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571.
by dpatru 17y ago
An artificially low price is what excludes private enterprises. It also encourages people to be inefficient by shielding them from the true cost of living in remote areas.
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by dpatru 17y ago
Why should people in economically viable communities be forced to subsidize people who chose to live in remote areas? Of course this makes the subsidized people better off, but it doesn't make society as a whole better off. Society is bette
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by dpatru 17y ago
To the extent that people want earthquake/tsunami insurance, building codes could just as well be administered by insurance companies. (A structure that doesn't meet the insurance company's code would be more expensive to insure.) Also, ins
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by dpatru 17y ago
I don't understand why public employees are allowed to unionize. If the public does not have a choice whether to pay your salary, then at least the public's representatives should have the right to easily fire you.
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by dpatru 17y ago
Youtube wants to have the right to profit from the contents of its service, but it doesn't want to be held responsible for damages the content causes. A landlord who leases his premises to the bar owner for a fixed sum per month is not resp
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The argument against net neutrality(youtube.com)
1 points by dpatru 17y ago|0 comments
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by dpatru 17y ago
Almost all interviewers profit. So I don't see why an interviewee should be offended that Andrew is profiting. Most interviewers profit by charging advertisers. The advertisers then become the customers and the viewers are just "users." By
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by dpatru 17y ago
An unlawful search is illegal. Whether the cop go to jail depends on if they're convicted of a criminal law. Usually an illegal search is brought up as a defense by the person who was searched and is now being charged with evidence obtained
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by dpatru 17y ago
I think the perspective of this article is wrong. The author says that if you're not working hard, you're not learning. "Working hard" implies stress. It's hard to learn under stress. When I was young, I used to take piano lessons. The best
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Win without pitching: an ad agency's attempt to break free sf the pitch(winwithoutpitching.com)
3 points by dpatru 17y ago|0 comments
581.
by dpatru 17y ago
$129/year < $3/week = Not expensive for something that gets used.
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by dpatru 17y ago
There's nothing wrong with being partisan. In fact, it's wrong to be non-partisan about important issues like freedom. If you're non-partisan about free speech, what are you partisan about? What freedoms would you have to lose to become par
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by dpatru 17y ago
I looked up the article in Google so as to read it for free (it's the first result): http://www.google.com/search?q=carpenter+before+i+die
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Before I die(online.wsj.com)
1 points by dpatru 17y ago|1 comments
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Redditor teaches video editing for free(reddit.com)
4 points by dpatru 17y ago|0 comments
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by dpatru 17y ago
Seems like an opportunity for a startup: help people get the highest price for their jewelry.
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by dpatru 17y ago
If you successfully exit a startup, you will likely be wealthy: i.e., you will never be forced to take a job in order to eat. If you successfully finish grad school, you will probably be no closer to becoming wealthy than you are now. So if
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by dpatru 17y ago
What do you mean by "a statist believes the sovereignty of a nation lies with the government and not with the people"? It seems to me that the word "statist" implies a context/framework in which the state, as a coercive institution, is sepa
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by dpatru 17y ago
People spend money on politics because they want government to act in a certain way. The spending can be to support or defeat a particular candidate or to insure that existing politicians attach importance to the spenders' interests. In eit
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Startup metrics for pirates (5 minute video)(youtube.com)
1 points by dpatru 17y ago|0 comments
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by dpatru 17y ago
For understanding money, you might try reading Murray Rothbard's "What has government done to our money?", available for free in both written and audio at mises.org.
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by dpatru 17y ago
Relying on privacy to avoid liability for inadvertently breaking laws does not seem to me to be a good solution to the real problem: that laws can be so numerous and obscure that one can inadvertently become a criminal. Privacy does have a
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by dpatru 17y ago
It bothers me when people use the word "many" when single digit numbers will do. For example someone might say, "I read many books," when it would be more informative to say, "I read about 5 books a week."
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She does what she hates(jessicamah.com)
5 points by dpatru 17y ago|1 comments
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The Brain Surgeon, the Janitor, and the Six-Inch Pizza(ratracetrap.com)
1 points by dpatru 17y ago|0 comments
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by dpatru 17y ago
Why is it "disturbing to think that these people are responsible for the safety of our flights"? Did something about the blog-post in question disturb you, or just what you know in general about the TSA? I'm not being sarcastic. I just want
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by dpatru 17y ago
The authors point out that the QWERTY example is currently the most favored by those arguing for government intervention. By attacking the QWERTY example, the authors are attacking the case for government intervention. > Stanford Univer
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by dpatru 17y ago
Perhaps this was Google's strategy from the beginning. Introduce useful services into the Chinese market while accepting government restrictions, then when enough Chinese have become dependent on these services, try to negotiate the restric
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The business power of fun(jonathanfields.com)
1 points by dpatru 17y ago|0 comments
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by dpatru 17y ago
A good abstraction is one that makes it easy to express the solution in a way that the customer wants. A bad abstraction makes it hard. For example, if the customer in an end-user and wants a table-like presentation, using an HTML table is

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