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by dpatru 10y ago
The fallacy here is to aggregate the people. Democracy has been compared to two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Proposals to cut government will fail when more than 50℅ figure they are net beneficiaries. This does not m
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Will Amazon kill Fedex?(bloomberg.com)
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Binary?
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by dpatru 10y ago
> What's the alternative, and how would you implement it? I can think of two basic reasons for the existence of government: 1) The idealistic (naive?) view of government is that it exists because some problems in society are best so
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by dpatru 11y ago
I think that teaching your children how to make money while they are still young is one of the most valuable things you can do for them. This, along with the ability to learn independently, will allow them to avoid a lot of misery for the r
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by dpatru 11y ago
The article assumes that the defendants are guilty. It should assume that they are innocent and ask why prosecutors are trying people they can't prove are guilty.
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by dpatru 11y ago
Facebook offers free services to ordinary people to help them stay in touch with their friends. It also offers a paid services to businesses to help them communicate to actual and potential customers. Anyone who uses Facebook can stop at an
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by dpatru 11y ago
In terms of providing social value, Facebook employees far surpass any government's employees. In just a few years Facebook has revolutionized how people connect with each other, whereas governments have, in general, barely been able t
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by dpatru 11y ago
Expecting regular commuters to continue paying is like a dating site expecting married couples to continue paying. Focus instead on helping irregular travelers find rides or minibus entrepreneurs find paying passengers.
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by dpatru 11y ago
Please state your disagreement.
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by dpatru 12y ago
> But how will you reduce the government under the current system? Isn't campaign finance reform a necessary step? You reduce government by advocating for it. You promote ideas and candidates that will cut government income, control
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by dpatru 12y ago
Market economics is the aggregate of the deals that people make when they are not coerced. It's what results when both drivers and passengers are free to choose their best options. Regulation that disrupts this, by preventing drivers
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by dpatru 12y ago
BATNA = Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement
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by dpatru 12y ago
MOOC don't have to replace all colleges to be wildly successful. It is enough if they become known as the best place for self-motivated, bright people to get an education. When that happens, MOOC will be the new college. That is, compl
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by dpatru 12y ago
Greenspun did a good job of characterizing (even summarizing) the information that you can find in the book. I learned new things from reading his review. Since I didn't read the book, this was more valuable to me than a "discussi
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Book review: Bad Pharma(blogs.law.harvard.edu)
110 points by dpatru 12y ago|46 comments
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What are my rights at various “checkpoints”?(flexyourrights.org)
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No Idling: 30 inspiring stories from those who "Do the Work"(thedominoproject.com)
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by dpatru 12y ago
> Slavery is immoral because it takes away freedom of movement . . . Here's a counter-example: the difference between a freeman farmer and a slave farmer is not that they don't have freedome of movement, but that the freeman ha
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by dpatru 12y ago
> The gap between rich and poor is ever widening, The "gap" between the rich and poor is a function of possible productivity. As it becomes possible for people to do more, there will be more of a spread between people who do no
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by dpatru 12y ago
> employers will gladly take advantage of people's need to feel productive, while setting them all against each other to drive wages as low as the most desperate person to work will accept. By this logic, all wages should be at the
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by dpatru 12y ago
> I am somewhat concerned about the other people in my community who don't [have theirs]. If you're concerned about people in your community who are poor, why do you oppose letting them make employment contracts which will mak
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by dpatru 12y ago
It's fine to want to earn more money as long as you don't do this by taking away other people's freedoms. No one has the right to use force on others for their own ends. No one has the right to take away other people's r
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Will Facebook bring down the government?(garynorth.com)
1 points by dpatru 12y ago|0 comments
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The Making of a Corporate Athlete(tweeofmeer.nl)
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Byron trial notes(github.com)
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by dpatru 13y ago
Why can't timing be handled external to the scrambling or descrambling operations? Look at the time, do the crypto, then check the time and sleep as necessary so that this particular operation takes about as much time as the worse-case
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by dpatru 13y ago
Modified to also record the elapsed times: # from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7411120 export NOW_FORMAT='%F %T' export NOW_FORMAT2='+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' export NOW_FILE="$HOME/.
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by dpatru 13y ago
Britain held journalist Glen Greenwald's partner on terrorism grounds, suspecting he was carrying Snowden files. http://www.advocate.com/politics/media/2013/11/03/british-go...
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by dpatru 13y ago
Asserting that the speaker shouldn't make arguments because he's not "a grand political philosopher" and that his comments are a "low brow form of idealogical dribble" does not contribute to a good discussion.

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