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by dgordon 18y ago
Why am I not surprised? Thanks for mentioning that.
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by dgordon 18y ago
"I hate that most of the detractors of Atlas Shrugged misread the message." You assume they read it at all.
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by dgordon 18y ago
Good point. On most other sites like this (such as Digg and Reddit) there's a third factor that's much more influential than the others there, but much less so here -- whether the post is funny.
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by dgordon 18y ago
You're right about A Confederacy of Dunces, but it seems to me that Ayn Rand wasn't exactly going for funny. But I am, so -- uh-oh, I said "it seems to me." Better dodge that falling giant copy of Atlas Shrugged that's aimed for my head.
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by dgordon 18y ago
I was saying this in the summer of 2007, partly inspired by the fact that a Mr. Thompson (Fred) seemed to have a good chance of becoming a presidential candidate. It's interesting to see people and organizations repeating it around me now.
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by dgordon 18y ago
Exactly. When the definition involves "I know it when I see it," there are going to be gray areas.
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by dgordon 18y ago
OK. "Obama's father was Barack Obama, Sr., a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya." --Wikipedia Also: "The Luo (also called Jaluo and Joluo) are an ethnic group in Kenya, eastern Uganda, and northern Tanzania. They are part of
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by dgordon 18y ago
Kenya was in Africa last I checked.
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by dgordon 18y ago
In my real life? It's more likely than you might think. ;-)
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Israel Holds "The First Governmental Press Conference Ever Held On Twitter."(nytimes.com)
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by dgordon 18y ago
Growing all the way to the largest economy in the world is irrelevant? I don't follow. Nor did I say anything grew "thirteen times." "There is no way we could have had the kind of growth we experienced post WWII if we had stayed on the go
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by dgordon 18y ago
Neither Andrew Jackson nor anyone else had more than two terms as president except FDR, who took the US off the gold standard by stealing everyone's gold in 1933. (That's where the gold in Fort Knox came from.) Besides, the US used a gold
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by dgordon 18y ago
I don't see that "libertarian" entails "anarchist" or even "trolling message boards."
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by dgordon 18y ago
The Chinese middle class have it worse than the poor in America.
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by dgordon 18y ago
All right then -- fair to whom, and by what standard?
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by dgordon 18y ago
400 points is actually more like a 90:10 advantage, but that's a minor point.
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by dgordon 18y ago
I remember participating in that game -- I was in New York when Kasparov opened the game by playing 1. e4, I voted on a lot of the moves, posted my analysis (1350 USCF analysis, but still) to the forum there, and was greatly disappointed wh
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by dgordon 18y ago
"She lost her teaching credentials instead of 40 years in prison." It stuns me that 40 years was even a possibility. And it makes me wonder: have there been cases like this that we've never heard of, with similar vengeful prosecutors and s
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by dgordon 18y ago
And yet the bastards in the prosecutor's office still ruined her life. This isn't justice. This isn't even a miscarriage of justice. This is holding justice down, raping her, giving her two black eyes and a bloody nose, and then saying in
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by dgordon 18y ago
Eh, it wasn't that funny, mostly because it utterly misses the point. The Spudworks one was OK.
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by dgordon 18y ago
I used Jose Raul Capablanca, the third world chess champion. It wasn't even close.
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by dgordon 18y ago
So, by the standards of his time, nuts.
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by dgordon 18y ago
170 million murdered in genocides. Armenia, the Gulag, Auschwitz, the Great Leap Forward. Rwanda. Littler, still stark things like Varosha. World wars. In the 20th century alone. Can the market match that?
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by dgordon 18y ago
Unfortunately not. What kind of boss lets their employees do that? :-P
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by dgordon 18y ago
"Pre-industrialism, essentially everyone was self-employed (if we want a specific example, lets take the USA 150 years ago, rather than regressing into feudalism or Egyptian slaves); despite the posited inability of non-elites to be entrepr
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by dgordon 18y ago
I don't see why you equate rationality to a brute-force search of the possibility space.
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by dgordon 18y ago
"The best physicist in ancient Greece could not calculate the path of a falling apple. There is no guarantee that adequacy is possible given your hardest effort; therefore spare no thought for whether others are doing worse. If you compare
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by dgordon 18y ago
So instead of marriage, let's call it...butt-buddies. Besides, why do you care so much whether Joe is married to a woman, a man, a genderless entity, or no one at all?
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by dgordon 18y ago
+1 for attempt at Office Space allusion, and the first paragraph as a whole. "Planted in the middle of sub/exurban parking lots" describes it well.
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by dgordon 18y ago
You know, you just proved their point about people who talk like Rand's villains. Is there anyone here who has read Rand's novels and can't imagine those words coming from James Taggart, Floyd Ferris, or Ellsworth Toohey? (Maybe not Ellsw

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