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by ende 12y ago
>>the majority opinion in Citizens United rests on the idea that corporations are protected by the First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendments This is false. Go read the ruling yourself. It says nothing about corporate personhood. No
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by ende 12y ago
Downvoting comments like that is pointless and should be banned.
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by ende 12y ago
Nor has any political force yet emerged built on that premise of social power structures. Perhaps classial liberalism, georgism, distributism, and good old fashioned anarchy. Every existing political force along the spectrum simply tries
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by ende 12y ago
How much ya got?
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by ende 12y ago
New name suggestion: Mulled
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by ende 12y ago
They actually don't. Citizens United and similar cases are not actually grounded in corporate personhood, though it is a common misconception that that's the case. The ruling in CU merely states that the government is denied the
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by ende 12y ago
I heard both Tom Friedman and Paul Krugman were on the phone call and really had at them.
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by ende 12y ago
This guy gets it
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by ende 12y ago
A land value tax isn't a property tax, so no problem there.
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by ende 12y ago
Reglation, corruption, lobbying... Its all the same thing.
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by ende 12y ago
Slimmer, but also just more efficient in some respects. The Nordic countries aren't afraid to experiment and innovate, which is perhaps the real Nordic model. Interesting that you take exception to my use of the word state. I generall
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by ende 12y ago
That wasn't a comment about your account of history but rather your involvement in it. To put another way, would someone who is half-native hald-european be half-victim half-responsible, or is it just ridiculous to attribute blame for
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by ende 12y ago
You were there?
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by ende 12y ago
Just FYI, the Nordic countries had been in a process of scaling back their welfare states considerably leading up to the financial crises and are still struggling to achieve sustainability (except Norway which has a mountain of oil). It is
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Amazon is not a monopoly(nymag.com)
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by ende 12y ago
Awesome. Thank you both!
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by ende 12y ago
The author appears to suffer from nostalgia bias, longing for turn of the century progressivism to reign in his old corporate foe. This same well of centralized thinking gave a brave new world eugenics, prohibition, and industrial national
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by ende 12y ago
You touch on something important. Beyond the fact that the term monopoly gets thrown at a company without any further qualification of such a statement, there's no real thought put into how the company is using said alleged monopoly p
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by ende 12y ago
Would you mind slapping a name on said field of mathematics, because I dig that stuff but only ever stumble upon smatterings of it here and there. I'd love to get to the core of that field. Its like game theory + lots of other stuff.
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by ende 12y ago
No police access. Forever.
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by ende 12y ago
No, and in fact I think you are severely confused.
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by ende 12y ago
It should be thoroughly dismantled. It won't be though, because we have no control over our government.
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by ende 12y ago
Did they bring back DOS?
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by ende 12y ago
Can this help me find my cat? He's lost somewhere in my house. And before you ask, yes, he has a smart phone strapped to him.
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by ende 12y ago
Wrong.
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by ende 12y ago
What does this have over Simple?
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by ende 12y ago
Is this ultimately a Stanford vs Cal rivalry thing?
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by ende 12y ago
Morality is the domain of legislation. Litigation deals with how these things fit into real practice.
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by ende 12y ago
Please, this debate is contentious enough without bringing SQL-vs-NoSQL into it.
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by ende 12y ago
Yep. If you're not with us 100%, you're against us 100%.

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