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by dpatru 16y ago
As long as there are thieves and robbers, people will always need protection. And protection, unless you do it yourself, usually has to be paid for. Thus your statement, "you have to pay the guy with the gun" is true without the qualificati
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by dpatru 16y ago
You should distinguish between Catholic and Protestant Christianity. Protestant Christianity, which emphasizes individual liberty, and thus implies limits on government power is more likely to prevent corruption.
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by dpatru 16y ago
Why is greed relevant?
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by dpatru 16y ago
More freedom. If government doesn't prohibit or overregulate a thing, there is no chance of there being corruption about that thing. So, for example, when the Soviet Union was around and the economy was tightly regulated and commerce was ti
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by dpatru 16y ago
Corruption is always caused by government doing more than what it should be doing. To illustrate from your examples, if a government does sanitation and therefore has a cushy job for the director of sanitation, this is a breeding ground for
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by dpatru 16y ago
I found this video of Milton Friedman helpful in understanding corruption: ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-7oMOxPjNE&feature=autof... ). He argues that corruption is caused by government passing laws which do not appeal to people's m
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by dpatru 16y ago
Just this week I found the program "gorun" which does this. Unlike watch, gorun does not poll. It uses inotify. http://github.com/peterbe/python-gorun
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by dpatru 16y ago
> The experience of other cities over many years has shown that open-entry "deregulation" of taxis is poor public policy. . . . In a nutshell, the problem is that the capital costs of entering the taxi business are low. In an unregulate
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by dpatru 16y ago
Seems similar to Microsoft's JQuery plugin: http://api.jquery.com/link/ .
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HTML5 Boilerplate(paulirish.com)
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Things I Learned from the jQuery Source(paulirish.com)
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by dpatru 16y ago
> of course they have to learn the vehicle code Of course this is the code that the law presumes that every driver knows. It would be unfair to punish someone for doing what they didn't know is illegal.
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by dpatru 16y ago
> You can't have groups if everyone is going at their own pace. Isn't this how adults learn? (And children too, when out of the classroom.) If you want to learn something new, say how to program in Haskell, what do you do? You probably
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by dpatru 16y ago
I see this talk as an argument against "traditional" schooling. The alternative to traditional schooling is anything not traditional. In the US, that would be homeschooling or private school like Montessori. The political takeaway is that g
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How Intellectual Property Hampers Capitalism | Stephan Kinsella(youtube.com)
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by dpatru 16y ago
More than 200 years ago America broke off from England because Americans believed that the English government was violating their rights. The replacement government that the Americans set up has in its Constitution safeguards to ensure that
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by dpatru 16y ago
Yes, isn't this the best time to call your lawyer (when you're innocent and want to protect your rights?) Or should the fourth amendment only be invoked by criminals?
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by dpatru 16y ago
The problem with fractional reserve banking is that a bank can lend out any of the money it's keeping on deposit for its customers. In any other business, this would be wrong. Imagine a storage operator renting out its customers' stored b
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by dpatru 16y ago
> human societies have drifted slowly but surely towards the left, with a constant increase in the quality of life for the entire population. This is like saying that caged mice have a better quality of life than wild mice because they
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by dpatru 16y ago
Hopefully in the future, people will be more free. They will look back and wonder why it was once acceptable for governments to: * confiscate huge percentages of a person's work, thus effectively making working people serfs of the governmen
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LESS - Leaner CSS(lesscss.org)
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by dpatru 16y ago
Which side is the winning side and which is the losing side?
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The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web(webtypography.net)
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Designing Interfaces(designinginterfaces.com)
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by dpatru 16y ago
So how will you make money from this site?
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How to Develop "Breakthrough" Products and Services - Lec. 2(video.google.com)
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YouTube - Einstein for the Masses(youtube.com)
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by dpatru 16y ago
The ability to "like" people and businesses can be used as a trust network. it's standard practice for people to ask their friends for recommendations when choosing a doctor, lawyer, or other service providers. None of the people I know who
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by dpatru 16y ago
> Will the haves (people with relevant education, who are disproportionately represented here of HN) give some of what they have to the have-nots just because they are human? Do the haves have a choice to "give"? The reality is that in
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by dpatru 16y ago
I can't back this up with research, but from my own experience, concentrated thinking is good for the brain. Activities and environments that promote concentration are good while those that disturb concentration are bad. Good: writing, qui

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