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by dfranke 19y ago
Bear in mind that the French Revolution began as something very different than what it became. Thomas Paine, arguably the most libertarian of any of the founding fathers, was one of the French Revolution's most ardent American supporters i
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by dfranke 19y ago
I think libertarian is the wrong label, and classical liberal perhaps but not necessarily the correct one, if you identify more closely with Thomas Jefferson than with Robert Nozick.
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by dfranke 19y ago
I was just advising you to avoid the wrong label, not to avoid them altogether.
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by dfranke 19y ago
I've never quite understood people's aversion to being labeled. I'm happy to be labeled as a Rothbardian. My political thinking basically conforms to the framework laid out in The Ethics of Liberty . The fact that I accept the label doe
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by dfranke 19y ago
You're right, it's definitely not. If you consider yourself a classical liberal, you probably shouldn't call yourself a libertarian at all, at least not when speaking to educated libertarians. While the two schools share a lot in common,
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by dfranke 19y ago
I assume that tuition is still a continuous function of income. I doubt you suddenly pay full boat if you're a dollar over $75k.
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by dfranke 19y ago
It's not like most of us here are at much risk to begin with.
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by dfranke 19y ago
Maybe he wrote the poem on the cover of ANSI Common Lisp.
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by dfranke 19y ago
Chris Jermaine has done some interesting work in giving DBMSs support for approximate query answers. http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~cjermain/OLA
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by dfranke 19y ago
What an astoundingly dimwitted thing for Apple to do. I thought they were smarter than this. Android is going to eat their lunch.
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by dfranke 19y ago
Just curious, why do you want one? It seems to me that a code editor is almost uniquely unsuited to be a web app. You need to keep your data locally anyhow, unless your whole toolchain is a web service. Furthermore, my editor is a tool I
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by dfranke 19y ago
Well, I've been on the inside of that for years (in the KDE project) and could write volumes about what I've seen working and not working. If you wrote that book, I'd buy it. The only writing on the subject that I'm aware of is a few pas
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by dfranke 19y ago
I think the best way to answer this question is to observe large open source projects and see what works best. Not because open source is inherently better than industry at getting it right, but rather because open source projects conduct
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by dfranke 19y ago
That once seemed like a good idea to me, but several companies tried this during bubble 1.0 and they all flamed out spectacularly. The trouble, it seemed, is that it just isn't an effective investment of people's time. Anyone willing to g
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by dfranke 19y ago
The problem is that many people have learned to tune out advertisement. I'd take that as a pretty strong hint that it was unwelcome to begin with. Also, you might want to build an ad exchange site where if you look at k ads carefully, th
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by dfranke 19y ago
That sounds like a very low offer. A 4:1 P/E ratio is what you expect from a steel company, not a tech startup showing exponential growth.
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by dfranke 19y ago
If your objective is to set a world record in pissing off your users, then yes -- this makes perfect sense. Otherwise, not so much.
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by dfranke 19y ago
I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about arguing that Y Combinator is a suicide cult and rambling about mind control conspiracies via the effect of electromagnetic resonance on the brain.
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by dfranke 19y ago
What, in concrete terms, do you mean by "pursuing the arts"?
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by dfranke 19y ago
Er, did you read the thread that got him banned? It wasn't clear whether he was a troll or just a total whackjob, but either way he had to go. It wasn't even a borderline case.
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by dfranke 19y ago
Name 1 that provides a benefit people care enough to pay for. http://clickfacts.com/ http://wufoo.com/ http://virtualmin.com/ http://adpinion.com/ http://www.draftmix.com/ I'm sure I've forgotten a hatful.
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by dfranke 19y ago
If enough people upvote it, the bozo button clickers are revealed. Edit: better yet, they should be revealed unconditionally.
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by dfranke 19y ago
This is a fantastic idea.
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by dfranke 19y ago
Not necessarily more centrist, but probably more idiosyncratic. The benefit of approval voting is that you aren't disincentivized from voting for candidates whom you like but think can't win.
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by dfranke 19y ago
I'm nowhere near MM's level in poker, but I'll chime in since he hasn't yet. The value of ability to read tells is vastly inflated in the public consciousness. Some bad players have very obvious ones, but at higher levels it just doesn't
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by dfranke 19y ago
My point is that there are very few people on this planet whom I couldn't get in touch with if I had something useful to say to them . The five people I initially listed are people who travel many of the same circles that I do, so it's co
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by dfranke 19y ago
Well, Bill Gates is just about equal to a head-of-state. The other two I'm pretty sure I could pull some strings and get in touch with (off the top of my head, they're each a friend of a friend of a friend), but I'm not about to waste thei
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by dfranke 19y ago
I won't pick out five new ones, but in the past few months I've corresponded with PG, ESR, Bruce Schneier, Randall Munroe, and JD Frazer.
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by dfranke 19y ago
It's not of unknown quality once you've read it. Even the biggest stars generally have time to sort through all their fan mail, even if they don't respond to most of it. If you have something insightful to say, getting it noticed by a fam
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by dfranke 19y ago
How is this different from making a post on any other random forum, and how is it better than simply sending an email?

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