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by ende 10y ago
The problem with "for the people, by the people" is that most of the people want just the former and not the later. They want to tell some other people how to govern for them and then return to staring at their iphone.
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by ende 10y ago
That's an overly broad and inaccurate depiction of libertarianism on the issue. A considerable segment of libertarianism advocates such measures as land value taxation, which places it directly at odds with the land owning class.
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by ende 10y ago
Capitalism is simply an economic system based on private ownership of property. Public spending is completely irrelevant. Single payer systems are entirely compatible with capitalism, and is a good example of Social Democratic policy (not
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by ende 10y ago
AWS cuts their prices all the time. Every couple months an email comes out announcing price cuts for S3 or various EC2 instances.
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by ende 10y ago
Single payer systems are neither Capitalist or Socialist. It's just a form of public spending.
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by ende 10y ago
International relations can largely be described as honor among thieves.
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by ende 10y ago
There's really only a small set of use cases that should actually benefit from this. The vast majority of organizations simply need to use IAM users, which many don't.
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by ende 10y ago
You see this usage commonly around parts of England, particularly among some of the northwestern dialects like Scouse.
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by ende 10y ago
I don't use Perl much these days, but 10 years ago I would have really benefited from containerization of Perl code. That said, Perl really does become rather unmanageable for any sizable project, and was probably best used as a light
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by ende 10y ago
Exactly. Everybody wants to rule the world, and the minute they can't they want an enclave.
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by ende 10y ago
Tough sanctions by whom? All the other developed nations with their own potential sessionist movements?
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by ende 10y ago
Federalism is a perfectly good system for distributing sovereignty within a shared security arrangement so as to avoid the wars that naturally erupt between perfectly soverign states. Unfortunately we have spent the past 100 years eroding
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by ende 10y ago
Shh, Israel's are a secret.
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by ende 10y ago
It seems that getting information out of a gravity well is much easier than mass. There's a bit of a bootstrapping problem to to develop the initial infrastructure, but once in place it would be much simpler to just build in space. Th
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by ende 10y ago
> While in the past I viewed WL as a crucial part of openness and democracy, I'm very suspicious of their current sources, and their intentions. Not to mention Assange's personal interests Is that because Wilileaks used to be h
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by ende 10y ago
That's how the Netherlands does it and it works great. Bikes, peds and cars all have their own lanes, and with their own intersection rules.
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by ende 10y ago
I think you're leaning way too hard in the other direction. There's a balance that needs to be struck. A detail-oriented person may have an excellent understanding of where they stand today but have little thought for their traj
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by ende 10y ago
I'd be curious if notions of "direct democracy" as we understand it today even existed in Madison's time.
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by ende 10y ago
This system doesn't do much to stop the Two Party control over elections though.
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by ende 10y ago
I disagree that progressives have a higher propensity for this sort of electoral reform. Progressive ideology is inherently an obsession with forming an intellectual monoculture hostile to criticism anf dissenting worldviews. This type of
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by ende 10y ago
I agree with going proportional but not party-list. There's a simpler solution: abolish districts. There's absolutely no constitutional basis for their existence and considering some states once has mixed member districts it see
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by ende 10y ago
If the electoral vote were split across a multi-party ballot via plurality voting, then yeah that would often be the case. The winner take all system of allotting electors that is used by most states might mitigate that. That is exactly w
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by ende 10y ago
One way to do it is to stand an http rest API middle layer in between with something like http://postgrest.com .
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by ende 10y ago
The first burning man?
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by ende 10y ago
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? It might have to be Federal, but not the Justice Department. And frankly that function should not even fall under the executive branch, or not completely. I propose a Department of Liberty, lead by a Liberato
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by ende 10y ago
This. It could be argued that most police don't even need a firearm if their role is not suppressive. In fact, a better division of labor based on a better rules of engagement may even negate the need for the concept of a generalist
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by ende 10y ago
Israel and the Saudis are pretty close allies. To the extent that the two have plotted out air corridors by which Israel jets could fly through to bomb Iran.
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by ende 10y ago
I agree someone would, but it probably wouldn't be Apple or Samsung.
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by ende 10y ago
How do phone manufactures get their customers to upgrade so often?
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by ende 10y ago
Bingo.

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