duncan_bayne

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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
> Now we're moving into territory of not discriminating against optional things people choose (having children). We already do that in the case of religion.
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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
My brief encounter with R led me to the exact same conclusion - that the R culture does not value correctness. That is not a characteristic I value in a development culture. Case in point, the bug I raised about TZ handling (which is also a
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Carbon neutrality to cost up to 22% of NZ GDP by 2050(croakingcassandra.com)
2 points by duncan_bayne 8y ago|0 comments
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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
In a nutshell, that's difference between capitalism and corporatism / fascism.
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Show HN: Heroku buildpack for Common Lisp(gitlab.com)
3 points by duncan_bayne 8y ago|0 comments
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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
Don't you think the very presence of this article is propagation of an ideological battle? And what is more relevant to the topic at hand than the personal experience of someone who grew up under Soviet rule?
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Memorandum on Microsoft’s strategy against Linux and Open Source software (1998)(catb.org)
215 points by duncan_bayne 8y ago|52 comments
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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
Yes! In particular, I knew about the message behind their gift of the Statue of Liberty.
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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
It's fortunate for France that the revolution came to nothing. Marxist policies have destroyed every country that has embraced them. USSR. North Korea. Cuba. Vietnam. China. Those that have recovered have done so to the extent that th
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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
Marx is relevant? Socialist intellectuals have been moving the goalposts for decades, after failure upon failure to achieve their stated goals. http://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/hick
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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
Gah. I meant al-Ghazali. I blame sleep deprivation.
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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
Sorry if I wasn't clear; I'm not arguing for anarchy, I'm arguing for small Government tasked solely with protecting the rights of its citizens, funded by voluntary taxation.
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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
... are you kidding me? Yes, Western governments have their problems. But honestly what alternative is there? Chinese "communism" (really Fascism)? Russian dictatorship / oligarchy? African tribalism and anarchy? Middle Easte
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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
Good for you for acting on your values. Too few people do. One question - under what circumstances would you entertain the idea of supporting the military with your labour? I mean, imagine you lived somewhere like Switzerland. Neutral, wi
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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
Consider where this logic would take you if you applied it to all spheres of life. There would never be experimentation, innovation, or in fact development of any kind. Coming back to the Objectivist angle, there's a great passage f
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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
Many people would dispute elements of your "necessary" lists, especially Austrian economist and Objectivists (I'm in the latter camp). Also, many people have proposed alternatives for funding legitimate Government functions w
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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
How are exotic tax reduction schemes caused by accountants? That's like saying fires are caused by firefighters. They're a consequence of compulsory taxation.
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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
Oh no! What happened? Mine is happily running; it's a 464 w/ green phosphor monitor. I'm on the lookout for a reasonably priced colour monitor but they're rare as hen's teeth in Australia. https://vimeo
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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
Amstrad programming is still a thing :) https://vimeo.com/69787152
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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
People had been using other - and better - mechanisms than Slack for this purpose for decades.
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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
I think he's pointing out that many (most? all?) unicorns are built atop open source software that only exists because of a significant counter-cultural struggle that happened in the 80s and 90s. I still remember when the idea of runni
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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
Yes but a) they weren't originally that accurate, and b) have only just been validated against independent data (satellite measurements of sea levels). My point, perhaps snarkily made, was that we are only now getting the hang of this,
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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
Then you put your phone back in your pocket, laugh dramatically, and close with "And that's the last time NASA messes with me ."
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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
Perhaps relevant is that we have also been very bad at modelling the recent and short term future climate of our own damn planet! Things are finally settling down to the point where models match independent data, e.g. the recent research in
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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
"requires picking whose utility matters how much" ... which is politics in a nutshell. That's partly why I support the complete privatisation of education, at all levels. https://mises.org/library/what-if
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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
My understanding was that the IRS was directed to enact Obamacare by Executive Order, because they (the Federal Government) have no Constitutional mandate in that area. Same with the EPA.
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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
He just doesn't grok it does he?
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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
They're right, too. ... if the people you're trying to make a point to are also all assholes, because the assholes are in charge, and have exclusively promoted assholes to leadership roles.
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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
My understanding was that at least some of those - Obamacare and the EPA - required either an Executive Order or a Constitutional amendment, because the powers required were not granted to the Federal Government by the Constitution. Agreed
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by duncan_bayne 8y ago
This is an outsider's perspective (I'm Australian) but it seems as though more and more is being done through Executive Orders - the Korean War, the EPA, Obamacare - instead of through proper channels. As far as I can tell, this i

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