo support in Unity, I'd really like to know about it.
890.
by deciplex 12y ago
>Unfortunately, and I hope this is not your experience, the way I understand the state of affairs in gaming in general is that if it's not as gorgeous as Mass Effect or as addictive as Candy Crush you're not likely to see many
891.
by deciplex 12y ago
I guess you can judge the people, but I'm at a loss what you mean by judging the situation . I mean, if the incentives align a certain way to make a thing very likely to happen that thing is going to happen . The people responding to
892.
by deciplex 12y ago
I don't buy it. You could make a similar case against stone tablets.
893.
by deciplex 12y ago
>post-oligarchic Post?
894.
by deciplex 12y ago
"To be more creative, stop reading totally unscientific articles about how to be more creative, and start doing stuff."
895.
by deciplex 12y ago
With a blanket and snarky dismissal like that it sounds like you lack some important read-a-newspaper-in-the-last-seven-years skills. Try to be more aware of your surroundings. This should get you started: http://en.wikipedia.org
896.
by deciplex 12y ago
'They' will eventually die, hopefully to be replaced by a generation that values civil liberties. In the meantime, the struggle continues.
897.
by deciplex 12y ago
Strange that you picked that example, considering it's the only instance where you could hope to argue that the 'war' was successful. You don't see much Communism these days, at least not in the tradition of Stalin and M
898.
by deciplex 12y ago
>the spending on it is only a little larger than at the end of the cold war I hope you realize that this means the spending on it is quite high, indeed.
899.
by deciplex 12y ago
The voting culture here is toxic, and totally benign posts frequently get voted down for no good reason, and without comment. I see posts complaining about downvotes now in every other thread on HN, and I still haven't seen a mod comme
900.
by deciplex 12y ago
> Edit: Seriously? It's an informative post, why the downvote hate? This is getting to be a rather annoying issue with HN for the past six months or so. You will often get 2 or 3 downvotes very soon after posting, for no apparent re

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