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by drcube 13y ago
Even if they believe that, it doesn't make plagiarism and breech of contract okay.
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by drcube 13y ago
Sure, it's a monetary phenomenon, but that doesn't mean it always comes from monetary policy. In fact, the big reason monetary policy exists is to control inflation. Without monetary policy, inflation and deflation depend solely o
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by drcube 13y ago
"Price fluctuations in the value of currency" is the definition of inflation/deflation. Monetary policy can cause inflation, but it's not the only way inflation can occur. Wikipedia: "In economics, inflation is a
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by drcube 13y ago
Yes, we did. Poor laborers often used to get paid in company scrip. You could buy anything you wanted with your paycheck, as long as your boss approved and it was stocked at your company store. Then we started making employers pay people in
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by drcube 13y ago
When I was a kid, my mom's poor friends would buy us groceries with their surplus food stamps, and my mom would pay them back in cash so they could actually pay their bills. Does anybody know if this is still possible/prevalent th
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by drcube 13y ago
Because you gave it to them. Don't give them money if you don't want them to have it. Since you voted for a government that distributes welfare from your taxes, the most efficient, effective and humane method of distributing that
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by drcube 13y ago
Poverty is a huge cause of crime, disease, teen pregnancy, and poor educational outcomes. Do you disagree? And if someone refuses to get an education or better themselves when given the opportunity, are they somebody you'd like to hire
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by drcube 13y ago
I've been saying this for years now. Give people the freedom to make their own economic decisions without the fate of crushing poverty over their heads. Give them the financial breathing room to learn a new skill, start a business, or
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by drcube 13y ago
Don't put information on the public internet if you don't want the public to read it. You can keep your private information nice and safe behind a firewall, or on a private network not attached to the internet. Easy peasy.
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by drcube 13y ago
I stopped trying to vote after enabling the 20th third-party script on that page and the poll still didn't work.
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by drcube 13y ago
Why would this be a legal issue at all? Can't I do what I want to the software on my own machine and with my own network connection, so long as I abide by the software license terms and the contract with my ISP? Certainly I can't
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by drcube 13y ago
> There are huge information asymmetries involved when it comes to medical drugs... This is what the FDA should be doing. Correcting information asymmetries. With labeling requirements, unbiased PSAs, drug pamphlets and literature. Not t
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by drcube 13y ago
I dislike the distinction between using a computer and programming one. Both are just ways to tell a machine what to do. He tells his computer what to do using C, she tells her computer what to do using bash, and they tell their compute
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by drcube 13y ago
They already have that. You might have heard of it, it's called "the web". :) But seriously, the FSF or somebody needs to work on the problems Youtube and Facebook solve, but urgently. When posting things on your own website
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by drcube 13y ago
The FCC already regulates who can broadcast what over the airwaves. And if you're not licensed for that part of the spectrum, the source code will do you a fat lot of good with your radio experimentation. Nobody is asking for some sort
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by drcube 13y ago
> It's not clear yet that what they did is illegal. So? It is clear what they did and continue to do is wrong.
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by drcube 13y ago
Finding psychedelics in the Midwest is impossible. I can swing a dead cat and find all the heroin you could ever want though. Supply and demand doesn't work so well on the black market. Which makes an online brokerage pretty enticing.
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by drcube 13y ago
I thought it was "Key Lime Pie"? Did Android get a corporate sponsor?
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by drcube 13y ago
I think it implies "hidden". As in "Dark Matter" or not having light shone on your work. I didn't think of it as "the Dark Side" or anything.
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by drcube 13y ago
> For the privacy advocates when it comes to public transportation like flying: what do you fear may happen as a result of greater background checks? False positives, increased harassment/inconveniece of innocent people, chilling ef
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by drcube 13y ago
It goes the other way around. Because the government has almost everyone's fingerprint on file already, it is important to them that fingerprint scanners become a widespread method of authentication. Making sure the new locks fit all
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by drcube 13y ago
Just click the space bar. There's no need to scroll.
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by drcube 13y ago
Why do supposedly professional, competent organizations choose to use worthless voo-doo such as polygraphs for any reason whatsoever, let alone important functions such as hiring? Sounds to me like anybody helping illustrate their ineffecti
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by drcube 13y ago
> To be fair, we don't know if the government can actually convict someone of closing a business. The Thirteenth Amendment makes it pretty clear you can't force a person to work, unless they've been convicted of a crime. T
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by drcube 13y ago
Because the goal isn't an unbiased review, but a stamp of political approval? Did you really think the government as a whole is self-critical? Read Feynman's account of being on the Challenger review panel. He was the token scient
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by drcube 13y ago
Yep, the market is $12 million. Good luck running a successful phone manufacturing company with that bottomless expanse of willing customers. ;)
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by drcube 13y ago
The trolls are winning.
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by drcube 13y ago
You realize paying taxes is mandatory in the US, right?
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by drcube 13y ago
> I'm not seeing how engineering doesn't need sales just as much. Sales is hard if you don't have innate talent or a decent amount of experience. Design, development, implementation and testing of modern technology is pre
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by drcube 13y ago
> Really nice in theory, but in practice, some thugs will always organize to control the masses. AKA "Government". Anarchy is about order without a state. Not chaos. It will take work, and probably incremental evolution rather

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